QPR v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Billy Walker]

Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert: "I think it was a doubly hard game because of where QPR are in the league and Harry coming in. To come here and get a point is massive for us. I'm delighted to get a point. We are on a little run at the moment. You can stretch it back to Sunderland in terms of how we've been playing."

Did he really say that?
A draw with QPR is deemed "massive" - how fecking small time is that?
"Delighted with a point" - McLeish would have been toast had he uttered those words, so why does Lambert get away with it?

It's certainly O'Leary/McLeish-esque.

He's saying it in the context of this match.  Everyone at QPR, the media etc. were all fired up for the big story of QPR/Harry getting their first win.  That was quite a bit of pressure for a young Villa side to handle and it would have been easy to allow that "script" to get into the players' minds.  In the context of all of that, it was a good result.  One thing Lambert hasn't been this season is small-time in his attitude, in my view.

[TopDeck113]

Unbeaten in three and only one goal conceded in the process. Let's spin the positives!

[SamTheMouse]

TSM would have gone there to protect a 1-0 defeat.

[phil__]

fucknell what a load of shite that was.  Fair enough i would have taken a draw before the game with it being redknapps first home game in charge but this is against a team bottom in the league with 5 points.  Its not so much the result but the performance. We have so many average players.  Guzan and the defence were ok and bentenke when he got the ball which wasnt very much was good but were so boring.  Theres no excitement or class in our team.  Im dying to see bent and benteke up front together and play with width.  They wud score goals for fun with some good crosses coming in.  Whats happend to albrighton?he looked superb when he came in the team a year ago and he was a great crosser. Check out his youtube vid for proof,  Where the fucks Nzogbia?Our 2 best players who should be first names on the team sheet and there both on the bench and dont even get on.  The subs were awful were not playing fuckin barcelona its fuckin qpr bottom of the league. Sit back and pass it about and take a  draw, fucknell lamberts really pissing me off. We got a 20 goal a season striker and he hates him for some reason and too stubborn to play him.  hes just as bad as mcleish if not worse.  Please no more scottish managers after this nob gets sacked

[ozzjim]

Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert: "I think it was a doubly hard game because of where QPR are in the league and Harry coming in. To come here and get a point is massive for us. I'm delighted to get a point. We are on a little run at the moment. You can stretch it back to Sunderland in terms of how we've been playing."

Did he really say that?
A draw with QPR is deemed "massive" - how fecking small time is that?
"Delighted with a point" - McLeish would have been toast had he uttered those words, so why does Lambert get away with it?

It's certainly O'Leary/McLeish-esque.

He's saying it in the context of this match.  Everyone at QPR, the media etc. were all fired up for the big story of QPR/Harry getting their first win.  That was quite a bit of pressure for a young Villa side to handle and it would have been easy to allow that "script" to get into the players' minds.  In the context of all of that, it was a good result.  One thing Lambert hasn't been this season is small-time in his attitude, in my view.

Spot on Billy.

[ozzjim]

fucknell what a load of shite that was.  Fair enough i would have taken a draw before the game with it being redknapps first home game in charge but this is against a team bottom in the league with 5 points.  Its not so much the result but the performance. We have so many average players.  Guzan and the defence were ok and bentenke when he got the ball which wasnt very much was good but were so boring.  Theres no excitement or class in our team.  Im dying to see bent and benteke up front together and play with width.  They wud score goals for fun with some good crosses coming in.  Whats happend to albrighton?he looked superb when he came in the team a year ago and he was a great crosser. Check out his youtube vid for proof,  Where the fucks Nzogbia?Our 2 best players who should be first names on the team sheet and there both on the bench and dont even get on.  The subs were awful were not playing fuckin barcelona its fuckin qpr bottom of the league. Sit back and pass it about and take a  draw, fucknell lamberts really pissing me off. We got a 20 goal a season striker and he hates him for some reason and too stubborn to play him.  hes just as bad as mcleish if not worse.  Please no more scottish managers after this nob gets sacked

And in English?

[ciggiesnbeer]

Dissapointed with an away point. Thats a measure of how my confidence has gone up since last month where I couldnt see where our next point was coming from.

Our performances are getting worse and worse though. Gone is the crisp passing possession based football of the start of the season. I hope it comes back.

Still confidence should be increasing with the lads, there was a lot of pressure on them today.

[Lizz]

Only listened to the first few minutes of 606 tonight, Robbie Savage still predicting us to be relegated, on the grounds that he has to stick with his prediction. As others have said, the stage was set for an 'Arry love in today, it hasn't happened. That's a positive for me.

[The Left Side]

Glad we got a point as I didn't expect anything today, we need three old heads in January.

[UK Redsox]

Just got back.

The three/five at the back approach was a bit weird and left Villa undermanned in midfield. I'd have liked to have seen Herd pushed forward in front of Baker and Clark

After Benteke's disallowed goal (I assume that the offside decision was correct), Villa didn't offer much of a goal threat.

[Nev]

Pragmatism can be a positive and I think that's what happened today. Given a negative result against Reading things would be different but in the greater context it's a good point. Some don't agree and that's fair enough, everyone is entitled to their opinion but this season is going to be hard work so to expect us to rampage around the country picking up points is naive in the extreme.

We're in a battle to keep out of the shit and we're just about holding our own and for that, I'm going to give the manager a bit of credit.

[UK Redsox]

Oh and Lichaj is the worst left back I've ever seen.

wasn't that bad when he moved to attacking right back!

Agreed. He's an adequate Right Back but on the left he makes me long for the return of Warnock

[ez]

Its a pity the supply dried up as Benteke was giving them real problems in the first half hour.

[hawkeye]

It was a massive game for us,a loss would have been a huge setback. We came away with a point and left QPR in the same mess before we played them.

[Kingthing]

Bag of shit I'm afraid, how, going a goal up, we can't beat a team without a win, is beyond me. Looked promising first half but without purpose second half.
I think, with time, we'll be a good team but that doesn't help us now.

I'm struggling to think how we'll turn this round.