Aston Villa v Stoke City Post-Match Thread

[Legion]

Available Saturday evening.

[Toronto Villa]

fuck me. We are trying. Stoke are awful and got what they came for.

[Rigadon]

Well done the young-uns.  Didn't buckle under the most awful, hard on the eye, cynical bunch of wankers assembled since the Germans in escape to victory.

Oh, and fuck off Stoke. 

[hilts_coolerking]

What a shit game.  Stoke are horrific in every way but we just didn't quite have the nouse to break them down.

Switching to 2 up front when Bent came on reduced our threat, if anything.

[PaulWinch again]

Stoke are a horrible side and I really hope they go down soon. Westwood looked good in the time I watched, but we should have won.

[Ger Regan]

I really fucking hate Stoke.

[timeoutbigbar]

Looked decent in patches but not clinical in the final third.  Once again after playing Stoke I'm left grateful I don't have to watch that shower of shit every week.  I think I'd lose the will to live.

[Boz]

We're improving but offer very little threat in front of goal. Need to do something about the service for the strikers in January

[Irish villain]

Sickened we didn't get all three points. Southampton are pulling out of the shit. At least QPR and Reading not gaining ground I guess.

Would like to see us get at least a point from the next two.

[Matt Collins]

Didn't see the game so interested in what others have to say. But definitely a worry - if not a surprise - that we didn't seem to look like scoring much.

I don't know whether our seeming domination meant that Lambert was right to go with the side he went with / 352, or whether you could say that it was the formation which meant we dominated and we were just looking to get that one goal to win it?

In any event, the lack of goals is a definite concern. You'd think we need to start getting more out of some combination of Bent, Ireland, CNZ and Weimann, plus one or two attacking new signings . . .

[VillaAlways]

Predictable scoreline, another clean sheet. I think we'll be fine

[paul_e]

Stoke really do make TSM look like a positive influence on the game, comfortably the worst team i've seen this year.

We looked good in defense and midfield but nothing quite went our way in the final 3rd.

[Jimbo]

At least we didn't lose. I say this almost every week, but at some point we're going to have to start winning. I can't see who we can expect to beat.

[N'Zimidy]

Some good stuff in there. Clark and Herd were excellent but Baker was exceptional. Won everything and didn't mess about.

Bent has no place in this Villa team. He doesn't create anything, he isn't an outball and we don't have the wingers / midfielders to find him. I think it showed that when he came on we looked very poor.

Stoke are Blues but they're effective. Came for the draw and got the draw.

[django]

Overall a good performance and disappointing to only get a draw. Bent and Ireland coming on killed us, changed what had been an effective shape up until then. Should have won the game on the balance of play.

Good performance though, particularly defensively and central midfield, need one of those 3 to get forward more though, (probably Holman?) Baker looks unbelievably assured.

Nice to see our kids holding their own with the physical side of the game. Encouraging.