Chelsea v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[richard moore]

Sky were just willing Chelsea to score and the Torres and luiz love fest was sickening.
They talk utter shite and just made the 8-0 worse in my opinion. At one point they actually made reference to Steven Gerard playing with frank lampard, like Stevie g was actually out on the pitch against us.
Ps Phil dowd is a useless fat troll too and I still have not forgiven him for wembley

I watched it on mute - it didn't make it much better.

Full marks for watching it, I couldn't go anywhere near it to be honest. I would have smashed the television such is my loathing for those tossers. I think the only saving grace is that this result will very quickly be forgotten in the maelstrom of Christmas games and will soon hopefully feel like it was a long time ago. The worst thing in our house is the silence, everyone knows they cannot even begin to discuss it with me - it's almost as if someone has died

[Fernando Partridge]

FOR ME : That was disgusting and worst performance I've watched from a Villa side. I have to wonder if any other EPL this season would lose 8-0?!
Totally wrong tactics by Lambert. The formation needed changing once the 1st goal went in...realistically @ 3-0 ht then changes needed to be made. Herd is not a centre back, bannan far to keen to pass sideways or back when not over hitting passes. The midfield was exposed as seen in several of the goals and be better off playing a solid 3. I'm not happy with the outcome and this isnt a fergie style over reaction but it could have been double figures.
I hope and expect this to be a one off .. Lambert last season took a few beatings home and away in the main we are on right track. It just sad to see the reality check of how far away we are from the top teams..
Spurs at home will be different story.   

[PaulWinch again]

It was painful to wake up this morning and just think, 'fucking 8-0.' However time to move on and we must have a massive reaction against Spurs.

[Californian Villain]

".....Things have been going really fine for us. It was only Man Utd, Man City and Chelsea now who have turned us over. We will bounce back!...."

What about Southampton  ?

[danlanza]

Time for a few experienced players to come in January.
This result will never happen to us again. Piss poor but not time to start to much analysis, where would you start ?
Move on to Boxing day and an explosive atmosphere, wounded pride and the youngsters raring to go. C'mon Villa, give us something to smile about again and just forget this result. UTV.

[caster troy]

up early,  i felt a bit numb about the whole thing yesterday,
 but now its sinking in a bit it feels worse, Christmas Eve and feeling like shit all because of fucking Villa

Put it down as a freak result and look forward to 6 points vs Spurs and Wigan.
Up the villa.

i'm still positive about Lambert and believe in what he's doing, but 8 nill is 8 nill

no matter how we dress it up its still 8 fucking nill,
 theres no getting away from that, i still have to blink when the score comes on the telly, it keeps saying Plastic Twats 8 Villa 0, its not easy for us

Exactly. It's all very well saying we're a young team etc etc. It was still an 11 made up of internationals and U21 internationals, with an experienced manager. Non-league teams would have turned up and not got beaten 8-0. I'd question Lambert as it was quite apparent early in the game we were going to get murdered and he did nothing to change it. For example, I'd have gone 4-5-1 with Herd protecting the back four after about 15 mins.

The only good that can come of this is it prompts some spending in January. We need quality and experience to come in, particularly to give us some options for these games. We're playing a very dangerous game if we're going to gamble on these kids keeping us up and getting valuable experience in doing so.

[eastie]

I'm really looking forward to seeing a positive reaction on weds and the players know they need to deliver- we need to win these 2 home games.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Oh well. We all know that kids are going to be inconsistent but the bigger worry for me is Lambert's apparent tactical naivety. 

Maybe I was expecting too much but I thought Lambert was coming to the club with real tactical nouse built up with his continental training. But too many times already this season he's got his tactics completely wrong with catastrophic consequences.

I don't think we've seen the last tonking we'll get under Lambert unfortunately.

Agreee on all points, Adam.

Lambert is the complete opposite of Pullis, he doesn't seem to know how to shut up shop, he only seems to know/want to play open football. He played right into the hands of Benitez yesterday, who's no idiot when it comes to tactics. When you allow with the attacking threat of Chelsea to dominate the midfield, unchallenged for 90 minutes, you really are putting your head in the lions mouth. Lambert's to the slaughter.

Yesterday will only be stomachable if he learns from it. Of course we want to be entertained with attacking, progressive football but be also don't want to be humiliated by naive tactics. It's not really asking too much.

[eastie]

At 3-0 the game was lost so we should have closed ranks and tried to tighten up the defence rather than going gung hu and leaving ourselves repeatedly exposed to attack.

[john e]

Oh well. We all know that kids are going to be inconsistent but the bigger worry for me is Lambert's apparent tactical naivety. 

Maybe I was expecting too much but I thought Lambert was coming to the club with real tactical nouse built up with his continental training. But too many times already this season he's got his tactics completely wrong with catastrophic consequences.

I don't think we've seen the last tonking we'll get under Lambert unfortunately.

Agreee on all points, Adam.

Lambert is the complete opposite of Pullis, he doesn't seem to know how to shut up shop, he only seems to know/want to play open football. He played right into the hands of Benitez yesterday, who's no idiot when it comes to tactics. When you allow with the attacking threat of Chelsea to dominate the midfield, unchallenged for 90 minutes, you really are putting your head in the lions mouth. Lambert's to the slaughter.

Yesterday will only be stomachable if he learns from it. Of course we want to be entertained with attacking, progressive football but be also don't want to be humiliated by naive tactics. It's not really asking too much.

the reason we didnt shut up shop in my view is because we wouldnt know how to, i just cant see that young side being able to do that.
there is no one on here been more behind the inexperienced team than me, actually wanting us to go with the youth, and i still do,
 but Chelsea yesterday just kept going, they knew they were giving us the run around, they knew some of the youngsters were fragile when the goals kept going in,
 but they just kept on going.

cant blame Chelsea for that,  but still horrible to see young lads getting battered, completley battered, if there was any justice it would have been stopped on humanitarian grounds

[Ads]

Lampard was making his 500 top flight appearance. I would wager that is double the number our starting XI have made.

[VILLA MOLE]

Ok just about ready to face the aftermath, I watched the first half not the second . how bad was it ?

[Clampy]

It was one of those games you just wanted to end after it got to 4-0, you knew it was going to get worse. The 2nd goal killed us.

It's happened now, it's one we need to forget. 4 points over the next couple of home games will settle things down again.

[FatSam]

Its days like yesterday that emphasise the moral corruption at the heart of modern football. A chelsea starting team put together at a cost of £200M running riot against an Aston Villa starting team put together at a cost of £12M. Any gloating Chelsea fans should be aware that this has only been made possible by Abramovich stealing from ordinary working Russian people. That said, we shouldn't have given them so much space.

[Dave Clark Five]

Paddy Power must have thought 'who is this twat?' When I put my £20 on Villa to win at 8-1.
A few pints later and it is all forgotten but seeing 8-0 in print brings back the humiliation. You begin to realise how supporters of Bon Accord must have felt that day at Arbroath.