West Bromwich Albion v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Louzie0]

That early goal in the second half woke the crowd up, if we could have held on for 10 minutes they would have caved in.

Agree, from what I heard of the commentary but it seemed that the Villa were under siege second half from the off.
I must admit to throwing something in the kitchen when that one went in.
Oh all right.  It was a tea towel, but I really hurled it against the fridge.  The air was blue.

There's a decorative bronze metal plate on the wall.  I was saving that in case there was a next one and sure enough, it went crashing down the hall. It's so dented after this season it's frankly a miracle that I can still hang it up.
(Actually lost another plate to Bradford.)

I need Villa to win and stop conceding before I run out of things to throw and/or demolish the house.

[villan from luton]

Horrible subs and that is squarely on Lambert. Why the heck, when down 2-1 and we are struggling a bit, does he put Barry Frickin' Bannan on?!?!? He adds absolutely nothing defensively! Once I saw that, I knew we were in trouble. Knew it well before that, actually, but that sealed it...

Who else could he have brought on, Delph was injured so he needed to replace him?

[villan from luton]

That early goal in the second half woke the crowd up, if we could have held on for 10 minutes they would have caved in.

Agree, from what I heard of the commentary but it seemed that the Villa were under siege second half from the off.
I must admit to throwing something in the kitchen when that one went in.
Oh all right.  It was a tea towel, but I really hurled it against the fridge.  The air was blue.

There's a decorative bronze metal plate on the wall.  I was saving that in case there was a next one and sure enough, it went crashing down the hall. It's so dented after this season it's frankly a miracle that I can still hang it up.
(Actually lost another plate to Bradford.)

I need Villa to win and stop conceding before I run out of things to throw and/or demolish the house.

Tie your hands up on Tuesday then

[UK Redsox]

Horrible subs and that is squarely on Lambert. Why the heck, when down 2-1 and we are struggling a bit, does he put Barry Frickin' Bannan on?!?!? He adds absolutely nothing defensively! Once I saw that, I knew we were in trouble. Knew it well before that, actually, but that sealed it...

Bannan is just not good enough for the Premier League and Holman's out of form. They were the two players on the bench who should never have come on.

Ireland should have come on for Delph and, assuming that Zog was injured (and if he wasn't, why the feck was he being taken off?), Bowery could have come on to help hold the ball up and provide a bit more of a physical presence.

[Summers]

The only bad sub was Holman on. Bannan coming on for an injured Delph makes sense.

Holman, normally, atleast covers a lot of ground and causes trouble for the other team when they have the ball. Today however he looked slow and not interested. He had two terrible shots, and didn't do much else. Hindsight, coulda brought Ireland on. Who could have used the ball better and probably worked just as hard.

We definitely need to get a couple of players in. Midfielder, a tough tackler. Maybe bolster the defence too if we can.

[Ads]

Delph was excellent and bossing tbose Mickey Moise wankers.

If Gabby had slotted in the third just before half time. Very annoying to throw it away like that, but a point is a good result away from home.

Time to back it up at home.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Just back.
Gutted.
Both subs were shite - Holman went straight off at whistle - knew he had a mare or couldn't give a f**k? His "high energy" approach just wasn't there. Bannan was awful. Pleased to see Westwood taking corners... until Bannan came on and wasted the "threat".
From what I could see Olson had completely free header for the second we conceded.
Bradford must have watched and smiled! Why can't we defend set pieces - problem for a few seasons now!
Great first half - let them come at us too easily in second.

[myf]

yes Delph was good tonight. really showing some form in last few games.

benteke was immense first half.

again once we concede we go to pieces. need a leader to calm it down. lucky to tAke a point after the second half performance

[Summers]

Ah, yeah. That was the worst thing about Bannan coming on, his corners. Floaty and overhit.

[olaftab]

My issue with subs was that Gabby was wasted after 60 mins and possibly part responsible for their dominance in the second half. He should have gone off instead of N'Zogbia. Gabby was brilliant in the first half however in the second half he kept losing the ball, falling over and not able to make runs that would pocketed us a third goal. Delph  was also a loss but he was limping towards the end of first half.

[Surrey Villain]

Horrible subs and that is squarely on Lambert. Why the heck, when down 2-1 and we are struggling a bit, does he put Barry Frickin' Bannan on?!?!? He adds absolutely nothing defensively! Once I saw that, I knew we were in trouble. Knew it well before that, actually, but that sealed it...

We weren't 2-1 down but I know what you mean.  Surely Bent was the man, not Holman who missed a glorious chance to make it 3-1 and finish them off, or Bowery who would have run at them and caused physical damage and generally kept the ball at their end.  Lambert's subs were defensive at a time when we needed to attack and seal the game. No better than McLeish!
 

[TonyD]

This season since the demise of VS I have had limited access to watching our Villa live.  I have been limited to listening to us on the wireless and to you good people keeping me informed on match threads. I was lucky enough to get to the pub tonight and watching the match in HD live. Having endured the results of the past 4 weeks I have to say that this team will NOT be going down.

We will smash Bradford on Tuesday.

I wish I could be at Villa Park on Tuesday. It will be an absolute cracking game.

[villan from luton]

My issue with subs was that Gabby was wasted after 60 mins and possibly part responsible for their dominance in the second half. He should have gone off instead of N'Zogbia. Gabby was brilliant in the first half however in the second half he kept losing the ball, falling over and not able to make runs that would pocketed us a third goal. Delph  was also a loss but he was limping towards the end of first half.

Gabby and Benteke were totally isolated in the second half

[PeterWithesShin]

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[damon loves JT]

I need Villa to win and stop conceding before I run out of things to throw and/or demolish the house.

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