Millwall v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[oldham_villa]

My better half has sent me some pictures of our road under a load of snow.

Its going to be a long way back to Manchester and its getting harder and harder to bother coming down.

Drive carefully pal, I'm working tonight in South Manchester and it is pretty bad. Even worse at home in Oldham, where there has been over 8" of snow since 5:30pm

[pooligan]

Am i right in thinking our clueless manager created another piece of history in our clubs long history tonight. Surely he must be the first manager to be knocked out of two cups from clubs in lower leagues in less than a week

[neo_Villan]

Just got back. Absolutely disgraceful performance. Shittu had an unmarked header from a corner just before the corner they scored from. Can't learn from their mistakes in the same game, let alone between games FFS. Most of our play went back to Given or was just hoofed up to Bent/Weimann despite neither being target men. Shittu had them both in his pocket all game (he was probably MoTM). Bannan coming on made us even worse. Lambert took ages to make a change, then just made a like for like substitution. N'Zogbia was the only player in the entire team trying to make something happen. Just awful. Worse then anything last season. Oh and stating the bleeding obvious, their lot are scum. Wasted 6 minutes gobbing off and throwing bottles at N'Zogbia. Was it racist abuse? I thought at the time it was, judging by his reaction. To top it all off, we were kept back for something like half an hour by the police.

[cdbearsfan]

Night all- tomorrow is a new day , lets hope it sees the end of this Really Dire Manager.

Interesting capitalisation... RDM?

Oh Eastie, you tease.

[Pat McMahon]

Clutching at straws to be positive:

Good away support considering how shite we are ( though not very vocal in 2nd half)
The players knew their positions and were more disciplined than on Tuesday
They really are trying. I am utterly convinced they feel the pain too. It's our club but I do feel for the players as you can see they all need a week or two, maybe longer, out of the firing line

But....

They are utterly lacking in confidence. I wouldn't be surprised if one of our youngsters emulates Lee Cattermole and actually starts blarting during a game before the end of the season
Vlaar is not some effing messiah and hasn't even shone v lower league players this week
Lambert seems unable to arrest the slide and unless we have 2-3 new players - anybody heard of the words LOAN SIGNING if money is tight FFS ??!!- we are going down
Scratch that, we will actually finish bottom, not just go down

This sounds surreal - and I only had 2 beers at Millwall - but we are categorically worse than under McLeish.

[oldham_villa]

Re the match, I thought the sentence from Steve Claridge was very telling, "you can't quite grasp it until you see them live". This was my sentiment after I saw the monstrosity that was Tuesday.

Being so down on confidence means players go hiding but not once has Lambert shown he is capable of rousing the troops and organising the shambles we see unfold before our very eyes.

Fair play to Risso, he sussed Lerner and Lambert out ages ago. I've been on the optimistic side of the fence but no more. This is worse than pathetic and nothing more than a back to basics approach will do for starters.

As things stand we are absolutely fucked. I would have more respect for Lambert if he swallowed his pride and brought back Warnock and Hutton, if only in an attempt to try to shake things up a bit.

May I please ask everyone if they have bet on us being relegated ? I haven't yet but I think I will do, as i cannot see a way out of this.

[Pat McMahon]

Just saw this on Twitter

Ron vlaar appealed to the away fans for support and was booed with chants of 'fuck off villa' from villa fans , peak

Phil, I definitely never heard that chant. A fair amount of booing and angry comments at the end but I never heard that chant.

Doesn't mean it didn't happen of course.

[Kingthing]

Having witnessed that fucking shambles tonight I have two points to make.

Aston Villa-fuck off you arseholes and stop fucking up my life.

Millwall- There's a reason the old bill hate you and shaft your club, it's because you're a bunch of racist cuntfucks who deserve to be banished from football.

[Ads]

They're a joke aren't they?

Chucking bottles and making monkey chants at Charlie. ******.

[john2710]

I think lamberts a gonner!

Do you know something we don't...?

No

[placeforparks]

back from the den.

first of all, the majority of the away fans were fed up, lots of gallows humour, but i think the expectation is we'll be back at the den next season.

as for the games itself, very poor,  but i'm glad we don't have a replay. n'zogbia was the only player who looked like making anything happen. bannan's passes were either backwards or misplaced. wiemann cut a frustrated figure.

their first goal, danny shittu header from a corner, about 2 minutes after he'd just won another header from a corner which went slightly over. their second goal, header smacks against the crossbar, falls kindly and he taps it into their net.

millwall fans revel in their reputation. throwing bottles onto the pitch all through the second half. chanting "you're just a town full of pakis", spending the 19th minute giving wanker symbols to the away end.

policing was efficient. kept in for 40 minutes or so at the end. didn't see a single millwall fan, except in the ground.

[richtheholtender]

back from the den.

first of all, the majority of the away fans were fed up, lots of gallows humour, but i think the expectation is we'll be back at the den next season.

as for the games itself, very poor,  but i'm glad we don't have a replay. n'zogbia was the only player who looked like making anything happen. bannan's passes were either backwards or misplaced. wiemann cut a frustrated figure.

their first goal, danny shittu header from a corner, about 2 minutes after he'd just won another header from a corner which went slightly over. their second goal, header smacks against the crossbar, falls kindly and he taps it into their net.

millwall fans revel in their reputation. throwing bottles onto the pitch all through the second half. chanting "you're just a town full of pakis", spending the 19th minute giving wanker symbols to the away end.

policing was efficient. kept in for 40 minutes or so at the end. didn't see a single millwall fan, except in the ground.

Did the away fans give the players a bit when they came over at the end?

[PeterWithesShin]

Paul Lambert said Villa will "take their medicine and go again" after his side's FA Cup defeat at the hands of Millwall.

Villa took the lead through Darren Bent before Danny Shittu headed the home side level before the break.

John Marquis put the London Lions into round five with just two minutes remaining.

But Lambert insisted there was no time for the team to feel sorry for themselves.

Lambert said: "It's not great, but you have to keep going.

"You take your medicine, pick yourself up and go again. There's no way you can lie down.

"I don't think we deserved to lose it, I didn't see that coming.

"We went 1-0 and conceded a goal from a corner again. It's individual errors that are hurting us at the minute.

"You've got to live with that, you've got to be prepared to be hurt in the penalty box.

"It's not been great but we had a lot of the ball. It's a game I thought neither team was going to win and I thought it was going to a replay."

Lambert felt his side bossed the game but he was frustrated to see yet another set-piece goal come into play during the match.

He added: "I was worried how they were going to react after the other night but they went and took the ball and gave it another go.

"But you can't defend set-pieces like that.

"We bossed it really, with the possession. It's individual errors that are costing us on set-pieces and the second goal was just a crossed ball and we should deal with that.

"I thought we showed grit. I thought we dominated the game and I never thought either team looked as if they were going to win it towards the end."

Lambert rested Christian Benteke and kept Gabby Agbonlahor on the bench with one eye on the big Barclays Premier League clash with Newcastle on Tuesday.

He added: "The lads have played a hell of a lot of games and we've not got the biggest of squads. You have to watch what you're doing.

"You can't make too many changes but the Premier League is the most important thing."

Lambert faces an anxious wait to see the extent of Fabian Delph's injury, after the midfielder limped off in the first-half.

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We did yeah.

[Rich]

The sad thing is there's not many didn't expect that result. The problem is higher up than Lambert - just a monotonous and continuous litany of awful footballing decisions. Totally risk averse and showing less confidence than the team.