Aston Villa v Newcastle United Post-Match Thread

[neo_Villan]

Can people stop acting like the second half means anything. We played well in the second half against Southampton, it's not like we picked up after that game. We got NO points today against relegation rivals at home. We deserve to go down.

[jwarry]

As the man just said, you can't blame the players for that.  Lambchop clearly got it wrong 1st half.  There is a decent team in there if he could stop pissing around with tactics they clearly don't understand!

[mattjpa]

We're not relegated - it's still in our hands. But it's getting increasingly harder.
Get a couple of players in before the Everton game, play there with the same intensity as the second half tonight and we will we be fine.

That's where you're wrong mate. We're deep in relegation and its out of our hands-if everyone else picks up the points they should we are down. It's in the hands of that stupid twat yank

[hilts_coolerking]

Plenty of people have been slagging Lambert for not playing Bent. So he plays him and gets slated. There are times when, whatever he does, unless it works perfectly someone will give him stick.

He's getting slated tonight because he got it totally wrong in the first half.  We were all over the place and it cost us the game.

[PeterWithesShin]

He has to go 442 from now on. It can't bring results any worse than the 532/352 we are currently using.

[Risso]

No doubt some will say it was ok because we of the second half. Well it wasn't. We should never have gone 2-0 down in the first place! Lambert started Bent and proved to everyone it was the wrong decision by taking him off. He is clueless and should go now. Truly awful manager who makes McLeish look like Mourinho. Lambert out! Lerner Out!

Oh and we're going down 100% now.

Plenty of people have been slagging Lambert for not playing Bent. So he plays him and gets slated. There are times when, whatever he does, unless it works perfectly someone will give him stick.

He gets paid millions of pounds to live and die by his decisions, and he's made far too many bad ones this season.  5 at the back again, when it keeps ending with us being battered is madness.

[Boz]

No doubt some will say it was ok because we of the second half. Well it wasn't. We should never have gone 2-0 down in the first place! Lambert started Bent and proved to everyone it was the wrong decision by taking him off. He is clueless and should go now. Truly awful manager who makes McLeish look like Mourinho. Lambert out! Lerner Out!

Oh and we're going down 100% now.

Plenty of people have been slagging Lambert for not playing Bent. So he plays him and gets slated. There are times when, whatever he does, unless it works perfectly someone will give him stick.

To be fair Bent was useless but mainly because he needs service which Villa can't provide in Lambert's set up

[Chipsticks]

Wigan's draw puts us in the bottom 3 on goal difference, Reading are one point behind us with a game in hand. It sounds bad, but I still firmly believe we'll beat the drop.

[The Situation]

It's amazing to think how we can be possibly worse than last year being managed by mcleish.

[sirlordbaltimore]

I don't think starting Bent was a problem, I think starting with a 5 man defence and a 2 man midfield was. Neither striker saw the ball in the first half due to the ridiculous tactics. Lowton and Bennett are not wing backs. End of, they're barely capable full backs on current form either. So asking them to play as we did was suicidal.

[onje_villa]

The 352 formation has to go

Even Brian Little, a manager who played 3-5-2 was saying how obvious it was we needed to play 442

[ozzjim]

When they only played 1 centre forward first half we should have changed shape early,

[russon]

good 2nd half but we won't stay up on the back of good halves. That's a hat-trick of home reverses to the rubbish around us - Wigan, Soton, Newcastle and we'll pay big style cos we've got some tough games in Feb

[PeterWithesShin]

No doubt some will say it was ok because we of the second half. Well it wasn't. We should never have gone 2-0 down in the first place! Lambert started Bent and proved to everyone it was the wrong decision by taking him off. He is clueless and should go now. Truly awful manager who makes McLeish look like Mourinho. Lambert out! Lerner Out!

Oh and we're going down 100% now.

Plenty of people have been slagging Lambert for not playing Bent. So he plays him and gets slated. There are times when, whatever he does, unless it works perfectly someone will give him stick.

He gets paid millions of pounds to live and die by his decisions, and he's made far too many bad ones this season.  5 at the back again, when it keeps ending with us being battered is madness.

I'm not arguing formation, i'm saying plenty have said we have to start Bent and that Lambert is crap for not starting him. Bent starts and then it's the wrong decision and a sign Lambert is shit.

[PaulWinch again]

"The second 45 minutes, if Villa play like that, they will remain in the Premier League, because their endeavour and vigour was fantastic." But we won't unfortunately.