Aston Villa v Manchester City Post-Match Thread

[ktvillan]

Get real. We lost 1-0 to the current champions who have team that any one player is worth more than our team. Did we really think we would get anything out of it? As said next 2 games are huge the ones we MUST win. We did not look that bad.

I guess Southampton must have gone out with that attitude a couple of weeks ago when the battered City.  You are TSM and I claim my 5 pounds.

[curiousorange]

I actually think we will get heavily beaten at Reading. Our team has no substance.
It will be a repeat of Sept at St Mary's.

I agree with this. No matter how much we want it to happen, it'll be as disappointing as ever. For all our effort we don't ever look like winning a game, let alone winning comfortably.

[Greg N'Ash]

I just can't see how we'll stay up with this defence. Its like starting a goal down every game. Citeh weren't on top form but they still could have had 3 bar Brad.

Yes, as with Arsenal in the last game, I think we were actually playing Citeh at a good time. They clearly weren't quite at it, and didn't have the urgency that you would expect of a team chasing the title - which suggests that they have pretty much given up. Even in these circumstances a combination of ineptitude and poor luck mean we conspire to get no points. This team doesn't seem to be capable of taking advantage of beneficial circumstances.

aye. we were perhaps unlucky with the penalty shout i think but it could have easily have been all over long before that

[wombat]

We really are a masterclass in footballing suicide.

We started ok, then Man City started to get on top. Guzan keeps us in it and we should have got to half time 0-0.

Instead we sign our own death warrant and the 2nd half may as well not have existed.

Thank fuck the end is nigh the last 1.75 seasons have been dire... is there no cure for abysmalitis?

[Tom_Mc9?]

Gosh, what a load of melodrama. We were okay, just not creative enough and one silly defensive error. Against Man City. I'm not slitting my wrists just yet. I know we're shit, everyone else does, but the fight is back and that might be enough to get us out of this hole.

[curiousorange]

I just can't see how we'll stay up with this defence. Its like starting a goal down every game. Citeh weren't on top form but they still could have had 3 bar Brad.

Yes, as with Arsenal in the last game, I think we were actually playing Citeh at a good time. They clearly weren't quite at it, and didn't have the urgency that you would expect of a team chasing the title - which suggests that they have pretty much given up. Even in these circumstances a combination of ineptitude and poor luck mean we conspire to get no points. This team doesn't seem to be capable of taking advantage of beneficial circumstances.

aye. we were perhaps unlucky with the penalty shout i think but it could have easily have been all over long before that

It was a game when virtually nothing of note happened, and we still lost. That sums up Aston Villa 2012/13.

[pauliewalnuts]

Gosh, what a load of melodrama. We were okay, just not creative enough and one silly defensive error. Against Man City. I'm not slitting my wrists just yet. I know we're shit, everyone else does, but the fight is back and that might be enough to get us out of this hole.

Is it, though?

The fight, I mean?

[Tom_Mc9?]

I think so. West Ham, good performance. Arsenal, not bad. Tonight, not bad. Since Newcastle second half, we haven't looked like a bottom three team to me.

[oldtimernow]

Rodwell's injury certainly helped Citeh because Dzeko was a more influential player for them  putting  more pressure on our backline.

It's nice to have that sort of option to call upon from the bench but you have to ask if their manager picked the wrong starting line up.

Management is so easy especially when you've got the spare cash to splash around.

Felt Dean certainly looked more kindly on them too. Missed the foul on Clark , the penalty on Benteke and was quick to flash the cards to the Villa boys whilst not punishing any of Citeh's players.

[Tom_Mc9?]

I should add that I know people will think I'm papering over the cracks, but lots of people are saying we were shit tonight. I just don't see that.

[Walmley_Villa]

We are already staring into the abyss. We simply do not have the quality to survive IMO. Lambert managed to get two players in January who offer us nothing. I assume Cylla is very average and even worse than what we have. Dawkins maybe ok in the MLS but not the PL.
Also, why the hell didn't be take Delph off as he ALWAYS picks up a booking and we can't afford to have him missing for the next two. I'm going for a draw Saturday and defeat to QPR. Down bar the shouting.
Thanks Randy the Custodian for a nice pub and training ground, shame about the rest.

[Shrek]

Played well, we have turned the corner since HT against Newcastle.

We have 7 winnable games left. UTV,

[aj2k77]

We have won 4 of our last 27 home games, picking up just 21 points, scoring 21 goals and conceding 39. Fickle my arse.

[pauliewalnuts]

I think so. West Ham, good performance. Arsenal, not bad. Tonight, not bad. Since Newcastle second half, we haven't looked like a bottom three team to me.

But you mention those four games, and we've taken a total of 3 points from 12 from them.

Not enough, not enough games left, and not enough momentum to suggest it is going to improve sufficiently. I understand what Lambert means when he said tonight "if we play like that, we will win more matches than we lose", but we really don't look like winning matches anything like enough.

Even against West Ham, a truly dreadful side, we managed to make it a torturous affair.

If we are going to not look a bottom three side, then we need to start winning games, and really quickly, because we're running out of time.

[Risso]

I should add that I know people will think I'm papering over the cracks, but lots of people are saying we were shit tonight. I just don't see that.

Guzan kept the score line respectable at the end of the day.  Still, our season depends largely on the next two games.  Unfortunately I think Reading at least will beat us.