Aston Villa v Liverpool Post-Match Thread

[supertom]

I expect qpr to beat Fulham tomorrow and we are in the shit big time - stoke will be a huge huge game now .

The central defensive area is utterly shocking - huge error not bringing in a defender in January and could cost us tens of millions.

As much as Stoke have been shite lately. They're tough to play and with our godawful defence it's a big worry. Our backline could get torn apart.
Again, I think we'll be resting on our ability to outscore them. We can't rely on Benteke all the time. He can't score every single game, despite his best efforts.

[Stu]

Fucks sake you lot. I'm looking at Wigan's fixtures for April and they're not pretty, not pretty at all. Out of four Prem fixtures, three are away from home against QPR, Man City and West Ham. Then they've got Spurs at home. In between all that, they've got to go away to Millwall in the Cup. Lets see how they get on. I'd prefer our fixtures to theirs any day.

[eastie]

Fucks sake you lot. I'm looking at Wigan's fixtures for April and they're not pretty, not pretty at all. Out of four Prem fixtures, three are away from home against QPR, Man City and West Ham. Then they've got Spurs at home. In between all that, they've got to go away to Millwall in the Cup. Lets see how they get on. I'd prefer our fixtures to theirs any day.

No reason why they can't win at west ham and qpr and get something at home to spurs - they have done it year on year when the pressure is on .

Millwall is at Wembley.

[David_Nab]

Very poor defending for Pen 4 games in row Clark or Baker has seriously fucked up.

Think we will be ok as long as Wiemann not injured too bad big miss when went off and Nzog been poor as of late.

[mr woo]

It's getting tiresome as much as anything.

Lack of movement from the front 3 which disappeared completely when Wiemann went off.
Width non existant.
Seemingly Off the cuff set pieces which amount to nothing.
Fannying around and getting caught in possession in our own half again.
Failure of midfielders to track runners.
Not closing down, meaning opposition always have an option to pass too.
I get the point of patient build up play but why does it repeatedly end up in a pass back to Guzan who promptly punts it upfield. Utterly pointless.

Anyone still fooled by the results against West Ham, Reading and QPR should be rousing themselves and inhaling a lungful of Arabica.

We are a very poor football side.

[PaulWinch again]

If we play like we did from minute 15-40 we'll be fine, if we play like we did for the rest we're buried.

[Nelly]

Nathan Baker. Dough!

Nicely done, sir!

Fuck it, we lost, we have to try and win the next one.

[Stu]

Fucks sake you lot. I'm looking at Wigan's fixtures for April and they're not pretty, not pretty at all. Out of four Prem fixtures, three are away from home against QPR, Man City and West Ham. Then they've got Spurs at home. In between all that, they've got to go away to Millwall in the Cup. Lets see how they get on. I'd prefer our fixtures to theirs any day.

No reason why they can't win at west ham and qpr and get something at home to spurs - they have done it year on year when the pressure is on .

Millwall is at Wembley.

I can think of a reason; they're shit. And regardless of where the Millwall game is played, they're going to have work hard in that game. Because they're shit.

[Risso]

Absolutely dreadful today.  We've got enough up front, but the rest of the team is embarrassingly poor:

Guzan - class, again stopped it being 5 or 6.
Lowton - not Premier League class, always out of position
Baker - looks like what he is, a youth team player who isn't good enough
Vlaar - absolutely dreadful, what on earth did Lambert see in this clown
Bennett - not a left back in a million years, quite good going forward though
Westwood - not Premier League class
Bannan - worst player on the pitch by a country mile
Sylla - solid, unspectacular
Gabby - good touch for the goal, still mostly brainless though
Weimann - should have scored, not one of his better days
Benteke - deserves better than this, and will probably move on as soon as he can, and who would blame him.

Shambolic, again.  Beating the two bottom teams isn't going to be enough.

[steamer]

listening to Townsend and Curbishley, (in my view both Villa positive) on
our defending, lack of awareness and poor midfield support to the defence we should employ Townsend as an advisor, because with a constant repetition of oue mistakes either our current coaches/advisors are clueless or the players don't listen and or are inept.
maybe a combination.

[PaulWinch again]

Absolutely dreadful today.  We've got enough up front, but the rest of the team is embarrassingly poor:

Guzan - class, again stopped it being 5 or 6.
Lowton - not Premier League class, always out of position
Baker - looks like what he is, a youth team player who isn't good enough
Vlaar - absolutely dreadful, what on earth did Lambert see in this clown
Bennett - not a left back in a million years, quite good going forward though
Westwood - not Premier League class
Bannan - worst player on the pitch by a country mile
Sylla - solid, unspectacular
Gabby - good touch for the goal, still mostly brainless though
Weimann - should have scored, not one of his better days
Benteke - deserves better than this, and will probably move on as soon as he can, and who would blame him.

Shambolic, again.  Beating the two bottom teams isn't going to be enough.

I'd say Vlaar is decent and Westwood is good enough, but other than that agree.

[pauliewalnuts]

On the bright side, my favourite bet came in again - Villa to be winning at HT but lose at FT - can get 25/1 on that most weeks, and it fits the pattern of us being unable to string together two decent halves very often.

[steamer]

It's getting tiresome as much as anything.

Lack of movement from the front 3 which disappeared completely when Wiemann went off.
Width non existant.
Seemingly Off the cuff set pieces which amount to nothing.
Fannying around and getting caught in possession in our own half again.
Failure of midfielders to track runners.
Not closing down, meaning opposition always have an option to pass too.
I get the point of patient build up play but why does it repeatedly end up in a pass back to Guzan who promptly punts it upfield. Utterly pointless.

Anyone still fooled by the results against West Ham, Reading and QPR should be rousing themselves and inhaling a lungful of Arabica.

We are a very poor football side.
[/quote having watched the game , this a very fair assessment.

[PaulWinch again]

When we pass the ball with tempo we look like a good and threatening side, see the first half. When we don't we're diabolical. The midfield three should be Westwood, Sylla and Delph. Bannan is shocking, and Sylla did nicely today.

[TonyD]

Missed the first half.  Ran 2 miles mostly uphill to catch the second half on TV.  Wished I hadn't bothered.  Put more effort in than those millionaire wankers.

Have been pretty sure we won't be going down.  Now a little worried.