Manchester United vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[levico]

At half time it looked as if they would score as many again in the second half so 3-0 is almost a result for us. Another real drubbing would have been terrible for morale.

[Tuscans]

West Ham...we need you to help us out BIG TIME!

Why, they only play Man City, Newcastle, Everton and Reading.

Oh yea...they all ridden beat Wigan...HA!

Spurs...we need you to help us BIG TIME! 

[Greg N'Ash]

This is why we should have fucked off lambchop in January. He turns naivety into an artform. All we had to do was shut-up shop, lose if we must but not hammer the goal difference and he selects a team like we're playing Reading at home. Wiemann, Gabby, N'zogbia AND Benteke with our defence? Against the best attacking side in the prem? He's a fruitloop. 1st half we looked embarassingly like those teams the Harlem Globetrotters used to play against in exhibition matches - rubbish and only there to provide token resistance while everyone marvels at the main attraction. Thank god they laid-off us in the 2nd. All the hard work and confidence of the last few weeks undone by a clueless tactician. Wigan must be pissing themselves because barring a miracle if they get equal points with us, they'll stay up.

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

I stopped checking the score at HT  - just came back fearing the worst. 

Now concerned about what will happen if Wigan beat Spurs on Saturday - another TV match on Monday won't be appetising.

[wolfman999]

Nothing in it for 82 seconds 

[Jimbo]

Nobody can accuse us of not sticking to the script. Tummies duly tickled. Next!

[pauliewalnuts]

At half time it looked as if they would score as many again in the second half so 3-0 is almost a result for us. Another real drubbing would have been terrible for morale.

Agreed.

The first half of the first half was fucking horrible to watch, and another reminder of the utter madness of not buying defenders in January.

The second half was infinitely better. Whether that was because Man United had taken their foot off the gas or not, I don't really care, all i know is that after 25 mins or so I was convinced we'd take an eight goal twatting, which would have fucked our GD and confidence up big style.

As it is, we didn't, so thank heavens for small mercies.

[The Man With A Stick]

Well, I managed to avoid that from start to finish.  Any injuries/suspensions?

[Stu]

Why can we never pull off a miracle result?

[Matt Collins]

I feel a bit relieved to be honest. It could have been a lot worse after that start.

United took their foot off the pedal so we shouldn't get too pleased with the performance. But we genuinely could have had 3-4 goals ourselves. United could have had double that of course

Bennett and to a lesser extent Lowton are a concern defensively. But i thought we passed it well, and looked a lot better with KEA in there.

Now time to recuperate for the Sunderland game.

Better teams than us will get best three at old Trafford

[Mortimer's Bear]

I hate Ferguson the bacon chopped old prick.

[neo_Villan]

Well I turned off at 3-0. Turned back on 10 minutes ago and happy to see we didn't concede any more. Hopefully we can use the second half to keep some momentum going into the Sunderland game. Still not pleased with Lambert's tactics though. Also despite him looking better recently, I be happier if Bennett was dropped until the end of the season with Clark going back to CB and Baker to LB. 

[JUAN PABLO]

Concede a stupid goal after seconds , you have no chance here.

Maybe put the Benteke chance in , they might have got nervous and we got more confident but ...

KEA steady us a bit , but Manure had taken off the pedal by then .

Weimann poor , Vlarr poor , Bennett poor , the rest just meh.

but the next four games are the business ...

COME ON VILLA    ITS STARTS NOW !!!!!!!

[paul_e]

Didn't think we were that bad to be honest and could've easily scored.

Have to consider we were playing a team who has shit on everyone in the league and won it by a shit load of points. Tonight they were well up for it. The way they started they would've ripped anyone apart.

I'm more confident after that game of staying up. I think we've got enough goals to come to keep us up.

Agreed, 3 goals that could all have been chalked off for offside as well, for me (all were borderline, none of them clearly right or wrong).

Our problem, again, was the defense played far too high up the pitch.  A lot of the goals we concede are when people get in behind us, tonight it was really obvious with RVP trying to move into space behind Vlaar and Baker every time.  It must be tactical, we've done it a lot the season.  Making the pitch 'small' in that way is fine if you have quick and alert defenders but we don't really and we leave too much space for the ball to be hit into.

Starting nzogbia was a mistake for me, he was never going to have a massive influence today, needed KEA/Sylla/Bannan to start in there and make it a genuine 3 in midfield.

[darren woolley]

Better second half let's look to the Sunderland game now which we must win.