Manchester United vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[SO Villa]

Best fans in the world...?

only if he is wearing a suicide vest...

Dreadful comment. Clearly his name = terrorist.

He doesnt look Irish

Again not particularly comfortable with that.

Ooh, can l register my outrage as well please? Hope l'm not too late! Many thanks.

[myf]

looked total overwhelmed with the situation from the start and Lambert didn't look bothered either. a very sad night all in all. massive gulf between the two teams and villa effectively there as cannon fodder for sky and the world to rejoice in another title win. got me thinking what is point in staying up? best we can hope for is mid table mediocrity.

[Nastylee]

Are the people claiming tactical lunacy the same ones that were heartened pre-kick off by the attacking intent?

[Lastfootstamper]

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.

Total bollocks you're either offside or not and they were all standing in an offside position at the moment the ball was played therefore according to the laws of association football they were offside period.  You cant be borderline either right or wrong sorry.  The offside law is an absolute.

Full stop.
Sorry, but it really annoys me.

[David_Nab]

Them scoring so early negated the formation , it still could of been wrong but going behind so early meant our counter attacking game plan was already bolloxed.

[PeterWithe]

The defence was all over the shop, yet again, not one of them looked like they were anything like up to the task first half. Defensively we looked fragile against Reading and QPR, today just embarrassing. The time to strengthen was January.

Yes but that's largely irrelevant now, and in fairness they did pretty well in second half.

But they didn't when the pressure was on and haven't all season.

If we go it will be because we didn't beg borrow or steal a few defenders in Jan and I'd consider that a good enough reason to make changes.

[rob_bridge]

Look we got fucked over by a better team. I didn't watch the game as onlyhave poorman's tv and do the internet hack occasionally - I just heard a little on 5live.

We have Sunderland, Norwich and Wigan. We need a minimum 5 points and not to lose to Wigan. Do that and we will be safe. Don't and we will likely be relegated and deservedly so.

[PaulWinch again]

Are the people claiming tactical lunacy the same ones that were heartened pre-kick off by the attacking intent?

Fair point, it's easy in retrospect to look at the tactics. It was bad defending that did us, not so much the midfield. KEA was really good in the second half though.

[Clampy]

There's a few comments on here having at go at Lambert for playing such an attacking line up but I'd rather have it that way than what we had to put up with last season. Have people forgotten Spurs away last season and the ultra-negative line up that day?

There's a difference between playing two right backs to keep Bale quiet than playing an extra man in midfield to stop us being over-run.

[Wearie Willie]

We got beat tonight ok but expected that was going to happen the next two games are the ones that really count and im confident we'll win those games COYVB

[paul_e]

Total bollocks you're either offside or not and they were all standing in an offside position at the moment the ball was played therefore according to the laws of association football they were offside period.  You cant be borderline either right or wrong sorry.  The offside law is an absolute.

Very polite.

Standing is the key word in your post, in real time they're all moving and all 3, whilst technically offside, are close enough you can't call them terrible decisions.  There the kind that generally go against the sides that are struggling, and teams like united always get them in their favour (and Evra was a lucky boy to stay on the pitch for me as well, threw himself in pretty recklessly when he was already on a yellow).  I kind of expected a few decisions like that, the officials didn't want to be the ones to ruin the party.

[eamonn]

There's a few comments on here having at go at Lambert for playing such an attacking line up but I'd rather have it that way than what we had to put up with last season. Have people forgotten Spurs away last season and the ultra-negative line up that day?

No but there's a balance in-between that would have served us best from kick-off today, not just the second half.

Anyway...apart from the result, I'm pre-empting feeling pissed-off about Lowton being edge out for both goal of the month and season for Van Persie's second which will be awarded as much for its "significance" as its, admittedly impressive execution.

[ciggiesnbeer]

looked total overwhelmed with the situation from the start and Lambert didn't look bothered either. a very sad night all in all. massive gulf between the two teams and villa effectively there as cannon fodder for sky and the world to rejoice in another title win. got me thinking what is point in staying up? best we can hope for is mid table mediocrity.

Yup. To be honest we have been a bit part in other clubs stories for years. The EPL is worse than la Liga.

[Greg N'Ash]

Two in midfield did'nt work against Bradford away. It was definatley not going to work at Old Trafford. You'd have thought Lambert would have sussed it by now.

yep. god knows what he's thinking but its way too advanced for me.

[AV82EC]

Well just got back. best can be said is we didn't take a twatting and looks like that sound engineer is required as you could have heard a pin drop at times in the second half

"won the league and you still don't sing".

If we'd taken our chances it could have been different but they'd have just upped a few gears and got another couple.

Fair play to the young lad showing us his Van Persie picture, don't think his teacher was overly pleased when he got all 1900 Villa fans then urging him to stick it up his arse!! 

Another miserable tram ride home and a load of glory hunting armchair c**** to confront at work in the morning.