Aston Villa v Liverpool Match Thread

[Bad English]

Serious question. Has Bacuna got a Timon and Pumbaa-themed song yet?

[Irish villain]

Piss fucking poor there.

[Monty]

I think we have just been outplayed and out thought by a better team.

Outplayed, but out-thought is something we can try and help, and it very much looks like one plan at the moment - unusual for Lambert.

[Lamb_Stockmix]

Helenius will come on for Bacuna on 63.

[citizenDJ]

I think we have just been outplayed and out thought by a better team.

Exactly this, I think. Just look at the quality if their movement off the ball and passing compared to ours. I hoped we'd play a high energy game to put them off their stride, but we haven't managed to do that and, to be frank, we don't have very much else to our game in my opinion.

[ozzjim]

Weimann is offering nothing at all to this side at the moment. Helenius and Tonev on soon for me now.

[Rigadon]

I fear we've met our old enemies again. Complacency and hubris. We think we're better than we are sometimes.

To be honest Jimbo, I think we're the most outrageously cautious supporters in the world when it comes to blowing our proverbial trumpets.  We have played very very well in the last couple of games.  I reckon the difference today is the weight of expectation for a team who aren't used to it. 

I saw it a few times last season with this team, when things were going well in a game, they lost concentration, thought they were better than they were, and paid the price.

As fans we're generally cautious, but going into this match many of us thought we'd dick Liverpool. 

Fair enough, I don't see that in the team and the fans I know have all said, lets get a draw.  Have read some less cautiously optimistic stuff though.  Fan wise, I think a lot of it is to do with the nightmare of McLeash and the hideousness of a relegation battle lifting and that prompting the bravado. 

We have been better this half.

[Rigadon]

Westwood should never have shot there.

[Irish villain]

Fans getting into it now, come on!!

[Rigadon]

Weimann is offering nothing at all to this side at the moment. Helenius and Tonev on soon for me now.

Going forward I think I'd agree.  He does a lot of tracking back though.

[Tuscans]

Bacuna is tying the forward pass....to Liverpool

[edgysatsuma89]

Helenius will come on for Bacuna on 63.

Meg .... Meg ... Is that you?

[ozzjim]

Oh and Okore is a fucking good player.

[eastie]

I'd get tonev and sylla on for weimann and bacuna now.

[Lamb_Stockmix]

We've been better the last half hour and them the first.

Even game now.