Aston Villa v Newcastle United Post-Match Thread

[eastie]

Why has Sylla made way for KEA when he was a vital cog in our resurgence last spring?!?! I know he was injured for a bit, but he should be fit now. Strange.

He is fit now and has been for a couple of weeks, sylla must be a starter in midfield for us , and we really must sort out a way of playing at home as our home form in recent seasons has been awful - today is not good enough and lambert has the options in the squad to change things.

I expect to see 3 or 4 changes next week, Lowton and Weimann benched and sylla  must start in midfield.

[eastie]

And another random thing while sitting on the 7. Newcastle fans are utter twats. If they had come at me like that I'd have twatted them as well. Wankers.

Like what ? Can you explain more please , what did they do?

[PeterWithesShin]

And why the fuck did Luna keep showing Ben Arfa inside? Basic error time and again. In case you hadn't guessed I'm quite fucked off right now. 

[PaulWinch again]

We desperately need Okore fit as well.

[supertom]

We seem to always want to play at top gear. Occasionally it works and we'll string a decent passing move together, but mostly it's poor, particularly at home. Lamberts got to give us another dimension. I'm not sure we've got the personel.
In all honest, he could turn us into another Stoke City and we'd pick up better results than trying, and failing, to be Arsenal when were playing at home.
Just play the three giants up front and twat it long.

We do seriously lack a Petrov figure in midfield, who can slow the tempo down every now and again. Westwood has the potential but hes started this season poorly, and doesn't yet possess Stans leadership quality.

I'm also thinking we might have missed a trick bringing Barry back on loan. Without wanting to open that Pandoras box of a discussion.

[taylorsworkrate]

I wouldn't be surprised if we win less than 3 games at home all season. Utterly clueless on the ball and still possess the worst defense in the league

[David_Nab]

It sounded like we played well for twenty five minutes at the start of the second half - we seemed to miss some great chances?

But then let in a bad goal and went pretty long ball 442? And Newcastle seemed to have a fair few more chances than us too?

Was Guzan at fault for the second? Sounded like Ben Arfa had Luna on toast?

Disappointing. Very disappointing. We don't look a top ten contender at the moment, do we?

Was good save  from Guzan ,Ben Afra should'nt of been allowed to shoot.

Luna had no support and Ben Afra ran him ragged ..again the big issue no fucking width

We scored then lost the ball from a foul throw they scored and we resorted to long balls to the 2 big men who linked up exactly zero times.Remember Bradford at home ,well thats what we resorted to again.

[Steve R]

Not a great game for Lambert. It's a bit baffling that El Ahmadi starts ahead of Sylla and very baffling that such an obvious substitution never happened. Instead we ended up with an overload of strikers on the pitch, a tactic that has served so poorly in the past.

There were very few positives from the game. Okore is impressive, he is a quality defender, it's worrying that he went of injured. Benteke added another goal to his tally, Guzan still looks one of the best in the dision and that is about it.

[olaftab]

OK it's not going swimmingly as we expect however the good points are no one has ripped us apart and we are developing every match. Newcastle despite their results previous to today's game have some very good players. Just need to keep the belief and trust Lambert to get it right.

[PaulWinch again]

OK it's not going swimmingly as we expect however the good points are no one has ripped us apart and we are developing every match. Newcastle despite their results previous to today's game have some very good players. Just need to keep the belief and trust Lambert to get it right.

We could have conceded many more today.

[KevinGage]

It's a shame, because if we could win even just 7/8 games at home, with our away form we could be contenders for Europe again.

But for this current side, set up the way they are,  winning 8 at VP would be a huge ask.

[olaftab]

I wouldn't be surprised if we win less than 3 games at home all season. Utterly clueless on the ball and still possess the worst defense in the league

Steady on fella there are 5/6 teams worse than us.

[Ads]

Absolute fucking garbage. I am furious to have been proved right. I said before that I had seen nothing to suggest that we had the capability to win the game and I was proved dispairingly correct. Christ knows where these predictions from most came from about rolling them over, based on exactly what I have no idea.

That narrow, one dimensional shite signals the fourth year of struggle. Its just not acceptable.

I hate Villa Park and all its soft touch, inviting, easy to play in atmosphere. Its been shit down there for years.

How the fuck you can spend three weeks planning that tedious and aimless crap is beyond me. The midfield is so weak and toothless it defies logic. Why isn't Sylla in there? Why do we have one tactic; give the ball to Benteke, has he scored? No? Lump it back to him.

Total fucking shite, as bad as anything that ****** McLiesh ever served up. Another season struggling to survive. Fuck off Villa.

[PaulWinch again]

That was right back to December/January last year in terms of performance.

[Eurochamps82]

We were shite! What's the point bringing on Tonev a couple of minutes from the end?  Did Kozak get a touch?