Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur Post-Match Thread

[Louzie0]

Their squad is much better than ours.

Positives.
The general amount of effort from everyone.
Albrightons best performance for a couple of years probably.
Helenius looks like he could be quite useful.
Sylla looked pretty good until the 4th goal. certainly wasn't lacking fitness.
Robinson getting his debut.

And possession at home more than 50%.
Wondering who might have been able to come on, let alone start, with the knocks and injuries in the squad. Time till Saturday for some key players to recover.

[PaulWinch again]

I just don't think it's acceptable for Aston Villa to completely surrender a game at home to anyone. Not good enough from anyone involved.

[bertlambshank]

I just don't think it's acceptable for Aston Villa to completely surrender a game at home to anyone. Not good enough from anyone involved.

Spot on!

[mrfuse]

Look, I know you optimists are just looking it from a glass half full perspective and trying to be realistic. Good for you.

But as you say, Spurs are clearly far better than we are.

That in itself is a hugely depressing state of affairs. I reserve the right to be well and truly fucked off.

Yes spurs are currently better than we are and you could argue they have a better squad than Man Ure and Arsenal  its hardly embarrassing. But the way we are looking at it is long term not quick fix.

[kippaxvilla2]

Why wasn't this a priority!? PL has been on record as saying we would take all cups seriously. Much better chance having a right go tonight than there is of getting anything Saturday in my opinion. Another PL cup balls up

He obviously looked at it and thought there is no way even if we get to the semis we could beat Bradford so decided not to prioritise it to stop injuries and the like.

[ciggiesnbeer]

More blind positivity from me. I think our cup run last season hurt us in the league. Hopefully us getting knocked out this early will help us this season?

Just trying to see the bright side here

[taylorsworkrate]

It's all well and good looking for positives, but tonight shows how piss poor our overall squad is, after a not insignificant amount has been spent on it.

[JUAN PABLO]

no Benteke  no Okore .   Im expecting 5 -0 loss on Saturday  .   

[eamonn]

It's either the worst thing to happen ever ever ever, or just a case of lots of our squad players and new ones blending into the league losing to a far superior team, who have had the luxury of spending a lot of money on players over the last few years whilst we've been cutting back. I think I'll go for the latter.

Albrighton had one of his better performances in recent years, Sylla improved after the break and I think Bacuna has slotted in quite nicely. Tonev was much better than Saturday too.

So people can complain, moan, beat PL or the players up about this, say "I've spent my money so I can complain as much as I like," but we'll have better performances in more important games than this.

Our best chance of a cup? Maybe, but I'm still optimistic about an improved performance in the league this season.

Lambert has had enough money to spend, or to not use, to make sure we play better than that. I can't see any other team in the league handing a game to Spurs like that. Sounds like it was worse than last year's 0-4 to them in the league. As for resting players - for what? Man City at home, when regardless of our line-up we will defend in numbers, have 22% possession and hope we burn them on the break. The chances of it being successful? Well, have a gander at the bookies' odds.

How many more shaggin' years of transition do we have to put-up with?

[Villafirst]

Not acceptable - about time Lerner stated his intentions - has he bothered to watch us 'live' this season?

[saunders_heroes]

Their squad is much better than ours.

Positives.
The general amount of effort from everyone.
Albrightons best performance for a couple of years probably.
Helenius looks like he could be quite useful.
Sylla looked pretty good until the 4th goal. certainly wasn't lacking fitness.
Robinson getting his debut.

We lost 4-0 at home. They're are no positives what so ever.

[Mister E]

I missed the game but heard Dean Saunders mystified that we weren't closing the Spurrrrrrrrs players down more; he said that our front 6 were not putting in the effort to stem the balls into the danger areas. Certainly sounded like we were against Barcodes, where we were also poor at pressing.
That is a coaching and fitness issue. Not ignoring the difference in quality between the players, we could have done alot better than we did; which is pretty discouraging.

Delighted for Albrighton that he has made a re-appearance in the team.

I'm not looking forward to being at VP on Saturday, TBH; but will be.

[mr woo]

Ok. Let's look at this rationally...

We were beaten by the reserves of a much superior side. It's to be expected. They're much better than us. They qualified for Europe and everything.Not a problem is it?


So, since when did we so readily accept Spurs are a superior club to us?
Who next? Everton?  Swansea?  Stoke? Wigan?

AND when did we start to accept we could lose to a superior club without a fight. The way Bradford fought against us last year.

Make all the excuses and dismissals you want, there is a serious problem with this Aston Villa side these days.

[TonyD]

Looked forward to this game and thought it would be a hard fought cup tie.  The line up said otherwise.  Not quite as bad as Moscow or Citeh but nevertheless bloody shite.  Pissed off.

[Louzie0]

Not acceptable - about time Lerner stated his intentions - has he bothered to watch us 'live' this season?

Yes.