Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur Post-Match Thread

[barrysleftfoot]

 The gap between us is bigger than ever, Lamella, 1 player , cost more than all of our squad put together.

 Having said that, partic 2nd half, we played some nice football, and appaling decision by the referee not to give the penalty, then foot up for their 2nd goal.

 Positives for me, Bennett played well, both defensively and going foward, Baker was ok as was Vlaar, Bacuna and Sylla i thought played very well in a 4-4-2, and Helenius looks as if he has something about him.Tonev was ok, as was Albrighton.

 Thought Lowton, Kovac and Bowery were poor tbh.

 Did'nt expect much tonight, it was'nt a 4-0, Spuds are possibly the 2nd best team in the country.Not as bad a performance, partic 2nd half, as some on here will lead you to think.

[David_Nab]

Weakened side ..I was under impression that other than Steer the rest not played where all carrying injuries ?

[kippaxvilla2]

People going on about the squad not being as good as theirs, bla, bla, I accept it, but this was a total and utter gulf in class difference.  He had the chance to improve the squad in the summer and chose to go with the young and hungry policy again, leaving us still woefully short as a squad.  Either, he had no choice through £ constraints in which case Lerner needs to tells us what he is planning to do with £60m or he had the choice and went ahead with this unworkable method of squad building.  Either way it is utterly shit.

[mrfuse]

Absolute garbage.  0-3 at home to Spurs seconds.  Ironically, we had some creativity, but no one to finish  -  we never quite get it right do we.

When you have Lamela costing £27M and Paulinho £17M which cost more than the whole Team we put out its hardly surprising, I thought considering the team we put out we played some decent stuff at times and didn't deserve the scoreline.

We just don't have the quality in depth that spurs have.

[Loxton01]

Think Lambert wrote this off before we started which was disapointing.

For me we have around 14 players who are good enough and the rest who arent against the best teams.

He has to find a better way to play at home. 0-4 is not good enough.

[paulcomben]

I almost went to that and spent more than our transfer budget in, projecting Lerner's budget spiral, 2015. Yes, about 50 quid. Close escape.

[Slaphead]

As said in the other thread, I am starting to hate them again.

How can you hate your football team mate?
Piss you off...yes, but hate is a bit strong dont you think?

I hate my mother but I still love her....

I'm just being dramatic, they are decent lads who work hard so you can't hate that.

[SamTheMouse]

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.

[JUAN PABLO]

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

we were putting 4 past Man city last year at the etihad ;(

[Tuscans]

Have to be said that was a crap performance by a crap 11. Albrighton huffed and puffed...can't really say anything positive about anyone else.

[mrfuse]

The gap between us is bigger than ever, Lamella, 1 player , cost more than all of our squad put together.

 Having said that, partic 2nd half, we played some nice football, and appaling decision by the referee not to give the penalty, then foot up for their 2nd goal.

 Positives for me, Bennett played well, both defensively and going foward, Baker was ok as was Vlaar, Bacuna and Sylla i thought played very well in a 4-4-2, and Helenius looks as if he has something about him.Tonev was ok, as was Albrighton.

 Thought Lowton, Kovac and Bowery were poor tbh.

 Did'nt expect much tonight, it was'nt a 4-0, Spuds are possibly the 2nd best team in the country.Not as bad a performance, partic 2nd half, as some on here will lead you to think.

Spot on mate, cant disagree with this comment.

[ACVilla]

Worrying. Very worrying.

[Nelly]

We should have had a penalty. But I can't argue with the amount they scored. The best team won. (vomit).

It feels like we haven't progressed from last season much, and actually, it feels like we've regressed somewhat. We had some excellent form at the end of last year. Sod, it, on to the next one. Up the Villa.

[Matt Collins]

By the way the inaccuracy of the commentary on 5 live was astounding

Apparently we have citeh then Chelsea next, Lowton came up through the youth team, Suarez was playing tonight, we lost at Norwich at the weekend.

 

[bertlambshank]

The gap between us is bigger than ever, Lamella, 1 player , cost more than all of our squad put together.

 Having said that, partic 2nd half, we played some nice football, and appaling decision by the referee not to give the penalty, then foot up for their 2nd goal.

 Positives for me, Bennett played well, both defensively and going foward, Baker was ok as was Vlaar, Bacuna and Sylla i thought played very well in a 4-4-2, and Helenius looks as if he has something about him.Tonev was ok, as was Albrighton.

 Thought Lowton, Kovac and Bowery were poor tbh.

 Did'nt expect much tonight, it was'nt a 4-0, Spuds are possibly the 2nd best team in the country.Not as bad a performance, partic 2nd half, as some on here will lead you to think.

Spot on mate, cant disagree with this comment.

I can with all of it.Spurs didn't need to play 2nd half.They knew they had already won.