Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur Post-Match Thread

[simman]

Sorry guys, this was at 1-0!! They may well have gone on and done us 4-1 or still 4-0 but this was a game changing decision and not even borderline! I have never seen anything like this in 40 years down the Villa. I have seen plenty of slight 'tugs' on shirts given as penalties but the defender clearly has a grip on the shorts here in view of both the linesman and referee.
I m not going to try and cover up our frailties tonight, but this is genuinely a poor call and so clear too. Who knows what might have happened if we had been rightly given a penalty and scored??

[Gareth]

That was largely, all graft and no craft - the midfield 3 were clueless - KEA was chasing chickens, Sylla was slow and off pace & Bacuna is never a centre mid if he cannot get his head up and find a pass...Tonev is at best a 15 mins impact sub at the moment.  Finally realised why they call him Concrete Ron, it's the boots he wears. 

Albrighton did well, Baker was willing and showed decent composure, Bennett grew into the game, Helenius showed some nice touches, Kozak was isolated, Steer made some good stops.

Spurs had 5 or 6 players out there tonight who were capable of playing the incisive pass to open up our leaden defence, we had one option in Albrighton.

Not having any centre halves with any pace for next 9 months is gonna be an issue IMHO.   In fact the lack of pace through the whole side when Gabby is out is a concern.

As you can tell I really enjoyed that :-( if McLeish had thrown in the towel like we did tonight he'd have been slaughtered

[Goldie.7]

I'm getting over the heavy defeat quick just gutted i was nearly 10,000 out for my GTC prediction. We were ridiculously shit and deserved to lose, nothing more to say really.

[adrenachrome]

Unmitigated shit to pile on top of the unmitigated shit deposited during the last home performance. We seem to be building a prodigious pile of dung at Villa Park, and this at least may stop the opposition from waltzing through our defence unhindered.

[Legion]

Should it also have been a red card?

[Louzie0]

Should it also have been a red card?

Yes

[Ads]

Just back in.

Well it seems Spurs squad is a tad better than ours.

We set up to contain them and did so for 35 minutes. Kozak very isolated. I thought it said everything about our approach that at one nil down we decide to take him off ready for Saturday.

It was a miss-match side that played like one. No purpose or focus in attack, sloppy passing and movement, poor concentration at the back and some sloppy keeping. Very poor all in all.

I have to say, Spurs are easily the best team we have played so far this season.

We cannot afford to be without so many first choice picks (i.e. the entire frontline) against quality like that.

I have also never seen a player debagged before and it appears neither had the referee. Stonewall penalty.

This time last year we were getting very wet in rainy Manchester. Mind you if we had known what was to come, we would have left it at one nil. I loathe home games in the cup. They're invariably gash.

[saunders_heroes]

So many average players in our squad it's no wonder why we lose so many games. Some of them aren't fit to wear the claret and blue, yet they try and fool us into thinking there's some kind of genius plan at work. Sorry but I just don't buy it. This club is in decline thanks to Lerner trying to run us on a relative shoe string.

[simman]

Should it also have been a red card?

Indeed, last man etc.....
Game changing.

[Legion]

So, we're now the English equivalent of the Cleveland Browns.

[dave.woodhall]

So, we're now the English equivalent of the Cleveland Browns.

Because we lost a League Cup third round tie?

[saunders_heroes]

So, we're now the English equivalent of the Cleveland Browns.

Well he seems to have weaved the same kind of black magic he did at Cleveland.

[saunders_heroes]

So, we're now the English equivalent of the Cleveland Browns.

Because we lost a League Cup third round tie?

In isolation you would have a point, but we've had too many of these type of performances since Lambert took over.

[Legion]

So, we're now the English equivalent of the Cleveland Browns.

Because we lost a League Cup third round tie?

You misunderstand. I think I should have put a question mark at the end of my post instead of the full stop.

[Louzie0]

Olaf, cannot quote your post. (Weird stuff on site)
But it is not that bad, tonight.