Villa's style of play

[Clampy]

We have been criticised by 2 managers for being a long ball team so I loved our direct as you can get winner. They left 2 on 2 at the back, not a good idea at any level. A long ball has it's place at times.

I read in the paper yesterday that Guzan became the first keeper this season to get an assist although I thought Kuzak knocked it on.

Glad he didn't as it would have been offside.
 

I did wonder why at the time the ref went over to the linesman just after the goal.

[Lastfootstamper]

We have been criticised by 2 managers for being a long ball team so I loved our direct as you can get winner. They left 2 on 2 at the back, not a good idea at any level. A long ball has it's place at times.

I read in the paper yesterday that Guzan became the first keeper this season to get an assist although I thought Kuzak knocked it on.

I don't think Kozak touched it , if so Weimann would have been probably offside but at the time Guzan kicked it Weimann was in his own half  and as the city defenders missed it was clean through.

Was lovely to see the ball go from our keeper to their net in about 5 seconds :)

Surely it was longer than that. Seemed to take the ball best part of an hour to make it from the edge of the box!

[brontebilly]

think we are playing some awful muck of late. It isnt helped with Lowton and Westwood out of the side as they are two of our better players with the ball (and two of our worst without it to be fair to Lambert).

Compare the three centre halves yesterday to the three under Little where McGrath and Staunton were very comfortable with the ball. Southgate too was an ex-midfielder.

Difficult to play possession football with the players we have,  Baker in particular is atrocious with the ball. El Ahmadi doesnt have the physical strength or pace to keep the ball in tight situations. Delph in the second half showed he is well able to. Sylla hasnt a first touch to speak of and Weimann's touch also leaves a lot to be desired at times. But despite all that we should be a lot better with the ball, hoofing against a good side without Benteke in the side guarantees one thing, concession of possession (farcical Man City defending aside).

Guzan doesnt help matters as he clearly just wants to hoof it every time, not much better than Bozzy in that respect. Clark and Vlaar should be forcing him to play it shorter more often, between the three of them they take the cowardly way out too often when it comes to retaining possession.

[Clampy]

think we are playing some awful muck of late. It isnt helped with Lowton and Westwood out of the side as they are two of our better players with the ball (and two of our worst without it to be fair to Lambert).

Compare the three centre halves yesterday to the three under Little where McGrath and Staunton were very comfortable with the ball. Southgate too was an ex-midfielder.

Difficult to play possession football with the players we have,  Baker in particular is atrocious with the ball. El Ahmadi doesnt have the physical strength or pace to keep the ball in tight situations. Delph in the second half showed he is well able to. Sylla hasnt a first touch to speak of and Weimann's touch also leaves a lot to be desired at times. But despite all that we should be a lot better with the ball, hoofing against a good side without Benteke in the side guarantees one thing, concession of possession (farcical Man City defending aside).

Guzan doesnt help matters as he clearly just wants to hoof it every time, not much better than Bozzy in that respect. Clark and Vlaar should be forcing him to play it shorter more often, between the three of them they take the cowardly way out too often when it comes to retaining possession.

After reading that, i'm going to double check that we've actually won any games at all.

[dave.woodhall]

think we are playing some awful muck of late. It isnt helped with Lowton and Westwood out of the side as they are two of our better players with the ball (and two of our worst without it to be fair to Lambert).

Compare the three centre halves yesterday to the three under Little where McGrath and Staunton were very comfortable with the ball. Southgate too was an ex-midfielder.

Difficult to play possession football with the players we have,  Baker in particular is atrocious with the ball. El Ahmadi doesnt have the physical strength or pace to keep the ball in tight situations. Delph in the second half showed he is well able to. Sylla hasnt a first touch to speak of and Weimann's touch also leaves a lot to be desired at times. But despite all that we should be a lot better with the ball, hoofing against a good side without Benteke in the side guarantees one thing, concession of possession (farcical Man City defending aside).

Guzan doesnt help matters as he clearly just wants to hoof it every time, not much better than Bozzy in that respect. Clark and Vlaar should be forcing him to play it shorter more often, between the three of them they take the cowardly way out too often when it comes to retaining possession.

Too true. God knows how we'll get on when we play a decent team like Manchester City.

[supertom]

think we are playing some awful muck of late. It isnt helped with Lowton and Westwood out of the side as they are two of our better players with the ball (and two of our worst without it to be fair to Lambert).

Compare the three centre halves yesterday to the three under Little where McGrath and Staunton were very comfortable with the ball. Southgate too was an ex-midfielder.

Difficult to play possession football with the players we have,  Baker in particular is atrocious with the ball. El Ahmadi doesnt have the physical strength or pace to keep the ball in tight situations. Delph in the second half showed he is well able to. Sylla hasnt a first touch to speak of and Weimann's touch also leaves a lot to be desired at times. But despite all that we should be a lot better with the ball, hoofing against a good side without Benteke in the side guarantees one thing, concession of possession (farcical Man City defending aside).

Guzan doesnt help matters as he clearly just wants to hoof it every time, not much better than Bozzy in that respect. Clark and Vlaar should be forcing him to play it shorter more often, between the three of them they take the cowardly way out too often when it comes to retaining possession.

Too true. God knows how we'll get on when we play a decent team like Manchester City.

Yep Guzan should really, REALLY stop punting the ball up the field all the time. It never leads to anything.

[eastie]

think we are playing some awful muck of late. It isnt helped with Lowton and Westwood out of the side as they are two of our better players with the ball (and two of our worst without it to be fair to Lambert).

Compare the three centre halves yesterday to the three under Little where McGrath and Staunton were very comfortable with the ball. Southgate too was an ex-midfielder.

Difficult to play possession football with the players we have,  Baker in particular is atrocious with the ball. El Ahmadi doesnt have the physical strength or pace to keep the ball in tight situations. Delph in the second half showed he is well able to. Sylla hasnt a first touch to speak of and Weimann's touch also leaves a lot to be desired at times. But despite all that we should be a lot better with the ball, hoofing against a good side without Benteke in the side guarantees one thing, concession of possession (farcical Man City defending aside).

Guzan doesnt help matters as he clearly just wants to hoof it every time, not much better than Bozzy in that respect. Clark and Vlaar should be forcing him to play it shorter more often, between the three of them they take the cowardly way out too often when it comes to retaining possession.

Goodness gracious me , what a depressing post - cheer up sir

[LeeB]

think we are playing some awful muck of late. It isnt helped with Lowton and Westwood out of the side as they are two of our better players with the ball (and two of our worst without it to be fair to Lambert).

Compare the three centre halves yesterday to the three under Little where McGrath and Staunton were very comfortable with the ball. Southgate too was an ex-midfielder.

Difficult to play possession football with the players we have,  Baker in particular is atrocious with the ball. El Ahmadi doesnt have the physical strength or pace to keep the ball in tight situations. Delph in the second half showed he is well able to. Sylla hasnt a first touch to speak of and Weimann's touch also leaves a lot to be desired at times. But despite all that we should be a lot better with the ball, hoofing against a good side without Benteke in the side guarantees one thing, concession of possession (farcical Man City defending aside).

Guzan doesnt help matters as he clearly just wants to hoof it every time, not much better than Bozzy in that respect. Clark and Vlaar should be forcing him to play it shorter more often, between the three of them they take the cowardly way out too often when it comes to retaining possession.

"..still, on the brightside..."

[glasses]

I would say that there are only three games this season so far where we have got what our play merited. Spurs & Rotherham in the cup, and Newcastle at home. Maybe Arsenal at a push too. The others we have either been unlucky not to draw at least or fortunate to win.

We don't do things the easy way..

[paul_e]

think we are playing some awful muck of late. It isnt helped with Lowton and Westwood out of the side as they are two of our better players with the ball (and two of our worst without it to be fair to Lambert).

Compare the three centre halves yesterday to the three under Little where McGrath and Staunton were very comfortable with the ball. Southgate too was an ex-midfielder.

Difficult to play possession football with the players we have,  Baker in particular is atrocious with the ball. El Ahmadi doesnt have the physical strength or pace to keep the ball in tight situations. Delph in the second half showed he is well able to. Sylla hasnt a first touch to speak of and Weimann's touch also leaves a lot to be desired at times. But despite all that we should be a lot better with the ball, hoofing against a good side without Benteke in the side guarantees one thing, concession of possession (farcical Man City defending aside).

Guzan doesnt help matters as he clearly just wants to hoof it every time, not much better than Bozzy in that respect. Clark and Vlaar should be forcing him to play it shorter more often, between the three of them they take the cowardly way out too often when it comes to retaining possession.

Too true. God knows how we'll get on when we play a decent team like Manchester City.

Or away at Arsenal, I hear they've won 5 on the bounce after losing on the opening day, must've been a good side that turned them over at home that opening weekend.

[sirlordbaltimore]

It's really weird how people can't seem to air a view that we're playing some piss poor football without being shot down with the 'well we've won games' cry.

NOBODY has said we haven't won games, and to my knowledge NOBODY has said we haven't beaten some good sides.

But what has that got to do with also saying we HAVE played some fucking awful football at the same time ?

You don't always get what you deserve in football, i'm sure most of us are old and ugly enough to know that by now.

[eastie]

It's really weird how people can't seem to air a view that we're playing some piss poor football without being shot down with the 'well we've won games' cry.

NOBODY has said we haven't won games, and to my knowledge NOBODY has said we haven't beaten some good sides.

But what has that got to do with also saying we HAVE played some fucking awful football at the same time ?

You don't always get what you deserve in football, i'm sure most of us are old and ugly enough to know that by now.

Maybe but if you can't bask in the enjoying the good days then why bother, there will be plenty of times to criticise during the season but lets just enjoy the fact that we beat the title favourites for a little while longer.

[not3bad]

It's really weird how people can't seem to air a view that we're playing some piss poor football without being shot down with the 'well we've won games' cry.

What, you mean you air a view and then someone with a different view disagrees with you?  Disgraceful!!!

[sirlordbaltimore]

It's really weird how people can't seem to air a view that we're playing some piss poor football without being shot down with the 'well we've won games' cry.

What, you mean you air a view and then someone with a different view disagrees with you?  Disgraceful!!!

well yes i suppose so. but i honestly don't believe the people saying that we don't play some god awful stuff actually believe it themselves. its like the result means everything is okay and therefore no one can question the actual quality and the bigger picture

[LeeB]

It's really weird how people can't seem to air a view that we're playing some piss poor football without being shot down with the 'well we've won games' cry.

NOBODY has said we haven't won games, and to my knowledge NOBODY has said we haven't beaten some good sides.

But what has that got to do with also saying we HAVE played some fucking awful football at the same time ?

You don't always get what you deserve in football, i'm sure most of us are old and ugly enough to know that by now.

Isn't it weird that all you ever do is moan, or damn with faint praise.