Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur Post-Match Thread

[mr woo]

Delph constantly getting MOTM is damning him with faint praise for me. Our midfield is useless and he's the best of a bad bunch.

Delph is a very good footballer.

He is indeed.

As mentioned before, I find it incredible he only has a similar number of Premiership starts under his belt as Ashley Westwood.

He's probably the only member of our squad that has a realistic chance of making the England WC squad, despite what Gabby/The Sun and Lambert says.

At times I feel sorry for him. Countless times he traps the ball, drops his shoulder, beats one man, then another, only to lift his head to see Kozak rooted to the spot, hiding behind his marker with Gabby and Weimann motionless square of him in 'nothing' positions. Must be a creative midfielders nightmare....

[taylorsworkrate]

Baker is our best defender

He occasionally puts in a camera friendly challenge, but his overall positional sense and his awareness mean at present that he shouldn't be near a premier league defense in my opinion. Just look at the no look pass he played straight to a Spurs player today.

If these sort of mistakes were a rarity with Baker then you could live with it. Problem is he's liable to make a howler once every couple of games

[eastie]

I would be happy to see Delph sign a new deal as others have been rewarded recently who are nowhere near his quality.

[DB]

We are looking like a mid-table side. Inconsistency is what you get with us. After amount of investment we had available (compared to Spuds for example) and last season, I'm not complaining.

[barrysleftfoot]

 Did you see Clark last season taylor.Against Wigan, it was one of the worst defensive performances ever.

 Baker is young, but very competative.In about 2 or 3 seasons time, i think he will be a very good defender.For me he is better now, at this age, than Cahill was.

[PaulWinch again]

Baker is our best defender

I'm sorry but you couldn't be more wrong. His diving challenges are a result of being hideously out of position all of the time and his concentration is so poor. He's a Championship defender, maybe a bottom end Premier League defender at best. All of our other defenders are much better than Baker.

[PaulWinch again]

Did you see Clark last season taylor.Against Wigan, it was one of the worst defensive performances ever.

 Baker is young, but very competative.In about 2 or 3 seasons time, i think he will be a very good defender.For me he is better now, at this age, than Cahill was.

Last season Clark was poor, but he's been completely different this year. Baker hasn't improved from his first game to now, he makes exactly the same errors.

[gervilla]

Kozac doesn't bring much to the party, does he ?
Big improvement when Benteke came on.
Feck all creativity. Delph overworked in midfield.
I really thought we might finally give them a game today.

[E I Adio]

At times I feel sorry for him. Countless times he traps the ball, drops his shoulder, beats one man, then another, only to lift his head to see Kozak rooted to the spot, hiding behind his marker with Gabby and Weimann motionless square of him in 'nothing' positions. Must be a creative midfielders nightmare....

This was our major failing today. We're never too good at this, but today our forwards largely behaved as if they'd had frontal lobotomies when it came to positioning themselves to accept a forward ball from midfield.

[PaulWinch again]

At times I feel sorry for him. Countless times he traps the ball, drops his shoulder, beats one man, then another, only to lift his head to see Kozak rooted to the spot, hiding behind his marker with Gabby and Weimann motionless square of him in 'nothing' positions. Must be a creative midfielders nightmare....

This was our major failing today. We're never too good at this, but today our forwards largely behaved as if they'd had frontal lobotomies when it came to positioning themselves to accept a forward ball from midfield.

Yep movement is the problem, if Delph played for a Spurs or Arsenal he would be getting rave reviews.

[E I Adio]

At times I feel sorry for him. Countless times he traps the ball, drops his shoulder, beats one man, then another, only to lift his head to see Kozak rooted to the spot, hiding behind his marker with Gabby and Weimann motionless square of him in 'nothing' positions. Must be a creative midfielders nightmare....

This was our major failing today. We're never too good at this, but today our forwards largely behaved as if they'd had frontal lobotomies when it came to positioning themselves to accept a forward ball from midfield.

Yep movement is the problem, if Delph played for a Spurs or Arsenal he would be getting rave reviews.

The way he's playing now, I agree.

[silhillvilla]

The only looked dangerous on the odd occasion gabby got wide and had the ball at his feet. Would like to see him hogging that touch line with Nzogbia or carruthers or Albrighton on the other flank.

[Somniloquism]

I think the combined total of their bench today beats out net spend over the last few years.

[barrysleftfoot]

 
 Baker saved us in a few games last season with his last ditch challenges, was it QPR, and Norwich, i don't remember any of Clarks defdending keeping us in a game.

 But Baker was'nt the problem today, and if Clark was playing, it would'nt have been him.The problems today were Gabby, Westwood and Weimann, and probably Kozak as well.The rest were ok

[mr woo]

Baker is our best defender

Can't really agree.

Would still give that award to Vlaar, who really is an assured act. Once you stop asking him to babysit the back four on his own that is.