WBA v Aston Villa Match Thread

[Grande Pablo]

Fuck Westwood off, absolute shite, get KEA off not good enough, get Kozak off, nullifying CB, bring on Delph, Gabby and Weimann, show a bit of passion, and a bito urgency.

 That Mulumbu challenge summed us up, KEA half hearted, Westwood too slow and weak, Sylla just completely off it.

 Lesson to PL....NEVER EVER AGAIN start with a midfield of Sylla , Westwood and KEA, completely offer nothing

I agreed at HT, but I'm so pleased PL didn't follow your advice!

[Tayls_7]

Credit to the lads there.
At the start of the game I asked myself who in their right mind would consider our best XI to be missing Gabby, Delph and Weimann and I still am. I was like getting ready for a 1st date ,hoping to get lucky, but still deciding to stick your shittiest pants on. ???Lambert??. Notice question marks all around Lambert still.

[Morten]

Hard to blame the players - the general set-up of the team is as clueless as I can remember seeing for a while.

Benteke, our biggest weapon, dropping deep? He's not a creative mid ffs, his strength is outmuscling the last man and getting on the end of things.
Kozak playing ahead of him, with no support? He needs a nippy forward to play around him, that's 'big lanky immobile striker 101'.
No wide men? With two big strikers on the pitch? Eh?
The slowest midfield in Christendom with three players who are unbelievably shite in the opposition half?
Clark on the left? Again? Hasn't Lambert bought TWO left backs? Where are they?

I like Lambert, but you have to call a spade and spade, and this is a really shit spade so far.

I really can not figure out what our tactics are ? pass it sideways a few times, then Westwood dropping deep to make a few sideways passes, and then finally back to Guzan, who kicks it long ?! There is no movement in midfield from KEA and Sylla, there is no balance at all in that midfield. They have all been bougth by Lambert. And I too do not understand the line up. When it was changed against Cardiff, it worked, not before. And now it is the same 11 again. 9 of the 11 players (including Guzan) are bought by Lambert.

Well, I will be more positive when it is 2-2...

I feel more positive, by the way :-)

[Dave Cooper please]

KEA or Westwood must come off. KEA is one of the worst players I've ever seen play for Villa

I know it's hindsight but this did make me laugh!

[usav]

I like Lambert, but you have to call a spade and spade, and this is a really shit spade so far.

love it.

[Richie]

If they're good enough for the bench then start them even if it's only for 60 mins.

Can't risk starting with 2 or 3 players who may only last an hour.

against the risk of that team not being good enough and needing the same 2-3 players to drag us out the mire in the final 30?

Mystic Lee strikes again !