Aston Villa v Sunderland Match Thread

[Toronto Villa]

Benteke and Austin Powers have something in common. Both lost their mojo

[Fergal]

I think we may not get 6 this time

You know that feeling you get when you think that some fucker is gonna cop a hammering?  I have not had that for years, guess what? I don't have it now either.

[David_Nab]

Not been great Luna looks off the pace.Benteke not looking too confident either.

[django]

Luna is poor. Benteke is either still not fit or just no at it at the moment. Kea prob the weakest of the midfielders. Otherwise not too shabby individually but as a team we have lost momentum through the players mentioned, benteke particularly making poor decisions and not forcing errors when Sunderland started with visible nerves.

[E I Adio]

On the bright side, promising first 10 minutes.....

[eamonn]

Need Ads optimism after that.

[ez]

Benteke and Agbonlahor have been awful. What's wrong with them.

[Fergal]

Very poor 45 minutes- when are we going to play well for 90 minutes ?

When we buy a bit of experienced quality...

[Irish villain]

I'm beginning to wonder if we should have cashed in on Benteke in the summer.

Being honest, he is playing like somebody who either doesn't want to be here or just can't be arsed now he has a bigger contract.

[Rigadon]

A poor half of football after the 1st 5 minutes of promising endeavour. 

Our fullbacks aren't quite good enough defensively, the midfield lacks creative spark and Benteke is desperate for a goal. 

Ho hum. 

We'll have a better second half I'm sure. 

[peter w]

Type of  game we'll typically lose now.

Nah, not today peter. Not today

Hmmmm...

[Uknowthescore]

Pipe down u was all moaning against the baggies and look what happened have faith 2 0 villa

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Poor yet again. No doubt they'll be some head buriers that will claim it was an even half but I can only think we're trying to help Sunderland score their first goal away since August.

[JUAN PABLO]

not sure If I heard right = Have we not scored a first half goal at home

[supertom]

We've seriously got to rethink the ethos at the club. We lack a bit of quality. If we get into a run of shit games like Cardiff and West Brom, which go against us, instead of for us, we could find ourselves in trouble again. That little bit of luck we had in some games won't always happen. We can't always be poor put pull off results from one moment when we get a free kick or the ball drops nicely and the game turns. These things will even themselves out and things will go against us. We need to start properly dominating games.

We've got to buy quality in January.

As for Benteke, he just looks increasingly like he's wishing he'd forced a move through in the summer. It doesn't look purely a confidence or fitness issue. He's not working hard enough and doesn't seem too bothered.