Aston Villa v Manchester United Match Thread

[supertom]

Fucking hell Lowton, what was that pass he was trying to Albrighton, before that tackle? Needlessly giving it away and putting him in the position to have to tackle. Solid and fair tackle,but he shouldn't have given it away so cheaply before then. We do shit like this far too often.

[PaulWinch again]

There's a thread on here where we are slagging off the Boggies for sacking their manager.

There are loads of posts on here suggesting we do the same.

Get a grip lads eh?

Its a weekly thing.

The post match thread is even more wrist slashingly over the top.

Yes but I don't think it's a case of everything's ok either. It's somewhere in between, we haven't actually played very well for about 6 weeks now. We've got some results in that time, but like the England cricket team you can only go on playing poorly and getting results for so long.

[citizenDJ]

There's a thread on here where we are slagging off the Boggies for sacking their manager.

There are loads of posts on here suggesting we do the same.

Get a grip lads eh?

Its a weekly thing.

The post match thread is even more wrist slashingly over the top.

I don't think it's too ridiculous, to be honest. I think there are some people who feel that Lambert isn't really improving things very much (I'm one of them) and therefore wouldn't be too sorry to try someone else (I'm one of them, too).

If Lambert was sacked tomorrow morning, I wouldn't be very bothered at all, really.

[Tuscans]

I guess its a season of trying our best to stay away from the red line of death and getting what we can....hoping we improve ( how??) next season

[supertom]

Merry Christmas David Moyes.

[Jimbo]

Danny Baker on Twitter:

Whenever Villa face Man U they turn into Bob Dylan's backing band. "How do you want us to play, what speed & let us know when it's over."

[hilts_coolerking]

Evra goes for the Evan Davis on Lowton after that challenge.

[eastie]

We are a mid table side. However you take out our best two defenders, our best MF and add in a star striker badly out of form and this is the end result for all mid table sides.

Problem is mid table and bottom 3 are separated by only  2 wins - easy to slip into trouble.

[Matt Collins]

it's cringeworthy watching Westwood and KEA giving the ball back to each other...little one yard passes, looking so uncomfortable. They ruin pretty much every move we have going forward. I'd love it if both of them never played for Villa again.

Kea yes. Westwood no. I just don't see the criticism of him sometimes. What we lack with the way we play is a proper covering midfielder. But that's not the thing most people seem to criticise him for.

Petrov used to be a similar player, but at a higher level of course. Fans used to moan about him too until he got leukaemia and then at least a third of our fans suddenly forgot they'd ever criticised him and he became a playing legend

[Dante Lavelli]

If Lambo thinks these players are going to improve into those worthy of a top ten side then he needs his head shaking.

He thinks Westwood could play for England. That says it all.

Westwood has been okay so far today and last year was looking international class. He's dropped off this year but still an impressive signing in my opinion.

[ozzjim]

There are 3 players out there who should be nowhere near the side - Luna, KEA and Baker. If all were fit I suspect Bennett would have won his place back weeks ago, Vlaar and Clark would be playing and Delph may well be where KEA is. Unfortunately the side can't carry them being poor and not having Benteke and Gabby in form up top.

Albrighton being back is a positive and should stay in. Vlaar and Delph back next week and we could look much better.

But we have to replace those not good enough with significantly better.

[aj2k77]

7 goals in our last 10 games. Exciting stuff Lambert, young, hungry, exciting players. Pull the other one. Young, cheap, easy to manage players more like.

[Herman]

If I could summon up any interest, I'd be pissed off with this same old same old.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

There's a thread on here where we are slagging off the Boggies for sacking their manager.

There are loads of posts on here suggesting we do the same.

Get a grip lads eh?

Its a weekly thing.

The post match thread is even more wrist slashingly over the top.

Not to mention the bury their heads in the sand mob. All so predictable.

[hilts_coolerking]

There's a thread on here where we are slagging off the Boggies for sacking their manager.

There are loads of posts on here suggesting we do the same.

Get a grip lads eh?

Its a weekly thing.

The post match thread is even more wrist slashingly over the top.

I'm unconvinced that he's as good as you seem to think he is.  I'm not (yet) in the 'sack him' camp but maybe you could explain why keeping Lambert is such a genius move.