Aston Villa v Swansea City Match Thread

[JUAN PABLO]

its gone quick

probably cause im enjoying swanseas football

[ozzjim]

We have to find a way of keeping the ball for more that 5 seconds. Westwood just got it, and there was literally not 1 pass on. No one showing, so he tried to hit space beyond the full back.

So poor.

[supertom]

The way they play football compared to us is a fucking embarrassment to be blunt. But for a top striker and some more cutting edge, Swansea are a top side.
We look miles off at the moment.

Too poor. And again, we have no ideas so keep going long. We are a hoofball team, as much as Lambert wants to deny it.

[Boz]

Just seen shots of the two managers, Laudrop all animated urging his players on, Lambert sitting on the bench looking glum and clueless. Sums up the two sides.

[Monty]

I hope everyone watching this who ever advocates 4-4-2 is now seeing the futility of playing like that. It's not bad if you want to be defensive, dig in, frustrate and counter, but if you want to have a lot of the ball and go toe-to-toe with an opponent, especially one like Swansea, you just can't fucking play it.

It's not the formation, it's the style. We need to push up and press them. Any formation is shit if you have everyone in your own third except for your strikers.

Come on, that's willful blindness. The formation is a huge contributor to the crapness of the style: not having options on the ball, everyone being miles from everyone else, being too far away from anyone else to be anything other than stodgy and stuck in 'your position' and never interchange, being constantly outnumbered in the middle of the pitch and nobody knowing whether to commit or run backwards all of this virtually guarantees less possession and being overrun, especially by a side like Swansea.

[JUAN PABLO]

Deadly's looking well bless him. He's probably wishing he had his finger on the trigger still.

think it would be a AK47

[Goldie.7]

This is how i expected us to play so i'm really not shocked.

[Lamb_Stockmix]

Thank fuck that shit is over.

[ozzjim]

Half time.


Win this and we will be the luckiest side in the league.


Fucking awful.

[VillaAlways]

So we score a goal and rather than give us confidence we regress into our shell. There is literally no hope for us .

[Lamb_Stockmix]

I hope everyone watching this who ever advocates 4-4-2 is now seeing the futility of playing like that. It's not bad if you want to be defensive, dig in, frustrate and counter, but if you want to have a lot of the ball and go toe-to-toe with an opponent, especially one like Swansea, you just can't fucking play it.

It's not the formation, it's the style. We need to push up and press them. Any formation is shit if you have everyone in your own third except for your strikers.

Come on, that's willful blindness. The formation is a huge contributor to the crapness of the style: not having options on the ball, everyone being miles from everyone else, being too far away from anyone else to be anything other than stodgy and stuck in 'your position' and never interchange, being constantly outnumbered in the middle of the pitch and nobody knowing whether to commit or run backwards all of this virtually guarantees less possession and being overrun, especially by a side like Swansea.

It seems that you've summed up how weplay no matter what the formation.

[phantom limb]

It's all about the result but we really are playing like a dog's arse. Hopefully we can just nick something on the break, that seems to be the plan anyway.

[Jimbo]

Poor.

[dicedlam]

Oh well...at least we have put the 'no goals in the first half' stat to bed.

[N'Zimidy]

Half time Paddy Power managerial change?

Bielsa in!