Newcastle United v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Irish villain]

This is becoming a lost decade in villa history. Can't imagine we will be picking up a general following among anybody born in in the late 2000s.

[onje_villa]

What exactly is Benteke supposed to do with crosses hit 20 yards over his head? I'd probably lose interest too.
Oh yes, and the guy who can probably give him the best service, who is in form, is watching from the bench. Pathetic.

Exactly.

Benteke didnt play well and obviously isnt the beast we all thought from the last 4 months of last season. However, you have to play to his strengths which is crosses from out wide i.e Albrighton.

Ive said for months you cant play with the front three we have. Drop Gabby or Andi and play Albrighton.

Playing the long ball isnt pretty and doesnt work.

I would have sacked lambert after sheff utd, but the players alsohave to take responsibility.

Baker played well as did Westy. Other were v poor

Its all very tedious

Agreed the long ball stuff is tedious and detrimental but there were plenty of occasions when there were good balls put into the box today and and none of those occasions did he take up an intelligent position. You either pull back, dash to the front post, far post... Benteke, well he sort of just stands there and ambles around. I'm sorry but a quality number 9 makes much better runs than Benteke.

[Meanwood Villa]

This is reminding me of the McLeish season. Many, myself included, believe we will be fine and will accumulate enough points to stay up. That however is based on an assumption of picking up points from "easier" fixtures even after we've just cocked up such fixtures. No goals and one point from West Ham, Cardiff and a very fragile Newcastle does not bode well.

[Rudy65]

On current form and with the fixtures we have left I think 40 points is a very tough ask - we are in trouble.

With Norwich, Stoke, Fulham and Hull to come to VP it should be a doddle. But this is the Villa we're talking about.

Not sure i would treat Hull so lightly

We are apparently staggeringly shit. Hull have two points more than us so hardly a side to be shitting it against.

Who put 4 past a team we could nt beat 10 days ago

I bet you thought fulham away would be a doddle as well? Noneof those games are straightforward

[onje_villa]

There was absolutley no quality in that team going forward. Useless at every aspect. Crossing, passing, movement, through balls... total waste of space. Holt, Tonev and Albrighton would have been no worse than Gabby, Weimann and Benteke today. That's how poor they was.

Agree

Our free kicks drive me mad. The delivery is rubbish and we do the same things repeatedly. Why not do something different?

We should take a leaf out of our throw-in routines which are clearly working well...

[Richard]

Decent 1st half but should have scored

Abysmal 2nd half devoid of attacking intent - Gabby and Weimann equally as guilty as Benteke for not doing more

Westwood going off injured didnt help as Sylla on the left of the diamond was clueless and then Bennett joining him just made that side so weak

Huge game again next Sunday but I think time is up for Lambert sadly

[Tom_Mc9?]

What should Lambert say? We're shit and doomed?

[PeterWithesShin]

On current form and with the fixtures we have left I think 40 points is a very tough ask - we are in trouble.

With Norwich, Stoke, Fulham and Hull to come to VP it should be a doddle. But this is the Villa we're talking about.

Not sure i would treat Hull so lightly

We are apparently staggeringly shit. Hull have two points more than us so hardly a side to be shitting it against.

Who put 4 past a team we could nt beat 10 days ago

I bet you thought fulham away would be a doddle as well? Noneof those games are straightforward

I'm guessing you missed this bit "it should be a doddle. But this is the Villa we're talking about."

[Rudy65]

Decent 1st half but should have scored

Abysmal 2nd half devoid of attacking intent - Gabby and Weimann equally as guilty as Benteke for not doing more

Westwood going off injured didnt help as Sylla on the left of the diamond was clueless and then Bennett joining him just made that side so weak

Huge game again next Sunday but I think time is up for Lambert sadly

He isnt going anywhere

[Deano's Mullet]

As The Riddler once said in the 1966 Batman movie, "We couldn't finish a bag of popcorn."

[Meanwood Villa]

On Benteke I thought he was terrible today. Promising moves broke down on him so many times. He plays the right ball at the right time during that break with about 10 to go and we might win today. Gabby would probably have fucked it up though.

[achilles]

On current form and with the fixtures we have left I think 40 points is a very tough ask - we are in trouble.

With Norwich, Stoke, Fulham and Hull to come to VP it should be a doddle. But this is the Villa we're talking about.

A side that won 4-0 away from home to a side that we couldn't win against but as you say this is the Villa, absolutely anything could happen!

[Legion]

Paul Lambert:

"It's a hard one to take, very much so.
"I thought we deserved a draw. I don't think we deserved to lose it. I thought a draw would probably have been fair.
"We were great in the first half. We had chance after chance and looked threatening.
"At the end I didn't think anyone was going to score.
"Newcastle had a bit of pressure in the second half but I didn't think there was much in it.
"I thought we dominated the first half. We were very good in the first half and looked a threat.
"We might have scored but it never materialised.
"It was a defensive error from ourselves and we have been punished. You don't lose a goal with 30 seconds to go. The disappointing thing is that we had the ball.
"Defensively we should have knocked it up the pitch and then the game is finished. You kick the ball as far as you can up the pitch.
"We got away with it when Ron tried to beat the lad on the line. That happens and then you think it's going to be like that.
"You can't take anything away from the lad after the finish but we should have seen the game through.
"It's a right hard place to play and you can't take a chance. We took too many chances."
He continued: "If you look at the league from 10th down, everyone is in it.
"There are a lot of games to go. There will be plenty of toing and froing. It will be a low tally with the way the league is. But if we keep looking after ourselves we will be alright. We have been through it so we know what it's like.
"They had belief to come and play like that up here. You take a lot from that. If we keep playing like that, we will win more than that.
You go and try to win the next one."
Lambert revealed that Ashley Westwood was withdrawn in the second half with a deadleg while Ryan Bertrand did well to play as long as he did, as he had a virus in the run-up to the game.

[levico]

What should Lambert say? We're shit and doomed?

Clearly not but it would be the most honest statement he has ever made.

[sirlordbaltimore]

Mind numbing tedium from start to finish. The match and no doubt Lambert's post match comments

He's dragged this club to all kinds of new shitness levels. Along with Lerner obviously