Aston Villa vs Stoke Match Thread

[villa_cads]

Well there's a game turned on its head eh?

[Lamb_Stockmix]

Stoke without an away win since August. OF COURSE they're gonna beat Aston Villa.

[VillaAlways]

There's a certain predictability about all this, though, you have to say.

Villa never push on after a good result. Hand above the surface and always screw it up next game. So very very frustrating but utterly inevitable.

7 years since we last won 3 on the bounce. Says it all really.

And I just haven't got that feeling that were going to get back into it either. In fact I think its likely we may concede a couple more.

[Summers]

Oh, he's back?

Even more ridiculous then. Gardner is a football player. Not sure what Sylla is yet.

[villa_cads]

We're playing like we're already on the beach.

First outing of this one for the season. I'd rather we'd passed the fourty point mark first though.

[Tuscans]

We look like we've just come back from Russia after playing Thursday on Channel 5.

[pauliewalnuts]

The problem with situations like this is you can just see our confidence draining, we start dropping back, we see that gap between Benteke and the rest of the team grow, Gabby starts going great chunks of time without touching the ball at all, and we're happy to get off for half time.

[pauliewalnuts]

We look like we've just come back from Russia after playing on Thursday on Channel 5.

We look like we're just back from a holiday in the Crimea.

[Summers]

Lowts not on the bench? Coulda brought him on then moved Bacuna into central midfield.

What I'm saying is - why Sylla? :\

[richard moore]

The problem with situations like this is you can just see our confidence draining, we start dropping back, we see that gap between Benteke and the rest of the team grow, Gabby starts going great chunks of time without touching the ball at all, and we're happy to get off for half time.

And then when we're 2-1 down with about 5 minutes to go, we'll start playing when it's too late

[JUAN PABLO]

There's a certain predictability about all this, though, you have to say.

Villa never push on after a good result. Hand above the surface and always screw it up next game. So very very frustrating but utterly inevitable.

this

[Lamb_Stockmix]

Next goal will win.

[PaulWinch again]

The problem with situations like this is you can just see our confidence draining, we start dropping back, we see that gap between Benteke and the rest of the team grow, Gabby starts going great chunks of time without touching the ball at all, and we're happy to get off for half time.

Yep we're all over the place now.

[ez]

Well this is our crap half obviously.

[villa_cads]

We've got to have Albrighton taking set pieces. Westwood is gash.