Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[mikeb1982]

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[JUAN PABLO]

Painfully evident that Clark, Weimann, Bacuna (at right back) and Tonev are not good enough. Weimann in particular has been woeful almost all season. He's playing way too much and he never seems to get dropped. Dreadful touch, no vision, all huff and puff and no skill. I'm not convinced he's even first 18 material. He's certainly not a first 11 player.

Gabby should be an impact player now, off the bench. He shouldn't be starting every game. He was poor again today and clearly exhausted.

We need better players and a better manager. That's painfully clear.

spot on

[Meanwood Villa]

The feelgood factor from Chelsea has well and truly disappeared. Here is one of those all too familiar tailspins.

[Goldie.7]

And i got up at 6.00 am in Mexico to watch that shit. Why do we let so many late goals in.

It's the Villa way.

[supertom]

I'd start Tonev ahead of Weimann next match, at least he knows the approximate postcode the goal is in. Weimann has been pretty woeful most of the season.

Tonev is crap but fresh. Weimann is crap but running on empty, so I'd concur with playing Tonev. At some point one of his shots will surely hit the target.
I'd be tempted to have a bit of switcharound to be honest. Change things up a bit. Bring Lowton back in. Take Weimann and Gabby out the side. Give Bennett another game just to rest Bertrand. I wouldn't mind seeing Helenius getting a go, even from the bench.

[Tom_Mc9?]

4-1 flattered them.

[timeoutbigbar]

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Got a £30m+ player who can't buy a goal...

[Legion]

I'd start Tonev ahead of Weimann next match, at least he knows the approximate postcode the goal is in. Weimann has been pretty woeful most of the season.

Crowd reaction to first Tonev effort:

[myf]

That game pretty much summed up the lambert era. A promising but totally naive and inefficient side.

The defence is piss poor but what hurts most was the last goal. Hernandez strolls in the box with none of our three defenders picking him up. They'd given in.

[JUAN PABLO]

The feelgood factor from Chelsea has well and truly disappeared. Here is one of those all too familiar tailspins.

predictible

look at man city at home , I thought that would lift us . fuck did it ..

[Proposition Joe]

A common cheap shot by football pundits is to say "what is the point of Aston Villa?".  It used to get my goat, but really, what is the point of us being in the Prem?  What are we doing?  Apart from guaranteeing ManUre 6 points a season.

History shows that any club that flirts with the bottom three as often as we have in the last few seasons, eventually goes down.  Even if Randy splashes the cash, we've replaced too many good/competent players with downright shite it'd take more money than he's got to make us challenge for anything worth getting excited about.  Other clubs may be hapy with just surviving the prem, but we're cursed by our history.

[tomd2103]

I'd rather we set up this way going forward though. Would be happy to take a couple of hilariously poor defensive blunders every game if it meant we could look a bit more interested in attack and Benteke have a few more opportunities to raise his price tag.

We've been beaten 4-1 in consecutive games against teams struggling to find form.

[mr underhill]

has he come out with 'we go again' yet?

[curlytailavfc]

ah well weve made scudamore happy aston villa great for the economy

[Goldie.7]

Tonev did more than Weimann. I like Tonev he runs at players which i like, as soon as one of those shots fly in i think we'll see a player there.