Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Stu]

The occasional good result amidst a shower of rubbish marks us out as a lower mid-table team. The stopped clock cliche rings true for us I think.

[stubbsyandy]

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:

Hilarious!!

[JUAN PABLO]

4-1 flattered them.

It did , cause this is a poor manure side which frustrates me even more

[passitsideways]

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.

Different though. Last week was the same old massive shitshow. This week was also a shitshow, but at least it was more exciting. If we're resigned to getting dross regardless, I'd rather have the latter.

[Chris Smith]

Hard to know what to make of that. We gave away poor goals but also missed several good chances. The score line in no way reflected the balance of play.

[Rico]

Watching Aston Villa at the moment is like watching your pet dog being put to sleep. You love them, but it's so so painful.  I just can't bare it anymore!

[Toronto Villa]

Just what the doctor ordered, back to back 4-1 pastings.

[Morten]

Front three were pathetic.

Agreed. People can blame the defence but 2 sitters missed by Benteke were appalling. If you create chances and forwards fail to do the business then there is no point in blaming anyone else.

They were indeed pathetic. What does Weimann do to get selected again and again ? He constantly makes poor decisions, and falls over the ball nearly EVERY game ! And Agbonlahor does very little these days. Is he injured ? Then dont play him, he offers nothing at the minute, he does not even take on defenders with his speed. And for Benteke - it was not even the misses that frustrated me, it is that he looks too laid back at times, and there was a situation in the 70. minute, I think, where he could pass a team mate (Weimann) but decided to challenge another defender and lost the ball. Even if he had beaten the defender, he would not have been in a better position than the team mate, then why take the risk He does that every game, he needs to learn when to pass the ball.

And the defending... Rooney completely unmarked, then a stupid Bacuna penalty, and at the third goal, we gave Büttner all the time in the world in the build up, and we even had two men around him.

But I will give credit to Westwood, I think he has been very good lately from the Newcastle game.

I knew we would loose today, so I do not know, why I am so angry and frustrated, but it is the way we loose. Same players make the same mistakes again and again, and Weimann and Gabby are selected again and again, even though they have performed so poorly this season.

[Goldie.7]

When the midfield is the least bad part of our outfield unit you know you have had a bad day.

Bacuna - not a defender
Clark - not a Premiership player
Bertrand - not convinced
Alrbighton / Gabby / Weimann - quad player at best

Ho hum.

Yep. No to Bertrand in the summer he offers nothing and likes to go forward way too much.

[taylorsworkrate]

Hard to know what to make of that. We gave away poor goals but also missed several good chances. The score line in no way reflected the balance of play.

It reflects, Vlaar aside, how abysmal the defence is

[supertom]

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

That's the trouble, any time we look like building any sort of form it hits the skids. We saw it after Man City, after Southampton, after West Brom and then after Chelsea. Even if we win two on the bounce for example, we tend to then lose more in the next few weeks. What we're left with as such is a season in which we've won 9 in 31 games, and lost 15, almost half our games played. That's pathetic for Aston Villa football club.

I don't think that sort of record will ever change under Lambert. I know some might say we're mid-table, we're comfortable, but this isn't comfortable. Stoke are 10th, but they're a weak 10th. We're still too close to the bottom feeders. We're the loss of a key player or two from being in serious trouble next season too.

[robbo1874]

Only saw the 2nd half. How did we end up losing 4-1? Usual biased referreeing you get there. Take our chances and we'd have got a draw there. We didn't look bad at all until they got the third.

Fucking hate those classless ******.

Did the much talked about plane fly over?

[Jon Crofts]

8 goals in 2.  Powder puff across the middle & inept at the back, got what we deserved, fuck all.

[JUAN PABLO]

we need to be safe before last two games

[Legion]

Only saw the 2nd half. How did we end up losing 4-1? Usual biased referreeing you get there. Take our chances and we'd have got a draw there. We didn't look bad at all until they got the third.

Fucking hate those classless c***s.

Did the much talked about plane fly over?

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