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Author Topic: Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread  (Read 40868 times)

Offline Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?

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Re: Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread
« Reply #150 on: March 29, 2014, 06:02:06 PM »
Thought we played ok to be honest and only Villa could've lost that game 4-1.

If Benteke bagged the hat-trick of chances he had (two of them being extremely good chances) then who knows...

Gabby needs to be dropped for next game and I'd be tempted to start Albrighton/Bacuna in this position.

Bacuna isn't a full-back. Play Lowton with Bacuna in said position above or as a midfielder.

Offline aj2k77

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Re: Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread
« Reply #151 on: March 29, 2014, 06:03:16 PM »
Tonev
Helenius
Steer
Luna


You could put a pile of cash in one corner of the pitch and it would have more of an effect on the game. Kozak I've been through before, exactly not what we needed with £7m quid of our money with so many glaring holes elsewhere.

Lambert does not know what he is doing. I get the feeling our wins are despite of him and very rarely because of him. One can only hope that in 12 months times he's getting up and going again with someone elses side.

Those 4 are about £5mill in total.
I'd trade all of them for one half decent 5 mill player to be honest.
I don't see how most of these cheap signings could offer more than what our academy could produce either.

In hindsight we all would. Although approx £1.5m on Steer and Helenius is worth it. Just for the gamble on potential.

A lottery transfer policy just about sums this club up right now.

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Re: Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread
« Reply #152 on: March 29, 2014, 06:05:51 PM »
How feckin dire was that

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Re: Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread
« Reply #153 on: March 29, 2014, 06:08:52 PM »
How feckin dire was that

As good an analysis as you'll get. It doesn't take many words to describe how bad things have got

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Re: Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread
« Reply #154 on: March 29, 2014, 06:22:29 PM »
That was inept. Let's look forward. Seven points from the next 4 games should be achievable and 5 would be enough to then forget about Villa until August and focus on cup finals and the World Cup for other teams, all of which know the ABC basics of defending.

Offline Irish villain

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Re: Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread
« Reply #155 on: March 29, 2014, 06:24:01 PM »
That was inept. Let's look forward. Seven points from the next 4 games should be achievable and 5 would be enough to then forget about Villa until August and focus on cup finals and the World Cup for other teams, all of which know the ABC basics of defending.

And then what, another brush with relegation next year? Something fundamental has to change or it will happen sooner or later.

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Re: Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread
« Reply #156 on: March 29, 2014, 06:24:10 PM »
Another 4 yellows today, that is 73 yellows this season .We are bottom of the fair play league by a distance . Every thing about Villa at the moment is so depressing

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Re: Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread
« Reply #157 on: March 29, 2014, 06:25:34 PM »
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.

Really? I thought we were fucking shit as usual. I don't find it hard to know what to make of us at all or Lambert

Benteke could have had 3 and Clark had a clear header from a corner that he should have scored. We made plenty of chances but wasted them. So we were reasonably good going forward. Defensively we were dire but just to dismiss it all as 'fucking shit' is hardly conducive to any sort of proper debate.

What good does proper debate do us Chris? Just how bad does it have to get? And for how long? The whole thing is 'fucking shit', if you want me to ponce it up for you and be all erudite and write long analyses about whether Helenius should be on the subs bench instead of Lowton yada yada yada, then I can do that very easily. Actually, 'fucking shit' as an overall analysis of the whole debacle this club has become is being kind. Sorry
richard, like I said before I only saw the second half. But from what I did see, I'd  say we were far from 'fucking shit' til the third goal went in, we looked good for the draw in all honesty. I hate Man U and hate losing there, but to say we were fucking shit is a bit harsh in my view. You're entitled to yours obviously.

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Re: Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread
« Reply #158 on: March 29, 2014, 06:31:30 PM »
We weren't fucking shit at all. Slack at the back yes, but purposeful on the ball and created by far the best chances of the game. Stick on chances, laid on a platter for Benteke who conspired to miss two sitters that would have changed the game, he was unlucky sliding for a third chance, he was bundled over for a penalty that wasn't given, while Clark should have hurried a header.

For once we didn't get what we deserved at Old Trafford.
« Last Edit: March 29, 2014, 06:33:04 PM by Ads »

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Re: Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread
« Reply #159 on: March 29, 2014, 06:32:20 PM »
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.

Really? I thought we were fucking shit as usual. I don't find it hard to know what to make of us at all or Lambert

Benteke could have had 3 and Clark had a clear header from a corner that he should have scored. We made plenty of chances but wasted them. So we were reasonably good going forward. Defensively we were dire but just to dismiss it all as 'fucking shit' is hardly conducive to any sort of proper debate.

What good does proper debate do us Chris? Just how bad does it have to get? And for how long? The whole thing is 'fucking shit', if you want me to ponce it up for you and be all erudite and write long analyses about whether Helenius should be on the subs bench instead of Lowton yada yada yada, then I can do that very easily. Actually, 'fucking shit' as an overall analysis of the whole debacle this club has become is being kind. Sorry

You can't become a debacle.

My point was that it was too simplistic an analysis. We know that Benteke is a good striker yet today he missed the sort of chances that on another day he would put away. Games turn on things like that.


Offline paulcomben

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Re: Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread
« Reply #160 on: March 29, 2014, 06:33:01 PM »
That was inept. Let's look forward. Seven points from the next 4 games should be achievable and 5 would be enough to then forget about Villa until August and focus on cup finals and the World Cup for other teams, all of which know the ABC basics of defending.

And then what, another brush with relegation next year? Something fundamental has to change or it will happen sooner or later.

This has been the farthest Villa have been from relegation in 4 seasons. Such is our fate, unless you know any Russian or Arab squillionaires you could introduce.

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Re: Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread
« Reply #161 on: March 29, 2014, 06:34:26 PM »
I don't think we have brushed with relegation at all. We have been 12-10 in the league for pretty much all of it, always with a solid cushion that none of the sides below us have shown any inclination of breaching.

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Re: Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread
« Reply #162 on: March 29, 2014, 06:34:45 PM »
Haven't read the thread and won't. Benteke's missed chance turned the game. Score that and it's all in the mix. He missed and we folded, as per. Some things never, ever change.

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Re: Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread
« Reply #163 on: March 29, 2014, 06:36:11 PM »
Didn't see the game, but standard score against them then.

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Re: Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread
« Reply #164 on: March 29, 2014, 06:36:23 PM »
Four points better off than last year and beginning to suffer our worst defeats at the wrong time.

Other clubs have established themselves as safe mid-table teams without spending as much as we have.

 


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