Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Goldie.7]

Gabby dived for their second goal trying to win a free kick. His diving pisses me off and he needs a kick up the arse for doing it every game.

The 3 up front and formation need changing. You simply cannot afford to keep playing 2 strikers who are off form / not good enough depending on your opinion. 6 league goals between them and both  play every week ? Its not as though they create chances for others. As others have said there seems to be a lack of back up despite the numerous signings in the close season.

Don't blame Clarke for the first goal. He can't mark 2 opponents at the same time. Honestly, its impossible

A game of ifs and buts for me. Honestly didn't think we played that badly (probably compared with the rest of the dross this season).

If only Gabby hadn't fallen over
If only Gabby hadn't dived
If only Benteke didn't miss 2 sitters
If only the ref had given the penalty (nailed on)

Who's Clarke 

[silhillvilla]

I don't understand why we sold Holman and signed Tonev ? That in a nutshell highlights Paul Lamberts vision or lack of

[UK Redsox]

Tonev's one cross was worse than his shooting.

It was so over hit that it had more chance of ending up on my head than Benteke's

[supertom]

Tonev's one cross was worse than his shooting.

It was so over hit that it had more chance of ending up on my head than Benteke's

I'm gonna hold on to the slim hope that Tonev will hit one right and smash a 30 yard screamer in the top corner, and from then on play like Ronaldo.
I am however drunk on KFC right now.

[Des Little]

Tonev isn't, and won't be, good enough.

[Goldie.7]

Sorry but Tonev is dreadful . Has he had a shot on target at all for us yet ?

Yes. Can't remember which game it was mind you, but he started it brightly, got a shot on target (not really testing) but regressed to high and wide soon after.
To be fair one of his shots today was a whisker away from the top corner.
He's not great but he's quick, fresh as a daisy, and one of the only options we have. I'll happily throw him in at this point. We're all but safe so we may as well rotate a bit and start getting players like him and Helenius as ready as we can for next season.

Bang on. It wouldn't hurt giving Robinson 10 mins here and there also.

[pooligan]

We lost 4-1 to the worst man utd side for years and there are people on here who think we played quite well and were unlucky .I never cease to be amazed by some people

[UK Redsox]

We lost 4-1 to the worst man utd side for years and there are people on here who think we played quite well and were unlucky .I never cease to be amazed by some people

Villa played far better today than they did against Stoke.

[silhillvilla]

I thought we were terrible against a really poor Utd team.

[Nicko89]

United took there chances and today and we didn't. Bacuna had a terrible game again though

[Goldie.7]

I thought we were terrible against a really poor Utd team.

I thought we created some very good opportunities to get something out of the match. We also made a few mistakes which led to a few of their goals but we had the chances to get back in the game, we didn't take them and ultimately lost. It depends how you want to look at it, just saying 'we were terrible' doesn't really reflect the match.

[Tom_Mc9?]

We lost 4-1 to the worst man utd side for years and there are people on here who think we played quite well and were unlucky .I never cease to be amazed by some people

Similarly I never cease to be amazed by people embracing the negative. This isn't a pop at you or anybody else - just an observation that with so many people watching the game there's going to be different point of views. As is often pointed out, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle of the extreme pessimists and extreme optimists.

[silhillvilla]

Goal 1 2 & 3 schoolboy defending
Their 4th was decent.

[john e]

everybody blaming the defending, what about the 3 missed chances by Benteke

just as important

[Dave Clark Five]

everybody blaming the defending, what about the 3 missed chances by Benteke

just as important

Some strange misses there. One of them particularly.