Manchester City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Hoppo]

Had a look at Bertrand on Instagram.  Your right what a pxxxx.

[davisa]

Utter cheese.

[Percy McCarthy]

Anyone else see the girl out of coronation street in the away end tonight
Supports villa apparently,  errrr obviously why she was in with us

Which actress out of Coronation Street? I ask, as that only thing approaching a positive I can take from that tonight.  We looked and played like a lower league side there for a cup tie.

Knowing our luck it's Fizz.

Edit: Lloyd's daughter, cool. Up the Villa bab!

[ROBBO]

Get real some of you yes we set up to defend that was our only option, we were playing a side that are worth a small nations annual budget, so we go out and attack and and they stick eight past us how would you feel then? i'm quite sure you would be screaming that Lambert was stupid to set up like that.

We have had terrible luck this season with injuries and the owner not spending to strengthen in January  left us vunerable, Lambert doesn't deserve another season but don't crucify him when he had limited options.

[pbavfckuwait]

That game was as much about Lambert's CV as for Aston Villa, he did not want another 8-0 defeat fresh on his record, in that way he got what he set out for, damage limitation.
Would have been lovely to see some changes being made at half time when it was still scoreless, because the last thing Man City would have expected was us to come out and have a go for the second 45, but that takes a bit of imagination and Lambert is sadly lacking in that field.
Nice man Lambert, gets the club, but limited and always will be and working for an owner who since he has lost interest, has put in two patsy's to take the flack while he sits and watches Rome burn and because he has done some good things, all of the pitch needless to say, has got away with it, till January this year, when the fans have rumbled him and his total lack of interest and ambition to cut costs being the only important factor of Aston Villa Football Club, the important word there Randy, Football Club,

[QBVILLA]

A massive gulf in class between the sides. They bring Jovetic off the bench, what was he? £26m? If we'd have gone toe to toe with City the game would have been over long before half time. None of us like it but putting your allegiances aside and looking at our squad it's made up of sub standard players. Guzan is a decent PL keeper, Delph could do a job for a side hovering around Europa and then there is Benteke who looks like he has the attributes to play at the top. After that it's a struggle to see a player who would get a regular game for another Premiership side. Without serious investment in the summer we have to be one of the favourites to go down next season.

[Astral Weeks]

Anyone else see the girl out of coronation street in the away end tonight
Supports villa apparently,  errrr obviously why she was in with us

Which actress out of Coronation Street? I ask, as that only thing approaching a positive I can take from that tonight.  We looked and played like a lower league side there for a cup tie.

Knowing our luck it's Fizz.

Edit: Lloyd's daughter, cool. Up the Villa bab!

Top girl, good to now she's one of us.
I was hoping it would be Eva, but never mind...

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Must admit i've seen little to suggest Bertrand is going to be much of an upgrade on what we already have. Is that down to him not really being that good, our coaching, or just us being crap?

I agree. Been saying it for weeks. He's won the league and Champions League and is obviously thinking "what the fuck am I doing here?!?!". No way should we waste that much money on a player who decides when he wants to play.

[Tom_Mc9?]

That's fair enough for tonight, but what about when Stoke rampantly bummed us in the face at home and stuck four past us?

Anyone who thinks people are really just moaning about tonight is kidding themselves.

That's actually my point though, paulie. People get themselves into such an anti-Lambert frenzy that they think that we lose because of him and we win despite him. As such, whenever we lose now it's Lambert this, Lambert that. Yes, have a go at him when we lose 4-1 to Stoke because that's clearly not good enough.  We actually lost to a team last night that most teams would have been battered by, and they had plenty to play for and we had bugger all. And people saying "We shouldn't lose like this because we are Aston Villa." Come off it - we've been shit for years.

[Chris Smith]

I honestly don't get where some people picked up there football awareness from. We were playing probably the most expensive squad ever assembled and we had half a team unavailable. For over an hour we frustrated them but they just wore us down and when we then tried to respond they just picked us off.

[peter w]

I thought we defended well for around 70 minutes. I thought Baker was excellent and Clark and Vlaar were also commanding. We've got rid of cornalty and we win just about every header there now. There first was going to come and 4 flattered them a little in the end because most of the time we defended their possession well and they weren't actually giving Guzan too much to do. I also thought Bowery did well enough until the nose break affected him too much.

Obviously not pleased with a 4-0 defeat and there are worrying signs for next season, but they have always been there. But, if Gabby and Benteke had have been fit I think that we would have posed a few more problems for them. As it is our 3 first-choice forwards are all injured so we were always going to be up against it.

Good for Robinson and Grealish to get a run also.

[Richard E]

I didn't think last night was half as bad as a lot of people are making out.

We contained them pretty well for over an hour and although I appreciate goals count whenever they are scored the 2 they got in the last couple of minutes gave the scoreline a rather more lopsided look that the game merited.

If Andi's header had gone in City would have shut up shop in all likelihood and we'd all have been pleased with a narrow defeat.

There are far more serious counts on the Paul Lambert indictment than last night. 

[OzVilla]

I honestly don't get where some people picked up there football awareness from. We were playing probably the most expensive squad ever assembled and we had half a team unavailable. For over an hour we frustrated them but they just wore us down and when we then tried to respond they just picked us off.

Exactly, I was quite pleased with the performance, considering their resources as opposed to ours. 

I certainly expected us to lose and probably fold earlier than we did in all honesty.

Yaya Toure's goal at the end was superb too. 

[sid1964]

If last nights performance is all that Aston Villa can manage then we may as well give up!

10 men in and around our own penalty area, if that was McLeish that did that people on here would be slaughtering him

If we go into next season with the same squad, manager & owner then I we are down. We need massive investment and a different way of playing.....

Foe me last night the only palyers to come out with a half decent perfromance were Guzan (MOTM), Vlaar and Weiman, the rest were awful!

[Meanwood Villa]

Watching that rather depressing performance last night it occurred to me why I don't object to Citeh as much as Liverpool. I don't actually know any Citeh fans so I won't get any grief today. There's a couple I'm aware of at work but nothing like the legions of glory hunting Liverpool supporting wankers I've encountered throughout my whole life. So fair play to Citeh, win that title on Sunday.