Aston Villa vs Arsenal Post-Match Thread

[ChicagoLion]

Not even attempting to get back into the game was a disgrace.
40,000 people deserve better than that.
I don't buy this we did the right thing by keeping the score down.

I agree with you, but if 3 then turns to 5 or 6 we then can't moan, you can't have it all ways

if they were struggling with a virus then fine.
We had gone 3 goals down playing that system so it obviously had not worked.
It is pretty concerning that we appeared to have no other way of playing.

[Toronto Villa]

To approach the second half like that, at home, is an utter disgrace.
Bollocks to keeping the score down. We should have been in their faces, closing them down, forcing them in to errors, who knows, maybe we might have created a chance or two, bloody hell, we might even have scored!!
In the end that second half wasn't even a heavy training session for Arsenal, it was a complete stroll in the park.

Bollocks to keeping the score down is all well and good in hindsight. Not so great if it happens though is it?

[ez]

To approach the second half like that, at home, is an utter disgrace.
Bollocks to keeping the score down. We should have been in their faces, closing them down, forcing them in to errors, who knows, maybe we might have created a chance or two, bloody hell, we might even have scored!!
In the end that second half wasn't even a heavy training session for Arsenal, it was a complete stroll in the park.

I think so too. We were easily a match for them until the first goal and creating chances. The towel came in a bit too easily for me.

[ChicagoLion]

To approach the second half like that, at home, is an utter disgrace.
Bollocks to keeping the score down. We should have been in their faces, closing them down, forcing them in to errors, who knows, maybe we might have created a chance or two, bloody hell, we might even have scored!!
In the end that second half wasn't even a heavy training session for Arsenal, it was a complete stroll in the park.

Bollocks to keeping the score down is all well and good in hindsight. Not so great if it happens though is it?

Would you have been happy to have paid to watch that second half?

[DB]

Back to reality then?

[PeterWithesShin]

Maybe we had to play that way in the second half as a few were fucked by that virus, and Lambert knew it? So chasing a game against Arsenal when players aren't fit is a recipe for taking a real tonking. Which long term would have been a very very bad thing.

[onje_villa]

Ridiculously negative, we are certainly the most negative team in the league. And it's not a knee-jerk reaction, we were exactly the same last week despite winning. Sit back and hang on, possession is not important etc... Well it is in the long run, men behind the ball for 90 minutes is not a sustainable footballing philosophy.

[Toronto Villa]

To approach the second half like that, at home, is an utter disgrace.
Bollocks to keeping the score down. We should have been in their faces, closing them down, forcing them in to errors, who knows, maybe we might have created a chance or two, bloody hell, we might even have scored!!
In the end that second half wasn't even a heavy training session for Arsenal, it was a complete stroll in the park.

Bollocks to keeping the score down is all well and good in hindsight. Not so great if it happens though is it?

Would you have been happy to have paid to watch that second half?

That's not the point though is it? Whenever we lose it's shit. But I bet the paying public wouldn't have been happy had we lost by even more.

[Gregorys Boy]

Maybe we had to play that way in the second half as a few were fucked by that virus, and Lambert knew it? So chasing a game against Arsenal when players aren't fit is a recipe for taking a real tonking. Which long term would have been a very very bad thing.

Agreed with this.  We didn't do ourselves justice second half, but it is understandable our heads dropping, and you have to give Arsenal some credit for their play.  It would have been much worse for confiderence if we had been hammered four or five.

[andyh]

To approach the second half like that, at home, is an utter disgrace.
Bollocks to keeping the score down. We should have been in their faces, closing them down, forcing them in to errors, who knows, maybe we might have created a chance or two, bloody hell, we might even have scored!!
In the end that second half wasn't even a heavy training session for Arsenal, it was a complete stroll in the park.

Bollocks to keeping the score down is all well and good in hindsight. Not so great if it happens though is it?

Would you have been happy to have paid to watch that second half?

That's not the point though is it? Whenever we lose it's shit. But I bet the paying public wouldn't have been happy had we lost by even more.

I think the paying public would rather see us approach the second half like a professional, premier league football team, not a bunch of schoolboys who are playing against the big boys.

[PaulWinch again]

One thing that's a concern is that our issue of conceding goals in quick succession has raised it's ugly head again. It's annoying to concede one goal, but it's suicide to concede a second and then a third straight afterwards.

[PeterWithesShin]

We carried on going for it against Chavski, i'm pretty sure with hindsight everyone wishes we'd shut up shop at HT when it was 3-0. It's very easy to say we should have gone for it, but we have no idea if fitness was an issue with some of them out there. What we do know is the potential damage a tonking can do, it took us months to recover from that Chavski game.

[ez]

I do home our home form problem has been addressed. We don't really know yet.

[Toronto Villa]

Lambert's post match comments are all about the squad being really ill. Including a number of them that played today. He says he'll likely have to close Bodymoor for a couple of days.

[VillaAlways]

Lambert's post match comments are all about the squad being really ill. Including a number of them that played today. He says he'll likely have to close Bodymoor for a couple of days.

If that's the case We can file this game under bad luck and move on quickly from it.