Aston Villa v Manchester City post match thread

[Risso]

Might as well start one I suppose

[Deano's Mullet]

Totally depressing. I can only applaud those who go week in and week out because they really don't get much back for their effort or hard spent cash. I thought Sky were virtually willing City to score and they got what they wanted. 4-5 teams with super cash and the rest of us are just teams they have to play and beat. Totally totally fed up with it all. I could go on about our inadequacies, our pathetic home record and style of play but it still doesn't help when you have to face a team made up of 1-2 that cost more than your whole team.

[taylorsworkrate]

As expected. Apart from 15 minutes we had zero attacking threat.

We defended wellish, but if truth be told it was more their wastefulness that kept the score down.

I get, and largely agree with the points people make about strength of the opposition, but only 1 shot on target at home is not acceptable against anyone really.

[pauliewalnuts]

Without money thrown at us, we are going to stay an irrelevance.

That is the shitness of modern football for you. The only thing that can save us is cash and even that is limited in terms of what it can do now

[Rudy65]

Totally depressing. I can only applaud those who go week in and week out because they really don't get much back for their effort or hard spent cash. I thought Sky were virtually willing City to score and they got what they wanted. 4-5 teams with super cash and the rest of us are just teams they have to play and beat. Totally totally fed up with it all. I could go on about our inadequacies, our pathetic home record and style of play but it still doesn't help when you have to face a team made up of 1-2 that cost more than your whole team.

Agree wholeheartedly with you.

Its all totally wank.

What really is the f in point

[richard moore]

Totally depressing. I can only applaud those who go week in and week out because they really don't get much back for their effort or hard spent cash. I thought Sky were virtually willing City to score and they got what they wanted. 4-5 teams with super cash and the rest of us are just teams they have to play and beat. Totally totally fed up with it all. I could go on about our inadequacies, our pathetic home record and style of play but it still doesn't help when you have to face a team made up of 1-2 that cost more than your whole team.

Sums it perfectly. It's hardly worth watching football any more to be honest. I too can only applaud those that go and spend money watching that as I certainly couldn't and won't be for a very long time to come

[django]

Last week I worked out that our starting 11 cost £14m while Chelseas cost £190m.

It's probably a similar story today although I imagine City's side cost more.

If we found ourselves in the Champions League we would do well to win 1 game in 4. That's effectively what's happened over the last few weeks.

Get Benteke back and play some teams we can compete with and we'll be fine. All a bit pointless though when the teams at the top are so far away you know all you can do is stay in the league.

[kippaxvilla2]

Remember Paulie when Sky told us 'it's a whole new ball game.'  They weren't kidding were they?

[Goldie.7]

Predictable and depressing

[myf]

On the evidence we'll struggle like last year. Desperately need something from goodison. A clean sheet and point would be a start

[darren woolley]

Disappointed I thought we could hold on but there class told in the end.

[silhillvilla]

Credit to those who go to the games but I really struggle to see the point of paying to watch the skywankfest5 . Last 3 games would have cost what £135 in ticket prices plus all the other expenses so near on £200 to watch us make up the numbers? I don't buy into the sky vision / dream.

[Deano's Mullet]

Totally depressing. I can only applaud those who go week in and week out because they really don't get much back for their effort or hard spent cash. I thought Sky were virtually willing City to score and they got what they wanted. 4-5 teams with super cash and the rest of us are just teams they have to play and beat. Totally totally fed up with it all. I could go on about our inadequacies, our pathetic home record and style of play but it still doesn't help when you have to face a team made up of 1-2 that cost more than your whole team.

Sums it perfectly. It's hardly worth watching football any more to be honest. I too can only applaud those that go and spend money watching that as I certainly couldn't and won't be for a very long time to come

Its not just the bigger teams that turn us over at home though - its most of them. We beat City and Chelsea last season but lose to the likes of Palace, Stoke, Spurs, Newcastle, Everton, Fulham.... add to that the Sheff Utds, Leyton Orients of this world. Lambert cant even get us to beat any of them.

[barrysleftfoot]

 Not sure the midfield 3 is the right balance, not sure Cleverley is worth £8m, would bring in Sanchez because i think we need his strength and power.

 CBs back, and the defence was ok, apart from that i didn't expect too much.

 Disappointing that we are where we are, but N'Zog and Bent, with the money they are on, should be better than what they are providing.

[saunders_heroes]

What was the point of making that double substitution late on? Grealish may well turn out to be a decent player in time but feck me he's hardly gonna shine against the champions. He did exactly what I thought he'd do which was run around like a lost kid.
For 20 mins in the second half I thought we'd get something out of the game but we soon reverted to type. The only plus points were seeing Benteke back in a Villa shirt and the fact we've got that run of games out of the way.