Aston Villa v Manchester City post match thread

[Phil from the upper holte]

We did ok for 75 mins. But we looked tired last 10 mins. Double sub seemed to kill our momentum. If Zog could provide an end product it may have been a different story. Played some nice stuff at times and Baker was good. 

Great seeing Benteke back. Not so much city fans in the UT.

City really area classless bunch of ******

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We have played the sides who, in my opinion, will finish 3rd, 1st and 2nd, all of which spent in the summer the equivolent of a third world country's GDP, all of which will win 20 plus games. Trust us to get all three of them back to back.

I thought we competed really well right up until their goal and it took a couple of good finishes to undo us. I hate losing, but it's a sad fact that you go to these games where a point becomes a bonus. Bought and sold for Sky gold and all that and the wonders of Misnomer League football.

Got to take your chances against these sides and we didn't. I thought Delph looked impressive on the ball and we generally looked pretty solid. Benteke is short of match fitness, but the way he brought the ball down on his chest and got a few flicks off really gives me heart.

N'Zogbia did ok, lacks end product, while I wouldn't have brought Grealish on. Richardson might have been indifferent going forward, but I think you need experience at times.

Looking forward to playing the normals again. Everton and Spurs might have good players and be decent sides, but Christ, at least you're in with a chance of beating them.

[WestleyArmsAV]

At the end of the day, we have been beaten by 3 sides that are so far ahead of us it is frightening, they all played well against us and it went on ability.

Still happy with our points return given the opposition and that more crucially we have done it without our captain and main goal threat....Gabby not playing today also hurt any slim chance we had.

Looking forward to a two week break to get the boys fit and I'm off to Everton.

UTV

[WestleyArmsAV]

We haven't scored in about 6 continuous hours of football .

4.5 hrs.

Oh you're counting the rest of the 'The Mighty Reds YNWA' game too, I see

Yeah didn't gabby score in the opening minutes ?

To count the outstanding minutes of a game won, to be part of your statistical "argument" has cheered me up.  Thanks for that. 

[andyh]

Barely a shot, no corners, no free kicks earned, in dangerous positions!
God, we really are piss,piss poor when we play out with the big boys.

[Goldie.7]

We had a few decent chances to score but we made the wrong decisions with our sloppy passing. I don't buy all this sky 4 BS.

We bring everybody back to defend which allows all their players to attack so basically they'll score eventually, we need a new system because playing this way isn't working and never will.

[JUAN PABLO]

we looked pretty good for 20 mins then their manager did the sub and put a stop to it and then we waited until they scored . no suprises really.

bonus CB got some time

weimann is out of his depth

modern football is shite. I have claret and blue blood but Im getting bored with the sky prem and could easily turn off to it all.

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I don't think having all the players back to defend a corner is what undoes us, and most other sides in the league.

[Rigadon]

Plucky underdogs lose against side form different league shocker. 

[CJ]

Great atmosphere and great to see Benteke back. We did pretty well in patches for the first hour or so but the longer the game went on the more we were pinned back to our 18 yard line and the first goal had been coming for about 15 minutes. Can't complain about the result - they hit the post twice and Guzan was pretty busy throughout. I can't recall Hart having to make a single save. Depressingly predictable. Have to say I thought Silva was brilliant and if I was a neutral it would have been a joy to watch him play

[steffo]

Lambert will NEVER change his narrow system. He won the European Cup playing it. Without quality players to play it. Hutton will provide our width for evermore. Woe.

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City's shooting is shocking, Guzan only made one decent save. Same as last year really.

It was a demonstration of why 17:30 kick offs can be dicy. I don't think I would be stretching things to suggest that alcohol had a large part to play when it kicked off in the North. They need to put something in place to stop away fans from running on the gangway.

[Goldie.7]

Looking forward to playing the normals again. Everton and Spurs might have good players and be decent sides, but Christ, at least you're in with a chance of beating them.

We've beat Everton away 3 times in 15 years. I would say there's a chance of a point, beating them is unlikely.

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They've beat us about three times up there in twenty years, so historically, a draw is on the cards. They've been utter toss so far and I fancy us to go and win.

[SoccerHQ]

And the Darren Bent 1-0 3-4 seasons ago. We went for it that game too, it wasn't a backs to the wall job if I remember rightly.

Nah it was similar to tonight.

I was pretty confident we'd get a 0-0 out of that which would've been excellent but what can you do when a world class player decides to finally turn up this season and win the game for them?

Thought the defence was back at it tonight so hopefully with more manageable opposition over the next month we can nick a clean sheet or two.

I do think we've been unlucky to follow a superb win at Liverpool with the three fixtures we've had, after beating Spurs away, WBA had Burnley at home to continue the momentum. West Ham beat Liverpool two weeks ago, were arguably unlucky at Old Trafford and have QPR at home tomorrow to get another win. It would've been good to have played that sort of team inbetween this trio to try to at least maintain momentum.