Aston Villa vs Tottenham Post-Match Thread

[pauliewalnuts]

Not good enough.  We lost through our own ability to self destruct.  Spurs deserved to win IMO

Absolute bollocks. They were shit

Spurs were fucking terrible.

The fact they won - referee help or not - just says it all.

I don't think there is anyone i would back us to beat. We needed to show the minimum of mental toughness to see out three points and ended up with none.

It's just not good enough. Now no Benteke for a while, either, and we're relying on this manager to find that toughness from somewhere.

[Matt Collins]

I don't know why I'm reading this thread its making me more annoyed

All this 'no backbone', 'Spurs deserved to win', 'lambert's fault' stuff

It's bollocks

[VillaAlways]

Not good enough.  We lost through our own ability to self destruct.  Spurs deserved to win IMO

Rubbish

They definitely didn't deserve to win but I'm absolutely sick of the lack of spine from the team as soon as we were down I knew we'd chuck the game away and we did. Absolutely no fight in that team at all.

[paul_e]

Very harsh to be blaming Benteke, that's a really harsh red and could only have been acceptable if Mason had gone for the 'headbutt' as well.  Chadli was pretty lucky to only get a yellow for the 2footer on Westwood as well.

How we fell apart when things went against us shows the mental weakness that Lambert has proven himself to be incapable of fixing but it doesn't stop today being one where we can feel very hard done by a very weak ref.

No matter how soft we think it is, in this day and age if you stick your hand in a players face the odds are high it is a red if an official sees it. Every player in the game knows that, yet the prat still did it.

it's also a straight red if you stick your head in ssomeone's face, except the ref didn't give that one.

[curiousorange]

You can paper over this defeat with a multitude of ifs, but how many goals did we concede from corners at our worst? Ugh, fucking hell, why can't this lot learn?

Nice kick in the pods from fate having the ball glance in off Nathan 'Fifty Pee Head' Baker, too.

[citizenDJ]

Spurs are shite by the way, they were there for the taking today.

Absolutely they were, but we're so feeble, the result is no surprise.

Exactly this, I think. Spurs looked poor today and were there to be beaten. Had we been even just a little bit better we could have scored another goal or maybe two and seen the game out quite comfortably. That we couldn't manage to do so does not bode well at all for us - although I can't remember the last time anything at all boded well for us, to be frank.

I doubt West Ham will be as poor given the run they're on.

[PeterWithesShin]

Not good enough.  We lost through our own ability to self destruct.  Spurs deserved to win IMO

Absolute bollocks. They were shit

Spurs were fucking terrible.

The fact they won - referee help or not - just says it all.

I don't think there is anyone i would back us to beat. We needed to show the minimum of mental toughness to see out three points and ended up with none.

It's just not good enough. Now no Benteke for a while, either, and we're relying on this manager to find that toughness from somewhere.

I'm convinced we would have won if Benteke stayed on.

And now thanks to his fucking stupidity, not olny do we lose this game, but we go into the next 3 back to having Bent, Gabby and Andi as our only strikers. 3 games we just have to get results from.

[ktvillan]

Spurs are shite by the way, they were there for the taking today.

Absolutely they were, but we're so feeble, the result is no surprise.

I'm afraid it shows just how incredibly bad we are that an awful Spurs team can stroll away with the points.

[Brian Taylor]

HTF did Spuds do that??

[Matt C]

We're going down as not only are we not very good, we don't seem to get an ounce of luck either.

[JUAN PABLO]

burnley would have beat spuds today

[curiousorange]

I also love the timing of Benteke's petulance. Three games we could really have had a go at and now Gabby and Weimann lead the line again.

[pauliewalnuts]

Spurs were the worst side I've seen us play this season, easily.

They did not deserve to win by any stretch of the imagination.

They did, though. We had, what, another six or seven minutes to usher out for the three points. We are just so fucking feeble, disorganised, unconfident.

We were unlucky as well today, yes, but this is a six match run of defeats. What about the other five?

[aj2k77]

HTF did Spuds do that??

They relied on the famous Villa crumble to get them out of the shit because boy we're they bollocks today. A decent side would have seen them off comfortably.

[Deano's Mullet]

 They put in a lot of effort but in EVERY game we play like we are hanging on for dear life and 9 times out of ten we are. This side will be relegated this season. Too much emphasis on Benteke, only TWO players have scored for us this season. Plan A is contain, counter-attack and maybe score if lucky. There is no Plan B and there hasn't been for any of his reign apart from a positive last 3 months at the end of his first season. Worst Villa boss I have seen since 1988.