Swansea City vs Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[PaulWinch again]

Disappointing but fairly standard.

[LTA]

This is just heartbreaking to see this great club being slowly strangled to death. Just get lost Lambert

[Marlon From Bearwood]

11 goals in 18 league games.

Truly pathetic.

[Nastylee]

Not good enough. No Gabby next game thank god, brainless player,

Scored three in his last four games against Sunderland, though - two of them the winner at the Stadium of Light.

Didn't he do well against Swansea recently? Didn't see that ensuring a great performance today. Gabby has forgotten what made him look half decent in the first place. When he's not running down the channels or running into space you might as well stick a sack of Maris Piper in his shirt.

[Billy Walker]

A very frustrating result.  It could be argued two free kicks were the difference, had Benteke's gone in and they had missed theirs...but there's no point musing on the what ifs.  Overall,it was a good performance against a decent side.  Let's get three points next game.

[wolfman999]

This is just heartbreaking to see this great club being slowly strangled to death. Just get lost Lambert

But we know that's not going to happen any time soon,  Lerner is the problem, Lambert is just a symptom of his shocking running of the club.

[Toronto Villa]

Deserved a result I thought. Just lacking that bit of quality in the final third still. A year ago it was 27% possession at home to Swansea, today it was 57% away.

Rightly or wrongly, I'd rather be sitting here discussing a 27% draw today than a defeat.

Last year we got a point and this a big fat zero. Possession doesn't win prizes.

And yet it was used as a stick to beat the team and manager.

Would you? Because we have all seen that playing 27% possession is very limited in the success it brings. We can win games with that approach but giving the ball to our opponents 70% of the time ends up in one place long term. I would much rather lose games trying to dominate possession because the long term benefits will be evident by seasons end. Now we need a couple of players that will enhance this new approach. Our failure today was because after Sanchez and Delph the midfield and front line is weak as a unit. Benteke cannot get the service he needs so we must address that.

I am never going to hammer the manager for trying to play a style that we all wanted to see. We will improve and we must never go back to the hit and hope nonsense we had become accustomed to.

[dave.woodhall]

This is just heartbreaking to see this great club being slowly strangled to death. Just get lost Lambert

No over-reaction there at all.

[OCD]

Deserved a result I thought. Just lacking that bit of quality in the final third still. A year ago it was 27% possession at home to Swansea, today it was 57% away.

Last year we got a point and this a big fat zero. Possession doesn't win prizes.

And yet it was used as a stick to beat the team and manager.

For me there's a pattern of development.

Stage one - able to retain the ball better and have much better possession stats (finally signs of us being here)
Stage two - continued good possession stats but start creating more chances with it
Stage three - good possession, creating more chances and goals not a problem (where you start looking a good side and in with a shout of things like cups, Europe etc.)
Beyond that, it's the same but with continuing degrees of quality

[Goldie.7]

Benteke. Very sloppy today, moans too much
Cleverley. What does he do awful.
Delph. Excellent.
Sanchez. Good but too casual lost the ball a few times.
Hutton. A few mistakes overall good.
Clark. Solid, he was good going forward as well.
Vlaar. Good.
Okore. Dodgy first 45 redeemed himself in the second.
Gabby. Get rid awful.
Cissokho. Defended ok but he cannot cross to save his life.
Guzan. At fault for the goal by letting Bony's push affect his judgement.
Weimann. Looked lively, we were better with him on.
Grealish. Made some good movement and linked up well for 10 or so mins.

[Nastylee]

Keeping possession and making it profitable will only happen with players better than we have. We have very few players that commit the opposition or can pick a decisive pass. 70% possession between the defenders achieves nothing.

[Goldie.7]

Not good enough. No Gabby next game thank god, brainless player,

Scored three in his last four games against Sunderland, though - two of them the winner at the Stadium of Light.

I think we'll score maybe 2 or more without him on Sunday.

[silhillvilla]

11 goals in 18 league games.

Truly pathetic.

Yep , absolute shite. Pretty much half a season gone and we've scored 11 goals .
Quite honestly , It's absolutely atrocious.

[joe_c]

First half was shit. Second half less so but one of those games where we never looked like scoring despite long periods of domination. Okore was all over the place. On the plus side they largely adapted well to the conditions and finally carved a couple of good chances out at the death but the inability to string decent performances together continues to frustrate.

[ChicagoLion]

11 goals in 18 league games.

Truly pathetic.

Yep , absolute shite. Pretty much half a season gone and we've scored 11 goals .
Quite honestly , It's absolutely atrocious.

And why I can not understand why people want to persevere with this Manager.