Swansea City vs Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[Goldie.7]

Plucky losers eventually get relegated. We have find a way to score and win.

Gabby and Cleverley were abysmal.

The pair need to be dropped

To be replaced by who?

Maybe the two players that looked the most likely to score in the last game. Bacuna and N'Zogbia.

[bertlambshank]

The amount of stupid bookings we are picking up are more of a worry for me than the performance.

[PeterWithesShin]

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.

Scored about the same in an 18 game run under BFR.

[Mortimer's Bear]

We had 2 good minutes in injury time, plenty of endeavour but ultimately nowhere near good enough.

[Meanwood Villa]

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.

Us score 2? Not going to happen, very rarely does. To recap, that has happened 3 times in 34 games. Just digest that for a bit. Truly fucking hopeless.

[pooligan]

Predictable sadly . As in most games we leave it the last few minutes to throw men forward looking to score. 11 goals in 19 league and cup matches is pathetic

[silhillvilla]

PWS re BFR , I didn't realise that, still that has nothing to do with the here and now and the ghastly shite lambert is serving up.
For Sunday is like Robbo in for Gabby, Weimann for Cleverly and Grealish for Vlaar and go 442

[ChicagoLion]

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.

Maybe this will be the new Lambert strategy, "we have been working on it in training and we are now going to try to score some goals"

Us score 2? Not going to happen, very rarely does. To recap, that has happened 3 times in 34 games. Just digest that for a bit. Truly fucking hopeless.

[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.

Us score 2? Not going to happen, very rarely does. To recap,
that has happened 3 times in 34 games. Just digest that for a bit. Truly fucking hopeless.

I'm aware of that stat as I made a comment about it last match. Totally agree though it's extremely dire.

[Pete3206]

It could be worse. I could be sat on a coach for the next 3 hours, after spending the best part of 2 hours being soaked to the skin.

[Le Lapin]

United game was another in the many false dawns under this manager.  He has a good team assembled,  but it just isn't happening for him. How many chances does he need to get it right.  How long does he need to get the footballing philosophy that he wants into the club. We need change.

[Ads]

Frustrating today. We deserved a point on balance. Good free kick from them and I am not sure they've done anything else in the game.

We need a link between the midfield and the attack, as we had a lot of the ball and in the end created enough chances to have at least equalised, but with a creative midfielder we would have won that and won it well.

We tried to keep the ball and I have no issue with that, even the playing it short as we eventually would feed it into the midfield. It sometimes looks a bit dicy, but the only time we did knock it long we have it away. Benteke went very close too, but it was pretty even in biblical rain.

I thought we bossed the second half and should have equalised. Our movement and passing was slick and good to see, but when we did get in behind them, which we did a number of times, the final cross wasn't there. The delivery from set pieces wasn't up to it either.

In the end though Fabianski has made two excellent saves and we had them penned in around their own box. Andi was too honest and shouldn't have stayed on his feet, Grealish either, while Bony pushed Benteke at the end.

A frustrating day and I don't think I will dry out until the M5, but despite the loss, I am pleased that we treated the ball with more respect, how our movement is improving off the ball and that we have the opportunity to add some real penetration from the midfield in January.

[Dan England]

On another day Guzan saves the free kick and Benteke or Gabby score their headers and we win. As much as I want Lambert out he's not at fault today, he changed things at half time, we improved. He made subs, we improved. Today was one of those days in football when it just doesn't quite happen. There are lots of positives to take from that game but you only see them if you can get past the increasingly frequent desire to see everything below standard and ignore anything that is good.

Where we really lack as a team are the players who will get into the box after the forwards Far too often is there a ball in the opposition penalty area and our midfield are still 30 yards out. It makes it very easy for defenders who only have two players to worry about. A couple more players arriving in the box would see our goal tally increase.

The last few games have proven we have players that can play football. We need a gaffer that can bring them together and inject a clear plan and system that will see us create and convert chances.

[silhillvilla]

Nobody is judging lambert on today alone, it's the half season we've endured so far on the back of the crapness of his first 2 seasons.
We need change.

[SoccerHQ]

We need much more creativity in these types of games, Swansea aren't the easiest team to score against and ultimately they're a bit better than us, a top 10 standard team.

Seems like we played o.k but oh for a player of Sigurdsson's guile in our team.

Let's see what the two home games bring and how we look trying to break down the defences. Would love all 6 but think 4 is a more realistic and decent target.