Aston Villa vs Sunderland Post-Match Thread

[Legion]

Positives:

Grealish
Sanchez

Negatives:

Everything else

[Goldie.7]

Positives:

Grealish
Sanchez

Negatives:

Everything else

Bacuna looked good.

[Nelly]

I didn't think we were terrible. Yes we looked completely short of ideas and had no real way through, but I do appreciate that we were trying to pass the ball and work it, rather than just hoof it and hope.

Up until the sending off we were in total control of the game, albeit not looking massively threatening but always around their box looking for an opening.

Delph's sending off was totally justified, he got nowhere near the ball and took their player's ankle. Straight red for me. If we would have lost I would have blamed him for it because his sending off brought them back into the game to the point where they bossed it from then on.

I think we are playing better than we had been but clearly we need to find out how to create and score goals again. Agbonlahor and Wiemann were non-existent. I'm genuinely not sure if Gabby was subbed and I missed it?

[Legion]

Red or yellow?

[littlevillain]

And how I missed selling. Just before 1pm a minibus pulls up full of Sunderland chavs. Yelling abuse out the windows etc. They carried on after getting off, telling the few Villa fans around at that time to fuck off etc.
A couple of them say the same to me for some reason and then start giving it the come on hand signals. When I asked them to cross the road to say it none of them were quite so keen. To the total stranger who joined me, if you read this thanks for the backup. A day of glory for about a dozen Sunderland youth as they got fronted by two blokes. Fucking twats.

Some things don't change then. I can hear em in the pub back in sunderland "We had it with Villa's firm"   fkn chavs

[Matt C]

First half especially amongst the worst 45 minutes of football you could ever wish to see.

Sanchez excellent particularly as he was running the midfield single-handed. Bacuna and Grealish added impetuous and what more the latter has to do to start ahead of the turgid N'Zogbia is beyond me.

Benteke needs to stop waving his arms around and complaining and start working harder.

[Legion]

"We took on their main men."

[old man villa fan]

I wonder whether Cleverley's poor performance is down to having Weimann and N'Zogbia in the side.  Both of them drop deep to pick the ball up which means that Cleverley is deeper than where he is more effective.  To be honest, I am getting fed up with Weimann constantly coming back deep into midfield for the lay off which then leaves Benteke isolated.

Grealish and Gabby should be brought in for the Palace game at the expense of Weimann and N'Zogbia.

[Ron Manager]

When Grealish sent that cross into the box have a look on the box tonight and see where Weimann was positioned.It was criminal.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

When Grealish sent that cross into the box have a look on the box tonight and see where Weimann was positioned.It was criminal.

Not sure about Andi but Benteke was heading in the opposite direction. Shocking stuff.

[Risso]

Red or yellow?

Definite red I'm afraid.  Nowhere near the ball, studs up directly onto the bloke's ankle.  Almost certainly mistimed rather than intentional, but a red all the same in my view.  Delph's lack of tackling ability is one thing that stops being him a top player.  That and the lack of goals.

[pauliewalnuts]

Red or yellow?

Definite red I'm afraid.  Nowhere near the ball, studs up directly onto the bloke's ankle.  Almost certainly mistimed rather than intentional, but a red all the same in my view.

Agree entirely.

[Risso]

Sanchez looked a class apart, and Grealish very exciting.  The rest were absolute dross.

[walsall villain]

Do people on here think we should be challenging for Europe under the current ownership? Get a grip. We're avoiding relegation.

I think we should be challenging for 7th/8th place, which I'd count as Europe.

Agreed. West Ham are 6th and have scored almost 3 times as many goals as we have. Do they have considerably better players than us? No. Do they have a considerably better manager? Absolutely.

We could easily challenge for Europe if only our Chairman would finally appoint a decent manager instead of persisting with this clown.

Is this the manager that west game fans were crying

out to be sacked last year? Good first half of t

He brought Okores on because oh his pace.There was a couple of times at the start of the 2nd half when Clarks/Vlaars lack of pace was exposed.

 Vlaar was a bit lucky with the tackle on Wickham imho.

 Defensively/midfield was fine today, Sanchez was magnificent, a proper central midfielder, and Bacuna and Jack added something.

 I thought Weimann NZog and Cleverley were awful.Get 2 players in of real quality, and we could be challenging for the top 7/8.

 Don't think we will miss Vlaar or Delph tbh.

We would miss a fit Vlaar I reckon. Sanchez was very good today, great to see someone in a Villa shirt play with that level of condfidence and control. I would love to see Grealish start next match, he deserves an opportunity. Some real negative stuff on here but I must admit I enjoyed the last 40 minutes, thought we coped well and played with spirit. I still fail to see what Cleverley is bringing to the team though, it really is time others had a start.
What's the take on the sending off? It looked harsh to me, I am a bit old school but cant see how a tackle that wasn't malicious deserves a straight red.
Cheer up folks, Lambert is getting the playing with ten sorted out, he just needs to figure what to do with eleven.

[walsall villain]

Whoops first part of my post wasn't complete, you can guess the rest