Aston Villa v Crystal Palace match thread

[supertom]

Bacuna range.

[ez]

"The goals will come"

[Axl Rose]

Gabby, Weimann and Cleverley. What a shame that we've already used a sub. They're woeful.

[Jimbo]

"The goals will come"

... for Crystal Palace.

[Chris_Jephcott]

So shall have a sweepstake?

How many more minutes of this dross will have to watch before we see a goal?

[Tuscans]

Drives me insane when you can't provide for one of the best forwards in the league

[JUAN PABLO]

i hope people shame those bloody hipster beards off in 2015

[Jimbo]

Drives me insane when you can't provide for one of the best forwards in the league

Even more insane when you choose not to.

[Smirker]

Win today and we go 3 points above Everton as they're losing away to Hull.

Get Grealish on ffs this is shit.

[JUAN PABLO]

close for palace there   well done clark

[SamTheMouse]

The formation just doesn't work. There's no consistent threat. It takes us five minutes to laboriously work the ball out to one of the full-backs, and then they struggle to beat the first man. And there is literally no other threat, the ball isn't going into the box from any other outlet.

It might work if your full-backs are Lahm or Baines or Kolarov, and you have some intelligent movement around them and runners into the box. But if Lambert thinks it can work with these players, he's a moron.

[Toronto Villa]

You have to think it somewhat a shit miracle that Lambert has gone from a progressive manager with attacking intent when he first arrived to this. It seems almost impossible to do but he's managed it.

[JUAN PABLO]

Win today and we go 3 points above Everton as they're losing away to Hull.

Get Grealish on ffs this is shit.

more worried about hull over taking us

[citizenDJ]

This is pretty awful, isn't it?

Well, there are a couple of reasons for…..well, not optimism I suppose, not with Lambert still in charge, but at least some vague indefinable feeling that possibly things might get better one day.

Okore, Sanchez and Benteke are all good players and provide a good strong 'spine' to the team. Hutton is in good form. And although it's hardly helping us much at the moment, we are doing better in terms of possession.

That's it, though.

[usav]

we are doing better in terms of possession.

But doing fuck all with it.

We can't cross, we can't pass or move with urgency.