Aston Villa v Blackpool Post-Match Thread

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

MOTD have mentioned the lambert out chants . At last.
The end is nigh .

That's the first time at home isn't it?
Heard it at at least 2 away games.

[peter w]

Unconditional backing didn't help the players either!  Complete nonsense that booing affects the players, are they really that weak? for me this lot & their leader have got of very lightly.

Why do you think teams have better home records than away ones if home support means nothing?

Never said it didn't, though I suspect our record over the last few seasons might not support the home fortress theory! 

In a time when you are giving your fans very little to cheer support has to be earned a little & if some want to boo or chant for his job they have every right.

Without wishing to turn this in to a " who has a right to boo" discussion, booing will detract from the teams performance then make them play worse. So booing and moaning the team play badly is a self fulfilling prophesy.

Sometimes I'd like to see some of them have the attitude of 'gonna ram those boos down your throat' than do as Lambert as done and use it is an excuse.  Probably never happen but it would be nice to have a team of leaders...perhaps we have to go pink & fluffy with the modern day player :-)

I'm more inclined to symapthise with the no booing school but sometimes its worth risking the obvious negatives to hopefully get a better outcome for the team.

[silhillvilla]

MOTD have mentioned the lambert out chants . At last.
The end is nigh .

That's the first time at home isn't it?
Heard it at at least 2 away games.

Think so.
They sang "boring boring villa" towards the end of the palace game .

[silhillvilla]

If we are losing at Leicester in pathetic sideways fashion I think it will be messy for lambert as there's a big away group attending (3300)

[Dave Cooper please]

Bizarrest sight of the day though had to be the bloke at the match with a bag from the Watford club shop.

Probably a groundhopper who had lost his Tesco Bag For Life.

[tomd2103]

What we lack is width and movement . It's great having a Sanchez and a Westwood in control on the ball but we need a forward outlet .
Watch Rooney when he plays the Westwood role or Stevie Mee. They play raking 40 yarders to wide men on the move who then stretch the play and allow further space and movement inside .

I think having both of them in midfield unbalances it as they both do the same job.  When you add in Cleverley's minimal contribution, it isn't hard to see that we are going to struggle to create anything from midfield. 

[tomd2103]

3)Lambert for the love of god your fullbacks are not creative enough to be left to provide the attacking threat from wide area's.This is our patten of play pass sideways ball reaches full back , nothing ahead of him so checks back pass's inside this continues back to the opposite fullback.He has nothing in front so check back and pass's inside/Lambrt talks about possession well any half decent bunch of players can pass sideways whilst the other team sits back and lets them

Totally agree, yet he lets it continue for 65 minutes before even contemplating a change.  I'd prefer the old tactic of getting it up to Benteke and go from there over that garbage.   

[pooligan]

I have just been reading on several sites that Lambert was surprised at the calls for him to go,as we were having more of the ball and playing well. God, he is a bigger idiot than i thought !Two goals in five games,three wins out of the last seventeen games and he says he is surprised we are not happy.

[brontebilly]

Another clean sheet ..... Wahey

Playing two holding midfielders in Westwood and Sanchez hardly makes sense against the likes of Blackpool. The same for playing defensive full backs if they are the ones supposed to be providing the width. Disappointing to hear that Grealish made little impact. Cole will come back in for Leicester.

Implementing a new style of play does take time but Lambert maybe only starting to figure out that the personnel we have aren't suited to it.

Formation wise he still seems unsure if we wants three flat midfielders/ 2 holding and 1 further forward/1 sitting and 2 further forward. Trying to get more out of Benteke seems to have flummoxed him aswell. Hopefully Cole can provide some imagination against Leicester.

[SteveN]

I'm sure I've read somewhere that when playing for Belgium Benteke likes the "no 10" role playing off the centre forward.  Given that we have no creativity, no wingers to cross for him we could try that with Weimann up front playing in his best position, or Robinson.

[walsall villain]

3)Lambert for the love of god your fullbacks are not creative enough to be left to provide the attacking threat from wide area's.This is our patten of play pass sideways ball reaches full back , nothing ahead of him so checks back pass's inside this continues back to the opposite fullback.He has nothing in front so check back and pass's inside/Lambrt talks about possession well any half decent bunch of players can pass sideways whilst the other team sits back and lets them

Totally agree, yet he lets it continue for 65 minutes before even contemplating a change.  I'd prefer the old tactic of getting it up to Benteke and go from there over that garbage.   

I can't see why it's one way or the other. Why can't we mix it up a bit? We now seem to never want to play a long early ball.

[Clampy]

I didn't go yesterday so I don't know how good, bad or cold it was. My cousin went and said it was ok but all the fannying around against a mediocre championship side got on people's nerves. Getting though was the main thing I suppose, but three shots on target at home over 90 minutes against a team bottom of the championship dosen't read very well.

[Legion]

There was a lot of ball retention. Plenty of passing to the left and right.

[Boz]

There was a lot of ball retention. Plenty of passing to the left and right.

Ball retention in your own half makes the stats look better, but is unlikely to create many goal scoring opportunities, as we have no one with vision in midfield or the technical abiity to make 40 yard accurate passes going forward, plus when we do move forward it's far too slow and predictable as there will be a packed defence we are unable to break down.

[Ron Manager]

As I never tire of saying  the idea of football (when it was invented by god knows who) is to get a round piece of leather into your opponents
goal more often than they can get it into your's. If you keep passing it sideways ( a la Ray Wilkins) or backwards just to keep possession you
are not going to achieve the objective of the game are you Mr Lambert?

Most of all it is boring to watch.