Aston Villa vs Leicester City Post Match Thread

[Villa in Denmark]

One conclusion you can draw, Leicester are crap.

They weren't crap, at least in the part I saw the week before away against Palace. They really should have been out of sight by half time. There are loads of crap teams this season, ourselves included, so I wouldn't dismiss them completely. The big difference was we wanted to win it more (and we obviously have a far better team, not that you'd have it for most of this season).

I think the two worst sides I've seen this season are Leicester and Hull. Of course, both teams who have beaten us this season.

That's our problem - losing to sides we should beat, frequently in matches where we have been better than them. Hull were a great example. They were utterly crap, truly shit, yet still managed to beat us.

I thought Leicester were truly awful yesterday. The difference was that, in the second half at least, we started to look like we were playing, if not at our best, much better than we have done for ages.

Although they were horrific to watch, it wasn't the likes of the recent defeat at Arsenal or even shipping eight goals at Chelsea that did for Lambert, it was the frequency with which we'd play awful teams (like that lot yesterday) and manage to come away with nothing.

That was why the "but he's not had much money" argument never really did it for me - too many poor, poor results against awful sides.

I said this the other day, but under Lambert we managed to be both "almost a really good team" and "pretty awful" at the same time as he could never dot the i's or cross the t's to get us looking more like the completed article.

For all the months and months of awful results, Sherwood is in a good position, as it really won't take much to massively improve this side, he just needs to identify the problem (ie the midfield issue, which, frankly, a one-eyed man on a galloping horse could spot) and fix it. The second half yesterday was a great example of how one not particularly mind blowing change can see us dispatching awful sides like Leicester, rather than making them look decent.

100% agree.

Bold bit - So Lambert must have been living in Sleepy Hollow then?

[Des Little]

Sinclair was stripped ready to come on a minute before Bacuna scored but the sat down. Then when he did come on got the second. It was like the Gods were smiling on us for a change.

Much changed atmosphere in the Holte too, even during the sterile first half.

Probably because I was in there for the first time in 4 years.  I'm the Russ Abbot of Villa Park, me.

[Brend'Watkins]

One conclusion you can draw, Leicester are crap.

They weren't crap, at least in the part I saw the week before away against Palace. They really should have been out of sight by half time. There are loads of crap teams this season, ourselves included, so I wouldn't dismiss them completely. The big difference was we wanted to win it more (and we obviously have a far better team, not that you'd have it for most of this season).

Out of sight with one shot on target?  From my view we were their equal in the first period and that only because we had that tendency to gift them the ball on plenty of occasions.  It would be easier to list those of ours who didn't pass the ball to the opposition.  2nd half was more like how I like seeing us play.  Continually pressing and getting forward even though the midfield did better than normal in this respect they still don't make enough movement for my liking.  I'm sure Gil will improve this and I'm equally sure Delph will have more effective games too.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

One conclusion you can draw, Leicester are crap.

They weren't crap, at least in the part I saw the week before away against Palace. They really should have been out of sight by half time. There are loads of crap teams this season, ourselves included, so I wouldn't dismiss them completely. The big difference was we wanted to win it more (and we obviously have a far better team, not that you'd have it for most of this season).

Out of sight with one shot on target?  From my view we were their equal in the first period and that only because we had that tendency to gift them the ball on plenty of occasions.  It would be easier to list those of ours who didn't pass the ball to the opposition.  2nd half was more like how I like seeing us play.  Continually pressing and getting forward even though the midfield did better than normal in this respect they still don't make enough movement for my liking.  I'm sure Gil will improve this and I'm equally sure Delph will have more effective games too.

I was referring to their first half game against Palace, Bren. Agree with the rest though.

[Mister E]

Hutton, legend in the making. 

Just needs to improve his crossing.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I do like it that Vlaar carries the ball forward on occasion into the other half.

Not that he's really shown much of it but that was real leadership from Vlaar setting up Bacuna and I was more than delighted it resulted in a goal. It annoys me so much when we have a player near the half way line with 15/20 yards of space in front of him and he looks for the easiest sideways pass available. Bring it you bastards!

[adrenachrome]

Yikes!

[Toronto Villa]

Bacuna screams in sheer horror as Cleverley moves in for a smooch. Delph seeing the danger, and as a future captain jumps in to rescue Leo. Cleverley simply claimed afterwards he's finally discovered his love for the club and wanted to display it publicly.

[Legion]

I thought it was Weimann at first until I looked at the number on his shorts.

[Villa in Denmark]

I thought it was Weimann at first until I looked at the number on his shorts.

I get those two mixed up all the time.

[flybo]

Tesco-bags at home

[brontebilly]

Some of our efforts on goal going by the highlights were awful. Weimann in the first half simply has to hit that cutback from Hutton low and on target.

He gets in good positions at times Weimann but he has skied quite a few cutbacks this season.

Great to see Delph in the box at the end of a cross, but his technique for the header was absymal, seemed to hit his shoulder.

[Villa in Denmark]

To be fair, most of our players needed an A to Z to find the opposition penalty area after the last 6 months, no wonder they didn't know what to do when they got there.

[peter w]

Is it just me or is Delph looking a bit old and chubby?

[Toronto Villa]

Is it just me or is Delph looking a bit old and chubby?

Just you. He was definitely poor yesterday but old and chubby?