The not quite so mighty-anymore Aston Villa vs Swansea Post Match Thread

[Tuscans]

Not a disaster and the hardest test in Sherwoods very short reign.

I think 0-0 would of been fair but just that tiny bit of quality and luck wasn't with us today.

One thing for certain though is I'm not as depressed as I was losing under Lambert.

Deja vu

HA , I was trying to copy & paste something esle. I still don't know how to upload a vid or pic on here.

[supertom]

We kept making the wrong decisions for all the chances we created. I thought Bacuna's crossing was awful, a point would of been a decent result, losing late on again is annoying though.

Predominently Sinclair was making those wrong decision sadly. I think he was too intent on proving some point to Swansea fans and taking on shots that just weren't on. Benteke was twice in acres of space and should have been put through.

Bacuna was disappointing. Going forward and defending. He also fudged a couple of set pieces, and still we don't seem to have a single decent corner taker.

[OCD]

It looked like a decent midtable contest today. We weren't very good, and they were better. Not much to fault Sherwood on (although I'd have rather seen Gil come on - did Weimann do anything at all?), but that high line did kill us in the end, as they got in behind once too many. The high line is necessary if you want to play on the front foot at home, though, so it's just one of those risks.

Weimann was totally unmarked, close to the penalty spot on one of the occasions Sinclair greedily decided he wanted the glory. So though he did nothing, he might have scored had it not been for Sinclair.

Montero was looking dangerous and I thought we needed to switch Hutton and Bacuna over and see how long it would take for them to put Montero on the other side.

[Tuscans]

Boo you too. Thought we were very poor and created very little.

I disagree man. I thought Sunderland were very poor and created very little last week...I think we were better than that today.

[Rudy65]

Just let's say we aren't out of the shit yet..3 mins to go and the goal we conceded was pretty defendable..ffs villa use you fuckin brains.

Same as Stoke

[supertom]

It looked like a decent midtable contest today. We weren't very good, and they were better. Not much to fault Sherwood on (although I'd have rather seen Gil come on - did Weimann do anything at all?), but that high line did kill us in the end, as they got in behind once too many. The high line is necessary if you want to play on the front foot at home, though, so it's just one of those risks.

Weimann was totally unmarked, close to the penalty spot on one of the occasions Sinclair greedily decided he wanted the glory. So though he did nothing, he might have scored had it not been for Sinclair.

Montero was looking dangerous and I thought we needed to switch Hutton and Bacuna over and see how long it would take for them to put Montero on the other side.

With the run coming up I'm hoping we can get Lowton and Cissokho back to give us more defensive options at FB. I sense in a few of the upcoming games against decent opposition Bacuna will get absolutely murdered. He was pretty poor today.

Gomis pulled to the left a few times and Bacuna and Okore just bounced off him like rag dolls. He's a beast, but I expect Okore for one to stand up to that better.

[Gregorys Boy]

Well that was rather disappointing and puts us right in the shit again. We looked flat for so much of the game and gave Swansea way too much time. I really thought we would get into them but they really are very good at controlling the pace of the game and keeping the ball. Fuck me as the kids would say...

Well we were never out of the shit.  I knew today would be hard, but had hoped we would get at least a draw to keep the progress steady.  Its maybe a sign that the players still struggle to deal with fans expectations at home. 

Will wait til I see the highlights later before commenting.  But no real point in getting down.  Things have been much better and one defeat doesn't change that.  We always had a little more work today, but it is still in our hands espically with QPR and Burnley still to play.

[LTA]

A really disappointing performance I thought. However, its a wake up call as we're still very much in the mix.

[Toronto Villa]

What I mean by being in the shit is that at this point in the season momentum is critical and we had a lot of it. 3 very big wins and today should have been at least a point. We need to pick something up every game and especially when those around us aren't. Palace won at Stoke, Leicester fought hard at Spurs. Now Hull and Sunderland will get hope from us not taking our chance to pull clear, or at least add to our points total.

[Stu]

We were absolutely crap all game. Swansea had our measure from the first whistle to the last. They deserved it today, Villa were garbage.

[PeterWithesShin]

Draw would have been a fair result. A 3-3 draw that is.

[Stu]

Who was their number 4? He was at the root of everything they did today and no one thought to put a boot into him. Annoying in the extreme.

[supertom]

What is still quite blatantly clear though, is that Delph is head and shoulders above the rest of our CM. Cleverley had been in decent form of late and it was a shame he went off injured. He'd not started great but may have got into the game more as we went on.
Sanchez is painfully slow. There was one point where he and Ki went for a ball. Sanchez has a good 2 yard head start but Ki still got there first. Now we were linked with Ki in the summer and one worry many on here had about him, were he to join, was that he's immobile. So what that makes Sanchez, I don't know. He just looks lost in high tempo games. I'm not sure this is the league for him.

Westwood in all honesty is all fart and no shit.

I still think we'll stay up but I believe Sherwood will take a look at things and quickly identify that our midfield needs immediate rectifying. We need someone as good as Delph to play with Delph. Cork, Shelvey and Ki are fairly good players. Nothing special but they ran midfield. I actually think Delph is the best midfielder who was on the pitch today, but he's one man against three, playing with a couple of Ghosts. We even bring in just someone half decent and we'll be better.
Cut our losses with Sanchez, perhaps look to cash in on Westwood. I think Gardner needs his chance (as a squaddie initially). But we need 1-2 first choice additions in the middle to compliment Fab.

[supertom]

Who was their number 4? He was at the root of everything they did today and no one thought to put a boot into him. Annoying in the extreme.

Sanchez probably tried but he's always 10 minutes late to every challenge.

[PeterWithesShin]

Draw would have been a fair result. A 3-3 draw that is. Into the Wellington for a pint.