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

[adrenachrome]

Sat 3 rows behind the bench today - Tin shouted "fucking hell" more times than I did!

[Nastylee]

I thought we were dross in the first half and I was delighted to get to HT level. We had more threat in the 2nd half but Swansea always had the edge in midfield but it looked like a useful point given the Burnley defeat. I think Sherwood showed some inexperience today by opening the game up in the last ten minutes. He turned it into an end to end game when he should have protected the point. As they say, if you can't win then don't lose.

[Villafirst]

Ref was shocking. West Brom beat these lot fairly easily a few weeks ago. Need some injured players to get fit - good job there's a 2 week break. QPR game is now a must- win.

[silhillvilla]

Just back from the match.
We were largely outplayed today, having said that Swansea are an accomplished footballing side, calm on the ball and no real weak areas, ki played well as did 33 Fernandez ?
We never really got going nor did the crowd, villa park was really flat. The place only seems to rock at night games under the floodlights.
Having said that if we'd taken our chances we could easily have taken the point.
Bacuna was really exposed by Montero several times , think I'd have played hutton RB and kept lowton as LB .
Cleverly going off was a real blow, Sanchez was hit and miss again.
Thought delph played very well as did Clark.
Guzans kicking was poor again.
Our corners were atrocious again too.

[Chris Jameson]

When my son wakes up can I tell him he didn't miss much?

[peter w]

In the 'I wonder what Lambert is thinking' theme is he at home now saying 'I told you it was them and not me'?

[adrenachrome]

Outnumbered in central midfeld as expected and Ki and Selby had too much time and space to set things up. I said early doors to the chap sitting next to me "Probing. That's what they are doing. Probing. Those 2 have time to sit down with a cup of tea to plan each attack". He said something about 4-4-2 but was eating a very juicy peach so I did not persue it.

Delph was very good. Zog made some nice runs. Sinclair was a massive disappointment after his recent promise and Timeh should have replaced him early doors as his head was gone.

A recent point I made about Benteke and his uselessness in the dark arts of getting his fair share of refereeing decisions was proved yet again, and he was back into moan mode. Admittedly, the officials were fucking useless which did not help. If we don't have a decent striker coach we should get someone like Kevin Davies or Alan Shearer in as consultants to tell CB a thing or two about a thing or two.

When Montero was introduced we needed to react quikly in some way but the our defensive injuries banjaxed Timeh and the jig was up.

[Malandro]

Outnumbered in central midfeld as expected and Ki and Selby had too much time and space to set things up. I said early doors to the chap sitting next to me "Probing. That's what they are doing. Probing. Those 2 have time to sit down with a cup of tea to plan each attack". He said something about 4-4-2 but was eating a very juicy peach so I did not persue it.

Delph was very good. Zog made some nice runs. Sinclair was a massive disappointment after his recent promise and Timeh should have replaced him early doors as his head was gone.

A recent point I made about Benteke and his uselessness in the dark arts of getting his fair share of refereeing decisions was proved yet again, and he was back into moan mode. Admittedly, the officials were fucking useless which did not help. If we don't have a decent striker coach we should get someone like Kevin Davies or Alan Shearer in as consultants to tell CB a thing or two about a thing or two.

When Montero was introduced we needed to react quikly in some way but the our defensive injuries banjaxed Timeh and the jig was up.

I've never eaten a peach at a game before, interesting.

[Legion]

0-1

[Malandro]

0-1

Says my IP has been banned when I click that

[Legion]

Try this

[myf]

Good goal that. Some lovely passes although Clarke should do better

[Rudy65]

Just seen Sherwood's after match interview. Was impressive and honest. Accepts the defeat but doesn't look fazed. He knows we have improved and his confidence will continue to feed into the players.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Didn't deserve to lose or win I thought.

The best and worst of our team is Benteke & Gabby. Today they were poor. Last few games they've been good. That was the difference.

[richl]

West ham winning