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

[nodge]

If we were the away team and Benteke had the chances that Gomis had and we didn't win, we'd be well pissed off.  He must have had 3 or 4 gilt edged chances before he scored. The ref helped them but I don't think we can have too many complaints.

[Chris Smith]

Frustrating in the end. Swansea are a funny side as you never know quite what you will get. We were second best first half, but managed to weather the two or three chances they had to et ourselves more on top in the second where we wasted our own. Gabby should have scored and Sinclair went close, before we're hit on the counter.

The results went for us but it's a shame we haven't extended that gap.

I felt they were quite lightweight but were offered far too much protection by the referee.

Pretty much on the button for how I saw it. Losing was harsh but didn't do enough to convince anyone else.

[silhillvilla]

I don't think Swansea were "lightweight" at all. They are a big strong footballing side. Lots of sizeable players - williams, Fernandez, ki, Shelvey, Gomis, Sigurdsson.

[RossLeach]

We got the tactics wrong....Overrun in midfield.....Too high a line....

We'll get the points we need though. Probably.

[ChicagoLion]

We were lucky not to lose by more and when we got into good situations we squandered the opportunity, Sinclair was guilty of poor decision making today. The amount of times that we played the wrong pass or the right pass badly was frustrating.
We still look a lot better than the Lambert team but this jut shows we have a lot more work to do.

[villan from luton]

Just home after a great day, except for the game. Only read last couple of posts, the best team won IMHO. Cork and Ki bossed the midfield and we really didn't get in their faces as I thought we would. Thought Sinclair was powderpuff, some of his attempts for headers were a total disgrace and one could have resulted in a penalty for them. Said to the lad with about 8 minutes left that we need to make sure we don't lose the game. What the feck happened, the donkey of a centre forward scored from Monteiro (sp) on the left. As soon as he came on, we should have switched the full backs, he is a talent and created three good chances in the little time he was on the field. MOTM Villa I would go Okore, but they were all pretty average

[Oscar Arce]

They were much better than us in the first half but we are now at least creating chances.
Benteke and Gabby were poor today and I think Sherwood made a mistake with all of his subsitutions.
It's still a kick in the balls to lose so late though, the Stoke and Swansea potential points would be like gold dust now.
Went to he game in the sunshine feeling more optmistic than in years, but i really should have known better.
It's going to be very close.

[Stu]

I don't think Swansea were "lightweight" at all. They are a big strong footballing side. Lots of sizeable players - williams, Fernandez, ki, Shelvey, Gomis, Sigurdsson.

They're a bunch of prissy tapdancers.

The ref was only too keen to blow up in their favour, but I thought we were rubbish today; they seemed to have us sussed out from the start.

[villan from luton]

They were much better than us in the first half but we are now at least creating chances.
Benteke and Gabby were poor today and I think Sherwood made a mistake with all of his subsitutions.
It's still a kick in the balls to lose so late though, the Stoke and Swansea potential points would be like gold dust now.
Went to he game in the sunshine feeling more optmistic than in years, but i really should have known better.
It's going to be very close.

Cleverley was injured, think he made the right choice in Sanchez. I would have done Grealish or Gill for Sinclair second choice and Benteke wasn't fit so not much choice in third

[silhillvilla]

Problem is we have just 8 games now 4 of which look like write offs.

[villan from luton]

They were much better than us in the first half but we are now at least creating chances.
Benteke and Gabby were poor today and I think Sherwood made a mistake with all of his subsitutions.
It's still a kick in the balls to lose so late though, the Stoke and Swansea potential points would be like gold dust now.
Went to he game in the sunshine feeling more optmistic than in years, but i really should have known better.
It's going to be very close.

Benteke and Gabby got shite service

[passport1]

Second game I have been to this season and to be honest I was a bit underwhelmed.  Swansea had done their homework and nullified N'Zogbia by chanelling his runs into areas they could pick the ball off him. Similarly Sinclair and with Bacuna fully occupied they more or less cut off  supply lines. Gabby and Benteke struggled as they always do when starved of service. Swansea are good in possession and made our boys do an awful lot of running.

I was concerned to see Benteke pick up another hip injury ( is he very injury prone or just unlucky?)

Sherwood has injected  more confidence into the team but on today's evidence I think we will do well to stay up.

[brian green]

Just home after a 400 mile round trip.   What will stick in my mind about today's game?   Diabolical refereeing by the sort of referee who when he is criticized becomes even more one sided just to show you how he cannot be influenced by the crowd.   His sort never ever consider that the home crowd might be right and he might be wrong.   He destroyed our continuity and lifted their confidence.   We were out played in midfield in the first half and the Sanchez substitution made matters worse.   His distribution is sloppy and he is too easily dispossessed.   With a quarter of an hour to go there were three points up for grabs and he should have brought on Gil or Grealish but he brought on Weimann who adds absolutely nothing.   Swansea are the best team Sherwood has had to face and I think he did not cover himself with distinction.   Benteke got no protection at all from the referee and I hope he is not too badly injured.   Mostly I shall remember the shit referee.   And Brad Guzan making too many errors of late.

[silhillvilla]

Weimann needs shipping out of the club. I fear Sanchez is not PL standard too.

[villan from luton]

Just home after a 400 mile round trip.   What will stick in my mind about today's game?   Diabolical refereeing by the sort of referee who when he is criticized becomes even more one sided just to show you how he cannot be influenced by the crowd.   His sort never ever consider that the home crowd might be right and he might be wrong.   He destroyed our continuity and lifted their confidence.   We were out played in midfield in the first half and the Sanchez substitution made matters worse.   His distribution is sloppy and he is too easily dispossessed.   With a quarter of an hour to go there were three points up for grabs and he should have brought on Gil or Grealish but he brought on Weimann who adds absolutely nothing.   Swansea are the best team Sherwood has had to face and I think he did not cover himself with distinction.   Benteke got no protection at all from the referee and I hope he is not too badly injured.   Mostly I shall remember the shit referee.   And Brad Guzan making too many errors of late.

It was a shame Cleverley went off as he was looking lively. Sanchez didn't lose too much ball from my now goggle eyed memory, different player but who else would come on? Benteke didn't look up for it IMO, the injury gave him an outlet. Wont moan about that substitution, but reckon he fecked up on the second with Westwood for NZog, why not Sinclair?