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

[silhillvilla]

Technically Swansea were very good today, I'd guess one of their best performances of the season.

They outclassed Liverpool at home first half on Monday. Was speaking to a lad after and he said they are decent but miss Bony

[Clampy]

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

Why do they look like write-offs?

They are all far better than us and have home advantage.

So we should write them off then?

[Dave]

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

Why do they look like write-offs?

They are all far better than us and have home advantage.

Like Liverpool earlier in the season were better than us and had home advantage? Or Man City and Arsenal have been better than us and had home advantage over the last couple of seasons?

You write them off it you want to.

[Steve67]

Technically Swansea were very good today, I'd guess one of their best performances of the season.

They outclassed Liverpool at home first half on Monday. Was speaking to a lad after and he said they are decent but miss Bony

Not write offs at all. Get one or two of the injured players back and we might pull off a surprise or two. Got to make sure we beat QPR and Burnley but the other games can also spring surprises.

[silhillvilla]

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

Why do they look like write-offs?

They are all far better than us and have home advantage.

Like Liverpool earlier in the season were better than us and had home advantage? Or Man City and Arsenal have been better than us and had home advantage over the last couple of seasons?

You write them off it you want to.

As its Acorns day, £5 to Acorns for every point we take in those 4.
Hoping I'm donating £60.

[OCD]

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

Why do they look like write-offs?

They are all far better than us and have home advantage.

So we should write them off then?

Yep. Let's write to the FA to concede that unfortunately we will not be able to fulfil those fixtures because we need to save ourselves for the 4 games that we might have a chance with.

[Dave]

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

Why do they look like write-offs?

They are all far better than us and have home advantage.

Like Liverpool earlier in the season were better than us and had home advantage? Or Man City and Arsenal have been better than us and had home advantage over the last couple of seasons?

You write them off it you want to.

As its Acorns day, £5 to Acorns for every point we take in those 4.
Hoping I'm donating £60.

?
Why not make it £100 per point? Why not £1,000? They're write-offs, your money is clearly safe.

[silhillvilla]

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

Why do they look like write-offs?

They are all far better than us and have home advantage.

Like Liverpool earlier in the season were better than us and had home advantage? Or Man City and Arsenal have been better than us and had home advantage over the last couple of seasons?

You write them off it you want to.

As its Acorns day, £5 to Acorns for every point we take in those 4.
Hoping I'm donating £60.

?
Why not make it £100 per point? Why not £1,000? They're write-offs, your money is clearly safe.

I don't have that much .

[silhillvilla]

& why not take it in the spirit it's meant on Acorns Day.
Happy Acorns Day to all the kids.

[eamonn]

Too many of our players play on instinct, with little thought, hoping that quick directness will nick us a goal or two. Swansea are far more assured in possession and the first half was embarrassing at times, looking at how more accomplished they were at keeping possession and playing the ball in behind our defence on numerous occasions.

 We harried them better in the second half and created a few half-chances but, sadly, the better team won it just as it seemed we'd got a slightly fortunate, crucial point.

[brontebilly]

Very disappointing result. Didn't see the game but a 0-0 draw would have kept the momentum going. Guess we picked up two points with Foster's late brainfart and dropped two points with the late losses to Stoke and Swansea.

Feared for us today when I saw the lineups. Cork is a very solid addition for them and they have the players with technical ability to exploit our fairly one paced midfield. Super passes from Routledge and Montero for the winner but we were far too open for that stage of the game.

Sunderland seemed to get robbed at West Ham today, we might have got away with it if Everton do the business against QPR

[villan from luton]

Too many of our players play on instinct, with little thought, hoping that quick directness will nick us a goal or two. Swansea are far more assured in possession and the first half was embarrassing at times, looking at how more accomplished they were at keeping possession and playing the ball in behind our defence on numerous occasions.

 We harried them better in the second half and created a few half-chances but, sadly, the better team won it just as it seemed we'd got a slightly fortunate, crucial point.

Totally correct, I said to my lad with ten mins left that we will do well to get a point. We pressured them to an extent but not enough. Think Sinclair was a liability in that respect and NZog as well to a lesser extent

[West Derby Villan]

Draw would have been fair result, one goal was always going to settle it, unfortunately went the wrong way. Have faith onwards and UPWARDS

[pbavfckuwait]

The first half was definitely Swansea's, but I thought we came back into in the second half.
A month ago I would not have thought I would ever be writing this, but I think Cleverly going off affected our game plan, which was to harry and hustle their midfield, Sanchez is to slow and crab like to play that sort of game, he is a player that suits down to the ground Lamberts pass for pass sake and keep in sideways, not get in your face and hassle type of player.
Thought he brought Westwood on to try to secure the point, but Westwood to me offers nothing, but Gill again may want to much time on the ball so not the preferred option.
Gusan a worry, do not agree that Clark had a good game, he has been very good this season, but I thought today he was off his game, their big danger was from free kicks with Sigurdson, the worse two given away was by Clark in central positions to near the box and he got out muscled and out paced for the goal, plus his distribution at times was poor. Sinclair was trying too hard against his old club and took on at least 2 occasions the wrong option.
Mr. Sherwood learn from this and I am sure he will, every game is their to be won none are gimmes for the opposition, just ask Man City/Burnley.

[pooligan]

Disappointing result but half expected to be honest. I thought we would struggle against a team whose strength is keeping the ball and passing it around.I saw them outplay Liverpool earlier in the week and they should have won but Liverpool got lucky.