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

[jeowje]

For me, Swansea were neat and tidy but much of what they did was dull backwards and sideways passing with little incision or attacking intent, an easier-on-the eye version of Lambert football. I was gutted about the result, and whilst we were low-key compared to recent matches, felt we did enough to draw or even nick the win.

Such a contrasting feeling waking up this morning though, still lets not be greedy- can't have famous victories every week- still capable of springing surprises at any of the tough-looking away matches- feeling optimistic about all of them bar man city to be honest- lets enjoy them!

[brian green]

I think Man City could bring out a very good performance from us and Spurs are definitely beatable. Lot of twists and turns still to come. Having slept on it two principal things caused our stumble yesterday, shocking refereeing and Sinclair's selfishness.

[ROBBO]

It's unfortunate that the best chances we had fell to Sinclair who has not impressed me that much, would have thought Sherwood would have replaced him with Gil after half time.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Pissed off, home form does us again. Glad the teams around us lost, Next few games tough but so are Burnleys

[Phil from the upper holte]

Lets face it we were never going to Win all our winnable games

[brian green]

Yes Rob our bit of the Holte Lower was demanding/expecting Gil to come on and make a final push for three points in the last quarter of an hour. Weimann was the wrong knee jerk substitution. He adds nothing and nothing was what we got.

[PeterWithe]

Lets face it we were never going to Win all our winnable games

You are right but if the worst happens we look at Swansea and Stoke as being two games where the point should've been protected at all costs, I think we now have to get some unexpected points on the road which, yesterday aside, we seem capable of given the correct application.

[simboy]

We were playing a make-shift left back and right back, and when they took Sigurddson off, putting on Montero and went wide, Baccuna was basically ripped  a new one. Surprised that Hutton didn't come across as the threat developed, after all Sherwood had identified to the whole World that Baccuna had been given a "microwave" course in playing right back last week and as soon as the kid came on it was pretty obvious where they were targeting later in the match when concentration levels drop.

Attacking-wise, at least our midfielders are getting ahead of the strikers. Didn't understand Westwood for N'Zogbia unless it was to counter the threat on the right [which it didn't do]. Would have liked to have seen Gil at that time. Weimann? Meh.   





   

[Ron Manager]

Not a bad game to watch by any means but we fell a little short. Delph played very well,especially in the second half. Bacuna failed to reach the heights of last week by a long chalk and clearly Alan Hutton was uncomfortable at left back so the forwards did not receive much of a service.

I would have expected Gil to come on at some stage but it would appear that our manager has serious reservations about him. The fans do not share the same opinion but we will have to wait and see.

We move on to the next game.

[brian green]

I like that observation about concentration levels dropping at the end of a game. We are serial offenders in that sphere.

[Duncan Shaw]

Not seen the details but I presume Lowton was injured, as he had been doing OK at LB?

[PeterWithe]

Not seen the details but I presume Lowton was injured, as he had been doing OK at LB?

Wasnt on the bench either so you'd assume so.

[Breezeblock]

Meh. We played OK and could've got a draw. A loss isn't too bad with the way the other results have gone.  Fair play to Swansea for coming and making a game of it - there was some really good football being played by both sides at times.  Shame Bacuna couldn't pass a 5-year-olds spelling test tho'.

Oh and whoever came up with the idea of that drum in the Holte needs banning from the ground.  It annoyed me from P8 in the Witton Lane!

[Pete3206]

Bloke behind us was convinced that Bony was playing up front. Doh!

Anyhoo, how come players like Weinman and Westwood get time on the pitch, when we have a little game changing dynamo like Carles Gil on the bench?

Oh and the ref was shite and the linos had poorer eyesight than Mr Magoo.

[dekko]

I didn't think we were too bad all things considered, but the makeshift defence came back to bite us in the arse like many had been predicting.  As it stands we're one game closer to the end of the season, not really any safer, but with the other results going our way (so far at least) we're not really any worse off than we were.

We'll be fine.