Aston Villa vs Queen's Park Rangers - post match thread

[JUAN PABLO]

Played Lawton left back and okore , we would have won that at a canter .

[Richard]

Please please silhillvilla stop the constant negativity you must be a delight to sit near at games ;-)

[Brend'Watkins]

Okore at full back would have been far more effective than Richardson.  I understand why TS played Richardson though. He was ineffective first half going forward and poor at the back as Phillips had him every time.  That should have been enough for TS to make the change at the break. The two goals coming from his side would have been easily dealt with by Okore.

Bacuna was very good going forward but is not or will he ever be a defender.

The really big positive from last night is that the Beast is back.

[Ron Manager]

Right,I have just read all the previous comments. I think Sherwood played Ron Vlaar because he was worried about Bobby Zamora's physical presence and the fact that he is good in the air. Possibly he was thinking Okore was not big enough to deal with him. Benteke,obviously,is our main hope of staying up. A truly outstanding performance. Why was young Grealish allowed to take four appallling corners on the trot, its a simple enough skill for gods sake. He has some talent,that is obvious, but not enough to be effective for the club in the long run I suspect.

I am sure Okore and possibly Gil will feature against Spurs although this manager appears to think along different lines to most of us.

Some are calling Tim Sherwood 'a chancer'.  They may be right

[Rudy65]

We were very wasteful in attack. Other than benteke I'm struggling did green have any real saves to make ?

He didnt.

The final ball let us down time and time again.

Jack had a good first half but his dead balls were atrocious

[Matt Collins]

Green saved from grealish when he should have scored

Gabby and benteke went close with headers in the first half too

And we scored three times

I just don't see the argument that our problems were at that end of the pitch. If we had a decent defence we'd have strolled that game

[Dave]

I had made up my mind that a draw would be bearable before the game - a defeat would have been a disaster - so was quite happy after being 3-2 down late on.

I agree. Three points would have been lovely, but the most important thing was making sure that QPR didn't get them.

[Monty]

Green saved from grealish when he should have scored

Gabby and benteke went close with headers in the first half too

And we scored three times

I just don't see the argument that our problems were at that end of the pitch. If we had a decent defence we'd have strolled that game

I think we had problems in midfield as well. If we could have had Westwood on instead of Sanchez we might not have lost control of the match to the same extent.

[darren woolley]

A point is better than getting nothing but I would've liked a win.

[Matt Collins]

Green saved from grealish when he should have scored

Gabby and benteke went close with headers in the first half too

And we scored three times

I just don't see the argument that our problems were at that end of the pitch. If we had a decent defence we'd have strolled that game

I think we had problems in midfield as well. If we could have had Westwood on instead of Sanchez we might not have lost control of the match to the same extent.

@martinlaurence7: Since Sherwood took charge Villa have scored two more Premier League goals (11) than Sunderland, Burnley, Newcastle & Southampton combined

The reason we lost control was sherwood' fault. He absolutely had to switch from the diamond as soon as QPR went 352.
I thought Sanchez was quite good.

[saunders_heroes]

I don't think I've ever seen a Villa team give the ball away as much as this one does. Sanchez is the worst culprit. He's such a frustrating player - he wins the ball then loses it and we're back to square one again. Meanwhile you tear your hair out watching it in the stands.

[David_Nab]

We were very wasteful in attack. Other than benteke I'm struggling did green have any real saves to make ?

Twice from Grealish , his freekick and from Benteke's cross into the box.

[Monty]

I don't think I've ever seen a Villa team give the ball away as much as this one does. Sanchez is the worst culprit. He's such a frustrating player - he wins the ball then loses it and we're back to square one again. Meanwhile you tear your hair out watching it in the stands.

That's exactly it. You really want to like Sanchez, because he does do lots of good things - the tackle-pass which led to Benteke's second was great - but he then goes and messes it up again. Perhaps next year he'll be able to cut those out. We'll see.

[curiousorange]

We were very wasteful in attack. Other than benteke I'm struggling did green have any real saves to make ?

Twice from Grealish , his freekick and from Benteke's cross into the box.

And it wasn't a save as such, but he was full stretch when Agbonlahor almost put a header in from Bacuna in the first half.

[pauliewalnuts]

On the bright side, we didn't lose and QPR didn't win. It could have been worse.

On the down side, it could, and should, have been much better.

It used to be that we were solidish at the back but blunt up front. Last night we were the opposite, the defending for the goals was laughable.

The thing that I thought summed us up last night was the fact we had such a good first half but managed to have such a poor second. How many times have we seen that this year? Playing well for a spell, just not long enough?

On Sherwood, we have lost Lambert's boringness but I am starting to think we've kept the failure to change things tactically when it is clearly needed. Last night was a great example of that.