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

[spk]

Lady...with purple short hair....

Yeah,she is like Thatcher and her silver haired mate,they forget we are customers.

[kippaxvilla2]

Concrete Ron? More like putty Ron. He is not interested in the slightest. I saw him at birmingham airport in October "when we played man c at home" he was supposed to be injured with a calf strain. Well he looked ok when he jogged into the airport terminal to collect some friends. He should have been a VP supporting the team. The sooner he leaves the better. Along with many other players who are not good enough. Poor management from the top has got us into this position. Not sure we will stay up now. We are yet again relying on other teams to slip up.
Very very sad times indeed.

Although I think there's a big difference between being able to jog to the airport and being fit enough to play top flight football, I agree about Vlaar, I don't know why he played him instead of Okore.

He just looks fucking half arsed to me.

I can only assume two things:

1 he preferred Vlaar for brute strength.  As debateable as that is.

2. Two games in three days is still a risk for Okore.

[Exeter 77]

Given that Sherwood has talked about having to rush players back I wonder if Richardson was fit tonight.

We were saying all the way through the first half that Richardson didn't look fit and expected Lowton to sub on for him at half time. Even Baker would have been a better option.

[PeterWithesShin]

Richardson off, Okore on and Clark at LB would have been an option as well.

[tomd2103]

Our regular full backs in and we'd have waltzed that, superb first half going forward, more than a bit iffy going backward.

On song we really are so much better than those around us, we cant keep fucking up, can we?

I'm starting to warm to Grealish as well now. Still a bit too casual but he turns away from defenders like they're not there and creates space. I'd start him at Spurs.

It was good to see him play in his natural role and not pushed out wide.  Some really nice touches and moments of quality tonight, but he drifted in and out of the game at times.  I guess that's to be expected with a young player who hasn't featured too much though. 

[tomd2103]

Our regular full backs in and we'd have waltzed that, superb first half going forward, more than a bit iffy going backward.

On song we really are so much better than those around us, we cant keep fucking up, can we?

I guess Hutton is first choice RB, but I'm not sure we have have an outstanding candidate for first choice LB at the moment, do we?  It has been a real problem position for years now. 

[kippaxvilla2]

Guzan - Did ok, very average at close range shots though.
Richardson - Poor, looked completely lost for their 2nd
Vlaar - Looked dodgy, poor positioning for all their goals.
Clark - Not getting booked is on his mind, looked nervous, after spurs all change.
Bacuna - Not a RB, too slow, needs a better end product for me.
Delph - Better than Saturday, poor defending for their 1st though
Cleverley - Played very well apart from one bad pass.
Sanchez - Broke up everything in the 1st, very dodgy 2nd.
Grealish - Did well in-play but too many poor corners
Agbonlahor - Overall poor, did slot the ball for the 2nd but anyone there would of done that.
Benteke - MOTM

I'd agree with most of that. I thought Bacuna got forward well, Sanchez did well except for 30 minutes after the break and Benteke is the most complete striker I've ever seen at Villa. If we can get another full season out of him you could be looking at Gareth Bale money.

Did I see someone slagging him off another thread earlier today?  The bloke has almost single handedly saved us again.

[BoskoDjembaSalifou]

Okore RB and Lowton LB seemed the obvious choices to me. Richardson and Bacuna just can't defend.

I miss Gil. Grealish did alright, but I don't think he's ready to start a game like this.

As for Benteke, not bad for a "one season wonder"

[ozzjim]

I thought Grealish showed both how much he can create and get us going, and how much he is a player that you have to carry. Lovely with the ball, useless without it much of the time. He is physically 2 years off being strong enough for the premier league, but he will get there, and will be a top player.

As for Richardson, if he was rushed back I am failing to see why when Lowton has played there perfectly well for the last few weeks, and would have been more effective at trying to at least challenge Phillips. My bigger worry was the lack of any tactical adjustment to give him cover though, which came back to bite us on the arse. And not having a player on the post on a corner. Such sloppy goals to give away, all 3. Bacuna and Richardson were at the heart of them all though.

[supertom]

Richardson hasn't looked that fit whenever he's played for us. He appears to have lost any of the pace he used to have. I just think he's one of those players who was probably destined to drop to the championship and drift down the leagues the worse his legs got.
He's done at this level I think.
I'll give him the benefit of doubt on this game that he's just come back from injury. But honestly it just looked like same old, same old for me. He's no left back either.

[adrenachrome]

Soccer Gods ‏@soccergods 3h3 hours ago

This 19-year-old Aston Villa fan has had a stressful year.

[john2710]

We've not had our first choice team all season, we badly need both fullbacks, Westwood & Sinclair available for the last 4 games. Anything from Spurs & Man City would be a bonus & I don't see Sherwood having the team setup to grind a result.

It's going to go to the wire, us vs Burnley & Leicester vs QPR.

Sherwood needs to get some nouse quickly,  but we avoided the disaster of a defeat.

I think another 6 points will do it, but it will be very close.

[brian green]

Just home through 200 miles of Coneworld.  I can only assume that Richardson is not fit. His performance was dire.   Bacuna can't tackle.   Grealish seems to have had an urgency by pass and would be a far more effective player if he just got up after a tackle and got on with it.   Guzan has developed the jitters and really ought to be fighting for his place.   Cole should have come on earlier.  The one big plus is that Benteke has got his mojo back and is perfectly capable of snatching us points out of any game.

[saunders_heroes]

I've never been a big fan of Guzan. He makes the straight forward saves but his decision making and distribution is woeful in my opinion. I'd like to see Given get a run.

[Chipsticks]

Bonus: Martin Tyler going through puberty as Benteke looks for his 4th https://vine.co/v/eBMMp9HMiWU