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

[Richard E]

the thing is if TS cant see how shit we was after 10 mins trying to hold the left side God help us no need to boo the player it should be TS taking the crap

I think in fairness the problem was that there were not all that many options for changing it.

[l_mckay]

Well a bit relieved that we didn't loose in the end but how we got ourselves in that position is beyond. Give away a crap first goal then got back in and played really well looked like we would score every time we attacked them. Second half we didn't really get going and the 2 goals we give away were perthetic,thank god for Benteke bailed us out again! Hope Hutton is back for Saturday to replace Richardson who was terrible all night. Massive get Saturday now

[walsall villain]

Another night of sleep ruined....

At half-time it sounded as though there was only going to be one winner.  With 10 minutes to go I'd have bitten your hand off for a point so happy that we showed some resilience but having seen the goals the defending was atrocious.  I was amazed to hear that Richardson was playing and Vlaar too to be honest.  The first QPR goal was primary school defending.  The second - don't we put people on the posts?  The third - my dad would have slaughtered me when I was a kid for the tackle Richardson 'attempted'.

We're still deep in the poo.  Every team below us seems capable of a 'shock' result every now and then - we could do with one or two of those ourselves.  I really hope there is nothing riding on the Burnley game in the last weekend - let's get it all done nice and early please Villa!

That was pretty much what it was like. Second goal annoyed me the most. Never mind defenders on posts, we gave their ageing centre back oceans of space from a corner. Contrast that with our ongoing struggles to ever look like scoring a headed goal from a corner.
To be honest I had totally given up our chances when Lambert was with us and would have gladly accepted a chance on the last day to stay up, I now think that's what will happen.

[PaulWinch again]

The most frustrating thing is the selection choices he made were so unavoidable. If Vlaar and Richardson weren't fit then why were they playing? Lowton had done ok at left back and Okore was outstanding at centre half. I'm convinced that had we played Okore and Lowton yesterday we would have won.

[DB]

Sherwood heaped on the pressure before the game. That dis not help. They looked nervous. When we went 2-1 up we relaxed and should have scored more. When they equalised our heads dropped and you knew they would get another...thank God for a damn fine free kick. That could just have saved us as if QPR had gone above us and we dropped into the bottom 3, it would be a huge blow at this stage.

Hull have a tough run in, that will help us.

[oldhill_avfc]

Tim Sherwoods lack of changes during games has cost us points again here

The back four has cost us points all season.

Back fours cost every team points. 

The biggest problem by far has been our inability to mount a goal threat for 30 odd games. 

In my opinion Sherwood's selection was spot on.  We need to be able to score goals.  If we can score goals we will stay up - if we dont we go down - simple as that.

[oldhill_avfc]

Richardson for their second, jesus fucking christ, just stood there, asleep.

I don't know what Lowton did wrong to be left out and I don't know why Grealish was taken off.

Cleverley was dreadful.

It's funny how people see things differently, I thought that Cleverley had for the most part a very good game, with several high quality attacking moments.  Sanchez and Richardson were dire.  Grealish did well, I thought.

Indeed I think if Grealish wasn't a Villa youngster he wouldn't be getting so much praise tonight. I thought he was pretty wasteful and I thought Cole offered more. I think Grealish will be good in time, but didn't think he did a great deal tonight.

Grealish was pivotal to most of the good moves in the first half.  He was very much involved in just about every chance we created. 

I don't think he was wasteful as such, but does need to learn not to try and play too much in his own half.

[john e]

brilliant game to watch, unfortunately the result wasn't quite as exciting

Benteke, Delph and Grealish were the picks for me, I don't understand why people don't think Jack had a good game, he was the busiest player on the pitch always looking for the ball, I thought he played well

on a personal note,
 my little lad who's just turned 7 got it big time for the first time, I've taken him before to one or two home and away games but he didn't really seem all that interested, and I was probably to keen to try and ram it down his throat to use a religious connotation

anyway last night he was truly into the match from start to finish, celebrated our goals and got excited when we attacked,
 he also spent a lot of time looking at the Holte end when they were in full voice

you know when you watch a kid at a football match and you just know that they have become possessed with that Villa thing that will stay with them for the rest of their lives,
 well last night was that night

[silhillvilla]

Really gutted this morning.
That second half was absolute garbage.

[Clampy]

I'm not sure about garbage. Frustrating is probably the word.

[silhillvilla]

I don't know, we were playing qpr and we were hanging on. First half we did really well, second was just dire.

[ADVILLAFAN]

What a bunch of animals they were, dirtiest team we've played this season.

Austin should have been booked first half and been shown a straight red in the second, yet was still on the pitch to score a goal.

Very unjust that we didn't win, but thank Christ we didn't lose it.

[PaulWinch again]

I'm not sure about garbage. Frustrating is probably the word.

I thought for 30 minutes of the second half we were atrocious.

[Percy McCarthy]

I was working last night (Tom) so only saw it on Sky when I got in. Still, the highlights are quite extensive on that show, about an hour I think. We looked very good going forward, even after they changed it they may have coped with us better but there was still only us attacking (on the highlights anyway).

The whole front six looked pretty good to me, especially Grealish, Gabby and obviously Benteke. Clark's done well not to get booked for however long it is since his ninth yellow, although he was a bit lucky on Saturday.

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.

[silhillvilla]

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