Manchester City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[silhillvilla]

CiŁy forums seem pleased they have played so poorly yet got the 3 points.

[VillaAlways]

CiŁy forums seem pleased they have played so poorly yet got the 3 points.

And repeat ad nauseum

[robbo1874]

What I'm gutted most about is we wasted so much of the season stuck with a dead man of a manager. If only we'd have taken the decision last summer we could have had a really exciting season. Let's hope lessons have been learned (again). Onwards and upwards hey.

true. But we might not have been in a position to appoint Sherwood last summer. I'm fairly happy with the way things have panned out. Confident we'll stay up now and we have a good chance of actually winning the FA cup. Next season promises a lot if we can add a bit more quality in the summer transfer window.

[pbavfckuwait]

Most been said, you can not give Man Shitty that sort of gift to start with, then two further gifts later on. Benteke has to keep his eye on the line, as highlighted, bit like Batshit last week, linesman thought well he has been all day so I will flag him up for this one. Balanced by Bacunnas pull back earlier in the game, that may have seen us down to ten men.
Delph good after the first 20 minutes, is it just me or is this becoming a pattern for him, he seems to need 20 mins just to get up to his playing maximum. Young Jack good game, but Tim has to get into his head to give him the confidence to shoot more often when in an ideal position.

[robbo1874]

Once he rattles one in, there will be no stopping the lad.

[frank black]

Just watched it again on motd. Shouldn't have, as I now feel gutted all over again.

[Chris Smith]

Such a shame to come away with nothing when our attacking play had been so good but we only have ourselves to blame for the goals conceded. That said, correct decisions from the officials might have seen a different result.

There is something really refreshing about the way we approach games now, trying to take the game to the opposition regardless of reputation. I doubt anyone is looking forward to facing us.

[olaftab]

Last week we benefitted from a wrong decision (Balotelli) this week it hurts us that's how it goes over a season. We did very well after having gone two down from some horrific errors.  It's a shame Brad did what he did but some of that passing around the box goes back to how players were training and playing earlier in the season. I like Sanchez but he is prone to making big errors in the last 10. (More fitness?) he has done did several times including the free kick at home to Spuds when Kane scored. Overall deserved something from this game but....

[PeterWithe]

After 10 mins I thought we were going to be on the end of the annual hiding, very disappointed to have lost which is great credit to Sherwood.

One point about Guzans mistake was that even if the pass had gone where he wanted it to it was a bad choice, the defender it was aimed at was running back toward his own goal with a city player closing in.

Still mighty nervous about our position, we are playing well but others around us are getting jammy points.

[Walmley_Villa]

Sanchez does seem to tire on 65 mins but Sherwood obviously sees him as the cover player in front of the defence. The foul for the free kick was a tired tackle imo. Having said that he did ok and the technique for his goal was world class.

[Clark W Griswold]

We wuz robbed.

[silhillvilla]

The defending for their 3rd goal is not good at all, it's a mis-hit corner FFS.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Disappointed because I had written the game off, to play as we did and lose is horrible but i'll take the positives, still looking at that bottom 3 with a good deal of dread, yes I think we'll be safe but 2 points isn't much, please beat Everton

[Phil from the upper holte]

Sanchez does seem to tire on 65 mins but Sherwood obviously sees him as the cover player in front of the defence. The foul for the free kick was a tired tackle imo. Having said that he did ok and the technique for his goal was world class.

Sanchez has good and bad parts to his game, sadly he seems to show both in every game, bad pass to Cleverly when the counter was on then a bad tackle trying to recover. Good goal though

[silhillvilla]

Whatever positives Sanchez brings they always seem to get cancelled out by silly errors in crucial areas or phases of play.