Aston Villa under-10's vs Arsenal -FA Cup Final Post-Match Thread

[Axl Rose]

Pitiful performance and also, completely boring to watch. I have finally given up on Nzogbia, dislike Hutton, am ok with losing Benteke(he kept us up and I'm grateful for that) and am looking forward to a summer of stress free weekends. I like Sherwood as I feel he is as gutted as we are. Have a good summer, all.

[supertom]

We always needed Aresenal to be off their game and all our side needed to be 9/10. It wasn't  to be. Most sides would have struggled to live with them today. I just hoped we wouldn't be humiliated. Unfortunately it was pretty much that.

One other comment. Our entire side cost about £35m including £10m for N'Zogbia. Ozil cost £42m alone. They simply have world class players who will demonstrate that if you let them.

They were that good they could carry Ozil, who was a little bit of a passenger to be honest. But when you've got Cazola oil and Good Sanchez absolutely running the game effortlessly, then it doesn't matter.

[Tuscans]

Well as fans we don't expect that but I think you just have to hold your hands up and say man for man they were much better and every Villa player would of had to have possibly their best game ever in a Villa shirt and Arsenal an off game for us to win today.

I think the build up through the week got to a few today and some froze, and when that happens against a team like Arsenal we're doomed. There was plenty of huff and puff but technically we can't cope all over the pitch with these kind of players

Sherwood played for me is best team, he hasn't got much more to work, but then its all down to the guys on the pitch and it was just all to much for them. They're just not good enough, mentally and tactically, which is why they cost peanuts and not £40 million.

[villa_cads]

Embarrassing.

[Dave]

I think he'll end up at Liverpool now. The game today could possibly have put him in the window for a top level club. But he wasn't on it. Okay the service was shit but he played with no aggression, no spring in his jumps and just lack concentration when back defending corners. Mertesacker murdered him. 

I can't remember the last time that a central defender dominated him like that.

Whether it was a good idea to make our only tactic smashing the ball at the two of them to see who could jump higher rather than having our quicker players run at him instead is by the by.

[SamTheMouse]

Steve Rose is spot on. Today's result was sealed with the spanking against Southampton. Sherwood came in and we did well for a time because he brought confidence. He didn't provide some genius tactical plan, just the balls-out approach of attacking teams and not worrying too much about losing. The six goal thrashing we took drained that confidence and that was visible today. The manager and the players were frightened of getting tonked again.

Sherwood is going to have to find a way to restore the confidence levels in time for next season, except now he won't have the patented new manager bounce to help him.

[OzVilla]

Benteke for Arsenal? Not a chance on todays display to be honest.

Lots of scheduled calls to Villa HQ on Monday for his services have now been cancelled.

I think he'll end up at Liverpool now. The game today could possibly have put him in the window for a top level club. But he wasn't on it. Okay the service was shit but he played with no aggression, no spring in his jumps and just lack concentration when back defending corners. Mertesacker murdered him.

I think he'll go though. He's a decent player, and he'd be foolish to stay on a sinking ship.

I agree, I thought if he had a great game they be lining up but he was poor. 'The Mighty Reds YNWA' or Spurzz will pay the money though because theyre desperate so he'll go.

[Proposition Joe]

The last three games have really taken the wind out of our sails.  I hope we can recover in time for next season.

It's just heartbreaking when you look back on the Liverpool semi performance, and even the performance vs everton the other week.  Where did it all go?  What the f**k happened?  Were the good performances just the new manager bump and we've regressed painfully back to the mean now?

As for the match, telling for me was that Arsenal harried and pressed and bettered us in every physical confrontation.  If you lose the physical battle against that lot, you've got nothing to fall back on.  We were second best in every 1vs1 challenge and 50/50 situation.

[Dave]

Sherwood played for me is best team, he hasn't got much more to work

He could have played our good goalkeeper rather than the one who cost us the first three goals, and he could have played the right-back who has been one of the best parts of his short tenure.

Playing Guzan and Bacuna almost certainly wouldn't have won us the match, but I'd put my mortgage on the fact that it wouldn't have been as shit as that.

[Proposition Joe]

Klopp's Dortmund might be well on their way to having a worse day than us, although they did at least score.

[richard moore]

Come off it. We played against a team with world class players who were full of confidence. Our team has average players who on the day couldn't bridge the gulf. So to use the language above just isn't on IMO

On that basis, why bother to play any matches at all?

Looks like my post above has been posted already.

Hope that pub of Arsenal fans wasn't too horrendous.

Bloody awful Dave. There was some arrogant pissed twat across from me making rude comments about Villa fans on the close ups who I would willingly put his head through the television. He was on crutches from which I concluded someone has already done something similar. An Arsenal fan but in every other respect he looked a real sad loser.

[Deano's Mullet]

Numb. Never ever in  it. Tough to watch and lerner looking happy at the end tops it all off. We are a million miles off them and needed all of ours to play well and theirs to have an off day. Unfortunate the reverse happened today? No ideas going forward at all. Last three results a kick in the teeth and we need big big changes main team and strategy next season.

[Matt Collins]

Five minutes into the Southampton game you could see that our team had mentally gone, for whatever reason. And they've never looked like they've been back

Too disappointed to properly analyse this. But it makes it all very hard to assess quite how good or bad we are. That Liverpool performance was genuinely outstanding in every sense. Today was appalling and embarrassing.

Tactically and mentally not at the races today.

[richard moore]

We just looked like lower league minnows on the big stage. Again. Disappointing and I worry about  next season now given the manner of the loss today.

I don't think we stay up without a new owner to be honest.

No, nor me. We can kiss goodbye to any notions of finishing 8th to 12th with this bunch. At least half that team needs replacing.

[Flamingo Lane]

Sherwood played for me is best team, he hasn't got much more to work

He could have played our good goalkeeper rather than the one who cost us the first three goals, and he could have played the right-back who has been one of the best parts of his short tenure.

Playing Guzan and Bacuna almost certainly wouldn't have won us the match, but I'd put my mortgage on the fact that it wouldn't have been as shit as that.

How exactly did Given cost us the first three goals?