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

[richard moore]

well so we stayed up by skin of the teeth and got a drubbing today. no shame in the performance though, we were just beaten by a better team. nice moment was Prince William's face after they went 3-0 up?

you have to cling to small things when you get a beating so at least the future king of England supports Aston Villa.

UP THE VILLA

No, no shame in the performance at all, goodness me, how could anyone think that?

quite possibly because the tactics were wrong and they have better players and also a manager who has won a lot of trophies? and we finished 4th from bottom against perennial champions league opposition. oh and also because for the first 30 odd  minutes Villa defended well. so no shame in the performance in my opinion. they were just better although 4-0 takes the piss.

I'll leave you to it and go and have a bath. I'm angry and disillusioned enough without you winding me up. You'd do well working for the BBC or Sky with that attitude.

[Lizz]

I went into Central London before the game to buy some tickets for a show, sort of killing two birds with one stone type thing. There were some Arsenal fans on the train who'd been trying to buy tickets off touts. They were bemoaning the fact the going rate was £1,500. Any idea if this was true? They were pretty mouthy and what I'd call look at me type people. Anyway, after my only pre-match drink of soda water and lime from the Ibis Hotel, I'm drowning my sorrows properly.

[pauliewalnuts]

Well that was good, you fucking bottling arseholes

that is unfair in my opinion. Their 2nd goal was a wonder goal, how does that equate to bottling it? Arsenal have better players and we had tactics wrong like leaving GA on the bench.

You're kidding.

If anything 4-0 flattered us.

7-0 wouldn't have been unfair, we were absolute garbage in every department except goalkeeper.

not being funny mate but how can you call yourself a Villa supporter with a comment like that?

It's saying what you see.

We were awful.

[aev]

Sherwood is pretty good at setting teams up but a little weak at reacting - and today he didn't set them up right, not in terms of personnel but just strategy. Were we meant to press or sit deep in defence? The midfield thought we were doing the former, the defence the latter, so in the end there was a massive gap for Ozil and Alexis to just stand in and do what they wanted.

That said, we shouldn't forget that Arsenal are better than us in practically every way, in terms of football. Money, players, manager, coaches, scouting - there's no comparison. The overhaul isn't needed because of this result, or even the performance - it's needed because we finished 17th in the league.

Agreed - we were playing a team who spend £15m + on a full back.

We were obviously poor but at the same time they were very good - we couldn't get near them at times with their flicks and turns etc. I guess 9 times out of ten the team with the much better players will beat the team with lesser players.

[Jon Crofts]

Well that was good, you fucking bottling arseholes

that is unfair in my opinion. Their 2nd goal was a wonder goal, how does that equate to bottling it? Arsenal have better players and we had tactics wrong like leaving GA on the bench.

You're kidding.

If anything 4-0 flattered us.

7-0 wouldn't have been unfair, we were absolute garbage in every department except goalkeeper.

Given was at fault for three of their four goals. He is as much to blame for today as anybody.

Agreed but he also made 3 or 4 great saves.

[pauliewalnuts]

Well that was good, you fucking bottling arseholes

that is unfair in my opinion. Their 2nd goal was a wonder goal, how does that equate to bottling it? Arsenal have better players and we had tactics wrong like leaving GA on the bench.

You're kidding.

If anything 4-0 flattered us.

7-0 wouldn't have been unfair, we were absolute garbage in every department except goalkeeper.

Given was at fault for three of their four goals. He is as much to blame for today as anybody.

Yet also stopped it being six or seven.

[Chris Jameson]

Rodney Marsh absolutely slaughtering Grealish on Twitter I see.

Eh? Only thing I've seen is him replying to a comment that said he reminds them of Marsh and his comment was "but without the goals ". Fair comment and makes me think he rates him as he certainly rates himself. Unless I've missed the 'slaughtering'.

[Dave]

Well that was good, you fucking bottling arseholes

that is unfair in my opinion. Their 2nd goal was a wonder goal, how does that equate to bottling it? Arsenal have better players and we had tactics wrong like leaving GA on the bench.

You're kidding.

If anything 4-0 flattered us.

7-0 wouldn't have been unfair, we were absolute garbage in every department except goalkeeper.

not being funny mate but how can you call yourself a Villa supporter with a comment like that?

We're all disappointed with the result and performance, but you might want alter that attitude. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

[Jimbo]

The only positive I can take from today is I didn't waste hundreds of pounds on watching it. In fact I'm fucking delighted about that part. I feel for every Villa fan that went, more so for those that paid over the odds, and especially for those ripped off by ******. In the end, we were all ripped off. We have been for years.

[Toronto Villa]

And a big piece of that is the manager. Lambert accepted mediocrity and failure. I'm hoping Sherwood buys players be it with Lerner's money or a new bloke that never do.

For however long he is manager, do you envisage Sherwood signing a player as good as Benteke?

How can anyone possibly answer that question? When Lambert signed Benteke nobody in Europe saw what he'd become because we signed him pretty much unchallenged. Until he gets a few windows we won't know how well or not he does.

[richard moore]

Well that was good, you fucking bottling arseholes

that is unfair in my opinion. Their 2nd goal was a wonder goal, how does that equate to bottling it? Arsenal have better players and we had tactics wrong like leaving GA on the bench.

You're kidding.

If anything 4-0 flattered us.

7-0 wouldn't have been unfair, we were absolute garbage in every department except goalkeeper.

not being funny mate but how can you call yourself a Villa supporter with a comment like that?

Clearly you're a much better fan than me and a far better judge of a Villa performance. And for that reason I'm out.

me too, are you trying to take the piss because you are making a bloody good job of it. As Jon says, 7-0 wouldn't have flattered them. If you're on the wind up, could you choose a better occasion to do it than this?

[SoccerHQ]

Sherwood is pretty good at setting teams up but a little weak at reacting - and today he didn't set them up right, not in terms of personnel but just strategy. Were we meant to press or sit deep in defence? The midfield thought we were doing the former, the defence the latter, so in the end there was a massive gap for Ozil and Alexis to just stand in and do what they wanted.

That said, we shouldn't forget that Arsenal are better than us in practically every way, in terms of football. Money, players, manager, coaches, scouting - there's no comparison. The overhaul isn't needed because of this result, or even the performance - it's needed because we finished 17th in the league.

Agreed - we were playing a team who spend £15m + on a full back.

We were obviously poor but at the same time they were very good - we couldn't get near them at times with their flicks and turns etc. I guess 9 times out of ten the team with the much better players will beat the team with lesser players.

I was suprised by the Hutton selection, I think that set the tone for how conservative Sherwood wanted to be.

We all know Bacuna isn't the greatest defender in the world but he has pace and obviously better crossing than Hutton.

I didn't have an issue with Gabby not starting, don't think he's done enough in recent weeks.

Apart from that don't really see what else he could've done with the selection.

[ZhongYi]

Well that was good, you fucking bottling arseholes

that is unfair in my opinion. Their 2nd goal was a wonder goal, how does that equate to bottling it? Arsenal have better players and we had tactics wrong like leaving GA on the bench.

You're kidding.

If anything 4-0 flattered us.

7-0 wouldn't have been unfair, we were absolute garbage in every department except goalkeeper.

not being funny mate but how can you call yourself a Villa supporter with a comment like that?

Clearly you're a much better fan than me and a far better judge of a Villa performance. And for that reason I'm out.

clearly you are wearing beer goggles and not the good ones.

[Dave]

Well that was good, you fucking bottling arseholes

that is unfair in my opinion. Their 2nd goal was a wonder goal, how does that equate to bottling it? Arsenal have better players and we had tactics wrong like leaving GA on the bench.

You're kidding.

If anything 4-0 flattered us.

7-0 wouldn't have been unfair, we were absolute garbage in every department except goalkeeper.

Given was at fault for three of their four goals. He is as much to blame for today as anybody.

Yet also stopped it being six or seven.

There were two competent, but routine saves (Koscielney's header in the first half and a low shot in the second) that I remember.

It's a very Robert Green/Scott Carson argument though. Saving the ball once or twice doesn't make it ok that you weren't good enough to stop the three that you shouldn't have let in.

[Chris Jameson]

Finishing near the relegation places didn't stop Hull from giving Arsenal a game last season. It could easily have been more, the only bright spot was our support who did Aston Villa proud.