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

[LTA]

The only thing I can say is that at least Lerner doesn't have a trophy to gloss over his utterly shit tenure here.  I hope he enjoyed his jolly up with the dignitaries on the royal box while club he's destroyed were embarressed on the field.  Just sling your hook.

[Clampy]

It was just such a disappointment after all the build up. We were so poor and they should have scored more than they did. Like 2000, one to forget.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Sorry, Robbo but N'Zogbia has been shit since we've signed him. Just because in the last few months he hasn't looked 'as shit', doesn't mean he isn't shit. I'm struggling to think of a Villa player in recent times that's got away with so little for so long.

[john2710]

We all knew beforehand that we needed to be at 100% & Arsenal at 80% if we were to have a chance. Sadly it was the other way around.

Our support was incredible & everything was perfect until the match started.

Thought Given, Richardson, Vlar & Okore were the only ones to have any sort of performance. Everyone else were simply not good enough today. Give credit to Arsenal they were exceptional.

Benteke showed why none of the top 4 will be looking at him.

With hindsight Sherwood got the selection wrong, but I don't think it effected the result.

[django]

We all knew beforehand that we needed to be at 100% & Arsenal at 80% if we were to have a chance. Sadly it was the other way around.

Our support was incredible & everything was perfect until the match started.

Thought Given, Richardson, Vlar & Okore were the only ones to have any sort of performance. Everyone else were simply not good enough today. Give credit to Arsenal they were exceptional.

Benteke showed why none of the top 4 will be looking at him.

With hindsight Sherwood got the selection wrong, but I don't think it effected the result.

Agree with that except I don't think today's performance wod put people off Benteke. He didn't get any decent service and was isolated. He was shit as well but I don't think it would put people off him.

[Axl Rose]

I know how Leeds must have felt that in 1996 now. It was that bad.

That's spot on.

I agree, though I know what Deano is saying-just that feeling of watching your beloved team get a thrashing in a big game.

Okore did the best he could, as did Richardson. The latter has gone up into opinion more than any of the team after the final and semi final.

My first class on Monday morning is with two Japanese Arsenal fans. They're both smarmy pricks at the best of times. By midday I could be unemployed.

Incorrect. We were worse than Leeds.

[Axl Rose]

The only thing I can say is that at least Lerner doesn't have a trophy to gloss over his utterly shit tenure here.  I hope he enjoyed his jolly up with the dignitaries on the royal box while club he's destroyed were embarressed on the field.  Just sling your hook.

Yes, what a twat.

[The Left Side]

Everything in the preparation for the final was great, the only thing and sadly the crucial thing we lacked was the performance.

[Steve kirk]

Had to get up, that non performance keeps going round and round in my head, fuckin hell Villa.

[passitsideways]

Having thought about it, I think I'd differentiate "lack of fight" from other mental attributes such as guile, composure, adaptability. I don't think we were particularly short of the former, at least until Mertesacker's goal: there was plenty of hard work, scrambling, desperation stuff (and even after that we mustered one and a half good penalty shouts.) But we were devoid of absolutely everything else, most importantly quality.

So really, I'm disappointed not because they were necessarily gutless, because I don't think they were; it's more about just how hapless we looked, evidenced in having something in the region of no shots on target

[OzVilla]

The thing I really noticed almost immediately was the pace that we played at. I had thought we'd need to play a really high tempo game where we broke well and used width, get amongst them. Instead it was at best pedestrian.

Whenever we tried to play a short, passing game the move broke down within seconds, the ball never seemed to move more than a radius of 20 yards. Arsenal on the other hand stretched play and were able to knock it about at will pulling us all around the pitch. They weren't just better they were embarrassingly better.

I can barely recall us winning a 50/50 and Arsenal seemed to win every second ball so they we able to keep applying the pressure when in the same (rare) circumstances we had possession on their final third we never did.

Never in my wildest nightmares did I think I'd be spending today mulling over whether 2015 would be on a par for shiteness with 2000.

[Le Lapin]

I was embarrassed for us yesterday.  We looked so slow, so predictable.  Les Arse stroked the ball with accuracy and speed, we did neither.  A few players I wouldn't mind never seeing in a Villa shirt again,  Nzog, what a waste of space,  Gabby,  too many years coasting it at the club,  Vlaar,  the World Cup was as good as that guy is ever going to be,  not a good centre back. Westwood,  not good enough.  All the players Lambert brought in last summer with the exception of Cleverley,  but he will probably go to Everton,  and who would blame him. There are more,  but I couldn't be arsed trying to think about them now.  Our club is in deep shit.  Without significant investment we are going to be in the relegation quagmire (gigidy) again.

[Richard E]

The thing I really noticed almost immediately was the pace that we played at. I had thought we'd need to play a really high tempo game where we broke well and used width, get amongst them. Instead it was at best pedestrian.

Whenever we tried to play a short, passing game the move broke down within seconds, the ball never seemed to move more than a radius of 20 yards. Arsenal on the other hand stretched play and were able to knock it about at will pulling us all around the pitch. They weren't just better they were embarrassingly better.

I can barely recall us winning a 50/50 and Arsenal seemed to win every second ball so they we able to keep applying the pressure when in the same (rare) circumstances we had possession on their final third we never did.

Never in my wildest nightmares did I think I'd be spending today mulling over whether 2015 would be on a par for shiteness with 2000.

I don't think there's anything you'll need to mull over. Yesterday was way way worse.

[Stu]

4-0 was crushing.

The team clearly weren't up for it from the start, they looked so unmotivated. This was our biggest game for years, our second cup final in 58 years, and they were shit. They can all fuck off, the useless wankers.

[Richard E]

Couldn't believe the number of Arsenal fans who left before the Cup was presented! What a wunch of bankers.