Aston Villa v West Bromwich Albion - Match Thread

[ez]

What have we become? I think I'd take a draw now.

[pauliewalnuts]

Shots on target: 0

Marvellous.

[taylorsworkrate]

any critique of that half has to be tempered with howpoor west brom are.

That speaks volumes about us

[Ads]

This is one of the poorest displays I've had the misfortune to attend since... I'd like to say a long time, but it's not.

Utter fucking shite. We have no width. None. Their back four is tucking in narrow, condensing the space between the defence and midfield who are completely outnumbering us. Their midfield becomes a 5 and we are looking to play through a quagmire. Utter shite.

Westwood has been woeful. Always lets his man run off him. Sanchez is doing the work of two men and is up against three.

Fucking woeful.

[villadelph]

It's nice that occasionally we can pass it around a little bit and what not, but I am sick to the tits of losing matches. It's just nowhere near good enough, and hasn't been for several years.

They're now going to park the fucking bus for 45 minutes and render the second half entirely predictable.

Sherwood needs to start producing something to back up the all the talking he does, because this is just shit week after week.

Especially after losing the way we did to Lesterr. You think they would take some initiative and turn up today. Quite the opposite. Don't have a good feeling about the second, but what the hell do I know.

[Quiet Lion]

We are thoroughly shit aren't we

Well, no. I don't think we are. This is a pretty close game I think, and we've been playing some decent stuff and have conceded a pretty unfortunate goal.

Our record is shit, but we're currently doing OK.

Glad you can take the positives from that 45mins

[PaulWinch again]

Pretty grim stuff.

[mr underhill]

when I said mediocre I was trying to put a positive spin on things. Which is hard.

[taylorsworkrate]

Amavi was so weak for the goal. Downing esque level of bottling a tackle

[boboonthecorner]

Who wouldve thought our defending would be worse once Lambert left? With the lack of goals in our forward line we could be fucked by Xmas.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Hopefully Sherwood will bring Sinclair on second half. Hoofing it up to Gabby is making it very easy for Albion to defend. The same goes with high balls into the box. Albion are very compact so we need to explore other options.

Very open game, either team could have gone in one up but Albion created more chances so probably deserve it if you had to give it to one. Shocking defending from Amavi and the defence again doesn't fill me with confidence.

[Steve R]

They are bigger and stronger than us, and that is about it. Hoofing the ball up towards Gabby isn't that useful a tactic. So far only Gil has looked worth a place.

Maybe a proper central midfielder in Sinclair's position would help. Ayew would be lost in this game, the only alternative to Gabby is Gestede.

Puke.

[mrfuse]

Sadly this game shows why Pulis is a far better manager than Sherwood.  They look organised with a proper plan.  We look a disorganised rabble.

I don't think we look disorganised at all. Quite the opposite, really. The second half last week against Leicester was disorganised.

Would you really swap Sherwood for Pullis though? I couldn't bare to watch a Pullis team for a full season.

[boboonthecorner]

Hopefully Sherwood will bring Sinclair on second half. Hoofing it up to Gabby is making it very easy for Albion to defend. The same goes with high balls into the box. Albion are very compact so we need to explore other options.

Very open game, either team could have gone in one up but Albion created more chances so probably deserve it if you had to give it to one. Shocking defending from Amavi and the defence again doesn't fill me with confidence.

I thought Sinclair started?

[citizenDJ]

Hopefully Sherwood will bring Sinclair on second half.

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