Aston Villa 1 Knuckledraggers crawl back under their stones 0 Post match thread.

[villan from luton]

I find it a bit sad that we are having to debate whether we were better than them first half. Thing is they are shit and we should have gone for the kill from the start. We should not have to resort to comparing whether we are better than them

Nobody is comparing whether we're better than them because it's a given.

It should be, but wasn't at half time on Wednesday

So what? The way some have gone on you'd think no club had ever had a dodgy first half then improved as the match went on.

Tuesday by the way, so I messed up there lol.

It was a very dodgy first half, to say the least. Thankfully the tactics were changed and we started to play football the way the players in the team are suited to. Then we bossed the game

[dave.woodhall]

Credit to the manager for changing it then.

[villan from luton]

Credit to the manager for changing it then.

Much as I like the manager, no I would not say credit to him for changing it, IMHO he picked the wrong team to start with and the long ball tactic was wrong.

[dave.woodhall]

What caused the second half change then - mass hypnotism? You can't criticise him for getting it wrong in the first half without praising him for getting it right in the second.

[villan from luton]

Well he said Gabby was injured, so that was one of the subs. Clark had been awful at centre midfielder, it was not the game for him to be there. Even the manager said his intention was to stretch the game first half and it was deliberate to play long ball and then change it at half time, that was absolute nonsense. If that was his plan, he messed up, plain and simple.

[dave.woodhall]

Well he said Gabby was injured, so that was one of the subs. Clark had been awful at centre midfielder, it was not the game for him to be there. Even the manager said his intention was to stretch the game first half and it was deliberate to play long ball and then change it at half time, that was absolute nonsense. If that was his plan, he messed up, plain and simple.

You've just said that we bossed the game in the second half so I'll say it again - what was that down to?

[villan from luton]

I think I have already responded to that, do you think the manager was right in his tactics at the start? Do you honestly think his plan was like he said after the match? If so, do you think it was the correct way to go about things? I like Sherwood and think he can do a good job for us, but he needs to admit when he got things wrong.

[dave.woodhall]

I don't know what his tactics were all through the match and I don't care. Whatever was wrong in the first half he put right and we won with ease. I've seen us contain Manchester United or Arsenal for an hour then fail to live with their substitutions as they went through the gears in the final stages and this was much the same.

[villan from luton]

As I said, he said his tactics were to play it long in the first half and change it entirely in the second half. I agree substitutions can change games, but the tactics don't usually change so much at such an early stage. I think we all know what was wrong in the first half

[charlie659]

I fancy doing a bit of shopping today - is it safe to go into town yet, or are there still 'Blues everywhere'?

[saunders_heroes]

I keep hearing how well they played first half but I'm struggling to remember a decent chance they created. In fact they created just one clear cut chance in the whole match. Let's face it they were shit and we should have won by a lot more.
They should count themselves lucky.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

TS tried an approach in the first half that protected playmakers Grealish, Gil, a fragile Ayew etc, but had them on the bench if things didn't work out...we see "better" clubs doing exactly this whenever they play "lesser" teams, saving certain players from potential injury, especially with other crucial games coming up.
TS could see the "hoof it up to Rudy and Gabby" approach wasn't working and changed it.
It worked.
Credit to the manager for managing.

However, I hope he won't see this as a tactic to be employed in every game we play!

(Just been for my flu jab - the only nose in town was telling me how they were robbed on Tuesday, including by the ref... "what decisions did he get wrong then that robbed you?"..."all of them". Think he was having his annual injection of reality)

[villan from luton]

Maybe I wasn't talking nonsense, you maybe able to feck up against a pile of turd team, but not against a half decent team

[villan from luton]

I will again say I want Sherwood in charge but:
no long ball shit v turs teams
negatice tactucs v a a team in the same mess

[villan from luton]

Seems I was chatting shite eh, but as the song goes 2 out of 3 aint bad nut to be fair I don't want 2 or 3