Aston Villa vs Arsenal Post-Match Thread

[Clark W Griswold]

I can not believe what aston villa have become . No character ,mentality or leaders from top to bottom. We are the kwik save  of the league and looked what happened to kwik save.

Yes randy you have become the kwik save of the premiership and what a season to take us down.

Bit harsh on kwik save that.

Yeah, I think of us more as 'Costcutter'.

[VancouverLion]

Hutton whilst not the best player in the world to his credit looks like the only player who gives a shit!
And why it seems every manger uses him as our one attacking outlet I'll never know.

An absolute shambles from top to bottom, we're down now no doubt about it and so we should be. Crap.

[Steve67]

Ramsey wins a tackle just outside his box, races 70 metres to get on the end of the pass from Ozil to score. Just watch the Villa players. They couldn't give a shit. Wasters. Crap performance, again.

[VinnieChase84]

The problem we have is that half the team do not give a shit about this crisis. They know com August they will be sold and won't play championship football. It they all had clauses that locked them into their contracts in the result of relegation then I'm sure we would be seeing a different attitude.
We are gone

[Fin Feds Dad]

Soon be over now .

[Warren Aspinall]

With the points we've got at least we'd pass a breathalyzer

[sirlordbaltimore]

Down by February so at least we wont have to endure the agony of it dragging on until May like usual.

90% dismal today with a small smattering of promising moments. It's just not happening whatever side we put out is it?, it just wont click at all. Traore comes on makes one great run that has everyone on their feet then goes and arses about on the touchline and completely makes a tit of himself a minute later. That pretty much summed up the day for me.

You can already feel the inevitability of relegation in the Witton air. Both in the stands and on the pitch. If a new manager coming in can't pick the players and their individual efforts up what can?

[SashasGrandad]

2-0 up against the team 6 pts adrift at the foot of the table, who can't score and they put 11 of their players in their 6 yard box for our corners. Two dubious decisions led to their goals.

They would still have won easily anyway -  but they will never in my view be seen as a great team.

[PeterWithesShin]

Only saw it at the time but it was right in front of me and I didn't think it was a foul for their second. Replays may show it was though.

[Ron Manager]

Well we arrived late and left early.It was more or less what we expected it to be. We do not have enough players of a sufficient standard to stay up Anybody who thinks the Championship will be a doddle is a fool. You need a certain standard of player to do well in that league and a suitable manager.

Why the current manager didn' play Kozak and Adama from the first whistle astounds me.

[CT]

This "New Manager bounce" thing, when's this happening then?

[Proposition Joe]

Not the worst performance this season by any means, but we gifted them an easy win as per the norm.

However, we are not going down because we lose to Arsenal 2-0 at home.  We're going down because we lose at home to Stoke, West Brom, Watford, throw away 2 goal leads at Leicester etc etc.

[Witton Warrior]

When the Holte End start laughing at their own players you know the game is up
The song comparing Alan Hutton to Messi was good though - is AH now an ant-anti-hero?

Several people today saying whatever the outcome of this campaign they are not having season tickets as they just don't trust the club and are bored - can't disagree really

First half they gave us the runaround and could have had a couple more - second half we huffed and puffed but have no killer edge - Rudy did well I thought winning well over half his headers and then fluffed his lines when the goal beckoned - Traore is entertaining but we just look a million miles away from scoring ever again...

[onje_villa]

Shit first half, much better second half if a bit toothless. Gil is our best player and should start every game. We need a proper right back and at this point I'd rather stick a promising kid there than Hutton on the basis that he may be able to defend without fouling and also cross a football. Traore is raw and at times bizarre but look at how he lifted the crowd! Start him. We either need to give Ayew a proper go up front or buy another striker in Jan. Veretout is a really good footballer in a bad side. I personally think he will be awesome next season in a better side, sadly don't think it will be ours. Okore will get better with more games.

100% agree.

[onje_villa]

Thought we were the better side second half. Gestede and Sinclair missed good headed chances which they've got to take against a side like Arsenal.

Agreed. I totally, completely and utterly agree with everyone despairing but that performance (particularly second half) wasn't anywhere near as appalling as people are making it out. The problem is we're completely toothless up front and are a bag of nerves at the back.

I certainly don't join others in completely slating the team for a lack of fight. We clearly lack experience and leadership but the likes of Ayew and Veretout ran all day long.