Aston Villa vs Arsenal Post-Match Thread

[PeterWithesShin]

At least the weekly cock up by Sanchez didn't cost a goal today. #signsofimprovement

[Goldie.7]

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.

Correct. Too many of our players are lazy twats who don't want to press. See other teams around us (or were) fighting, pressing, getting in your face. I saw Hutton do it once but that was only because he just gifted them a goal.

[villadelph]

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.

Could've gone to Leicester.. 

[mr-villa]

Did anyone spot that Cech had his slippers on and a copy of the Sunday times?

Yeah so did Guzan cos he had fuck all to do all day too, can't remember him having any significant saves to make either.

[Toronto Villa]

At least the weekly cock up by Sanchez didn't cost a goal today. #signsofimprovement

Nope, Same applies for Guzan, Lescott, Hutton...

Scratch the last one

#silverlinings

[andyh]

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.

That was after we had robbed the ball off them and broken ourselves.
But, our break was 2 players running at Arsenal, with very little support and no one busting a gut to get up with play.
Consequently, our break, fizzled out to fuck all 20 yards from goal.
They broke, and had 4 men pressing on our back line within seconds, a second or two more the ball is in the net.

[mr-villa]

Collectively they were pretty terrible, we still seem disjointed, flat and with no plan. I didn't think invididually anyone was too terrible although it was one of the poorest performances from Sanchez who was no protection and Hutton was bad first half. One positive is that I thought Okore and Lescott largely did well when called upon, maybe we finally might have a reasonable pairing there.

Must have been watching a different game than me then mate the only thing Hutton got wrong was one moment against the fastest player on the park Walcott.  Did you have your eyes closed when Lescott made that rickett in the penalty area towards the end of the game, he never seems to want the ball and doesn't know when to go in for the tackle and when to stand off and defend a player.

[Toronto Villa]

there is still no effective runner coming through the middle to join the attack, and we have no presence at all in the middle of the attack (If you can even call it that). And against the counter we look flat footed every single time. A disaster awaits with every new attack.

[four fornicholl]

I cant bring myself to accept relegation yet we haven't even got to Christmas yet
if we find a will there is a way
UTV

[Clark W Griswold]

Collectively they were pretty terrible, we still seem disjointed, flat and with no plan. I didn't think invididually anyone was too terrible although it was one of the poorest performances from Sanchez who was no protection and Hutton was bad first half. One positive is that I thought Okore and Lescott largely did well when called upon, maybe we finally might have a reasonable pairing there.

Must have been watching a different game than me then mate the only thing Hutton got wrong was one moment against the fastest player on the park Walcott.  Did you have your eyes closed when Lescott made that rickett in the penalty area towards the end of the game, he never seems to want the ball and doesn't know when to go in for the tackle and when to stand off and defend a player.

No I didn't have my fucking eyes closed, that's why I said 'largely'. Hutton hardly passed it to a Villa player in the first half or did you have your fucking eyes closed? He was much better second half and I admire his effort.

[auntiesledd]

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.

You also need a Chairman/Owner who gives a toss about their football club and works hard to ensure the whole organisation is geared to achieving success on (and off) the park. The complete shambles of the last 5 years will continue in The Championship next season - and beyond - all the time we have a completely disinterested idiot 'fronting' our club. It could get very ugly indeed if he doesn't sod off soon: & may well do even if he does! It's all so fecking depressing.

[sirlordbaltimore]

I always feel Hutton often gets a free get of jail card as he clearly does try. He does put in a shift

Sadly he hasn't got any quality to go with all the effort

[CJ]

Atmosphere as flat as the team today - when there's chants of 'is this a library' when we're playing Arsenal you know things are bad. Can't be arsed to post anything about the team. When Kevin Friend is the ref you just know there'll be some very weird decisions. In spite of being close to 'the incident' he didn't give anything until he saw the lino wave his flag from 40 yards away. For the second goal I thought we should have had a free kick in the build up, but hey-ho, that's just papering over the cracks. We're shit and we're going down.

Lerner has done to us exactly what he did to the Cleveland Browns, and that Browns fan's excellent rant applies as much to Villa as it did to the Browns. Factory of sadness indeed

[auntiesledd]

Did anyone spot that Cech had his slippers on and a copy of the Sunday times?

Yeah so did Guzan cos he had fuck all to do all day too, can't remember him having any significant saves to make either.

Apart from doing his weekly routine of picking the ball out of his net at least a couple of times...

[Richard]

Another thing about Guzan when did he last save a penalty ? Or any Villa keeper for that matter