Aston Villa vs Arsenal Post-Match Thread

[Clark W Griswold]

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

Bozzie used to be pretty good at that.

[Rudy65]

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

Disagree

Watch how he ball watches and fails to track back for their second. Awful. Not fit to wear the shirt

[auntiesledd]

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

But unlike the his abject tenure at The Browns, he can - and will - get the The Villa relegated.

[Richard]

The other thing about Sanchez is his increased play acting, rolling around every time he's fouled

Better than Westwood yes but we need an upgrade in his position

[CJ]

I agree. It's got to the point for me that I just hope we don't break yet another record this season - being relegated with the fewest ever points

[Bad English]

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'.

I see us as the Key Market Kops.

[Rudy65]

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'.

I see us as the Key Market Kops.

The difference is that the owners of Kwik Save made a fortune. Randy hasnt and wont

[fooftat]

AND...Newcastle equalise against the spuds - :-(

[Clark W Griswold]

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

Disagree

Watch how he ball watches and fails to track back for their second. Awful. Not fit to wear the shirt

Yeah, I noticed it too and thought he was poor today. I've always thought there's a good player in there and that he'd come good but I'm starting to wonder if he'll ever really quite get on the pace. I also think with 3 in the middle the protective player isn't quite so important because you have the numbers in there and I think a player who can get forward and join attacks might be more important to us.

[ChicagoLion]

Didn't think we played that badly overall. If the ref doesn't change his mind about the pen, then we may well have gone in 0-0 at half time and who knows? I thought bringing on Grealish and leaving Traore until the last 5 minutes was a waste of time.

In ClampyLand we won 3-2. In the real world we lost again and are heading out of the league.

[claret and blue blood]

It's now got to the point where we don't bother analysing the game on the way home as we knew what happened was going to happen on the way to the game.
Disappointing that Garde seems to be as cautious as Lambert was in the end after only 5 games.
Sherwood got the results he did last season by throwing caution to the wind ( admittedly with better players)
So why does this guy not have a go?
Sending Traore on with 5 minutes to go was a joke and persisting with Just head who missed a good chance from a cross just defies logic.
Al in all can't see where the next win is coming from and it's very sad and embarrassing.

[ez]

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

Disagree

Watch how he ball watches and fails to track back for their second. Awful. Not fit to wear the shirt

We had 4 players goalside when that break started. Only 1 tracked back.

[Rudy65]

The other thing about Sanchez is his increased play acting, rolling around every time he's fouled

Better than Westwood yes but we need an upgrade in his position

Apparently he marked Messi out of the Copa America. Never seen any such form for us

[manic-road]

The other thing about Sanchez is his increased play acting, rolling around every time he's fouled

Better than Westwood yes but we need an upgrade in his position

We need an upgrade in every single position, it aint gonna happen for a while though with those muppets running the club.

[Lastfootstamper]

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

Disagree

Watch how he ball watches and fails to track back for their second. Awful. Not fit to wear the shirt

Yeah, I noticed it too and thought he was poor today. I've always thought there's a good player in there and that he'd come good but I'm starting to wonder if he'll ever really quite get on the pace. I also think with 3 in the middle the protective player isn't quite so important because you have the numbers in there and I think a player who can get forward and join attacks might be more important to us.

Frustrating player, Sanchez. In mere moments, he can go from looking like an established international midfielder with poise and power, to a bloke who doesn't know which way round his own feet are.