Aston Villa vs. Leicester City Post-Match Thread

[barrysleftfoot]

  Funny, i thought we missed Gil when he went off, i thought Westwood was a bit of a liability in the centre, not good enough going forward, poor defensively.

 I would have put Veretout and Gana in the centre, with Gil and Ayew wide.

 Need at least 7 wins, maybe time to play the 2 big guys up front.

[aj2k77]

What script is that?

[Toronto Villa]

What script is that?

the one where even when we do something good some will always look to point out the negatives or simply that everything is shit.

[jwarry]

I agree with Tom, bizarrely Rudy and Libor did link up well together. Have we stumbled on a solution?

[ozzjim]

We deserved more. I thought the fight and desire was there second half. 2-3 were below par - Veretout and Westwood for example, but we have so few options to change.

Desperately need 2-3 attacking options that can help us win games and score.

Overall though, Rudy and Kozak at home, why not.

[passitsideways]

Thought Gana was superb today, despite a couple of dodgy giveaways. Ran his bollocks off, took on every physical contest and made some extremely important tackles.

Kozak is quite shit, but at least he's a nuisance and gets himself into useful positions - maybe the goals come, maybe they don't, but at least he's there and about. If that penalty gets given, we'd be praising him more effusively, I think.

Rudy's best role (sadly) is probably what he did tonight, coming on after 60-70 minutes. That way, he can basically go full-pelt at everything - I mean. there was that one occasion where he actually looked kind of rapid. I think the same might be with Gil as well.

We so desperately need quality in wide areas, and unfortunately, I doubt we'll manage it. Then again, some talented wide player in France might be getting frozen out by his manager as we speak.

[Bad English]

I know our players are mostly not very good. I know that Randy Lerner has put us into a lamentable state. I think we are down.

Whatever. They tried today. Good 1-1.

[Toronto Villa]

The non penalty decision against for Huth on Kozak and possibly a red card was astonishing. How on earth was that missed or ignored?

[aj2k77]

What script is that?

the one where even when we do something good some will always look to point out the negatives or simply that everything is shit.

Err ok. That's life isn't it? Always at least one person with a different opinion to yours.

[TonyD]

First v bottom.   Didn't even look like that.   Excellent team performance.   Momentum is everything.  We ain't going down !!!!!!!

[aj2k77]

If the roles were reversed and Villa were top and Leicester were bottom the Kozak penalty would have been nailed on with a possible red card.

[CT]

Grealish should at least be an option to come off the bench - where was he tonight?

Out with tonsillitis.

Is she the barmaid from the "Lamb & Flag"?

[aj2k77]

Overall though, Rudy and Kozak at home, why not.

The first forward line this season that's resembled anything like a partnership. Thought they showed a couple of glimpses of playing of each other.

[onje_villa]

We were out fought completely in the first half. We upped our game in the second and once again we showed with a bit more effort and desire we can at least compete.
A draw was probably fair but we certainly had the shit end of the decisions. Kozak should have had a stone wall penalty.

MOTM was a toss up between Okore and Gana for me. Gana was imperious in the second half.
Gil couldn't cope with the pace of the game or Leicesters closing down.
Ayew was marked out the first half but found more and more space in the second. He works so hard. Another good display.

And who was this Gestede fella who came on? He looks useful.

To be honest, if we've got any hope, whatsoever of staying up I think we have to ditch the attempts at playing football. We're all fart and no shit. Gil isn't good enough to keep us up. Neither is Grealish. Beyond that we don't have playmakers. So I vote we go Pulis Stoke mode and play Kozak and Gestede up front with Ayew in a free role and three in midfield. Pelt in crosses and try a long game. To be fair Kozak and Gestede actually linked quite well. Kozak can actually read a flick on.
It's our only hope.
I hope we buy a decent winger in the window too. Failing that, it would be nice if Traore was fit for more than 10 minutes.

We're not good enough to play football. Get ugly. Lets fuck some fuckers. I think we looked more menacing playing two big bastards up front than we had done in the rest of the game. And whilst it's not pretty it actually registered more excitement than just watching us pass it along our backline. In this position you have to scrap your way out.

I have to agree with this. It's a 180 about turn for me, I must admit I thought we were quite decent technically prior to this match but if we're going to get any wins we have to be efficient. We are horribly inefficient at the moment.

[ciggiesnbeer]

The non penalty decision against for Huth on Kozak and possibly a red card was astonishing. How on earth was that missed or ignored?

The ref was very bad. He cost us two goals , I dont think thats an exageration either.