Aston Villa vs. Leicester City Post-Match Thread

[class-of-82]

Leics was happy for us to have the ball as they know we didn't have the nous or know how to play the type of footie garde wants us to play.
Soon as we fucked up they was spraying the ball forward for vardy and that's all they got nothing more and teams are sussing them out.
So going with the Kozak rudy option takes away that possession type footie that is not going to get us out the shite.
It might not work but it created mayhem at times in the defence that was top of the league

[jembob]

Nice reading, particularly the last sentence. IMO we have, with an unchanged team, out-fought two of the hardest working teams in the division within five days. Remi seems to have got to them somehow.

The fan beasting at Wycombe has probably helped too.

[Chris Smith]

We are getting there. Almost certainly too late for this season but Garde is giving me hope that he can get us playing. He seems to have sorted the wheat from the chaff and those wearing the shirt are giving it a proper go.

[footyskillz]

Why after upteemth set plays did Leo Bacuna not get on them ahead of veretout. Veretout was very poor yesterday with sloppy passing and poor delivery only twice did he whip in to decent plays.
Lescott on whole was steady and okore too but were wanting along with Bacuna for the okasaki goal. Bunn is clearly to me second rate and has little business in the team so the quicker a gk is signed the better.
Kozak lacked conviction for finish after huth mistake but won many a flick. He's also tentative physically , perhaps from his horrific injury, but was often out muscled. Libor did lumber around with some purpose.
Ghana was better second half after being sloppy first and there were parts of play which were encouraging. It's always exciting watching ayew but would like to see more drive from others. At time there were some nice, decent patient play but lack of quality and creativity saw amount to nothing.

[Ron Manager]

Veretout was off his game yesterday for the first time in weeks.Hopefully he will be back on it for the WBA game.

[FrankyH]

Rest him for the Wycombe game, he looked  tired.

[Clark W Griswold]

Veretout was off his game yesterday for the first time in weeks.Hopefully he will be back on it for the WBA game.

I thought he was far better than Westwood and Gana first half but they were quite a bit better than him second.

I thought we battled really well particularly second half and deserved the point against what is currently a good team. Keep it up and it will at least not look so embarrassing at the end of the season and may give us a bit of hope for next.

[SW9-VILLA]

If we had 1 or 2 players with a bit of quality yesterday we could've won it. Just didn't really have anything in attack to cause too much trouble for them. Can't knock the workrate tbf. It's all a bit too little late too late for me still.

[Sexual Ealing]

Surprised by the lack of Bunn-love here. The penalty save was what turned it for us.

[LeeB]

I'm flabbergasted by the amount of people suggesting we give a Kozak-Gestede strike partnership a proper whirl. I refuse to see a 20 minute cameo that was semi-effective against a Leicester side dropping deeper and deeper as reason to unleash the slowest and most technically inept forward line in the league.
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Unless our tempo improves Villa will continue to be a comfortable opposition for teams.

Time and again this season Villa have barely laid a glove on sides with the such slow build up in our play.

With whats available to Garde at the moment, whats wrong with giving them both a go with Ayew buzzing around behind them?

 Especially against big physical fuckers like the Baggies.

Personally, I thought we conceded midfield once we went with those two, which wasn't a major problem as they'd took a forward off to bring a defender on and their game bypasses midfield.

Against anyone else I think we'd be in big trouble.

[john e]

Surprised by the lack of Bunn-love here. The penalty save was what turned it for us.

as the self appointed bigest fan of Guzan on here,
 I think Bunn has had three good games for us on the trot, in fairness he hasn't had an awfull lot to deal with but he's done well imo

I was particularly impressed with the way he handled/punched the corners away at Wycombe, their corners were the best and most dangerous we have faced this season

I'm not saying he is the goalkeeping future at Villa, but he is better than I thought he was after his earlier efforts

[SW9-VILLA]

Surprised by the lack of Bunn-love here. The penalty save was what turned it for us.

Agreed. Would've been an entirely different game if they'd put that pen away.

[class-of-82]

How can anyone say a player (bunn) is second rate if he is never given a chance.
You surely have to give them that chance and make a decision after so many games, someone somewhere had to give Cech,de gea etc a chance

[Risso]

I've watched it back, and the decision not to give the penalty for the foul on Kozak is really pissing me off.  If we'd have beaten Leicester, it would have given us a huge amount of confidence, and of course 6 points from safety looks a lot different to 9.  We've been crap enough ourselves without shite referees making it harder for us.

[olaftab]

Surprised by the lack of Bunn-love here. The penalty save was what turned it for us.

Everyone loves Bunns.