Aston Villa vs Man City Post-Match Thread

[pav]

Well that was one hell of a back pass

[saunders_heroes]

Fuckin hell that was comical defending. Also thought Guzan should have done better with the first goal.

[ChicagoLion]

When you see that defensive line up including Guzan, it is hard to work out what any one including Garde could expect.
We threw that game with that selection.

[aj2k77]

First goal - Clark caught ball watching as his man peels away from him round to the back post, forward shows more desire to slide in and put the ball home. Shit defending.

Second goal - Full back caught out of position, defender done for pace. Goon commits blatant push at the back post. Shit defending and also the midfield very slow to close down the player playing the through ball. Guzan does his usual flop to the floor the wrong way on a penalty. Have we ever had a keeper worse at saving penalties than this shiny domed gimp?

Third goal - Sums up 99% of the corners we've taken for years. Bloke who kicks a ball like a child can barely get the ball off the ground. It's headed out to Gana who turns and plays a backpass that barely reaches our own half nevermind the goal keeper. Guzan as per is beaten in a simple one on one.

Fourth goal - Terrible pass in the first place from Clark go Gana who is under pressure, he panics and can't control a sack of cement. Midfield are lazy and no one tracks the runner who goes through and Guzan makes a save. The ball is in the air and someone pulls out of the challenge, might be Veretout with his hands pulled in like a girl afraid of spiders. Chance is missed, ball falls to 2 Man City players who are fighting each other to put in the coup de grace. No Villa players have tracked back or are contesting it.

All round bollocks from all 11 on the pitch. The midfield don't escape either, for the money we've paid for 2 of them the effort is fucking shocking.

[Rigadon]

Jeez.   That 3rd. 

[CT]

Those final two goals, oh my days.

The white flag really has gone up from the top to botoom of this club.

Said it before, just play kids from now on - the can't be any worse and surely they can't have the poisonous attitude that some of our so-called "stars" have.

[aj2k77]

The goals look like when the bigger kids play the little kids at school and just steam roll through them whilst the little kids try their hardest to not get hurt or bring any attention to themselves. Pathetic.

[jwarry]

Just watched the goals, fucking embarrassing. Stats say we had 57% possession bizarrely?!?

[peter w]

Sounds like a good one to miss

Without a doubt. Although it was almost worth it for 3rd. I'm struggling to think of a worse goal i've seen us concede in my 40 odd years of watching us.

Worse than Sunderland's 3rd? I haven't seen the goal so genuine question.

The goals are on the BBC website if you want to suffer them

Fuck me there was some poor goals there. First one, why was it Ayew closest to Kelechi when he scored? Second I didn't think was a pen. Third, terrible pass from Gana but why did it take Cissokho so long to react? 4th, just all over the place.

[PeterWithesShin]

Just watched the goals, fucking embarrassing. Stats say we had 57% possession bizarrely?!?

For large parts we were the much better side in the middle third. The problem was how bad we were in the other two. When they won the penalty i'd be surprised if we weren't close to 80% possession at the time.

[Legion]

Words fail me for their third goal.

[Stu]

Obviously dismal, Villa board how about you start funding the improvement of the playing squad properly.

Not going to happen unless we sell. Sadly, we've sold our one big money asset and bought a few on the back of that who might leave when we're relegated. I wouldn't expect any significant investment from here on in.

[rougegorge]

A lot of possession in non threatening areas, and a midfield that cannot create or make runs. You could permutate any out of Westwood , Gana, Veretout, Gil, Sanchez, Bacuna and Grealish and the net effect would typically be the same.

I don't think any of the team are good enough for getting us out of the championship either in terms of ability or application and none of them demonstrated much of either today.

[olaftab]

Well the third goal was just a mistake nothing more. We played very well in patches but it was men against boys most of the game I am afraid.

[aj2k77]

Obviously dismal, Villa board how about you start funding the improvement of the playing squad properly.

Not going to happen unless we sell. Sadly, we've sold our one big money asset and bought a few on the back of that who might leave when we're relegated. I wouldn't expect any significant investment from here on in.

The only one that will garner any attention I would expect to be Ayew, who himself has only been average to good. All the other buys have had many more poor games than they've had decent ones and wouldn't get anything like what we've paid for them.