Aston Villa v Nottingham Forest Post Match Thread

[villadelph]

Snatching a draw from the jaws of victory.

Can't stand watching this any more.

The level of aggravation week in-week out just does my head in.

RDM really needs to learn how to make this squad successful, and fast.

[Dave]

Kodjia looks the part at least.

[PaulWinch again]

So bloody frustrating. However a couple of positives, we played pretty well for a whole 90 mins today and Forest somehow scored to wonder goals.

We're getting there and RDM should have solidified the midfield at 2-1.

Kodjia looks great.

[DB]

We need to start taking our chances, be a more direct.

[Keeno]

The naivety is simply staggering. Jedi is ON THE BENCH. Obviouly not fit to start, but the final 10 minutes after we went up?? BOTH of their goals were born from the midfield being weak as ditch water. The same problems over and over and over again, with the exact same results.

[Richard]

Two negatives : 4 out of 7 league goals conceded this season in the last ten minutes, and the chances missed again !

Mostly positive about the rest so I ain't getting down just yet.

[Toronto Villa]

We did so much right aside from scoring 8 or 9 goals our play deserved

[Risso]

Usual fucking story, how much longer do we have to put up with this level of shit?  Two shots from them, two goals, and terrible mistakes and defending in both cases.  Not even close to being good enough.

[kippaxvilla2]

Get Jedinak in for Westwood get Tahibola in for Gardner and start seeing games out and we wil do okay. Keep persisting with them and we will be an average championship team.

[Tuscans]

Easily more positives than negatives. They will click, I see 3 points Tuesday.

[Deano's Mullet]

Absolutely gutted. Was going mental at 2-1, haven't celebrated like that since the semi-final two seasons ago, just to score two really quickly. And then they score the second of two unstoppable goals and gain the most unlikely point. We'll be ok this season when it does gel but at the moment Huddersfield and Newcastle look a long long way off catching. On another day we'd have scored a few more if not for the woodwork. Is it ok to say despite only one win i'm still  enjoying this season?

[passitsideways]

I suppose the optimistic view of things that it's all a matter of developing a winning mentality now - clearly, we have the talent going forward to create a shedload of chances, and our defence looks okay, and should be better once Jedinak and/or Tshibola are protecting it.

Of course, the way it looks right now, that part might never come.

[aj2k77]

6pts from 6 games is definitely not good enough. There needs to be more urgency to our play, too much of it in the middle is going nowhere, there's no threat out wide so everything comes through the middle all laboured as two of our worst players happen to be the midfield.

Disappointing as well to see us fold and concede late, again, and also tactically we should have threw on the additional midfielder when we got our noses in front to stiffen things up instead of continuing with 5 attacking players, knowing how mentally weak we still appear to be.

Watch the two goals from Forest and it's blindingly obvious that the teams achilles heel is the heart of the side in the middle, we need to get Jedinak and Tshibola up to speed asap because Gardner and Westwood even at this level are poor. The two of them directly involved in the first we conceded one playing a terrible ball and the other being pushed out of the way and beaten when a stronger midfielder would have broken up the play there and then. He's a little girl. We need a tough bugger in there.

Very disappointed, same old same old again.

[Grande Pablo]

I think we think that we can outscore teams, which is crackers.  Ayew slows attacks down sometimes, which is a real bad habit.

[Bad English]

Average Championship teams finish twelfth.