Aston Villa v Nottingham Forest Post Match Thread

[villadelph]

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?

Of course it is.  I'm not enjoying it at all though.  6 points from 6 is shit, and we're a long way from being good enough.  Leaving aside Huddersfield, Newcastle are in the sort of groove that we just never, ever look like getting into.  Two games coming up where we should win them both, but almost certainly won't.

How could 17th in the Championship be enjoyable?!

[PeterWithesShin]

Not sure what Bunn was meant to do, the swerve on the first one would have beaten pretty much any keeper.

[pauliewalnuts]

The horrible realization that we're not going to get promoted this season. 😢

Check out where Burnley were at Christmas and their run of results second half of the season. Nothing is certain yet.

Burnley were 5th at Christmas. Hardly miles off it.

[django]

The horrible realization that we're not going to get promoted this season. 😢

We could scape our way into the play offs, then who knows. Our points tally doesn't really reflect our performances so far.

Realistically, it's looking unlikely that we'll go up this season.

[QuintonVilla]

Negatives:
Poor result
Poor attendance, has the novelty wore off already?
Poor atmosphere, crowd did nothing to lift the team
Grealish won't shoot
Gardner and Westwood are as much use as a Nun's tits
We're playing quite well and not winning which is a bad sign
Not taking our chances
Poor game management from RDM at 2-1 up
Forest are garbage

Positives:
Kodjia was very lively and reminds me of Benteke in the air
We're creating chances
Full backs looked ok
Ayew
On another day we could have won by 4 or 5 and you've got to think it will click soon?!


Big big game midweek against a side that have just won at Brighton. We must win that to stop the rot setting in and gain a bit of confidence.

[pauliewalnuts]

We should have scored five today. We didn't.

We should have shored up the midfield at 2-1 and seen it out. We didn't.

Forest were absolutely not worth a point, they were so poor. They got it though.

This is really going to have to stop pretty soon.

[Tuscans]

We will win this league.  There are no teams to fear and we are due a massive bucket full of good luck. 

That's the spirit

Some team is going to take an almighty bladdering soon. We won't go forever being this unfortunate in front of goal. How many times have we hit the woodwork this season? I bet it's more than we have in the past two.

Exactly. Watching other teams so far and there's some real junk playing in the league. I can see us grabbing 4 plus goals in a few games, there's a team in the making here once everyone is fit and firing.

[Keeno]

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.

How can you say that when a team with Westwod and Gardner in created 20+ chances and with better finishing / luck could have scored 4 or 5 goals?

Because in the most crucial moments of the game, they didn't do what was required, ie put a cynical challenge before those runs/shots could even begin. Watch the first goal in particular, the Forest man before playing it into Vellios runs through both of them after they put in paper-thin challenges. It's useless them doing all that work and then not knowing when to just have a bit of know how to see the game out. That is what wins league titles, and hopefully Jedinak will bring that. But we need to see it! We need to see it soon, because while I agree that if we come good by November we'll be absolutely fine, we don't want to leave ourselves with too much to do.

[PeterWithesShin]

Poor attendance? Over 30K for a live game on TV at a shit KO time when we've won 3 league games in 12 months?

[Tuscans]

To be honest, there's obviously some sort of witch's hex on us, so it probably doesn't matter who we play in midfield. You can't fight hexes.

Even if you have the Elder Wand?

[Keeno]

Poor attendance? Over 30K for a live game on TV at a shit KO time when we've won 3 league games in 12 months?

I know! And the atmosphere was pretty damn good considering for the first hour the game was incredibly flat, and then we managed to balls it up at the end.

[Tuscans]

The horrible realization that we're not going to get promoted this season. 😢

We could scape our way into the play offs, then who knows. Our points tally doesn't really reflect our performances so far.

Realistically, it's looking unlikely that we'll go up this season.

We can still win it man, there's about 90 games in this league, 6 a week.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

How we didn't win that I'll never know.

Why we stopped playing they way we were after going 2-1 up was very stupid.

Should Bunn have saved the first goal?

Awful defending for their second.

More pissed off today than away at Bristol. We should've won that.

[enigma]

The more things change, the more they stay the same. There were positives and if we continue to play like that sooner or later someone will take a hammering. We still look a long way off Newcastle and Huddersfield though, and that's depressing in itself. Not being as good as Huddersfield shows just how far this club has fallen.

[curiousorange]

I think, minute for minute, we're the unluckiest team in the country. I'm not sure what's worse - that or being the shittest. Neither seems particularly enjoyable.