Aston Villa v Nottingham Forest Post Match Thread

[Villatillidie25]

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.

Like, smiley face etc.

[mr woo]

Hmmmmmmmm.

Did enough to have won the game 6-0 in all honesty. Any week now it's going to click, every chance will be converted and we'll score a hatfull. 

Kodjia had a good game and Adomah should bring a bit of welcome width.


Negatives...

The usual.    Westwood is the wimpiest player we've had since Downing.  You can get away with that out on the wing but not in the centre of the park.  I'd put him down as a large contributory factor in both their goals today. Hes a tidy player but has no bite whatsoever.  How he brainwashes successive managers to get in the side I just don't know.

And RDM.   Not sure how much the substitution went towards our goals as we were already noticeably on top despite conceding but with 15 minutes to go we needed to strengthen up the midfield and he didn't do  it. Yet again. That worries me.

[Steve67]

Played well enough but didn't win. That's how it goes sometimes. Robin Hood is alive and well. We will take time to get all the little things right but I saw enough today to be optimistic of at least a play off place. I would have liked Jedinak on for McCormack after we went 2-1 up but we were just as likely to score again as concede. Kodjia looked good as did Ayew and Grealish. Central midfield will be better with Tshibola and Jedinak in there.

[kippaxvilla2]

Why do we stop playing when we go ahead as well?  We were playing brilliantly when we went 2-1 up then just stopped the momentum as soon as we scored.

[brontebilly]

Unfortunately the main fault for dropping two points today is RDM's. Agree with the general view that Jedinak had to come on when we went 2-1 up. Look at Mccormack's effort to stop their guy on that run. Jedinak stops that run by fair or foul means.

Thought we played very well in the second half against an admittedly poor Forest team. Ayew was outstanding running at Forest and made both goals. Kodija looked very lively and Gestede was decent too when he came in. Very frustrated to be dropping more points against such a poor side but on another day we could have scored 5 or 6 in the second half.

Negatives include Chester for both goals, Gardner getting harshly criticised for the first one. Also thought our full backs didn't offer any width in the first half. Grealish flattered to deceive a bit today. Goal aside I wasn't impressed by McCormack in the slightest.

Gollini 6, De Laet 7, Elphick 7, Chester 5, Cissokho 6, Gardner 6, Westwood 6, Ayew 9, Grealish 6, Kodija 7, Mccormack 5. Gestede 8

[TonyD]

Bristol and Forest were terrible and we get one point.  Going to get murdered by a decent team.

[Ads]

This is actually worse than last season being terminally shit. We're shovelling sides for large portions. And then we throw it away, either through our only mistake of the game or through stupid naivety.

Honestly, we've not played anybody who borders on the impressive and yet time and again we conspire to chuck it away. Forest were absolutely diabolical and yet they score twice.

I cannot fathom why Jedinak didn't come on. RDM you have cotton wool between your ears.

[avfcpg]

Bristol and Forest were terrible and we get one point.  Going to get murdered by a decent team.

No we won't...and there aren't any much better than us in this league.

[SoccerHQ]

Bristol and Forest were terrible and we get one point.  Going to get murdered by a decent team.

No we won't...and there aren't any much better than us in this league.

Newcastle will be a hard one. Would be happy with a point from that. We really need to start winning the games either side of that....Brentford, PNE, Ipswich etc.

To get automatic promotion is 80 + points. We need 25 wins from remaining 40 games.

We need to win games consistently sooner or later.

[Goldie.7]

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.

I checked them out, our game Wednesday was their fourth straight win. They also won another five games between then and November 3rd, then some poor results but still remained 5th till the start of 2016 and then it was a clean sweep of wins.

You could easily say their form wasn't too shabby before going into the new year, c'mon four straight wins? If we were seeing those kind of results by this time Wednesday night even I'd be going mad on here.

[TonyD]

Bristol and Forest were terrible and we get one point.  Going to get murdered by a decent team.

No we won't...and there aren't any much better than us in this league.

Unless we  stop making mistakes and do the basics right, we are going to lose more times than not.  Time for RDM to smell the coffee.

[Ads]

Today should have been our 5th straight win.

[Tuscans]

Bristol and Forest were terrible and we get one point.  Going to get murdered by a decent team.

No we won't...and there aren't any much better than us in this league.

Newcastle will be a hard one. Would be happy with a point from that. We really need to start winning the games either side of that....Brentford, PNE, Ipswich etc.

To get automatic promotion is 80 + points. We need 25 wins from remaining 40 games.

That's very, very doable.

[ozzjim]

As frustrating as it is a bit of luck today that game ends 4 nil. Their first is a fluke hot that goes in once in a blue moon ams their second takes a bobble off Cissokho. Other end it goes out of play but our luck dictates it goes to them.  Add in 2 more off the woodwork and some saves others won't make from their keeper, and the missed chances, we are bloody cursed. No side in the division can have come close to the amount of woodwork we have hit this season. 

Only big failing today beyond the chances going begging was the Sherwood esque lack of shoring it up.  Even a centre half coming on would have protected us more.  Idiotic from RDM

[avfcpg]

Bristol and Forest were terrible and we get one point.  Going to get murdered by a decent team.

No we won't...and there aren't any much better than us in this league.

Unless we  stop making mistakes and do the basics right, we are going to lose more times than not.  Time for RDM to smell the coffee.

The blokes had 6 games!! We are possibly the unluckiest team I have ever seen (post, bar, deflections, off the line etc), he hasn't fielded his first choice 11 yet, we've not been outplayed by anyone, battered the top team for 60  mins and are two wins off 2nd place....frustrating yes, panic, no.