Ipswich v 0 shots on target Villa Post Match thread

[tomd2103]

As soon as I saw the lineup with 3 CBs in I thought 'oh no'. It just screams of the manager losing confidence already in himself and the attacking principles he seemed keen on. We were playing Ipswich, with the players we've got and having spent £50m we should be letting them worry about stopping us, not filling our team with defenders to combat what they've got.

RDM has a couple of games to get us going and get a win for me, 3 max as then we hit the International break.

To be honest, I felt that on Wednesday night.  Moving Kodjia out on the wing seemed a really strange move and it smacked a bit of changing things for the sake of it.  To completely change formation today is another concerning sign.

[aj2k77]

There will be another one next Saturday, today was shit he won't go wingbacks again, expect 3 in the middle with Wingers instead and 4-5-1 Kodjia alone upfront if McCormack is injured.

[Tuscans]

Considering Villa have been crap for a good 5 years now, eventually resulting in relegation, I never expected it to change overnight or even during a summer of mass overhaul at the football club. On that basis with it only 40 days into the season I actually think to some degree these string of draws are actually a positive, they feel better than 11 loses in a row did.

I still want to see how we set up and perform with a fully fit squad and settled 11, another 7-8 games for me and then I'll pass judgement.

[adrenachrome]

Considering Villa have been crap for a good 5 years now, eventually resulting in relegation, I never expected it to change overnight or even during a summer of mass overhaul at the football club. On that basis with it only 40 days into the season I actually think to some degree these string of draws are actually a positive, they feel better than 11 loses in a row did.

I still want to see how we set up and perform with a fully fit squad and settled 11, another 7-8 games for me and then I'll pass judgement.

Good call.

How many times had the back 4 on Wednesday night played together? New central defensive partnerships are notoriously fragile.

What RDM needs to address right way, however, is fannying around at Villa Park. The natives just will not have it.

[castlefields_villan]

I just feel that IF we can beat Newcastle next week in what is becoming an increasingly important game the last couple of drawn games won't look so bad and maybe we can start to build.  I know it's early days and we're disappointingly a bit off the pace, but as mentioned earlier I think we need to give RDM another few matches before we can really decide where he's taking us.

[OzVilla]

See where we are after we've played Blose. Thats 3 months in and around 14 games.

Saying that zero shots on target against Ipswich is phenomenally poor. Ive taped it but i'll not bother now.

[Tuscans]

See where we are after we've played Blose. Thats 3 months in and around 14 games.

Saying that zero shots on target against Ipswich is phenomenally poor. Ive taped it but i'll not bother now.

Watching the game it did feel like we had about 15 shots that were all smashed into an Ipswich defender. Call it good defending or poor shooting ...

[Tuscans]

Considering Villa have been crap for a good 5 years now, eventually resulting in relegation, I never expected it to change overnight or even during a summer of mass overhaul at the football club. On that basis with it only 40 days into the season I actually think to some degree these string of draws are actually a positive, they feel better than 11 loses in a row did.

I still want to see how we set up and perform with a fully fit squad and settled 11, another 7-8 games for me and then I'll pass judgement.

Good call.

How many times had the back 4 on Wednesday night played together? New central defensive partnerships are notoriously fragile.

What RDM needs to address right way, however, is fannying around at Villa Park. The natives just will not have it.

I get the negativity but I always had the understanding most supporters say, "Give a manager 2-3 seasons to build his team", that would be 4-6 transfer windows. Does that change if you do all that in one summer?

I listed to Talksport after Utd lost to Feyenoord and 2 supporters called in to say Mourinho has to go ... I guess that's where we are with some people.

[ROBBO]

After watching the replay I wasn't as despondent, Ipswich have a good defence and only played one up front, they crowded their penalty box so a lot of blocked shots. I have changed my mind about getting rid of the manager and now think we have to give this team time to settle and get to know each other. Gollini has to learn to come for balls, twice he put the defender under pressure because he stayed on his line.

[pbavfckuwait]

The two points that stick out to me today and to be fair most of this season, point 1, is our total lack of ability to move the ball at speed and I think the two main culprits of this, are probably the two players we hang most of our hope on, Ayew and Jack, Ayew seems to run up blind alleys and when he occasionally gives the ball as he should, the other players are not on the same wave length, Jack always seems to need to cut inside or take two or three extra touches, he never releases a quick precise ball.
Point 2 which only 8 games in, is even more concerning, is the seemingly lack of passion, involvement of not just RDM but Clark as well, yesterday the only one that seemed to be given players any direction was Bond, yes I know you dont need to be a raving, jumping up and down nutter on the touch line, but there seems to be no connection there at all.

[PeterWithe]

The highlights. Such as they were.

http://www.skysports.com/football/ipswich-vs-a-villa/358202

Fuck me, was that it. One shot wide?

[MonsXI]

The posters going on about 0 shots did you all watch the game? I'm guessing not! As Tuscans has mentioned we had plenty of shots charged down by a team who were all to happy to sit with everyone behind the ball bar Pitman.

I honestly think with Mccormack fit we may have had more chance of opening them up,.

Im in no way trying to gloss over a dire game but Ipswich are no mugs  judging by thei results and personally will take a positive from the game that we didn't concede in the last five despite heavy pressure.

Onwards and upwards really looking forward to the geordies next Saturday, Wolves have shown the way yesterday RDM take note!

[Clampy]

So today didn't work, what's the formation we try next week? 7 days to conjure something else up.

A manager changes his teams formation. How dare he, hang him.

[PeterWithe]

How did Amarvi play? On the basis of his performance in the week he was very lucky to get a place in the team and not cast off into the reserves. Or space.

[phantom limb]

The posters going on about 0 shots did you all watch the game? I'm guessing not! As Tuscans has mentioned we had plenty of shots charged down by a team who were all to happy to sit with everyone behind the ball bar Pitman.

I honestly think with Mccormack fit we may have had more chance of opening them up,.

Im in no way trying to gloss over a dire game but Ipswich are no mugs  judging by thei results and personally will take a positive from the game that we didn't concede in the last five despite heavy pressure.

Onwards and upwards really looking forward to the geordies next Saturday, Wolves have shown the way yesterday RDM take note!

I watched the game and lost count of how many blocked shots we had against an incredibly defensive team, so I'm not sure where the zero shots on target has come from. At least we didn't concede late on and nobody got permanently injured.

I often thought that Westwood gets unfair stick about standing around and pointing instead of tackling people, so I made an extra effort to watch him during this game and can confirm that this is indeed mainly what he does, and him standing around pointing almost cost us a goal a couple of times. Wouldn't mind if he got dropped forever.