Aston Villa vs Newcastle Post-Match Thread

[charleeco7]

Shit for 65 minutes but we finally showed a bit of character with the comeback and in the end we could have won. Hope he's now stumbled across his best side.

[paul_e]

Shocking first half. Poor tactics, poor shape, no intensity, faffing about in dangerous areas. Newcastle could easily have been out of sight but for good goalkeeping by Gollini when we'd presented them with a one-on-one, and miss of the season in the second half. Changing the shape and bringing Tshibola and Gestede on made us an entirely different proposition in the second half so fair play to RdM for recognising his mistake and rectifying it. We've got several players who can take players on - Tshibola, Kodjia, Ayew, Adomah - and then players who have difficulty doing the basics - Jedinak in particular had a mare. If only we'd started the game the way we played in the last 20 minutes we'd have got a better result than we did, but in the end we deserved a point.

Couple of things - haven't seen any replays but 1) was the disallowed goal off-side, and 2) should we have had a penalty or was it a dive?

And at last they've opened Park Circus access to the Expressway/M6 so getting back after the game was back to normal

1. About half a yard off so can't have many complaints.
2. Probably not a pen but not a dive either.  It's the sort of thing that you see given for clubs who have everything going their way but clubs who are struggling never get.

[myf]

Looked like a pen to me on the highlights. Goes past the defender and he sticks his body in the way taking Tish down

[tomd2103]

Shit for 65 minutes but we finally showed a bit of character with the comeback and in the end we could have won. Hope he's now stumbled across his best side.

Not sure how it cam across on TV, but the atmosphere in the ground really cranked up for the last 20 minutes or so as well. 

[Tuscans]

I really like that Holte End cam they do. Watched the reaction from the crowd and some of the stewards and it wipes out the dross of the first 75 minutes...for a while.

[PeterWithesShin]

Kind of reminded me of the home game against them the first season under Lambert. The second half then seemed to turn our season around, hopefully this will have the same effect.

[eamonn]

Great to see Rushian make a cameo, after his fine performance for the reserves the other night. I thought Di Matteo wouldn't be brave enough to put him on but he looked good and despite losing the ball a couple of times, he had the pace to fight for it back.

[Louzie0]

Shit for 65 minutes but we finally showed a bit of character with the comeback and in the end we could have won. Hope he's now stumbled across his best side.

Pleased with this - it is another draw but the resilience we were hoping for is beginning to show.

[charleeco7]

Shit for 65 minutes but we finally showed a bit of character with the comeback and in the end we could have won. Hope he's now stumbled across his best side.

Not sure how it cam across on TV, but the atmosphere in the ground really cranked up for the last 20 minutes or so as well. 

It certainly did and I thought the catalyst for that was Ayew, who decided to turn up and grab the game by the throat. It was terrible before that but then do was the play.
I did think Amavi did well going forward at times, even when we were poor

[DeKuip]

A good point won, early days in a very long season. I'm looking forward to the two away trips this week and must say I'm really enjoying this league. It's much more fun going into every game not knowing the result.

[brontebilly]

Play 3 in midfield with Ayew and Grealish either side of Kodja - McCormack Adomah and Gestede to provide bench firepower.

Have a feeling Baker and Chester will be our best centre half combo.

I can't see Rdm dropping Westwood which means the midfield has to be constructed around him.

The alternatives in midfield are not great...

It's really worrying that we haven't improved one iota. Can't believe RDM went with 3 at the back again after the pathetic effort at Ipswich. The man really hasn't a clue.

Can only imagine how he will try and shoehorn McCormack and Grealish back into the side v Barnsley. I'd give Amavi another chance but not sure he deserves it and I don't rate Cissokho at all. Elphick is struggling but think he will be fine with 4 at the back. Ayew hasn't scored in 10 league games which is a worrying run.

--------------Gollini
Bacuna, Elphick, Chester, Amavi
Westwood, Jedinak, Tshibola
Ayew, Kodija, Party boy

[KevinGage]

Shit for 65 minutes but we finally showed a bit of character with the comeback and in the end we could have won. Hope he's now stumbled across his best side.

His best side might differ from game to game.

Three at the back was OK away against Ipswich, but wasn't OK at home today.

The eleven that finished the game today might not be the best eleven to start against Barnsley. We need to be flexible enough to mix it up and make changes when plan a isn't working.

Thankfully he made alterations today and got us back into the game.

The Rushian is raw, but a tiring Newcastle backline absolutely shit themselves when he was going one side and Ayew was opening them up on the other.

[olaftab]

Slowly changed when Tsibola came on. We can't go into a games with a mid 2 0f Westwood/ Jedinak again. Wrap Tsibola in cotton wool.

Fixed.

[charleeco7]

I really like the air of arrogance RHM seems to have, watching him warm up in front of us it didn't seem like anything fazed him.

[tomd2103]

Play 3 in midfield with Ayew and Grealish either side of Kodja - McCormack Adomah and Gestede to provide bench firepower.

Have a feeling Baker and Chester will be our best centre half combo.

I can't see Rdm dropping Westwood which means the midfield has to be constructed around him.

The alternatives in midfield are not great...

It's really worrying that we haven't improved one iota. Can't believe RDM went with 3 at the back again after the pathetic effort at Ipswich. The man really hasn't a clue.

Can only imagine how he will try and shoehorn McCormack and Grealish back into the side v Barnsley. I'd give Amavi another chance but not sure he deserves it and I don't rate Cissokho at all. Elphick is struggling but think he will be fine with 4 at the back. Ayew hasn't scored in 10 league games which is a worrying run.

--------------Gollini
Bacuna, Elphick, Chester, Amavi
Westwood, Jedinak, Tshibola
Ayew, Kodija, Party boy

Swap Adomah for Grealish and I would probably go with that as well.  I worry about Amavi's defending, as watching the goals on Channel5 earlier, he got caught out again for their goal, so would maybe replace him with Cissokho.