Aston Villa v Reading Post-Match Thread

[auntiesledd]

Bacuna and Amavi want culling.

The pair of absolutely useless, talentless, chronic shit.

You cannot gift 3 goals like that. It's fucking baffling how bad they are and how consistently they get picked.

Being embarrassed by that dreary shower at home, fucking shocking.

Hopefully Dr X will sort out a laughably large fee with a Chinese club for the 'services' of Amavi. God alone knows who'd be crazy enough to want the grinning knob 'ead with the stoopid haircut, mind. Maybe a BOGOF deal could be sorted somehow?

[mr underhill]

total shite and I really don't know where we go from here - a massive clear out needed in the summer. It still might be too early, but Hogan looks lost, Kodjia was clearly carrying the injury, Hourihane and Ange anonymous yet again,  Amavi and Bacuna beyond awful. Finish the season badly and Bruce is going to be under huge pressure to get off to an absolute flyer come August otherwise it's another cheerio.

[Ads]

Hourihane's cross for Kodjia, when he should have scored, was exquisite.

Doesn't matter what you do in the game when you defend as badly as that. Absolute gifts of goals.

[andyh]

Reading could easily have scored 7 today.

[SoccerHQ]

Typical end of season on the beach nothing to play for performance.

Also probably the worst collective defensive performance I've seen from us all season, all three goals conceded were bad individual mistakes.

I think it sums it up that two players I thought would be major assests for us in this division if you'd asked me in September would be Grealish and Amavi. One can't even get in the team and the other had his worst game for us by a mile and I would sell if anyone offered over 10m this summer.

Didn't understand the starting team either, we desperately need another wide player as an option if Bacuna is going to be tried as one again, where was Green?

I haven't been bothered about our results for a while now, it matters in August and well today we saw we're still short of what we need to be a pacesetter from that month.

[mr underhill]

Hogan had a really good chance from where I was sitting and blew it - Kodjia's chance from the Hourihane cross was a lot harder imo

[papa lazarou]

Dreadful performance. Add Adomah to the cnut book.

[john2710]

Reading could easily have scored 7 today.

I'm sorry but that's absolute nonsense. We made more mistakes than them, they punished our mistakes.

[London Villan]

They created one chance without our assistance. We were poor and didnt take our chances.

[Richard E]

Strange game. Real end of season feel to it. Reading weren't two goals better than us but they took their (gift wrapped) chances and we didn't take ours. The referee was terrible today.

[CJ]

That was so poor words fail me. Turn up like that next week and the unthinkable will happen.

[olaftab]

Bacuna and Amavi want culling.

You can add Hourihane to that list IMO.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Lowlights..

[andyh]

Reading could easily have scored 7 today.

I'm sorry but that's absolute nonsense. We made more mistakes than them, they punished our mistakes.

They scored 3.
Johnstone made 3 good saves, and they missed 2 or 3 easy changes.
They could have scored 7.

[peter w]

Well this is why I said two weeks ago that the way we play we could just as easily lose the remaining games as much as win them. We just a bang average mid table side that looks solid when we win but poor when we lose.