Aston Villa v Hull City post match thread.

[eamonn]

I think the near misses that Green has had in almost scoring his first goal for the club might be playing on his mind a bit. He's been very close a few times now. Hopefully once the first goes in he'll lose a bit of anxiety. His miss was quite impressive, you'd never have bet that he'd win a corner from that position if you paused the action as the ball came across to him.

For all the "Bruce makes us sit back for the second half", it's worth remembering that the opposition's manager will clearly be laying into his players at half time and demanding they be more aggressive with the ball. It's not like we're playing in a vacuum. Plus teams will usually have a spell of dominance in games even when being on the back foot for long spells. We do need to learn how to deal with that better though, both from the players on the pitch and through Bruce's "in-game management" which has been said, is not pro-active enough.

Unrelated but the two managers in a wrestling contest would be quite the spectacle. Maybe pitch it to Netflix so they appear in the next series of Glow(is that what it's called?).

[Exeter 77]

I think we lost something after Whelan was booked and he had to be more restrained when tackling and this was a factor in the build up to Hull's goal.

[eamonn]

He shouldn't have been diving in and losing possession so sloppily, then.

[saunders_heroes]

I like Green, he gave us a spark when he came on yesterday which is what we needed to get us going again. He should have buried his chance though.

You're probably right. I'm just seriously pissed off he didn't score that piss easy chance and win us all 3 points.

[Chris Smith]

There was something for everyone yesterday. What happened after half time will give fuel to the people who have decided that Bruce is the wrong man for the job. The performance in the first half offered encouragement to those with the opposing view. Overall we created enough chances to have won comfortably.

[Risso]

There was something for everyone yesterday. What happened after half time will give fuel to the people who have decided that Bruce is the wrong man for the job. The performance in the first half offered encouragement to those with the opposing view. Overall we created enough chances to have won comfortably.

They ended up with more chances than we did.

[ez]

There was something for everyone yesterday. What happened after half time will give fuel to the people who have decided that Bruce is the wrong man for the job. The performance in the first half offered encouragement to those with the opposing view. Overall we created enough chances to have won comfortably.

Yes we had enough chances in the first half to put the game out of Hull's reach but the second half issues should still be addressed regardless.

[wittonwarrior]

Oh the goal we conceded -  just seen it again on Channel 5 -how  many chances did  we have to  cut it  out and where was Hutton.

I can  cope with a missed header the other end but our supposed organised defence let us down on that one occasion.

[SoccerHQ]

Did we actually create that many chances first half.

Gabby should've buried his one on one but we scored two minutes later regardless. After that Hogan bulldozing through was the only one clear one unless I've erased some already.

Hull should've equalised at the end of the first so warning sign right there.

It didn't quite compare to Huddersfield home last season when we really did batter them for 45 minutes and should've been 4-5 up.

[saunders_heroes]

Oh the goal we conceded -  just seen it again on Channel 5 -how  many chances did  we have to  cut it  out and where was Hutton.

I can  cope with a missed header the other end but our supposed organised defence let us down on that one occasion.

The mistake for the open goal was far worse than than the goal we conceded.

[saunders_heroes]

Did we actually create that many chances first half.

Gabby should've buried his one on one but we scored two minutes later regardless. After that Hogan bulldozing through was the only one clear one unless I've erased some already.

Hull should've equalised at the end of the first so warning sign right there.

It didn't quite compare to Huddersfield home last season when we really did batter them for 45 minutes and should've been 4-5 up.

Hogan should have had 2 goals first half in my opinion.

[SoccerHQ]

Yeah he had another crossshot that looked like it was drifting in but replay showed it was going quite a bit wide before Dawson I think hooked it clear.

Hogan's shaping up to be one of those nearly strikers for us. I still have hopes he can contribute more than McCormack but he just can't get on a role here, always hitting the keeper whereas he'd roll them in the corner for Brentford.

We really need Kodjia back.

[olaftab]

Yes score able chances wise
Gabby
Hogan x2
Lansbury x2
Green

[olaftab]

It's one of life's great mysteries how Bacuna is still an employee of Aston Villa.

No mystery he has a contract and no other ***ker wants him.

[SoccerHQ]

Yes score able chances wise
Gabby
Hogan x2
Lansbury x2
Green

Green was second half. Neither of Lansbury chances made the TV highlights so they can't have been that close.