Bristol City v Aston Villa - Match Thread

[CJ]

H-T 0-0. Bruce rightly reacted to their dominance and changed formation but he shouldn't have gone back three in the first place. It wasn't broke so why try and fix it

[saunders_heroes]

Chester looks depressed having to take throw ins.

[taylorsworkrate]

Better once the bizarre 3 at the back experiment ended. Why oh why didn't we just start with the same formation as against Norwich?

[olaftab]

Well that was about 40 minutes of nightmare.

[Dave]

We look a different team now we've switched to a back 4.

Going from our half to their half once, is a slight improvement agreed.

[passport1]

At least the Premiership is back tomorrow and I will be able to watch footballers with technical ability.

[UK Redsox]

Play that formation without playing people out of position and it might be ok.

Watching from behind the goal allows me to see how badly Elmo is positioned when play goes down the left.

He needs to make runs to a more central area rather than hanging out wide

[jwarry]

Bizarrely I'm feeling confident after that

[taylorsworkrate]

Get Bree on for Terry and get Chester back in the centre

[Villa75]

Too many misplaced passes.

Not enough movement off the ball.

Players look anything but confident or comfortable - despite the last two results.

Poor.

[KRS]

Looked much better last 5 minutes.

[Richard]

With a few options on the bench we need to have a go in the second half I'm still optimistic

[maigrait]

Chester looks depressed having to take throw ins.

Thats because nobody makes themselves available. I would be too....

[PeterWithesShin]

Big positive is that we go in 0-0 having wasted so much of that half with a shit formation.

[taylorsworkrate]

Snodgrass must be an upgrade on Elmo surely? Elmo looks very average