Aston 'where will it all end' Villa v Middlesvilla Post Match Thread.

[Nastylee]

Is there an interview anywhere yet?

[PeterWithesShin]

Top video for his post match interview https://www.facebook.com/pg/avfcofficial/video

[manic-road]

Is there an interview anywhere yet?

On Facebook

[QuintonVilla]

If we were any good, despite the weather, against a fancied side, with Villa up in the top six, I think there'd have been well over 30k there tonight.

Easily. Sky and everyone on Twitter raving about Leeds having 31,000 there tonight, they're a one club city who were going top of the league. If we were in the same position we'd have had 33k/34k+.

[andyh]

People talking about the fact we created chances tonight....I should fucking hope so, we were playing against 10 men for more than 60 minutes.
And even then, they were not well worked chances, they were made from lucky bounces and ricochet's.
And let's not forget, our goalie saved us yet again with another top quality save when Boro went through and had a decent shot.

For most part again, we were slow, ponderous and lacking imagination.

I sincerely hope we hear tomorrow that Bruce has been relieved of his duties.

[Risso]

Not the worst we've played all season and should should have scored twice, but in the context of the season another 0-0 at home is nowhere near good enough. The set up in the first half was all wrong. How Bjarnason started ahead of Adomah I will never know, he's a miserable excuse for a footballer.

[taylorsworkrate]

Barnsley beat Derby 3-2 in the League Cup.  That's not going to be easy on Saturday evening! Just saw the Hourihane/ Hogan comedy on SSN - you couldn't make it up! Lansbury deserved a yellow at most for that challenge.

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Nah deserved red for Lansbury. Its the sort of challenge I hate, the cheating, cynical challenge that cretinous pundits describe as "taking one for the team"

Its fucking cheating and id be all for them being straight reds all the time

[PeterWithesShin]

No way was the Angie challenge a red, stupid and cynical definitely, and the kind of challenge i'd like to be an automatic red but you very rarely see them given.

[paul_e]

From those highlights I'd say both red cards were harsh and that, of the chances they showed only 2 of them are ones I'd expect us to score, the one off the bar and the one Hogan cleared, all the others are reasonable chances but the players never looked like they expected to score.

[Toronto Villa]

I can't comment on how we played and it's a shit result in the circumstances

But it did sound like we could have easily had three or four today

We really couldn't have.

Well as I say above we hit the bar, hit our own man on the line, Bjarnason missed a sitter, hogan missed a sitter?

I was one of the very last defenders of Lambert on this site so I know how you feel, but I really think you're backing the wrong mule here.

I'm not a big fan of Bruce and his style of play

If there's a better option I'm up for it

I'm not sure who that is at the moment

And I'm not blaming Bruce for Lansbury being an idiot, or us missing some absolute sitters

Sky, the E&S, Mail and other sources all say we missed a catalogue of chances. I'll watch the highlights in a bit and make my own mind up

To be honest I'm partly just reacting against the match thread which was just preposterous

It's going to be easy to point to those chances. Undeniably we were somewhat unlucky at times. But for the vast majority we looked again a team in a coma. We amble around no real decisiveness or penetration. Lacking ideas, getting trapped in tight spaces because we are too slow to exploit the spaces or don't have players who can exploit the limited spaces we create.

Tonight Bjarnasson and Taylor had absolute nightmares. Davis looked like a lumbering oaf up front. Kodjia isn't fit and Hogan is lost up there. John Terry has to wonder what on earth he signed up for. The aggressive, combative cock of a footballer is dead and this is now a retirement gig before he hangs it up.

I hope they end this for Bruce. He doesn't have a clue how to fix it and we need new ideas.

[QuintonVilla]

Whoever scouted Bjarnason should be sacked immediately. He isn't a footballer, he's just a bloke in a football kit.

[rob_bridge]

At least Lansbury has now actually done something in a game.

We're really going to miss him.

Lansbury. Who is he? Does he play for Villa.

[Nastylee]

Just seen Bruce. Keeps saying we have the makings of a good team but we rarely field the same team for two games. What is our best team Brucie? Maybe a little unlucky tonight but you could argue the first half was wasted by ploughing on with the starting formation.

[rob_bridge]

26.6k there tonight.  Signs that support is dwindling again.

Thats a fucking great crowd considering.

Considering Everything.

[taylorsworkrate]

No way was the Angie challenge a red, stupid and cynical definitely, and the kind of challenge i'd like to be an automatic red but you very rarely see them given.

They should be given as reds imo. I hate them challenges. For me its as bad as diving which should also be a straight red