Aston Villa vs Preston North End Post-Match Thread.

[SoccerHQ]

I could understand the team at Fulham but yeah tonight picking so few attacking players for a home game we need to get back on track in didn't really make sense.

Grabban on the right....really?

[QuintonVilla]

To me that's a point gained.

We were poor after the first ten minutes, PNE were pretty decent and I've said most of the season they'll nick sixth.

Never a penalty, even the Holte didn't seem that hopeful.

We desperately need Albert and Jack back.

7 points really needed from the next three games.

It will be a point gained if Derby and Cardiff lose tomorrow. That won't happen. We could be 4 points behind a bang average Cardiff side tomorrow night.

[ChicagoLion]

He picked a bad team for the second game running

We simply have to:
- get more pace in the side
- get more creativity in the side
- drop hourihane and probably Onomah
- play Bjarnason deeper
- play a target man whilst grealish is out
- give Jedinak a rest

It just seems really obvious to me

He has the squad to do all of that and more.

[Clampy]

I can't say I was overly impressed with the line up or the performance although we did look a bit more confident after we got the goal. Not seen the pen back yet but I didnt think it was at the time. I'm just glad we got a point out of the game.

[SoccerHQ]

To me that's a point gained.

We were poor after the first ten minutes, PNE were pretty decent and I've said most of the season they'll nick sixth.

Never a penalty, even the Holte didn't seem that hopeful.

We desperately need Albert and Jack back.

7 points really needed from the next three games.

It will be a point gained if Derby and Cardiff lose tomorrow. That won't happen. We could be 4 points behind a bang average Cardiff side tomorrow night.

It's a point gained simply due to a very average performance for 70 minutes. Yes we'll have to see what the others do but we should've lost tonight so could've been even worse.

[David_Nab]

From the highlights we looked the better team ..

Regardless the problem we have is with Grealish / Adomah and Kodjia out we suddenly look devoid of creativity ..how is it we have 4 players who can play RB 4 players who can play DM but no one to play at 10 if Grealish is out ?
Lansbury seemingly is just making up the numbers on the bench so why is O'Hare not there ? I look at the our midfielders and I don't see any of them able to really dictate play they are all tidy enough but don't control games as we are now seeing.

Bruce and his staff really need to look at the 2 games we have played and come up with something more attacking for our next games.

[AsTallAsLions]

Shit selection choices, shit tactics, shit result?  I'm surprised

[Keeno]

I think, considering the circumstances, that's a decent point.  Plenty of football yet to be played.

I agree with this. As shit as we were in the first half, we did fairly well to get back into the game in second and could possibly have nicked it at the end. The confidence will definitely be higher after a 1-1 from behind, can take positives going into the weekend. It's only February, there's still a huge amount of points left to play for. We were missing our three best attacking midfielders this evening and it showed - as it would with any team. Get them back + maybe a late cameo from Kodj for the run in and I'd still back us. 

[eamonn]

Preston really put the willies up us so a point is as much as we deserved. Can you see us beating at least two of Wulfs/Cardiff/Derby/Leeds at home? I dunno.

[QuintonVilla]

Preston really put the willies up us so a point is as much as we deserved. Can you see us beating at least two of Wulfs/Cardiff/Derby/Leeds at home? I dunno.

Playing how we did tonight and Saturday? None of them. The Wolves game won't be pretty, I think they'll run us ragged.

[SoccerHQ]

Bjarnason showing how good Grealish has been in that role recently. The number of times he received the ball 30 yards from goal, turned into trouble and lost possession cheaply. Grealish is a big miss for us.

Thought Bjarni was good first half, hit an excellent long range shot and was finding space well. Second half he started losing the ball and crowd were on his back. Far from our worst player though.

[SoccerHQ]

It is. We've got nothing, absolutely nothing.

How are we going to score at Wednesday? What's our plan? Absolutely fucking desperate. That was the reaction to Fulham, be even worse.

The inability to keep the ball, pass, move, cross. It was eye bleedingly bad. But that's the best we can put out.

We're not going to get 9 more wins out of 13. 2nd has gone. If we're still in the top 6 come May I will be surprised as I cannot see us scoring a goal a game let alone enough to actually continue to challenge.

We're done. And what comes next season is the oblivion of a financial reality. Fuck off Villa you useless c***s.

Haha has a PNE fan on the M6 nicked Ads login or something..

Adomah and Jack will be back soon so all is not lost.

[SoccerHQ]

Grealish and Adomah not expected to be fit for Saturday according to WM. Fuck sake.

Keeping Adomah on just to score v SHA looks like it's going to hurt us in the long run.

How did Grealish get his injury, he looked fine walking off so assume he picked it up in training?

Can see Saturday being another horrible draw.

[Des Little]

Bruce was a lucky man tonight. That performance was utter pish - PNE will be wondering how the hell they didn’t win. How quickly our recent confidence has disappeared.

[ChicagoLion]

It is. We've got nothing, absolutely nothing.

How are we going to score at Wednesday? What's our plan? Absolutely fucking desperate. That was the reaction to Fulham, be even worse.

The inability to keep the ball, pass, move, cross. It was eye bleedingly bad. But that's the best we can put out.

We're not going to get 9 more wins out of 13. 2nd has gone. If we're still in the top 6 come May I will be surprised as I cannot see us scoring a goal a game let alone enough to actually continue to challenge.

We're done. And what comes next season is the oblivion of a financial reality. Fuck off Villa you useless c***s.

Haha has a PNE fan on the M6 nicked Ads login or something..

maybe Fan not a Bluenose  nicked his laptop.