QPR vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[olaftab]

did our neil taylor play tonight ? just like to keep tabs on his progress back . want him to be in tip top form ahead of the wales game against denmark in a few weeks time .

MOTM. You can have him for Cardiff in January for £10m.

I would say he is the best leftback playing in English football since Ashley Cole.

[Nii Lamptey]

Positives:
Jack’s back - best performance of season by far!
Kodjia was lively (without really threatening)
McGinn is back, but felt he tailed off a little and needs to whip those corners in!
Tuanzebe - quickly becoming our first (and probably only) choice cb

Negatives
Chester - looks a husk of the man he was last season
Neil Taylor - I’ve given him the benefit of the doubt till now, but he is bloody awful isn’t he!
Tammy - control the soddin ball when holding it up please!
Dean Smith - Whelan sub impacted game.... maybe should have risked it with Angela instead?

On the whole, team performances ARE improving, but until we can fix defence in Jan, we’ve just got to hold in there.... stay in touch of playoffs

[olaftab]

i hope chester is solid as a rock he's been that for us the last few years

Lately he has been quite solid, solid as a rock made out of cotton wool.

[rougegorge]

I would play Jedinak in front of the back 4, given their propensity to mess things up. He may not have the legs or be up to any new system in the long run, but he did well last season there and is a much better bet at the moment.

[SoccerHQ]

did our neil taylor play tonight ? just like to keep tabs on his progress back . want him to be in tip top form ahead of the wales game against denmark in a few weeks time .

I thought Giggs had stopped calling him up?

[kippaxvilla2]

not sure of your replys lads but an in form taylor is good for us

i hope chester is solid as a rock he's been that for us the last few years tho he missed a sitter from 2 yards out against ireland a few weeks ago

i guess your all p*ssed off with losing tonight . it's ok i,m  used to it with us in the prem . liverpool tomorrow oh lordy

Dinas, not the right time and not your fault for asking.  The replies are sarcastic because quite frankly Taylor has been excruciatingly awful for us for some considerable time.  But, in his defence, there is a view that he hasn't been the same player since the Coleman tackle.

[black pearl of inchicore]

did our neil taylor play tonight ? just like to keep tabs on his progress back . want him to be in tip top form ahead of the wales game against denmark in a few weeks time .

MOTM. You can have him for Cardiff in January for £10m.

I would say he is the best leftback playing in English football since Ashley Cole.

He's a Complete Pr**k.....totally Useless with a Football

[kippaxvilla2]

Oh and Chester is competing with him to be the worst defender we have currently.  But this is probably down to the fifteen changes of defensive partners he has had this season.

[Dinas_Caerdydd]

i wish i hadn't posted now .

was hopeing for some more positive tones that you lot are saying.

on a positive note noticed we went up to 18'th in the world rankings tonight 

[kippaxvilla2]

On Taylor, Burnley will probably snap him up in January and he will go onto have a stellar PL career.

[kippaxvilla2]

Dinas, things are very tense here at the minute.  16th in the Championship and possibly worse by the end of the weekend wasn't quite in the original script.

[black pearl of inchicore]

Hope Smith see's the Pile of shit he has to deal with Sooner Rather than Later...
Nyland
Taylor
Whelan
Kodija
Elmo
Bolasie
Hogan
Hourihane
Hutton
Bree
Jedinak
Adomah

Fair Collection of Rubbish there..........Stealing A Living Aswell.....

[Dinas_Caerdydd]

kippa i understand. when warnock took us over we were langishing in the bottom  3 of the championship and look we are now . i don't want to comment on villa things as we are now in the prem but only interested in the wales players i,m sure you'll understand . must be hard when brum are above you in the league tho . it was the same with us when swansea were in the prem

[footyskillz]

Much better performance wise and encouraging signs .
Very frustrating not to score goals tonight and win the match.
Dominated the ball and can see the plan and systematic idea in place .
John mcginnn excitement saw him over hit a big chance when he made excellent movement and created opportunity but blazed it wide

QPR played a defensive game and weren't so open and paid lot of respect to villa attack.

1 QPR Aston villa 0

32% Possession 68%
Passes
276 Total 587
206 Short Passes 487
63% Pass Success 85%

16 Shots 18
7 Shots on target 5

For villa 13 of those shots were from open play and 5 came from set plays

I think as Dean Smith said and having watched match the big chances not taken were obviously costly. But also we put in a good football playing performance .

However too many passes for the back defensive players .
A real need for a creative midfielder to get on the ball. Or for the midfield to come and pick the ball up off the defense. McGinn passing was loose at times and that needed improving .

Outside of Grealish (65 passes) the players which passed the ball the most   Tuanzebe 68 (most passes) , Chester 63 , Taylor 64 and Hutton 60.

Even though villa dominated possession we were poor at finishing but the encouraging signs were there to see and such a shift in style from the previous regime .


Felt Tuanzabe and Hutton had a good game to day and Grealish was very decent too.

***Jack stats***
Jack was having more shots and attacking a lot more.
He had 96.9 passing accuracy played 65 passes
96 touches the most in the team.
Dispossessed twice

He had 6 shots 1 on target  and the most of any villa player. Jack had a cheeky free kick that hit the post .
And 4 crosses.
Won 5 free kicks
Did 2 fouls.

Could see the difference and difficulty defenders have with Kodija when he plays right up top and he would be good to take those big chances that were falling to Tammy .
Kodjia won the most fouls 6 tonight and he was troubling QPR defence.

Before match they played interview on sky with Tammy saying his favorite position is wide left striker I think that would have been good option for him today.
Only for a smalll while he was out left.

Chester switched off for the goal as it went over his head ball watching and Taylor was unable to get across too but it was Chester who should have been alert and was poor defending.

Axel Tuanzebe was best defender but I think Hutton ran close as he played position well and due to limited QPR attacks didt get much trouble having to defend!

I enjoyed Grealish game and he's really performing in this side and hopeful comes together with goals and assists
Kodjia too showing signs but performance need to grow.

Set pieces weren't the greatest by Villa and the confidence levels at times were lacking in passing ball effectively but it certainly a lot of positive play.

I think with a week ahead of coaching and becoming more accustomed to Smith philosophy then Bolton at home could be a great goal scoring total football performance!

Up the villa.

[cdbearsfan]

on a positive note noticed we went up to 18'th in the world rankings tonight

Fair play, impressive work by Warnock.