Villa 5-5 Forest post-match thread

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I have been pissed off the whole way back. But thinking on it, it was just daft. Like we just wind milled each other in the boxing ring for 12 rounds knocking 7 bells out of each other, but getting up for more.

[PeterWithesShin]

10 goals, another 2 disallowed and a red card. I'll wager none of us will ever see a game like that again at VP.

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Hopefully the last time Hourihane pretends to be a defensive midfielder.

[ktvillan]

More entertainment in one game than Bruce produced in two years.  I'm enjoying watching us again despite the flaky defence.  Not sure Nyland deserves all the stick he's getting.  Ok he was very poor on the 5th and came out a bit morris dancer for the third but had little chance with the others.  Hourihane failed to shadow his man on the first two and Hutton on the third. See also Blues second goal on Sunday.  We need BB back pronto for that holding position.

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Maybe we're just two really good sides.

We're not great defensively, we need a keeper and centre half and BB at the base of midfield. But we're not normally that bad.

First time I've seen them, but with their compressed holding players in that low bloc and their stats; they're usually very good defensively. Yet we could have had 7 or 8 without hyperbole.

So maybe we are just the bees knees going forwards and they're top banana away from home on the break.

If we can keep the gap as it is and buy two early January...With this fire power top 6 is a certainty. Play Offs? Less certain.

[not3bad]

More entertainment in one game than Bruce produced in two years. holding position.

I'm thinking of the 5-1 victory over Bristol City and the 4-1 win over Wolves and concluding that's a bit harsh.

[stuart445]

Fuck it, give me a 5-5 over hoping to nick it 1-0 every day of the week. There is not a single side in this league that wants to face us going forwards, i'm convinced we'll stick 7 or 8 past someone this season.

Yeah but with our keeper and defence they'll also stick 7 or 8 past us

[stuart445]

I used to be a regular on here, but haven’t now for a while because, to be honest, the comments on here are laughable.

We’ve just seen a match finish 5-5 and was really entertaining. Rather than discuss the fantastic attacking play, the majority focus on everything negative. Just enjoy the good things for a change and stop whinging and moaning - things aren’t that bad!

Not that anyone cares, but I think this will be my last visit to this site. 👋

I get what you are saying and yes I did find it fun, but on the flip side the people that are complaining have a really good reason to. Drawing 5:5 every game will not get us the where we want / need to be.

[PeterWithesShin]

Sure they will Stuart, sure they will.

[QuintonVilla]

More entertainment in one game than Bruce produced in two years.  I'm enjoying watching us again despite the flaky defence.  Not sure Nyland deserves all the stick he's getting.  Ok he was very poor on the 5th and came out a bit morris dancer for the third but had little chance with the others.  Hourihane failed to shadow his man on the first two and Hutton on the third. See also Blues second goal on Sunday.  We need BB back pronto for that holding position.

He should have saved the 4th goal aswell. He didn't even move but a good keeper saves that.

The 5th goal is criminal from him. The only place Grabban could have scored is where the ball went.

[dorsetvillian]

Just back. What a bonkers game!

[stuart445]

Sure they will Stuart, sure they will.

Like to expand on why you think they won't, just watch tonights game back. When at 5:4 you just knew if they had 1 more shot on target it'd be 5:5 and guess what they did and it was.

[PeterWithesShin]

No because you appearing is like Steve Bruce being manager.

[footyskillz]

In the interest of fairness regarding the ex boss he did give us John mcginnn , Bolasie , 4 goal Tammy Abrahams and El Ghazi . Granted he left us with pea poor defensive options but he brought us some attacking quality top end.

Let's not forget we scored in every match under the ex manager and the Preston match was a similar chaotic , dramatic display of a football match.

I think moaning about defenders and unbalanced squad is justified but it's also more than reasonable and factually accurate to know old manager brought in entertaining players with attacking impetus.

Anyway I no fan of last manager and enjoy this football however there was a open ness in midfield that needed addressing and the desperation in trying to get the 6th and winner gave reminders of the pushing for goals under bruce in the final minutes

There was even a case today to play Tuanzebe as the dm and put Hutton at centre with Elmo full back or at least as the game wore on.

Ideally we have a cente half , DM, left back and GK at Xmas .

[PeterWithesShin]

It's what makes Bruce this season even more bizarre, he brought in quality attack minded players and yet as an ex defender and a conservative manager he woefully neglected the defence.
Difference is we were open and going for it all game whereas under Bruce his negative stuff would often leave us needing a late goal so he'd chuck on a load of attackers and hope.