Preston NE 1-1 Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[PaulWinch again]

Not good enough at the moment. The defence is still sloppy, and we’ve become pretty disjointed in attack. Dean, change things up a bit please we’ve essentially played the last 3 games with basically the same line up and we haven’t looked great.

[ChicagoLion]

unless he's caught Bruceitis Dean will have to shake things up for QPR

He has not shown a lot of enthusiasm for doing this.

[steamer]

will not raise my expectations for the QPR game
Slipped on that banana before

[TopDeck113]

Just got back to my car.

Disappointing performance. Too lethargic for much of the game. A wasted opportunity as other than the first few minutes, up until they equalised Preston were poor.  We still had enough half chances to have won it - which a month ago we probably would have done.

[john e]

unless he's caught Bruceitis Dean will have to shake things up for QPR

He has not shown a lot of enthusiasm for doing this.

no, of the many things I like about Smith this is the one thing that disappoints me the most

[olaftab]

3-4 Derby!!!

That was coming for spawny bastards.

[Proposition Joe]

all very Bruce like the last 3 games
no imagination just send the same team out and hope for the best

Rather than Bruceball, that style of play just seems to be what the Villa always end up defaulting to, no matter who the manager is. To paraphrase Nietzsche, "if you gaze long into the Villa, the Villa also gazes into you". Rather than our managers shaping the club's style of play, the club ends up shaping the manager's.

Roll on HS2 and bulldozing Bodymore!

[Legion]

Match highlights

[Rudy65]

Such a shame our run of form came to an end with Jacks injury.  That’s a poor result for a team with our aspirations, particularly on the back Swansea and Leeds.

Notwithstanding the injuries we still have players other clubs can only dream of and should be doing better.  Hope we’ve got decent funds for Jan.

We also have a lot of players who wouldn’t make the first 11 in the other champs teams

[vilan461]

Playoffs will be a struggle I think. We're not gaining ground and keep chucking points away.

What has happened to the goals?

What has happened Grealish?

Fully agree now 5 pts behind 6th spot---the gap is beginning to grow--we reall need to start turning the draws into wins if we are to make a serious threat to the top 6----when will Grealish be back? he really is sorely missed---some of the players will be on burn out unless a bit of rotation is introduced with the rapid flow of games.

[KRS]

Match highlights

Wow! BB missing that open goal is a shocker!

[Villafirst]

I said on the transfer thread that we should try and sign Jarrod Bowen  from Hull. 10 goals now for Hull including 2 today to beat Leeds.

[mr underhill]

My point about Bruce was that Dean doesn't rotate enough for me - like Bruce before him and MON way before that

[AlexAlexCropley]

Should have made subs earlier.

[Rudy65]

What a miss.  Should have gone with his left