Anyone starting to get worried?

[PeterWithesShin]

Until players stop making stupid fucking decisions that Sunday league players would get shit for then we're fucked.

[Demitri_C]

Im sorry but i blame Smith.  We have been making collosal fuck uos defensively alm seaaon and getting no better.

He is taking us down. A good manager would not be us ourselves handing the opposition victories. Engels the bottler he is too blane but smuth overall has to take the blame for the posotion we find ourselves.

He is under achieving

[levico]

Wasn’t just one error though, we were making them for most of the match. But for poor finishing and good goalkeeping we would have lost this match 6-2.
Relegation more or less a formality now. I think the owners think we’re up a season earlier than planned so we’re no worse off.  Naive if so.

[ez]

Were not going to pick up many more points this season. The defence will see to that.

[aev]

Wasn’t just one error though, we were making them for most of the match. But for poor finishing and good goalkeeping we would have lost this match 6-2.
Relegation more or less a formality now. I think the owners think we’re up a season earlier than planned so we’re no worse off.  Naive if so.

Problem for me is that Grealish dragged the team up last season. He won’t be doing that next year as much as we kid ourselves otherwise.

[ez]

Wasn’t just one error though, we were making them for most of the match. But for poor finishing and good goalkeeping we would have lost this match 6-2.
Relegation more or less a formality now. I think the owners think we’re up a season earlier than planned so we’re no worse off.  Naive if so.

Get relegated and we'll be a season behind.

[taylorsworkrate]

Until players stop making stupid fucking decisions that Sunday league players would get shit for then we're fucked.

We were making these mistakes in August. Now February and still making the same fucking mistakes.

Unless we dramatically improve defensively we will go down.

[Smirker]

Wasn’t just one error though, we were making them for most of the match. But for poor finishing and good goalkeeping we would have lost this match 6-2.
Relegation more or less a formality now. I think the owners think we’re up a season earlier than planned so we’re no worse off.  Naive if so.

Relegation is not more or less a formality. We're not in the bottom three.

Bad result yes but come on.

[dave.woodhall]

If the season ended now we'd stay up. How the fuck does that make relegation a formality?

[Villan82]

Wasn’t just one error though, we were making them for most of the match. But for poor finishing and good goalkeeping we would have lost this match 6-2.
Relegation more or less a formality now. I think the owners think we’re up a season earlier than planned so we’re no worse off.  Naive if so.

Get relegated and we'll be a season behind.

Going down would be a complete disaster.

[Toronto Villa]

I’ll feel better if Man City beat the shit out of West Ham in a couple of days. Followed up by Liverpool the following Monday

[dorsetvillian]

I don't remember Villa making such basic mistakes when we last went down. Our overall level of performance is much better, but the incredible mistakes are going to be  the reason we go down. Unfortunately we do not seem to be learning. So I'm more than worried.

[Smithy]

Relegation isn't a formality.  This week in 2016 we lost 6-0 at home to Liverpool, and were eight points from safety.  That's bordering on formality.

We're in a relegation battle, definitely. But this idea that we're "definitely down" is defeatist in the extreme.  Losing to a last-minute winner today leaves me sick, but losing 3-2 in the last-minute to a team challenging for the champions league places is not the sort of result you'd get if relegation was a "formality".  We COULD have won today, we weren't outclassed.

[SoccerHQ]

Us going for the win, formation etc, has nothing to do with Engels deciding to do what he did.

Surely though given we had 5 actual defenders on the pitch at that point and there were only 30 seconds left you do damage limitation at that point as chances of winning the game were very minimal.

If a CB misses the ball you have 2-3 players on the cover ready to take out Son 30 yards from goal. Instead there was just Hause trailing in his wake.

As much as we give him stick there's no way a Steve Bruce side would've conceded that type of goal. Worst to me is we nearly conceded the exact same one 15 minutes before when ball went under Konsa's foot and Son ran through.

[ez]

In other news, we got another headed goal.