Arsenal v Aston Villa match thread

[Toronto Villa]

Dean Smith won’t survive in the job if he doesn’t wise up quickly.

[themossman]

Sadly, further evidence that smith is struggling to lift his game to cope with demands of the PL.

[Davkaus]

We're going down, and we have only ourselves to blame.

[frank black]

Elmo played all of last year as a right back, so now why is he our go to sub for a winger?

Apparently he’s never been on the winning side against Arsenal

[Monty]

Also why does VAR hate us?

[Risso]

Dean Smith won’t survive in the job if he doesn’t wise up quickly.

Indeed.  I want him to do well but he is inflexible tactically, he left us short up front in the summer, and his in-game management is woeful.  Needs to sort it out quick.

[Rudy65]

We're going down, and we have only ourselves to blame.

only 32 games to save ourselves

[Mister E]

Sadly, further evidence that smith is struggling to lift his game to cope with demands of the PL.

not rocket science, though, is it?
Go 2-1 up, stiffen the midfield.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Absolutely shit game management from smith, again. It's what has concerned me for longer than this season, and he needs to fucking sort it out.

Same here, Ger. When we start going on these winless runs he doesn't seem to have an answer. Apparently it was the same at Brentford. Right now he's costing us vital points.

[PeterWithesShin]

FT

Fuck off Villa and Dean, I love you but that was fucking shit game management.

[Davkaus]

We're going down, and we have only ourselves to blame.

only 32 games to save ourselves

Have you seen anything from these 6 games to think we have enough quality to stay up? Twice in a row, we have failed to show enough to beat 10 men. We're in serious trouble.

[Risso]

Sadly, further evidence that smith is struggling to lift his game to cope with demands of the PL.

not rocket science, though, is it?
Go 2-1 up, stiffen the midfield.

Two midfielders in the subs, SJM out on his feet, so let's bring Elmohamady on.  Genius.

[kieron]

How much of a bastard is that?

[SoccerHQ]

Shambles. Next 3 games are massive. For Dean Smith's future if anything.

[Damo70]

We haven't put in a really impressive ninety minutes in the league. Twenty odd good minutes, twenty odd average minutes and twenty odd poor minutes is generally the way it has gone. I thought scoring goals was the worry but scoring two away at Arsenal and conceding three suggests the defence might not be as competent as we thought.