Well their penalty was definitely harsh. ******!
I've just listened to Dean Smith's post-match interview. I bet he was glad to get away from the cameras. Even with an interviewer who was fairly tame.
We don’t seem to be learning very quickly
What I want us to learn from, playing against 10 men, is the fact that, in both cases, they lost a full back and then made a substitution to ensure that West Ham and Arsenal had four at the back, meaning that they take a player off the pitch, further forward. Surely, the right thing for Villa to do today was to flood the midfield and overload it, so they couldn't play through us? And yet, we didn't, we brought on a full back to play on the right wing and swapped one midfielder for an other. Poor decisions.
Yeas and they also pushed their full backs on to us.
Go 4 4 2 or 4 5 1 and you have countered it.
Watching Jack jump out of the way on the free kick in the wall....bad stuff.
DS not blameless today, but if we had avoided a couple of individual errors for their first two goals and had a more favourable pen decision at the end, it’s a different story.
Piss poor penalty decision. Should have been, without question.
Watching Jack jump out of the way on the free kick in the wall....bad stuff.
Some effort from our captain alright
Heaton takes responsibility for the wall though, seemed badly set up.
Just saw on MOTD the VAR-not-given penalty. When even Smurphy says it was a blatant pen you just know we've been robbed of a probable point by poor officiating again.
Straws, clutching and all that but even so...
Just home, still seething. Will we ever f*cking learn? Forget that handball, it shouldn’t have even mattered, we should have put the game to bed before then but we threw it into reverse after going ahead. In my opinion, we lack mental strength and physical fitness, and that needs addressing as a matter of urgency.
DS not blameless today, but if we had avoided a couple of individual errors for their first two goals and had a more favourable pen decision at the end, it’s a different story.
Exactly. Pant wetters please take note. All this talk of game management and formations ignores this. Engles hasn't put a foot wrong all season but 2 goals came from his poor distribution and decision making and the other from a piss poor header from Mings. Couple all that with the ref and var missing a blatant penalty and the result could've been so so different. Those ripping into Dean Smith at this early stage are being a bit harsh imo. The fickle lable will be coming our way again soon.
I'm hearing from a reliable source certain players are getting a little frustrated with DS, one being Mcginn and his post match interview would confirm this.
Somehthing don't feel right