Aston Villa v Burnley post-match thread

[Risso]

Dean Smith just seems monumentally naive at this level and shows no sign of getting to grips with it anytime soon.

[brontebilly]

Played well for longish periods, got caught out by poor concentration, we'll be fine.

15min-20min before half time was all we played well for arguably

infuriating how poor we were to chase the winner at 2-2, Hourihane had one shot but cant remember anything else

[PaulWinch again]

Dean Smith just seems monumentally naive at this level and shows no sign of getting to grips with it anytime soon.

Yes it’s slightly alarming. He needs to sort it fast.

[taylorsworkrate]

Played well for longish periods, got caught out by poor concentration, we'll be fine.

15min-20min before half time was all we played well for arguably

infuriating how poor we were to chase the winner at 2-2, Hourihane had one shot but cant remember anything else

We looked laboured and sluggish at the end again. We needed to inject tempo into our play and couldn't.

[Herman]

Apart from Everton, every game has felt like a kick in the goolies

[villadelph]

Dean Smith just seems monumentally naive at this level and shows no sign of getting to grips with it anytime soon.

Yes it’s slightly alarming. He needs to sort it fast.

“..that’s one that got away” x 3

[mr underhill]

atrocious at the back today and Wesley was beyond awful. Long hard season ahead. And VAR is bollocks. Any word on Targett's injury?

[brontebilly]

Played well for longish periods, got caught out by poor concentration, we'll be fine.

15min-20min before half time was all we played well for arguably

infuriating how poor we were to chase the winner at 2-2, Hourihane had one shot but cant remember anything else

We looked laboured and sluggish at the end again. We needed to inject tempo into our play and couldn't.

Surely thats what Luiz can bring?

When AEG went off, that was time to change shape completely, bring Luiz in next to Nakamba and have a three in front of them

Smith went like for like with Trez who in fairness made a goal but never improved our shape or performance.

[Legion]

https://www.skysports.com/football/a-villa-vs-burnley/408041

[curiousorange]

Dean Smith just seems monumentally naive at this level and shows no sign of getting to grips with it anytime soon.

Yes it’s slightly alarming. He needs to sort it fast.

“..that’s one that got away” x 3

Thing is, he talks really well about plans and traps and solutions and all of that, but I don't see it making any difference. I prefer it to Bruce's cliche-speak but if he can see these things well enough to explain them, why is it so easy for other sides to react to what we're doing and outfox him?

[PeterWithe]

Thought we were very good in the first half against a very physical Burnley side.

Second half the lack of movement up front killed us and allowed them  to get behind the ball very effectively.

Two really bad goals to give away, we really need to stop heading goals out on a plate as it’s going to kill us.

Nakamba my MOM

[nick harper]

I was hoping we’d go for Llorente when Spurs released him in the summer. Strong, experienced and scores goals, but he wasn’t the type of player the club were going for. He’d have been ideal today.

[danno]

Agree on Nakamba as motm, he looks a smashing player.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Defence killed us for the second week running. Chris Woods gave a masterclass in leading the line. Wesley didn't.

[phantom limb]

We need Targett fit and in the team consistently, we suffered greatly when he went off, as Neil Taylor just isn’t good enough. There’s a definite problem with mentality in the team as well, we just seem to crumble under pressure.

Buggering up the Arsenal game just put us under more pressure to get a result today and we don’t look like we can cope with it, it’s very worrying. I don’t know why he isn’t making subs either, we’ve got a squad; he should use it.