Aston Villa v Burnley post-match thread

[pauliewalnuts]

Bright spot - Nakamba did very well indeed.

[olaftab]

I can see us going down again, easily. Lose against Spurs and Arsenal away from home, fine (as frustrating as the Arsenal game was, it exposed this team to a tee). Getting 1 point from Bournemouth, Palace and Burnley though, with two of those fixtures being at home, then nah. We're not good enough.

I agree with you but clinging on to straws I would say positives are we have scored in 5 out of 7 matches, kept two clean sheets and not been totally thrashed so far.  And to survive you just have be a little bit better than totally shit.

[LukeJames]

We've shown that we can more than compete in this division, we need to show that we can win now.

[olaftab]

I agree with those who have called out Burnley for what they  an horrific team. Sean Dyche unfairly gets good press whereas in reality his style is no better than Allardyce and Pulis.

[olaftab]

we are drawing games we should be winning
and losing games we should be drawing

it’s a big problem

Yes that's relegation however it could change. We just need to win some of the games we are drawing not all to stay up.

[pauliewalnuts]

I agree with those who have called out Burnley for what they  an horrific team. Sean Dyche unfairly gets good press whereas in reality his style is no better than Allardyce and Pulis.

They are indeed horrible, that Barnes is an utter wanker. They play really basic, agricultural football.

However, we also just failed to beat them at home, so what does that say about us?

[Uknowthescore]

No more hard luck stories. We need to keep hold of a lead for fuk sake getting embarrassing now.

[Lastfootstamper]

I reckon I've got sufficient skills to be able to make Neil Taylor leap in the air with his back to the ball, and I'm 53 and shit.

I thought we were very good up until Targett went off. Both of their goals should've been snuffed out before they were threats. Guilbert caught under the ball for the first, and the second would be piss poor from a Sunday morning side.

Two points chucked away by people not doing their own job properly.

[achilles]

Deano definitely at fault today. Dyche made a sub at half time and switched to a 3-4-3 which obviously put more pressure on our back four. Deano should have put another striker on either Jota or Davis to support Wesley (who was shocking but might have improved with some support) to put pressure on their back three, switching to a 4-1-3-2 formation but did nothing and just invited pressure onto us!

We are definitely not learning, which does not bode well and at the moment I can't see us surviving unless three other teams help us out!
Another moan can the players just stop doing press interviews because I am sick to death of the same bullshit being sprouted, do it on the pitch!!!

[Bobby Boy]

Such a mixed bag today. Nakamba and McGinn were superb. Great to see a left back showing some attacking threat. Hope Targett is ok.

We are naive though. At 2-1 lost focus and that killed us.

Wesley contributed nothing. Can't recall him winning a header against their centre backs or making a positive contribution. He's our main worry from the game.

However we definitely have something there to work on which is what I'm clinging to.

And folk are right. Burnley are a bunch of time-wasting (started in the 6th minute from Pope), mithering, dirty bastards. Effective though for what they want to achieve.

Huge couple of games coming up before the tin hats and blindfolds come out...

[charleeco7]

Well it’s certainly entertaining, which we haven’t said for many a year in this division. Just don’t think we can rely on our we can out score the opposition plan in this division.

[themossman]

Especially when our striker is a waste of a shirt like today.

[Toronto Villa]

Lost 8 points from winning positions this season already, we need to learn how to see a game out for 3 points urgently.

The positive I suppose is that we were in winning positions

[stubbsyandy]

One small point to make is that us fans are far too easily wound up by teams wasting time, choosing the wrong end at kick off etc...I think we have reputation and teams exploit this.

[charleeco7]

Especially when our striker is a waste of a shirt like today.

Well there is that, difficult to replace 25 goals a season. If he gets to 10 on this form I’d be surprised.