Aston Villa v Burnley post-match thread

[Steve67]

The team is only ever going to be as strong as its weakest links. Sadly, we have two or three of them.

[kippaxvilla2]

We’re going to give someone a good spanking soon.

[Risso]

We’re going to give someone a good spanking soon.

That’s one of the most trotted out cliches on here when we’re not doing very well, and it rarely happens. Who are we going to spank? Who is going to score the goals? I’d settle for a scrappy 1-0 right now, never mind the fabled and seldom seen spanking.

[OzVilla]

We played well but ultimately got punished for not being switched on from the restart, deserved the 3 points imo. Usual suspects stood up again but really let down by lack of a quality striker and poor game management once again. Seems we say the same every week.

[Damo70]

We’re going to give someone a good spanking soon.

It would have to be a 6-3 spanking as we can score but we can't defend.

[ChicagoLion]

There are 3 problems
1. We are playing without a Centre forward, Weseley is not good enough.
2. Taylor ; woeful
3. Smith is too rigid and his game management is poor.
We are in trouble.

[tomd2103]

Was at the game earlier, but been out since and have only got back in.  We seem to be finding ways of snatching defeats and draws from the jaws of victory at the moment.

Thought we were good in patches and McGinn was excellent in the first half, but faded a bit in the second.  Thought Marvelous also had a decent game in midfield and was tidy on the ball.  Thought Targett did pretty well today and it will be frustrating if he is injured and out for a while. 

Thought we looked a bit nervy at the back throughout today and the goals came from pretty poor defending in the wide areas.  Guilbert looks a bit shaky defensively at times and got caught out a few times by diagonal balls.  Taylor's efforts to stop Rodrigues getting to the ball and to stop the cross for the second were half-hearted to say the least. 

Thought Wesley didn't get too much service, but he struggled today.  He just doesn't get in a position to challenge for the ball most times and watching him again today, I don't think he is much of an aerial presence at all.  The failure to sign another striking option in the window is looking a bit costly at the moment.

[kippaxvilla2]

I was being ironic guys. 

[Bad English]

guys.

Lads.

[ROBBO]

There were periods in the first half when I thought we looked a really good side but it seems we can't sustain the effort for a full game, for the first time I thought our central defensive pairing looked vulnerable.

[adrenachrome]

We looked pretty decent in the the first half and played some good stuff in an open game.
Dyche changed formation after the break, and we did not adapt. I know the the purists will not agree, but when a player like Barnes starts taking liberties, you have to have to show him he will have to pay a price, not go crying to the ref.

When Lowton put that cross in there was no-one near him. If Taylor was man-marking a player that had run inside, that doesn't fill me with confidence, either.

I am sure we will improve, but we are in the relegation mix already. There are no poor teams in this division, and anybody saying otherwise is living in the past.

[ASHTONVILLA]

Keep reading about people on holiday still. Where did you lot go that it's still so nice? We went to the Costa Blanca the first week in September and nearly died in the worst storm on mainland Spain since records began.

Working, but in Qingdao and very good weather here still.

[Axl Rose]

Keep reading about people on holiday still. Where did you lot go that it's still so nice? We went to the Costa Blanca the first week in September and nearly died in the worst storm on mainland Spain since records began.

Working, but in Qingdao and very good weather here still.

Some nice German beer and a cathedral if I remember correctly. Enjoy!

[Rigadon]

We don’t stop crosses coming into the box at all well enough.  This team is better than the shockingly bad one we had the last season in this league, so it’s not despair time yet. But that’s a pretty low bar.  Yesterday felt like a loss.

[PeterWithe]

By no means the worst offender on the day, but questions need to be asked of Grealish. I do not question his desire, but I do question his nous, which is surprising. If the attack is going to run through him, he needs to make better decisions with the ball. On a couple of occasions, he chose to shoot rather than make the easy and proper pass to the open man.

Again, he was not the main proble, but given the frequency of time he has on the ball, it is crucial that he improves quickly.

I thought his was a sound performance although I agree he held on to the ball for too long and at times was far too deep, Mings needs to be bringing the ball out from the back more and giving it to Jack 20 yards further up the field.

Other thing not helping us is that the movement from the CF just wasn’t there so when Jack is carrying the ball there isn’t a forward pass on so he dribbles trying to open something up.

Lack of forward options was a worry for a lot of us and it’s apparent that we are just going to have to muddle through to January, which isn’t great planning give the summer spend.