Wolves v Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[ktvillan]

Taylor didn't lose the ball at all as he never had it as it was a hospital pass from McGinn. I want us to have better than Taylor but I don't see how he get blamed for that goal.

Not what I remember.  Might not have been a great pass but it reached Taylor and he lost it.

[PaulWinch again]

Wesley has ability there were a couple of flashes of it. I’m fairness he got absolutely zero support until AEG started to do something in the second half. We badly need the midfield to produce much more, if you have 3 in the centre one should be getting closer to Wes.

[ktvillan]

Taylor didn't lose the ball at all as he never had it as it was a hospital pass from McGinn. I want us to have better than Taylor but I don't see how he get blamed for that goal.

Not what I remember.  Might not have been a great pass but it reached Taylor and he lost it.

Just watched it again and you're right Taylor didn't actually have the ball, although he was very weak in the ensuing challenge.  The real culprit for that one is Luiz who let the winger walk past him..

[exigo]

There's only one ground in the country that guarantees some grizzled old boys will be trying to trade punches with anything that moves. And so it was again today.

[ktvillan]

Wesley has ability there were a couple of flashes of it. I’m fairness he got absolutely zero support until AEG started to do something in the second half. We badly need the midfield to produce much more, if you have 3 in the centre one should be getting closer to Wes.

Yes both AEG and Trezeguet have some ability but are at least semi-passengers in most games.  We can't really afford one player like that in our situation and certainly not two. 

[Kimaster1976]

Thats the thing everyone has a go at El Ghazi and Trez for not covering in defence, but then complain they aint a threat going forward. They cant do everything surely.

Salah and Mane don't track back every opposition attack they trust the rest of the team to take care of it, if we want to be a real threat going forward its gotta be a top 3 and the rest of the team needs to carry the load, you cant have it all.

Wesley is on a hiding to nothing virtually every game, its him on a lone burrow against 3 or 4 opposition defenders/midfielders every time the ball comes near him whats he meant to do with those odds?

[Rigadon]

With Jack we draw / win this game.  He is utterly essential to this team.

[Villafirst]

That first goal was poor set-up by our defence. Souness said at least one player should've covered the cut-back on the free kick.  All our players were in the box? A good shot but Neves had plenty of time to pick his spot.

[Nii Lamptey]

Just putting this out there..... Based on what you’ve seen so far this season, are Dean Smith and his management team good enough (or showing enough promise) that they can cut it at this level?
He’s spent a shit tonne of cash, yet we have seen far too many abject performances and tactically naive setups/substitutions imo.
People will argue that we’ve just come up from the Championship and should give him the benefit of the doubt, but that hasn’t stopped Chris Wilder (on way less resources than us) taking the Premier League by storm, currently sitting in 5th place.
Are we all being too soft on him just because he’s ‘one of us’?

[nick harper]

Salah and Mane don't track back every opposition attack they trust the rest of the team to take care of it

But they do. They defend from the front as they did today. Our front 3 don’t do nearly enough, with and without the ball.

[PeterWithesShin]

They're showing enough for me, that said there's things that definitely need working on. If they don't fix those then the answer will probably end up being they aren't good enough.

[SoccerHQ]

That first goal was poor set-up by our defence. Souness said at least one player should've covered the cut-back on the free kick.  All our players were in the box? A good shot but Neves had plenty of time to pick his spot.

We just got sucked in, only a few minutes to go to half time and guess we just assumed it would be flung into the box. I doubt it was a tactic just to ignore Neves on the edge of the box.

It happens. Believe it or not many other teams over a season concede similar goals.

[LukeJames]

Just putting this out there..... Based on what you’ve seen so far this season, are Dean Smith and his management team good enough (or showing enough promise) that they can cut it at this level?
He’s spent a shit tonne of cash, yet we have seen far too many abject performances and tactically naive setups/substitutions imo.
People will argue that we’ve just come up from the Championship and should give him the benefit of the doubt, but that hasn’t stopped Chris Wilder (on way less resources than us) taking the Premier League by storm, currently sitting in 5th place.
Are we all being too soft on him just because he’s ‘one of us’?

Im happy with Smith, Not sure how others feel but he gets the whole of this season for me no matter what happens. He has shown some niavity without a doubt and he needs to adapt to other formations other than 4-3-3, but he got us here at least a year quicker than any of us could if imagined when he took over.

[Mister E]

As I said last week, we need to be fitter and quicker; and, our ball retention has to be alot better. We have talented players but we need to be doing the basics better.

[eamonn]

I view it as we ended up a year ahead of how it went for Wolves, with how things were last summer and for most of the season, this season should really have been the season we were smashing division 2 having spent the summer buying players that were too good for it. Which in turn would have meant less surgery needed when promoted.

But we would likely have been without Grealish in that alternate universe and we know how key he is to us at whatever level.