Wolves v Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[themossman]

Clutching at straws for positives here but on the injury front we seemed to get away with it...

Mings looked ok after his and apparently targett was a head injury so nothing that will keep him out next game. And nyland looked fine as a back up.

[London Villan]

Smith is learning too. Look at his background and compare that 5 years ago then look where nuno, pep and klopp were.

[PeterWithesShin]

And in that alternate universe we'd have had a summer of buying players for a division where mediocre crap like Albion and Preston are the top 2. And not just spunking cash like we did under Xia, but spending big money and actually having a plan. I'm convinced we'd have smashed that league with 100+ plus this season, and been in a position where we weren't having to replace nearly all the starting 11 when promoted.

[Nii Lamptey]

Smith is learning too. Look at his background and compare that 5 years ago then look where nuno, pep and klopp were.

I kind of agree (and he should definitely be given at least this season to prove himself), but you’ve got to question if he IS actually learning?
We seem to be on here after every draw/ defeat complaining about the same mistakes he makes regarding formations/tactics/subs every bloody time. Where are the examples of him changing it up to improve things?

[Grande Pablo]

El Ghazi needs to put his foot in.  As good as he was last season, it was an annoying trait which he got away with, but not now he's coming against better quality players he's exposed.

Luiz needs pulling out.  Offered nothing today where either Hourihane or Lansbury would have done more creatively.

Poor Wesley can't do anything without some link up play.  Needs someone closer to him.

Pleased for Nyland.  There's a good keeper in there.

[garyshawsknee]

This is one we have to take on the chin unfortunately, though we made it very easy for them. Our fullbacks were always exposed, Wesley was isolated so couldn't do much, if the two wide men aren't on form, then we have nothing up front.  I think the two wide men are squad players at best. Wolves are further down the road than us with a very settled team and more quality, so maybe we can be too harsh on ourselves, though I think we need an upgrade in certain positions to give us better options from the bench.

[BoVillan esq]

Thought we looked drained of energy and idea, no physical presence, what Wolves have cleverly done is build a team around 2 or 3 very good players, we should follow that plan, we must be prepared to go into the transfer market in Jan, heavily, the run up to Christmas looks like some very difficult games coming up, would hate to lose to Newcastle.   

[PaulWinch again]

Nyland did well.

[London Villan]

As third choice keeper he is better than mark bunn...

[Three Spires Villa]

Granted I have just left the pub, but what I saw at that horrible ground today has really pissed me off. We just didn’t compete at all & that should be a minimum. Maybe I’m going over the top but as bad as Brentford away last season. Bloody hell Villa!

[Villa Lew]

With Jack out, we needed a big game from SJM, but sadly we didn't get it. Hasn't played well for a few games, looked tired today and went missing for a lot of the match. Maybe he needs a rest, but he's with Scotland now and Smith won't leave him out for the Newcastle game. Every player has a dip in form and he's too good a player to be off form for a lengthy period of time.

[JUAN PABLO]

We are so flat without jack.

I thought we looked championship today , the front 3 bloody rubbish . The midfield crap.
We had a little bad luck with injuries but should have enough to at least match them and Wolves wasnt actually that good , well they didnt need to be.

The goalie did ok to be fair and I like Konsa and we looked 'ok' last 15 mins but not good enough.

Without Jack we are flat as a pancake

[PeterWithesShin]

Without Jack we are flat as the earth

Fixed that for Damo.

[Flin5tone]

Watching that today i thought what on earth did we get for 150 million?

[London Villan]

Watching that today i thought what on earth did we get for 150 million?

The chance to stay up.