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Author Topic: Aston Villa Silhouettes vs Manchester City Post-Match Thrashing  (Read 23926 times)

Offline TheMalandro

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Re: Aston Villa Silhouettes vs Manchester City Post-Match Thrashing
« Reply #15 on: January 12, 2020, 06:20:43 PM »
We got away with that one.

Offline Zouch Villa

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Re: Aston Villa Silhouettes vs Manchester City Post-Match Thrashing
« Reply #16 on: January 12, 2020, 06:20:55 PM »
I think we had the moral victory

Offline Damo70

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Re: Aston Villa Silhouettes vs Manchester City Post-Match Thrashing
« Reply #17 on: January 12, 2020, 06:21:08 PM »
It happened and it was horrible to watch. The players and coaching staff owe us big time now in the massive fixtures against Brighton, Watford and Bournemouth. I can even forgive today if they do the business in those three games.
« Last Edit: January 12, 2020, 06:23:12 PM by Damo70 »

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Re: Aston Villa Silhouettes vs Manchester City Post-Match Thrashing
« Reply #18 on: January 12, 2020, 06:22:16 PM »
What can you say other than all our chickens have come home to roost.

We have Championship players all over the park.
We have a Championship head coach.
We have a Championship assistant coach
We went into the season with no proven goalscorer at this level.
We brought in Danny Drinkwater & Pepe Raina so far this window.

The owners may have changed but quite honestly they're beginning to look as inept as the last 2.

Offline Clark W Griswold

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Re: Aston Villa Silhouettes vs Manchester City Post-Match Thrashing
« Reply #19 on: January 12, 2020, 06:22:45 PM »
I’m literally lost for words on how to describe what just gushed out of Dean Smiths arse, but it was very brown and very smelly

Quite.

Offline AsTallAsLions

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Re: Aston Villa Silhouettes vs Manchester City Post-Match Thrashing
« Reply #20 on: January 12, 2020, 06:23:35 PM »
It happened and it was horrible to watch. The players and coaching staff us us big time now in the massive fixtures against Brighton, Watford and Bournemouth. I can even forgive today if they do the business in those three games.

Well if they don't, we're basically relegated. So it's do or die. Good luck Dean and the boys. Personally I'm yo-yoing between utterly livid and blissfully numb. Odd place to be in.

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Re: Aston Villa Silhouettes vs Manchester City Post-Match Thrashing
« Reply #21 on: January 12, 2020, 06:25:56 PM »
The reality is that City are flat-track bullies and we served them up the flattest of flat tracks. They've done it dozens of times in the Pep era and I doubt we'll be the last. The depressing thing is the season is now panning out like the Premier League campaigns of yore.

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Re: Aston Villa Silhouettes vs Manchester City Post-Match Thrashing
« Reply #22 on: January 12, 2020, 06:27:36 PM »
Our season won't come down to games against opponents like these, but the impact that this turd of a performance will have regarding our next two huge games is worrying. Those last two encouraging performances against Burnley and Leicester could be wiped out because of today. Everyone connected to that today needs to have a long look at themselves and get themselves right for Brighton.

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Re: Aston Villa Silhouettes vs Manchester City Post-Match Thrashing
« Reply #23 on: January 12, 2020, 06:28:03 PM »
Getting Drinkwater a player who cannot get into a poor Burnley side tells the story, I genuinely believe we are planning for relegation now. Trez did more in his cameo than the rest did all game.

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Re: Aston Villa Silhouettes vs Manchester City Post-Match Thrashing
« Reply #24 on: January 12, 2020, 06:28:48 PM »
Our season won't come down to games against opponents like these, but the impact that this turd of a performance will have regarding our next two huge games is worrying. Those last two encouraging performances against Burnley and Leicester could be wiped out because of today. Everyone connected to that today needs to have a long look at themselves and get themselves right for Brighton.
Exactly.  Confidence must be at rock bottom.

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Re: Aston Villa Silhouettes vs Manchester City Post-Match Thrashing
« Reply #25 on: January 12, 2020, 06:29:00 PM »
So we got 0 points. We need to focus on the next 3. That will have more bearing on survival than whether we lost by 1 or 4 or 8 today.

Offline Three Spires Villa

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Re: Aston Villa Silhouettes vs Manchester City Post-Match Thrashing
« Reply #26 on: January 12, 2020, 06:30:27 PM »
Very very unhappy to put it mildly. Where is the team from Wednesday? Has Dean & his staff got it in them to go into games like this? We looked beaten from the start 😞

Offline richrunner

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Re: Aston Villa Silhouettes vs Manchester City Post-Match Thrashing
« Reply #27 on: January 12, 2020, 06:30:44 PM »
Well that was totally unacceptable. Definate similarities with the 15/16 season. And we fully deserve to be in the bottom 3.

The buck stops with Dean Smith, he picked this team, he knew about the issues (Drinkwater especially) and even when things were falling apart and heads were dropping, there was no change. The guy is totally out of his depth and we need a relegation fight specialist to keep us up now, which Smith is definitely not. He may be Villa through and through but this is a ruthless league and we look utterly weak.

However, there are 6 or 7 players in that team who should really look at themselves in the mirror. Bert and Ernie (Douglas and "Drinkwater") excelled themselves and the other holograms looked way out of their depth.  Man City may be one of the best club teams in the world but we couldnt even pass forward to a team mate, let alone worry them.

Als its downright negligent to be halfway through the season and not even have a recognised striker at the club. The preparation for this season has been borderline amateur.

Extremely worrying, where do we go from here?
« Last Edit: January 12, 2020, 06:34:45 PM by richrunner »

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Re: Aston Villa Silhouettes vs Manchester City Post-Match Thrashing
« Reply #28 on: January 12, 2020, 06:32:36 PM »
1-6 flattered us utterly. After a hard game midweek I thought we were going to be well beaten today, particularly when I saw the team selection, but that was an annihilation of armageddon proportions. Managers do well to survive defeats like that but we urgently need players in to start in the team. Not more past it muck like Drinkwater and Reina.

Real fear this defeat will knock any remaining ounce of self belief from the players. I'm very much in the camp that Drinkwater is a hopeless signing but what chance had he against that City midfield. As debuts go, it doesn't get any worse and crystal clear he is nowhere near fit. The two next to him were nearly as bad, both of them hid and hardly made a tackle. Centre halves either side of Mings were hopeless and their lack of ability on the ball was brutally exposed. Our best wing back left on the bench. Taylor miles out of his depth, Elmo was okish.

Nyland 5, Elmo 5, Konsa 4, Mings 6, Hause 3, Taylor 3, Drinkwater 0, Luiz 2, Hourihane 2, Grealish 5, AEG 5. Nakamba 5, Trez 6, Lansbury 4.
« Last Edit: January 12, 2020, 06:34:30 PM by brontebilly »

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Re: Aston Villa Silhouettes vs Manchester City Post-Match Thrashing
« Reply #29 on: January 12, 2020, 06:32:44 PM »
So we got 0 points. We need to focus on the next 3. That will have more bearing on survival than whether we lost by 1 or 4 or 8 today.

It's gonna take sooo much more than winning, or doing well in those three games in order for us to stay up.   

 


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