Aston Villa Silhouettes vs Manchester City Post-Match Thrashing

[Three Spires Villa]

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.

Of course it matters what we lost by, for a start our goal difference has been battered. Personally I would rather loose 0-1 & put up a performance than what I just saw

[SaddVillan]

Smith and his coaching staff need a good bollocking. We're just not performing on so many levels.

No idea what he does with them Monday to Friday, but it's the same shite on the pitch every week.

[Drummond]

Mistakes all over the park. Completely different to the Leicester match but that's down to the sheer quality of the opponents.

Was utter crap though and hardly a redeeming point at all.

[clash city rocker]

That was shocking and a total embarrassment to Aston Villa fc...wont say anymore until I have calmed down but to all the  players and staff involved in today's game you are a disgrace to the  name of Aston Villa.

[Legion]

I am totally lost for .

[KRS]

Pathetic disgraceful inept performance.

It beggars belief how we still have so many shit players all over the pitch, and our midfield is as weak as piss...and an unfit Drinkwater that hasn’t played for the best part of 2 years just waters it down even more. The decision to throw him in, to sink or swim, against Man City was a brainless decision but even more worrying when the alternative options are the equally shit Nakamba and Lansbury.

The defence is left exposed because the midfield is so poor and they make not having a striker largely irrelevant because the service from them is next to non existent anyway.

We have big problems on and off the pitch, but we have to sign some much better players in this window to give us any chance of staying up.

[malckennedy]

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 😞

I think it was a similar (shit) performance to Wednesday but we didn’t get away with it today.

[Villa Lew]

Blimey that was a painful watch, gotta somehow forget today, and put in the type of performances we did against Burnley and Leicester starting with Brighton on Saturday.

[McRusson]

A performance that straddled the border between lame and downright unprofessional. It was eye wateringly inept, trap door stuff for sure.

[Meanwood Villa]

Will make a great story when we beat them in the cup final. Hollywood bidding for story rights.

[WarszaVillan]

Once we face them on the large Wembley pitch and can play our expansive football we'll be ok

[Villan82]

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.

Hard to disagree with that. What we do have is Champions League quality fans. Attendances have been fantastic.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Trez did more in his cameo than the rest did all game.

Not El Ghazi's biggest fan but thought he had a decent game, certainly more involved, putting in a shift and if any one player deserved to score today it was him. Not saying much, granted but that was the only positive I could find today other than maybe Nyland who didn't deserve to concede 6. I certainly don't blame him.

[Risso]

The way they just walked through us unimpeded for half the goals was utterly unacceptable.

[ktvillan]

Positives:

We only lost the second half 2-1
Didn't get any injuries, except to our pride and dignity.
We finally scored a penalty
We may still have a cup final with only Man City to beat.  Oh.

Not so positive:

Back in the relegation places, now below Watford with a worse goal difference.
Luiz - I've seen more useful Brazilians on a fanny.
Drinkwater - looks more off the pace than Luiz.
We continue our tradition of gifting the opposition goals.
Lack of effort, bottle, leadership, clues and ability all round.
Hause and Konsa looked like pub players (copyright C Davis)
We might get to play them again in a Cup final and embarrass ourselves on a global stage.
Everything else.