Aston Villa v Watford match thread

[wince]

He’s shit for us but can we not get hogan back. As he is a forward. Also what happens if our new striker inevitably gets injured? What then? We are looking like we did in 2016 and capitulated in jan. It’s painful. And now the teams around us have hit form. We haven’t.

[garyshawsknee]

Passing from Hause is woeful.

I see he hasn't improved from Saturday

[LukeJames]

The difference between having a forward and not. We controlled the game without ever looking like scoring. They have 1 chance and bury it.

Its all been said before but huge fuck up by the powers that be too leave us in this position.

[Demitri_C]

Smith has to go tactical loser.  Drinkwater been shit last two games and plays him again. 5 at the back again at home. No chances created either.

Fucking useless

[DB]

Awful. We are going down.

[auntiesledd]

Yet another half-time rant by DS, hopefully. When is he ever going to put a team out to actually start a bloody game positively, FFS?! This just can’t carry on ad infinitum. Bag o’ shite. ☹️

[Axl Rose]

I don’t have many good memories this season. Everton maybe. We haven’t even really had a go.

Me neither, mate.

It's been a dreadful season. A manager doing nowhere near as well as I expected, and a lot of unlikeable players who look neither good enough nor like they give a shit.

Where is the urgency?

[Edvard Remberg]

Somehow Engels can't get ahead of those.  Jfc

[jwarry]

To be fair I thought we were doing ok albeit strikerless, but that cock up has killed us. Big decisions now Deano

[PaulWinch again]

No substance and no quality. We’re fucking buried.

[pauliewalnuts]

We were doing ok until the goal but had a complete lack of quality in the final third. After the goal we were shit. Time to earn your money Dean.

What's the money his interpretation of earning his money is going to be to send the side back out with no changes?

[brontebilly]

Thought we were doing quite well up to them scoring, lack of a forward not helping obviously in terms of a cutting edge. Konsa standard ball watching act costing us another goal. Watford have improved a lot since, they barely put two passes together before the goal.

Drinky obviously miles off pace for third game in a row, Luiz for him the obvious change. Trez offering nothing, maybe the kid for him and switch AEG wide. Hourihanes set piece threat could be useful too, ours have been crap so far. Nakamba's best game in ages, most doing ok really.

[Nev]

Entirely predictable, and that does not bode well for the rest of the season. We're seeing this too often and a striker won't make enough of a difference. It smells bad now, so much so I'm off to the "worried" thread.

[VillaAlways]

Anyone think there will be any changes at half time ?

[TonyD]

Grealish trying to beat men on the wing only to be further down the wing. Whereas if he beats a man in the middle he could be through on goal.  Dean is indeed a  shite manager.