Leicester v Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[Goldie.7]

We have been let down again by owners not seeing the obvious months ago.

Purslow no doubt convinced them to stick with Dean. Tonight is not the night to blame the owners. We've got 150,000,000 problems and the owners ain't one.

Let down by recruitment in my view

And coaching. We struggle with the basics.

Back to basics get Davis up there with Samatta and give the opportunity to players that got us up.
Reasoning is they have some connection to the club! And Samatta for what he's brought in !
Give them all a go as they have been here the longest and have most feeling for the club.they know what it was like last season
It may be only hope though that won't happen that he just plays those from last season but would like to at least see this line up before season out.

Steer
Taylor
Hause
Mings
Elmo
Hourihane
McGinn
Grealish
el Ghazi
Samatta
Davis

Samatta has been a decent signing in many ways some one who works for team and could score with service

Steer? What happened to "world class" and "oven ready" Reina?

[CT Villan]

There were others equally as bad tonight, but if I never see Guilbert in a Villa shirt again it won't be a day too soon. For me he's been utter crap for almost the entire season and he cost us big again tonight.

Sadly Dean should be fired, however Purslow will convince the owners that he is the best person to get us back up - which is clearly open to debate.

[SoccerHQ]

The most frustrating thing is its still in our own hands yet we're playing like we were relegated weeks ago. The lack of fight is unnacceptable.

The spurs game reminded me of all the times under Lambert we'd start to look a reasonably competant and then we'd have a traumatic defeat and things would spiral out of control e.g. not scoring for six games.

I'm afraid losing to Spurs has broken this team bar playing o.k in a one off cup final.

It's a trait we simply can't seem to shake off as a club. Other clubs like Newcastle get hammered in a game and then they win the next one 1-0.

[Risso]

There were others equally as bad tonight, but if I never see Guilbert in a Villa shirt again it won't be a day too soon. For me he's been utter crap for almost the entire season and he cost us big again tonight.

Sadly Dean should be fired, however Purslow will convince the owners that he is the best person to get us back up - which is clearly open to debate.

Purslow should be given his marching orders as well.  Loves the sound of his own voice a bit too much, and has put together a car crash of an organisation with Pitarch and Smith.

[D.boy]

Well that was utter shite (again). The defence are all at sea and don't seem to have a clue who is marking who, particularly at corners. The midfield are having to drop deep to try and help the defence out which invites the opposition on to us and thereby leaves Samatta isolated up front with no service and little chance of scoring.
What the hell do they practice in training and what do the coach's do exactly. I can't see us avoiding the drop and it's no more than we deserve.

[Risso]

The one remotely bright spark was Davis coming on.  He held the ball up a bit, ran at them and made their defence have to work a bit.  Samatta didn't have a sniff, and Soyuncu will never have an easier game.

[Risso]

There were others equally as bad tonight, but if I never see Guilbert in a Villa shirt again it won't be a day too soon. For me he's been utter crap for almost the entire season and he cost us big again tonight.

Sadly Dean should be fired, however Purslow will convince the owners that he is the best person to get us back up - which is clearly open to debate.

When Gilbert has a stinker, he really has a mare.  Defensively all over the shop and gave it away time and time again with aimless hoofs down the wing.  Rubbish.


edit:  just checked, his passing accuracy was 48% today, that is shameful for a so-called professional footballer.

[Sexual Ealing]

They played like they weren't interested. I'm sure that's not the case, but something is very wrong.

[Risso]

They played like they weren't interested. I'm sure that's not the case, but something is very wrong.

They clearly don't believe in Smith, and he's now far too happy to call them out in interviews.  He needs to be gone tomorrow.

[Des Little]

I genuinely fear they’ve stopped listening to him. They sure don’t seem to learn from their mistakes anyway. An absolute horror show week in, week out. A pox on their mansions!

[brontebilly]

I think there is more than enough talent in this squad to stay up.
Sadly we’do not have the management organization and leadership to achieve that.

I believed that for a lot of the season but not for some time. We don't have the players for a relegation fight and I'd strongly question the talent in a number of them. We lack a solid core to the team and have done all season.

The big problem has been defensive midfield and he has not tried Konsa or any one else to try and anchor that position.
I thought Drinky was brought into help but he is now on the bench.
There is no system of play and continued changes to selections and system.
Any one any idea how we are trying to play?

He tried Drinky but he was so useless he made Luiz look reasonable. Konsa was struggling badly in his preferred position so not sure shifting him to midfield would remotely improve matters. We have no-one else, they have all been tried in various formations and our midfield continues to put up pitiful resistance without the ball.

[aj2k77]

Elmo, lovely bloke. As much a Premier League player as I am.
Luiz. Does fuck all.
Guilbert. Must has brain like mash Potato. Was no where near a right back tonight. Appalling. Lonely? That's because you're in the middle of nowhere.
Reina. 36 yr old, semi retired goalkeeper.

[KevinGage]

I think the club have a massive decision to make now. It’s achingly sad to say, but if they keep Dean Smith, the club is going to get relegated. They’ll definitely lose Grealish. Bring someone else in who could keep the club up, bring in better players and he might stay. We need to build around a player of that quality.

I don’t think this currently a ‘one step back, two steps forward’ scenario with the current step up.

DS has had to build two new sides in a short period of time whilst losing key players (along with the idiocy of VAR) but it is alarming to see the same issues repeating themselves again and again and again without resolution over a long period of time E.g facing the most shots, conceding most goals from set pieces, etc. Continuing themes that make you question what is going on every week at training and tactically. What was Guilbert doing marking Rodri in the cup final (a player who is apparently the only aerial threat for Man City at set pieces), El Mo continuing to mark J.Evans tonight when it was clearly not working.

Sure, question the squad the club has put together but teams with less resources than Villa in this league are doing more and fighting more.

Agree with pretty much all of that, sadly.

[Perthvillan]

It's the hope that kills you.
Up until the Southampton game I still thought we had a decent chance of avoiding the drop.
The manner of the two latest defeats in the league at Southampton and tonight have taken all my hope away.
It's supposed to be a relegation "fight" we're in but there is no fight.
It's very much like 2016 all over again and like then we are rapidly becoming a laughing stock.
I always watch the games through to the end but tonight after the third went in I couldn't watch anymore.
I feel for our fans at the game as they had to witness that and get soaked into the bargain.

[Villafirst]

Really good tactic this 'zonal' marking - you know, mark the space not the player. Incredible amount of free headers to Leicester and players mismatched in height against taller players. Who on earth is instigating these tactics??