Leicester v Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[langleylions]

yes but what i mean is ' usually ' teams have a manager that might not have played high but was supplemented by top players as coaches , we have a manager & coach that were shit players and are shit coaches !! and a coach that was a good player but is a shit coach !!!

[Ads]

Cant we start rationing punctuation as well as loo roll. It's far too dramatic for this time of the morning.

[Risso]

It doesn't matter what level you played a conclusion you draw from your point that Smith was a lower league player and Terry won everything, yet we still look an uncoached shambles.

my point is we have two blokes that were shit players and are lets say not good coaches and we have terry who has no coaching experience at all !!!!!!

By the law of averages across past and recent history most successful managers weren’t top players. It doesn’t matter what level our coaches played at, it matters whether they can coach successfully at this level, look to exploit opponents weaknesses etc, unfortunately at the moment that looks a big no

Spot on.  Managers like Wenger, Mourinho and Rodgers hardly played the game.  Klopp was never a great player either.

[Clampy]

One thing I didn't get last night was why we didn't go with five at the back which worked well against them over two cup games.

[Drummond]

Leicester learnt the lessons from losing to us in the semi-final. They have the ability and experience to up their game, and they did. We, as usual, went behind catastrophically, wtf was Reina doing? Guilbert has become like Hutton, bursting forward and then getting caught horribly out of position.

Grealish can't continue to carry everyone.

Samatta tried.

Nakamba tried. Luiz needs better players around him to learn from.

Hourihane wasn't as bad as some have made out but again needs someone better alongside. We're short of a decent, solid midfield and some pace up front to trouble teams.

The set piece stuff just isn't working, which is a big concern.

Barnes and Vardy in particular were just too quick. They were well drilled too. I go back to my first point. They learnt lessons and the experience and quality told.

We just haven't got the depth to drop a few and put someone else in either.

[Fin Feds Dad]

One thing I didn't get last night was why we didn't go with five at the back which worked well against them over two cup games.

And why we didn't go with the keeper who played so well against them in the two cup games (and did pretty well last week in the final too)

[Nunkin1965]

Did the players not realize that just because there was no handshake  before the game they were allowed to have physical contact during it?

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Performance level very poor. 4 attempts at goal with only 1 on target means we were never really in the game despite what Dean thinks (especially with our defensive record). ALL the players were culpable, as were Dean and his coaching staff.
Jack is a fantastic footballer but imo he's not a leader/captain on the pitch. Watford away and the final last week has shown me that. He 's not  reached legendary status yet (see Gordon Cowans for definition), so I want Villa to build a team around him (for many years to come), so he can become a legend in the true sense of the word; but he has to want it too. I sincerely hope his head hasn't already been turned because what's currently happening with him would be a sad way to end his Villa career.
With perspective in mind, we were never going to get 3 points last night. One was as much as I was hoping for and that would have left us in the bottom 3 with 10 to go. The nature of the performance is what's upsetting (more so than the expected result). Other teams around us are still as sh-t today as they were yesterday. Obviously we have to improve and some things do have to change if we are to give ourselves any chance at all in improving performances and getting much needed results. UTV!

[darren woolley]

Very disappointed with the performance we really need put points on board before we get cut adrift.

[robbo1874]

also once again we have a group of players that i hate !! there aint one team in the last 10 years that the fans can be proud of and players to ' like ' and sing there names etc .. and so the circle begins again until in 3 years we have another set of players to be ashamed of , totally depressing and not even when i watched us in the 3rd division was i ashamed of us , in fact the opposite cuz no matter how shit we was we was in it together and the players cared !!!

i have to disagree with that post. I was very proud of the side that went on the 10 game winning streak and got us promoted last season. Even earlier on and at sporadic times this season, they’ve inspired pride in the fans, but the inconsistency we’ve seen is mainly down to a combination of lack of quality in both players and coaching staff, I think. Tuanzebe and Abraham might have made a difference if we could have kept them.

[pauliewalnuts]

Vardy, in his period off the bench, showed three times as much energy and commitment as our entire team combined.

Disgraceful.

[VillaBoy_23]

also once again we have a group of players that i hate !! there aint one team in the last 10 years that the fans can be proud of and players to ' like ' and sing there names etc .. and so the circle begins again until in 3 years we have another set of players to be ashamed of , totally depressing and not even when i watched us in the 3rd division was i ashamed of us , in fact the opposite cuz no matter how shit we was we was in it together and the players cared !!!

i have to disagree with that post. I was very proud of the side that went on the 10 game winning streak and got us promoted last season. Even earlier on and at sporadic times this season, they’ve inspired pride in the fans, but the inconsistency we’ve seen is mainly down to a combination of lack of quality in both players and coaching staff, I think. Tuanzebe and Abraham might have made a difference if we could have kept them.

I agree. Once again the complete hyperbolic nonsense that follows a defeat is here for all to see.

[Risso]

Vardy came on, a few idiot Villa fans sang a nasty song about his wife, then with his first touch, he scored a penalty.  Karma.

[PaulWinch again]

Vardy came on, a few idiot Villa fans sang a nasty song about his wife, then with his first touch, he scored a penalty.  Karma.

Yep I don’t really get the taunting of opposition like that. It often backfired.

[Walmley_Villa]

Not a lot to say but we started well (for a change away from home) but then our most experienced player had a mental meltdown leading to their goal. That destroyed the fragile confidence that we had. Regardless of Dean's comments regarding solid defensive shape we yet again barely laid a glove on the opposition. You have to feel for Samatta who like Wesley before him has very little supply of any note. We got away with it earlier in the season as the midfielders were scoring but even that has now dried up. Without McGinn we have no pace or press in the middle leaving the low on confidence defence exposed game after game.

Defensively we have been a mess for a while, the zonal marking at set pieces isn't working and the stats back this up. Elmo marking Evans at corners was commented on by Sky a number of times and we always looked vulnerable. 

It is difficult to see where we are going to pick any points up at the moment and confidence is on the floor. Purslow must be using every trick in the book to reassure the owners but their patience won't last forever.