Aston Villa v Sheff United Post Match Thread

[PaulWinch again]

Luiz motm for me.

I am fairly happy with the point tbh.

Yep he was good.

[Lastfootstamper]

I'm way off the pace... is Samatta not available? Is Wesley not recovered? Is Engels still persona non grata?

Wesley out for the rest of the season.

Which season's that?.

This season. We can't play him nor Heaton as they were left out of the named 25 for the second half of the season. Engels has a knock.

[paul_e]

Though we were ok. No was was particularly good and yet no one had a bad game in my opinion. While thing was a bit flat which is understandable I guess. Everyone looked fucked in the last fifteen minutes.

This is about right. I'd say 7 out 10 performance from the team and pretty much every player.

Where I get frustrated is people who were saying we'd lose before the game are now complaining about a draw which we never deserved to lose and, bar a freak incident and a bit of luck, they never looked like even creating a decent chance. If we play like that for the next 9 games I think we'll be unlucky to not get out of the bottom 3.

[hilts_coolerking]

He isn't the only player to criticise.  Do I have to do it in a specific order?

You can do what you like, and I can disagree with you over it, it's how a forum works.

It's certainly how this forum seems to work.  Anyway, let's agree that Keinan Davis almost never scores and leave it there.

[aldridgeboy]

Relieved and frustrated in equal measure.
Relieved to stop the rot, and we played some decent stuff. A clean sheet is always good. Relieved that technology was actually in our favour for once.

Frustrated that we didn’t score, despite some good chances. Frustrated it’s “only” a point , as we really need to get some wins. Games are running out. This was one out of our ten remaining games, that was hopefully one of the ones we could nick a win.

[The Edge]

With our remaining fixtures, I think we are done for.

Blimey you're at it again! Like my grandad used to say "you"d be no fuckin good in the trenches"

[paul_e]

We were alright, but fundamentally, our lack of spark was glaringly obvious.

It's weird. I have seen us play much, much worse than that, and in many ways we were the better side, but I just haven't seen anything there that makes me think we have enough to stay up.

As I said, no spark, and almost zero pace in the side.

This sums it up perfectly.  We remain a suicide squad and try so hard to fuck it up with Nyland, Hause and Nakamba all playing Russian roulette.  Too many ordinary players to stay up.  Sheffield United are an ordinary side too.  We have no ruthless streak. Still, one game back, all to play for and it's only Chelsea next!

They're 6th, have the 2n best defence in the league and are well in the race for a champions league place, if that's your idea of ordinary then I don't know what it takes for you to think a side are any good.

[paul_e]

This second game is showing what a genuinely bad first day back would really look, Arsenal have had 2 players off injured in 20 minutes. We couldn't stay up today but a handful of injuries could've seen us going down.

[BoVillan esq]

With our remaining fixtures, I think we are done for.

Blimey you're at it again! Like my grandad used to say "you"d be no fuckin good in the trenches"

And he'd be right, there was some good football played in those trenches, the pitch wasn't up to much but that's not the point.

[Three Spires Villa]

With our remaining fixtures, I think we are done for.

Blimey you're at it again! Like my grandad used to say "you"d be no fuckin good in the trenches"

Somebody’s opinion or “attitude” will not keep Villa up or be the reason we get relegated. If it did then let’s all say we are going to win the league next season and we will!!!!

[The Edge]

We lost an outlet when Davis went off. I was very impressed with him.

Me too he had the second best defence in the league rattled several times. Given game time i fancy him to develop into a very useful player.

[Luke8]

Though we were ok. No was was particularly good and yet no one had a bad game in my opinion. While thing was a bit flat which is understandable I guess. Everyone looked fucked in the last fifteen minutes.

This is about right. I'd say 7 out 10 performance from the team and pretty much every player.

Where I get frustrated is people who were saying we'd lose before the game are now complaining about a draw which we never deserved to lose and, bar a freak incident and a bit of luck, they never looked like even creating a decent chance. If we play like that for the next 9 games I think we'll be unlucky to not get out of the bottom 3.

Agreed. The ‘goal’ and two mistakes from Hause and Nakamba was more or less all they really created. We were hardly knocking the door down but definitely had the better chances and they are a good, well organised side.

One point off safety with nine to play is clearly not ideal but it’s hardly a disaster. And we have no idea who all the other teams are going to come back and adjust to this setting either.

[usav]

We were alright, but fundamentally, our lack of spark was glaringly obvious.

It's weird. I have seen us play much, much worse than that, and in many ways we were the better side, but I just haven't seen anything there that makes me think we have enough to stay up.

As I said, no spark, and almost zero pace in the side.

This sums it up perfectly.  We remain a suicide squad and try so hard to fuck it up with Nyland, Hause and Nakamba all playing Russian roulette.  Too many ordinary players to stay up.  Sheffield United are an ordinary side too.  We have no ruthless streak. Still, one game back, all to play for and it's only Chelsea next!

They're 6th, have the 2n best defence in the league and are well in the race for a champions league place, if that's your idea of ordinary then I don't know what it takes for you to think a side are any good.

Maybe he’s just basing it on what he saw today?

I thought we played pretty well and the game had a good pace to it considering......what it really means is we have to pick up points from the easier games, no excuses.

[Luke8]

He isn't the only player to criticise.  Do I have to do it in a specific order?

You can do what you like, and I can disagree with you over it, it's how a forum works.

It's certainly how this forum seems to work.  Anyway, let's agree that Keinan Davis almost never scores and leave it there.

He hardly ever plays to be fair! We looked better with him on the pitch. I think he’ll be a useful player.

[supertom]

We lucked out with the goal, but as said, over the course of the season we've been buggered nine ways of sunday by VAR more often than not. We should have had a penalty. On balance the game was probably fair as a draw. We had the chances, they had the 'goal.'
To be honest, Utd can't complain too much because they didn't seem too interested in trying to win the game. Even toward the end they seemed happy to play out for a draw and never really overly pushed our defence. I could say we looked reasonable at the back but they never really tested us. So on Sunday we'll see just whether things have improved.

On the negative side, we needed a win badly. I think getting ahead of the drop zone at the 29 game mark would have lifted us a bit. We now have a tough run-in and we're still playing catchup. Honestly, I think it's all she wrote now. This was the game.