Aston Villa v Sheff United Post Match Thread

[andyh]

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"

Yay...I have a stalker.

[Sexual Ealing]

If it hadn't been for the presence of a goalkeeper, a goalpost and a defender the technology would've worked perfectly.
https://twitter.com/Hawkeye_view/status/1273329766750445569

If we stay up by a GD of one (which is unlikely), or even by a point, I can see some costly legal action ahead for Hawkeye and the PL.

[Smithy]

Definitely had that 'pre-season' training match feel to it. Everyone looked knackered for the last 15 minutes.  I think we got to see what impact the crowd can have. That said, I thought we were better defensively, and I don't mean just the defence, I thought the tracking and shape was much better when we didn't have possession.

A few positives - I thought Luiz was great, and Davis put himself about a bit (he would have had a goal if he had more of a striker's instinct when the ball went across the box, and Henderson's save at the near post from him in the first half was very good). Targett also did quite well considering he looked about half a stone overweight to me.

Negatives - we're still not creating good clear-cut chances. Hause always looks like he has a rick in him when he's given time on the ball. McGinn was very rusty, and looked more than a yard off the pace.  There was one passage in the second half where he bounced two midfielders off his arse, as he does when he's at his best, and I thought "that's more like it!" and then he massively overhit the relatively straight forward through ball - that's a rusty player, unfortunately.  My only hope is that 75 mins brings him some much-needed match sharpness before the weekend.  Like Targett, he looked a bit overweight?

Yes, they should have had a goal, but they didn't deserve one, and we should be pleased with the clean sheet - that's a huge positive.  If we're not shipping goals I'm still confident we'll get a few at the other end.  But without clean sheets we simply won't get two or three we'll need to win games.

[Villa Lew]

Missed a good opportunity to get 3 points, especially as Sheffield United had their best defender, O'Connell, out, but apart from a couple of chances for Davis rarely looked like winning the match.

SJM looked as if he hadn't played for 6 months, but the good news he's got 76 minutes under his belt and Jack, not quite at his best, still showed moments of class. Good news, apart from the non goal and Hause's cock up, we looked pretty solid at the back and one of our very few clean sheets.

[hilts_coolerking]

So the decision from Hawkeye has just come in: goal.

"Hawkeye said it "unreservedly apologises", and acknowledged that the ball had gone over the line."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53086360

[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"

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!!!!

And this is the place to express our opinions. He had his and i had mine. It's kinda how these forums work.

[mr underhill]

Davis is not a striker, let alone a lone striker. He simply can't score - the early header missed was a good opportunity squandered. The game and the lack of atmosphere lured me back to  Netflix. But at least we didn't lose.

[Legion]

https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/12009106/blades-denied-after-goal-line-tech-error

[The Moose]

I'm surprised they haven't retrospectively awarded the goal and three points to United! VAR seems to take a good while.

[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.

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.

If they were ordinary today it was, in no small part, because we made it hard for them to play their normal game but fundamentally they're still a very defensive team and we struggled to break them down. 11 clean sheets before today shows we're not alone in that.

[PeterWithesShin]

A Twitter reply to the Hawk-Eye statement

Dear Hawk-Eye ... I'm in the USA and I could see the ball was over the line, have you considered a trip to Specsavers? Or Barnard Castle?

[Steve67]

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.

We matched them.  Does that make us as good as them? The season as we knew it has gone.  10 game sprint, that's all.

[PaulWinch again]

We were solid, that’s a plus. Need Jack, Aly, SJM to get up to speed fast.

[TonyD]

there away support was shit
Never heard a peep the whole match

Leeds would have made more noise.

Everton would have taken 20,000

[Matt C]

Had an air of pre-season friendly about it but I thought we at least looked more solid. Got a massive slice of luck with the technology but it’s about time.