Aston Villa v Chelsea Post Match Thread

[VillaBoy_23]

Attack v Defence training session from start to finish. We’re down and yet another rebuild is on the cards. Is it too much to ask to have an average top flight team? Utter garbage from players and back room staff.

[hilts_coolerking]

The only bit of fight was in the last minute when Jack lost his rag having been tripped over by Cunte for the 20th time of the match (consolatory yellow given). 

If it hadn't been for Jack getting fouled all the time we'd have created nothing.

[SoccerHQ]

We really don't have any belief against top 6/7 teams do we? Yes we were mauled in first half but plenty of teams take undeserved leads and then find a way to close out a 1-0, Newcastle have made it an art form and they've got a similar standard team (and manager) to what we have.

Really disappointinf from the manager again. I think Nakamba is bang average but he's a defensive midfielder so surely you get him on the pitch at 1-0 up? Or when Chelsea make two attacking changes 10 minutes into second half? Instead Dean sits on his hands having his annual zoom call with Terry and O'Kelly and by the time we finally get round to the change we're 1-2 down and it's a wasted sub.

Yeah we're just not good enough for this level. From losing 2-1 at Chelsea in early December to today we've lost 11 out of 16 premier league matches.

Cardiff had a similar game v Chelsea at the back end of last season. Were 1 up and lost that 2-1 so rather than doing a Fulham we seem to be following their path more.

[Steve67]

Not a single Villa player marking for their second goal.  All the conference calls worked wonders for the defenders but we forgot to tell the midfield that they also have to mark too.  Where was the desire to push for the equaliser?  We were so far off the pace that Chelsea simply picked us off.  Douglas Luiz played well I thought but the rest of the midfield were poor.  No point getting rid of Dean Smith now as the only people who will want it are mercenries who will want out when we go down.  An awful watch, clueless from the management team. 

The thing that grips my shit, Chelsea have not won away in 2020.  If you need some form, a centre forward out of touch, not won a game for months, wait til you play the Villa, it'll be Christmas.

[mr underhill]

Jack looked to me like a player who has already checked out.

[dicedlam]

The usual crud served up by our utter spineless wankers.

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

Who can bring us back up?

Jack, SJM and Mings could.

No they won't. They'll be long gone.

[nuninho]

Awful.

Smith needs to improve very quickly or go.

[PaulWinch again]

Very passive and negative. Too many passengers in McGinn and Hourihane, with such poor aggression and ball retention.

Massively disappointing performance and result.

Yep passive and negative sums it up well. McGinn really needs to get up to speed fast. We need to bloody compete, not to hope we’ll nick a goal and cling on.

[CT]

Jack looked to me like a player who has already checked out.

A few others did too. Pretty tough on the fringe players when the so called leaders of the side offer nothing of the sort.

That intensity would have been ok for a pre season friendly.

[Richard E]

The number of games we’ve lost from winning positions. If we’d even ground out a couple of draws from those matches.

[Goldie.7]

Smith out. I'm sick to death of this fucking incompetent idiot being involved in anything football related that involves us.

[LukeJames]

We have a massive inferiority complex.

[pauliewalnuts]

Eight matches left.

We're not out of it mathematically, not by a long way, but we are with this manager.

Eight matches to try and salvage it or to just limply stand and watch it all slip away like Smith does.

This is the absolute last point at which it could work for us, because all the pointers so far are that we're getting pretty much a continuation of the last games before the season was stopped.

[olaftab]

That performance was an epitome of a team destined to be relegated. I understand skill and ability wise we are shit but we should have energy zest and desire.