Aston Villa manager Dean Smith: "I'm disappointed. I don't want to be a valiant loser, we're scrapping for points. To out-shoot Liverpool at home at Anfield, in terms of efforts on goal, it's excellent - but need to take our opportunities. We never found the quality in the final third they did."Was it the best time to come to Anfield? Jurgen Klopp teams don't take their foot off the gas, I don't thank him [Klopp] for bringing the three subs on, that strengthened them but we were in the game the whole way through. Unfortunately they beat our press with their quality in the end."It's a tough task but we're still in it that's for sure. Our performances since the restart haven't got the results they deserved. We have got to make the most of our chances. We need to keep the belief in the dressing room, it's some achievement to come here and play as we did but we have to maintain the belief. I thought we more than matched them."
At least we didn't get a hammering and goal diff has not been damaged too much, that may well come on Thursday. As everyone is saying absolutely power puff up front and only real decent chance created was Jack's effort in stoppage time. Gotta be worth a try, starting with Vassilev he can't do any worse than Samatta and Davis and surely Barry should at least be on the bench.
Quote from: hilts_coolerking on July 05, 2020, 07:06:55 PMAston Villa manager Dean Smith: "I'm disappointed. I don't want to be a valiant loser, we're scrapping for points. To out-shoot Liverpool at home at Anfield, in terms of efforts on goal, it's excellent - but need to take our opportunities. We never found the quality in the final third they did."Was it the best time to come to Anfield? Jurgen Klopp teams don't take their foot off the gas, I don't thank him [Klopp] for bringing the three subs on, that strengthened them but we were in the game the whole way through. Unfortunately they beat our press with their quality in the end."It's a tough task but we're still in it that's for sure. Our performances since the restart haven't got the results they deserved. We have got to make the most of our chances. We need to keep the belief in the dressing room, it's some achievement to come here and play as we did but we have to maintain the belief. I thought we more than matched them."He's claiming a moral victory ....deluded or just thick?
Davis was utterly abysmal. A complete non-striker. Every game we have at least one player you don't realise is on the pitch until half time. So many games where it's like we're playing with ten men.
Not defending smith for the sake of it and like others have no idea why Trez stayed on so long and why jota came on at all. But there was nothing wrong with his interview, I’m not really sure what else he could say?
Quote from: Risso on July 05, 2020, 07:17:25 PMDavis was utterly abysmal. A complete non-striker. Every game we have at least one player you don't realise is on the pitch until half time. So many games where it's like we're playing with ten men.Davis is nowhere near good enough and having to play our way out of a relegation dogfight with this young lad upfront is absolute damnation of Pitarch and Purslow's management of our club.
Why does Dean Smith think Keinan Davis is a better option in a relegation fight than a more established and significantly better footballer in Samatta?