Burton Albion vs Aston Villa match thread

[Toronto Villa]

Ollie Rosenthal?

Not even remotely close

[Nii Lamptey]

poor start and hopefully this fixture is being used to keep the fitness up of players we want to move on.

Grealish , very good.
Watkins, Good, but needs to put a chance like the one off the Bar away
Taylor, excellent
Nakamba, great work rate

Everyone else , average or poor

What about Ramsay? He hasn’t done badly. The only part of our midfield that’s totally dysfunctional is Henri..... absolute waste of a shirt

[Bad English]

Anyone got, ahem, anything to pm me? I'd like to suffer with you all.

[hilts_coolerking]

We were ordinary for the first bit but improved well after that.  Watkins has done well, Grealish is at the heart of everything and has got good support from Taylor.  Ramsey has buzzed around with energy and commitment albeit without producing much.  Central midfield are anonymous and Nakamba hasn't had a great game.  He had the ball nicked off him just after we equalised that almost led to Burton going in front again.

[Toronto Villa]

Lansbury just doesn’t care enough about football. He’s a poor mans David Bentley

[UK Redsox]

Peddled away on my exercise bike, watching 40 mins of mostly garbage.

Get off to go for a shower and miss the goal and another decent chance 

[Legion]

Lansbury is a slice, not a loaf.

[Flin5tone]

poor start and hopefully this fixture is being used to keep the fitness up of players we want to move on.

Grealish , very good.
Watkins, Good, but needs to put a chance like the one off the Bar away
Taylor, excellent
Nakamba, great work rate

Everyone else , average or poor

What about Ramsay? He hasn’t done badly. The only part of our midfield that’s totally dysfunctional is Henri..... absolute waste of a shirt

Not really noticed him in the Game.

Lansbury is a complete waste. think we'd struggle to move him on

[Mister E]

What a shambles!

Not great but the No. 9 is clearly offside and right in front of Nyland

I've just seen the replay: you're totally right. Poor linesmanning, and the vacuous expert summarisers didn't pick it up either.
Well done, you!

[Bad English]

Peddled away on my exercise bike,m

How much did you earn?

[john e]

Lansbury just doesn’t care enough about football. He’s a poor mans David Bentley

Think you might be right there

[Bad English]

Anyone got, ahem, anything to pm me? I'd like to suffer with you all.

Sorted. Ta!

[olaftab]

I'm struggling to work out what Dean Smith's thinking is regarding the fringe players he has out.  With the exception of Ramsey, who is doing fine, he knows exactly what the others bring or don't bring to the team.  It's the first game of the season and surely he should be working on match fitness for his preferred line-up and not giving opportunities to players who, for the most part won't get a look in.

Agreed Dave. It seems nowadays it's almost obligatory to use squad players in the cup but at this stage in the season and particularly as we did not play this weekend gone and  play our first league match in 6 days it's a nonsense approach IMO.

[Nii Lamptey]

Lansbury just doesn’t care enough about football. He’s a poor mans David Bentley

Think you might be right there

Nail on the head. Villa are his meal ticket to retirement.

[Three Spires Villa]

Ramsey has looked good, better than Lansbury. We will win this but that first half was hard to watch, we can not break teams down