Aston Villa vs Stoke City - League Cup Rd 4 Match Thread

[ozzjim]

The passing all over the park is far too loose. Hause, Lansbury, El Ghazi,  Davis and Taylor are all consistently giving it away cheaply.

Its making it far too difficult to create a platform in the game.

That said, as poor as our play has been, we should be winning.

Taylor and Lansbury in particular have been pathetically bad. Lansbury just isn't good enough at all. Ramsey looks 10 times the player.

El Ghazi at least looks like he is trying to make things happen in fairness to him, just not really happening.

[wolfman999]

Shit game but my Romanian is coming on a treat from the stream I’ve got.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Thats more like the villa I'm accustomed to watching..

Indeed. Very last season.

[Risso]

Davis must just panic like a bastard when he gets a chance. "This is it, I got it, I got it!  I don't got it."

[ozzjim]

Davis in open-goal miss shocker.

I was quite shocked to see him anywhere near the ball so close to goal, mind.

If we ever find ourselves relying on him to provide goals, we're fucked.

He makes Heskey look like Gerd Muller.

Scary isn't it.

[Risso]

Has Taylor ever done anything since being at Villa other than receive the ball, tun round, and pass it backwards?

[Toronto Villa]

As much as most of us are happy with the window so far, you can see how fragile it is just below the top 16/17 players.

[lovejoy]

I just don’t think Davis will make it at the top level, he doesn’t have the killer instinct. Championship player at best.

[cdbearsfan]

Mon Villa murder them this half please.

[Toronto Villa]

They better have received a bollocking at HT.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Davis must just panic like a bastard when he gets a chance. "This is it, I got it, I got it!  I don't got it."

If I'm being kind, I'd say he was all lined up to score from the cross from the left but Ramsey got there first.

[Chris_Jephcott]

They better have received a bollocking at HT.

I don’t know if they did, but I did for leaving the toilet seat up.

[paul_e]

Hause, Taylor and Lansbury have been awful. AEG and Davis slightly better but still poor. When half the team look out of sorts it's hard to have any fluency. I feel for Ramsey, Guilbert and Traore who are trying to make things happen but every time they look up they see statues.

[pauliewalnuts]

Traore looks like the singer (who turned out not to be singing at all) in Black Box.

[Matt C]

As much as most of us are happy with the window so far, you can see how fragile it is just below the top 16/17 players.

Very much so, scratch beyond the surface and we’re pretty weak but it will take time to undo years of mediocrity I guess.