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Author Topic: Aston Villa 0 v Stoke 1 Post-Match Thread  (Read 15395 times)

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Re: Aston Villa 0 v Stoke 1 How the hell did we survive post match thread
« Reply #15 on: October 01, 2020, 09:00:53 PM »
Starting line up didn't help matters. Playing Elmo centre back was a bit of a farce. Thought AEG, Guilbert and Nakamba did ok. Some others were very poor and others dreadful. It was worrying how bad the likes of Traore and Davis were. Season on loan in championship might be needed for Ramsey, struggled with the physicality of it tonight.

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Re: Aston Villa 0 v Stoke 1 How the hell did we survive post match thread
« Reply #16 on: October 01, 2020, 09:00:53 PM »
In reality we fielded a majority team that contained players we'd have been disappointed with in the Championship. We came up against an incredibly limited, but hugely organised side defensively and fluffed two absolute sitters.

Lansbury
Davis
Elmore
House
Taylor
El Ghazi
Steer

All not Premier League quality and with the toughest game of the season to come its no surprise we made so many changes.

A real lack of composure and tempo in our passing. It starts from the back and filters into midfield.

Think our fist XI would have demolished them, but it is what it is. We've confirmed what we knew already, that the squad is weak and likely will be for a few more cycles of the window.
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Re: Aston Villa 0 v Stoke 1 How the hell did we survive post match thread
« Reply #17 on: October 01, 2020, 09:00:55 PM »
What that tells us is that if we have to rely on any of the second stringers, we're screwed.

Special levels of shitness from Davis, Hause, Lansbury, Taylor though.

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Re: Aston Villa 0 v Stoke 1 How the hell did we survive post match thread
« Reply #18 on: October 01, 2020, 09:01:29 PM »
That team selection tonight screamed out "we couldn't give a shit about the league cup".

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Re: Aston Villa 0 v Stoke 1 How the hell did we survive post match thread
« Reply #19 on: October 01, 2020, 09:01:31 PM »
Very annoyed. Shite.

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Re: Aston Villa 0 v Stoke 1 How the hell did we survive post match thread
« Reply #20 on: October 01, 2020, 09:01:32 PM »
Too many sideways pass merchants and no alternatives to the 4-3-3. O'Neill out thought Smith in every aspect of tonight. They looked like the Prem team.

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Re: Aston Villa 0 v Stoke 1 How the hell did we survive post match thread
« Reply #21 on: October 01, 2020, 09:01:40 PM »
We can criticise players such as Davis, Angela and Taylor but at the  end of the day the didn’t produce anything that we didn’t expect. They’ve played like that time after time when they’ve all been selected. They didn’t pick themselves, just have to face it that Dean got it massively wrong tonight. Left it way to long to change it as well.

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Re: Aston Villa 0 v Stoke 1 How the hell did we survive post match thread
« Reply #22 on: October 01, 2020, 09:01:47 PM »
That game shows the importance of the first 11 avoiding injuries.

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Re: Aston Villa 0 v Stoke 1 How the hell did we survive post match thread
« Reply #23 on: October 01, 2020, 09:02:14 PM »
Yeeshk. Timely bump down to earth about the squad.
Come on, it had to come sooner or later. Shame it was tonight. Wasted opportunity to have another nice cup run!

I'd been enjoying this season's condensed League Cup. Note I've used the past tense!  :(

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Re: Aston Villa 0 v Stoke 1 How the hell did we survive post match thread
« Reply #24 on: October 01, 2020, 09:02:20 PM »
However, finally, finally, some real good has come out of the coronavirus.

Had the pandemic not happened, I'd probably have paid a tenner to go and sit with 20,000 other miserable people to go and watch that and be sat in my car trying to get back to the motorway about now.

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Re: Aston Villa 0 v Stoke 1 How the hell did we survive post match thread
« Reply #25 on: October 01, 2020, 09:02:33 PM »
Wouldn't be Villa without reminding us not to get ideas above our stations. O'Neill made a name for himself at Norn Iron as a manager who grinds out wins based on organised, physical defenders and decent players in the air in the other box. Sounds like he's maintained that. A bitch to play against once you're losing but this is a really disappointing result and performance. I would predict at least one or two have played their last game for the Villa.

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Re: Aston Villa 0 v Stoke 1 How the hell did we survive post match thread
« Reply #26 on: October 01, 2020, 09:03:12 PM »
It’s probably obvious to a lot of them they are surplus to requirements... the know they aren’t good enough.

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Re: Aston Villa 0 v Stoke 1 How the hell did we survive post match thread
« Reply #27 on: October 01, 2020, 09:03:51 PM »
Credit to Stoke, they deserved that. We are stuck with so much dead wood. Who in their right mind would want any of that lot. Headless chickens without a sign of any tactics. Shocking performance.

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Re: Aston Villa 0 v Stoke 1 How the hell did we survive post match thread
« Reply #28 on: October 01, 2020, 09:03:53 PM »
I knew this second string side wouldn't get past them if they nicked a goal. I rate them all 0.

Davis is not a goal scorer in a million years and wasn't deserving of a new 4 year contract. He holds the ball up well sometimes and that's about it.

Lansbury is a disgrace, he doesn't even look fit.

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Re: Aston Villa 0 v Stoke 1 How the hell did we survive post match thread
« Reply #29 on: October 01, 2020, 09:04:30 PM »
That team selection tonight screamed out "we couldn't give a shit about the league cup".


It was the same as last weeks.

 


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