Villa v Leeds post match thread

[Legion]

A whoosh moment, then. Sorry.

[steamer]

Agree
Shit happens, lets prepare and move on.
Still worried about our ability to change games from the bench as options are limited.

[Luke8]

Should have bought Traore on, he’d have changed the game I reckon

He was brought on.

I think he was being sarcastic

This may be unfair so early in the season, but he's the one signing I am doubtful about. However, he hasn't showed much in the limited time so far to dissuade me

He’s played 42 minutes in the league. I reckon we might need to give him a bit more time.

[Steve67]

When we are bad, we are really bad and the Barkley's and McGinn's are anonymous.  We only know one way of playing and that will be our undoing time and again.  However, we have five piss easy games ahead of us.  Win them all.

[Meanwood Villa]

That was disappointing. Agree that thought it was even until their goal but we went to absolute pieces from there. Fucking hate Leeds so tough one to take.

[brontebilly]

When Bielsa hooked his player off after 20 minutes, I thought it's probably not going to be our night. To be honest, I really respect that sort of ruthlessness from a manager. Smith should have done the same to Barkley after his horror pass at 0-1, which directly resulted in their second.

We gifted them the ball so many times tonight that only losing 0-3 is somewhat of a let off from the hammering that could've easily happened. We were very poor, but in all honestly we were due a loss anyway.

Whatever about his horror pass, Barkley's efforts to stop Leeds from that point on were an absolute disgrace. Should have warranted an immediate substitution and an absolute torching in the dressing room afterwards. Mistakes happen but his lack of effort was completely unacceptable.

[themossman]

I think that was first time we’ve been behind this season and we didn’t cope with it well.

[OzVilla]

Can’t remember Watkins getting any change out of their CB’s either even when we were on top. Same with Barkley.

[ChicagoLion]

When Bielsa hooked his player off after 20 minutes, I thought it's probably not going to be our night. To be honest, I really respect that sort of ruthlessness from a manager. Smith should have done the same to Barkley after his horror pass at 0-1, which directly resulted in their second.

We gifted them the ball so many times tonight that only losing 0-3 is somewhat of a let off from the hammering that could've easily happened. We were very poor, but in all honestly we were due a loss anyway.

Berkeley pass for their first goal was the game changer, he got even worse after that.

[Villa Lew]

Thought Leeds were superb tonight totally outplayed and out fought us, they never once rested on their laurels, even when they were 3 up, they just kept going forward, look at their attack in the last minute of the match, deserve all the plaudits they are getting. I was just grateful it wasn't a heavier defeat.

Dean can't think much of his bench, losing 3 nil and only brings one player on. Still looking on the plus side, it's only one defeat in 5 games, let's hope we will come back against Southampton.

[ChicagoLion]

When Bielsa hooked his player off after 20 minutes, I thought it's probably not going to be our night. To be honest, I really respect that sort of ruthlessness from a manager. Smith should have done the same to Barkley after his horror pass at 0-1, which directly resulted in their second.

We gifted them the ball so many times tonight that only losing 0-3 is somewhat of a let off from the hammering that could've easily happened. We were very poor, but in all honestly we were due a loss anyway.

Whatever about his horror pass, Barkley's efforts to stop Leeds from that point on were an absolute disgrace. Should have warranted an immediate substitution and an absolute torching in the dressing room afterwards. Mistakes happen but his lack of effort was completely unacceptable.

Agree

[OzVilla]

That’s why Barkley lost his place at Chelsea, inconsistency. He’s been great in his first 2 games but looked poor tonight.

[themossman]

I’m a tiny little bit worried about Watkins. He was fine today, made a decent first of his chances. But he struggles to impose himself on defenders which will cause us issues against lower half teams and he still seems a bit short on confidence (strangely, after his hat trick) hence all the extra touches.

[OzVilla]

Results like this happen, Southampton now becomes a very pivotal game for the momentum of our season.

[AlexAlexCropley]

In his defence, I don't think Barkley (or Jack for that matter) look 100% fit.