Aston Villa v Southampton Post Match Thread

[PeterWithesShin]

Hopefully we take the positves from that last half hour, and really fucking learn from that first hour.

[Toronto Villa]

Scoring 3 isn’t great if you concede 4.

[Monty]

Weirdly, overall, I thought we were the better side. Our good half was better than theirs, and we made more actual chances. They scored three absolutely stupid goals though, so that's that.

[Percy McCarthy]

Goal for Olly, bit of magic from Jack. Nothing else happened.

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

Fair play to us for fighting back from 4-0 down, but we lost the game in the first half.

Onwards and back upwards!

[LukeJames]

The intelligence in the first half was pathetic. Southampton done us on set pieces at VP last season and we allowed them to do it again.

When we go behind we lose, its as simple as that.

The one thing I want to see when we're down and out is some fight and desire so fair play for the last half an hour.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Goal for Olly, bit of magic from Jack. Nothing else happened.

Glad I don't sit next to you

[timeoutbigbar]

Glad they made a fist of it second half, hopefully gives us something positive to take away from it.  I so nearly didn't put the second half on, and so nearly turned off at 4.   Im glad I didn't now as although we lost it feels like there is something there to build on for next week.  I think we'll beat Arsenal now.  Im not sure why but I do.

[TopDeck113]

At least we didn't throw in the towel and concede five or six. 

Ultimately, we got our shit together too late, but we're back scoring and the performance for the last quarter of the game was pretty good.  First half was the very definition of insanity.

[TonyD]

Weird game. 
We don’t tend to win if McGinn has a poor game.
I’m worried Cash isn’t good enough.
Jack is still awesome. 
Elmo to start next match please. 

[dave17]

Positives
The comeback
Grealish
Watkins scoring

Negatives
The first half
Mcginn Barkley cash Mings
Not learning from our previous mistakes
The reliably awful nbc commentary team pundits and host

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Two post match threads ...This one I think we will make Europe, the other we're going down.

[PaulWinch again]

We’ve got to find our defensive strength as a team again. You can’t concede 3 and 4 in consecutive games and expect get any points. Nice that we clawed back some goals at the end, but not good enough.

McGinn has been atrocious the last two games.

We need to be much much better.

[Toronto Villa]

We played into their hands in the first half and we got battered for it. They have a really good and confident team and an excellent manager. We got battered by letting them play. They switched off a bit in the second after going up 4-0 which allowed us to get back into it. Our three goals shouldn’t mask all that happened before when they truly were up for it. The stats will be deceptive. They were the better side when they needed to be.

[manic-road]

Lost the game in the first half because of a woeful effort, better second half with the Southampton keeper having to make several saves.