Aston Villa v Southampton Post Match Thread

[SoccerHQ]

Oh and despite the inevitable doom and gloom, we win our game in hand, we’d be joint 2nd.

Err you do know it's Man City away don't you?.

City score and concede a fair few goals (as do we). I predict a 3-3 draw.

Game won't be played until January at earliest so it's not really worth bothering about. Would rather have played them now though as by then Aguero will probably be on 10 match scoring streak and De Bruyne will be fully fit.

[andyh]

No doubt we’ll hear form smith that he laid into them at half time.
If that’s the case, maybe it’d help if he installed the same fight and attitude before the game starts.

[ChicagoLion]

The game was lost when we failed to mark the Giant and they scored. The second half is almost irrelevant because they took their foot off the gas and bought on some squad players.

[Drummond]

Oh and their keeper did well too...

[edgysatsuma89]

I mean obviously we were better 2nd half but they were 4-0 up. They simply didn't need to try which gave us more chances to attack. It pretty much always happens, I know not every time but psychologically you naturally sit off most the time. I'm still bothered that when they did try they succeeded.

[RamboandBruno]

Oh and despite the inevitable doom and gloom, we win our game in hand, we’d be joint 2nd.

Err you do know it's Man City away don't you?.

City score and concede a fair few goals (as do we). I predict a 3-3 draw.

I was thinking this as I typed and thought feck it anyway, you never know. Point remains, we’re not too far off the top end.

[SoccerHQ]

I mean obviously we were better 2nd half but they were 4-0 up. They simply didn't need to try which gave us more chances to attack. It pretty much always happens, I know not every time but psychologically you naturally sit off most the time. I'm still bothered that when they did try they succeeded.

Was a bit like when we went 3 up at Fulham and understandably tailed off. Fulham had goal ruled out by VAR and Martinez made some other saves.

It's understandable particularly from teams who press opposition as much as they do.

What we need to do is start the Arsenal game focused and like we're awake which didn't happen today.

[Bobby Boy]

We've been collectively very poor in midfield the last couple of weeks and this has really put us in a bad spot. Barkley, McGinn and Douglas Luiz haven't matched their opponents for workrate and intensity and we've been in trouble as a result.

Thought that Barkley and McGinn in particular really struggled. No-one should be unsubbable or undroppable regardless of their reputation or status.

McGinn and Barkley should be concerned about their places at Arsenal. Doubt it will happen but they can't feel that they cannot be dropped.

[paul_e]

I mean obviously we were better 2nd half but they were 4-0 up. They simply didn't need to try which gave us more chances to attack. It pretty much always happens, I know not every time but psychologically you naturally sit off most the time. I'm still bothered that when they did try they succeeded.

Their 3rd and 4th were caused by counter-attacks because we were pushing forward so they came just much as a consequence of the game situation as our 3 did. We shouldn't dismiss our goals as them just deciding to take it easy, it's insulting to both teams and isn't really true.

[CT Villan]

Sloppy play and poor tactics for the first hour. We can't just turn up for portions of the game - especially after it's already over.

The free-kicks we gave away were criminal, as was expecting Gimli McGinn to mark the Giant.

Their keeper had a good game too.

[Bad English]

6th with a game in hand. Up the Villa!

[Percy McCarthy]

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

Glad I don't sit next to you

You’d have a job.

Why though?

[wince]

Need to learn that just because we spanked the bin dippers doesn’t make us Charlie big bollocks. Let’s hope this isn’t a losing streak coming our way

[four fornicholl]

6th with a game in hand. Up the Villa!

Just wondering, how long are we going to have this game in hand for?

[jwarry]

Bizarrely I have no idea what we did different in the last 30 mins, and I don’t buy the Saints took their foot off the pedal crap, but we need to learn from that.  Suspect it was the fullbacks pushing further up and when Cash didn’t do as he was told Elmo did