Aston Villa vs Brighton post-match thread

[TonyD]

Sloppy defending for both goals.

And missing sitters means you lose games.

Trez is a luxury player that holds us back from being consistent.   He has so much of the play with so little to show from it. 

[ktvillan]

Poor in defence but should have got a draw, deserved a draw, robbed of a draw.  That penalty decision is an utter joke, up there with the Fernandes penalty and the Palace disallowed goal.  We do get fucked over a fair bit by refs and VAR.

Grealish looked off the pace second half, Mings dreadful all through,  and Trezeguet, why did our three best chances fall to a bloke who shits his pants and swings a leg.

[Malandro]

Smash and grab.

I wonder how many points Mings has cost us over the last two years?
I think he's a very decent player but a fair few of the goals conceded have been laughable.

[ChicagoLion]

For all our huff and puff, their goalie barely made a save.
Crap corners, crap crosses. Crap defending and crap referee.

Agree our set pieces were woeful yet again
Little point having the most fouled player in the league if you are useless at freekicks.

[wolfman999]

I can see why the penalty wasn’t given the point is though that we were failing in too many aspects of our game to make that a certain win.
You can not give the opposition 2 goals and expect to win too many games.
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Then your’re in a minority of one then. Stone wall penalty for anyone else.

[SoccerHQ]

Hugely disappointing loss.

Guess I was wrong thinking we were much better without fans at VP.

Seems like we thought we'd done the hard work getting back to 1-1 and then we eased off straight away and damage was done.

We really need to sort out our shape in home games as it's too easy for oppo to break through between our midfield and attack. Perhaps putting in another DM alongside Luiz is the answer and have more disciplined shape.

We also need more in January. Pretty much every other club in league has a reliable plan B striker to chuck on in home games they're losing, we don't and it's costing us points.

[Monty]

I guess we just remain incorrigibly Villa.

[olaftab]

Stonewall. Just because their player got a touch? if he not fouled Trez the ball was his and March was beaten. A foul is a foul. Getting an accidentally touch on the ball doesn’t absolve   March from his misdeed.

[colin69]

How on earth that wasn’t a penalty is beyond me. Trez made a meal of it but it was a foul end of story. I don’t think theirs was a sending off though. Good game to watch for the neutral I guess but so disappointing in the end for us. The games are just impossible to predict at the moment. Brighton are a decent side though and play some nice stuff.

[TonyD]

I can see why the penalty wasn’t given, the point is though that we were failing in too many aspects of our game to make that a certain win.
You can not give the opposition 2 goals and expect to win too many games.

I can see why the penalty wasn’t given, the point is though that we were failing in too many aspects of our game to make that a certain win.
You can not give the opposition 2 goals and expect to win too many games.

Then your’re in a minority of one then. Stone wall penalty for anyone else.

I thought the pen looked iffy and could be argued either way.

[TopDeck113]

This result was probably on the cards as soon as we started talking about an easier run of fixtures... 

The home form is worrying and it needs to be fixed asap.  If we have any aspirations to be challenging for European places, Villa Park needs to be a place where most away sides expect a defeat and feel relieved if they come away with a narrow defeat/point.

[Vegas]

I can see why the penalty wasn’t given, the point is though that we were failing in too many aspects of our game to make that a certain win.
You can not give the opposition 2 goals and expect to win too many games.

I can see why the penalty wasn’t given, the point is though that we were failing in too many aspects of our game to make that a certain win.
You can not give the opposition 2 goals and expect to win too many games.

Then your’re in a minority of one then. Stone wall penalty for anyone else.

Not a minority of one. I also can see why it wasn’t given. Fucking annoying though.

[martyn ellis]

We did enough in that game to win it comfortably, but Dean wants to go back to the psychology he used for the defence in time for project restart. We looked terrific at times going forwward and despite losing Barkley were on top. Couldn't handle their counters, our passing was at times sloppy (hands up McGinn), and Trez needs to settle himself before whacking it oiver the bad - every time.

[ez]

Referee looked at one angle and saw the defender touch the ball. Anything after that like the kick to the shin was judged irrelevant.

[TonyD]

Taking Luiz off was a big balls up.