WBA vs Aston Villa Match Thread

[villadelph]

Watkins must be feeling very frustrated. Never has anybody anywhere near him so the defenders have the easy option all the time. He can’t be expected to find goals from nowhere.

Agreed. He won the header that put the ball onto Traore's foot for El Ghazi's goal. We need to see more of it.

[Goldie.7]

Watkins needs to do more. His first touch has been abysmal, he would have more success in this match coming to the ball instead of making runs off it.

[CT]

Just need that second goal now to kill off prehistoric Sam and his team of cloggers.

He must be so proud of his captain for doing that.

I really hope we batter them senseless now. FTA.

[Nii Lamptey]

Yep. Ollie is isolated.. could maybe do with a midfielder tucked in to catch his knock downs. Barkley would be that player normally... with Jack in the 10 slot, he should be further forward supporting him.

[gpbarr]

Take Watkins off - this isn’t the game for him, he does better when he can use his pace behind but there will be precious of that in 2nd Half.

Bring Jacob or Conor on

[jwarry]

Gonna be hard second half as we all know Fat Sam will give them clear instructions. But I’m confident we have enough nous this year against 10 than we’ve had in recent years

[Toronto Villa]

HT Overall this has been ok and no more. We are the better side. We deserve to be winning.

We're all over them.

We’ve had a lot more possession. We’ve not carved out any clear cut chances since the goal. They are closing us down quickly and regrouping very fast outside the box and parking the bus any deeper. And will be more so now they’re down to 10 men. We need to be more creative if we want to see this through comfortably.

[Skerra]

I also think that, tonight, Ollie’s anticipation is poor and, has been played in well on a couple of occasions but, control has let him down.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

No offence to our neighbours but this is like playing Walsall. We need to punish this lot second half. Poorest team I've seen this season. They don't even look half-arsed.

[olaftab]

Yep. Ollie is isolated.. could maybe do with a midfielder tucked in to catch his knock downs. Barkley would be that player normally... with Jack in the 10 slot, he should be further forward supporting him.

McGinn needs to lurk around there especially now that we are one man better off.

[Villa Lew]

Traore superb

[SashasGrandad]

Need Davis on up front to support Ollie and take some of their defenders away from him

[olaftab]

No offence to our neighbours but this is like playing Walsall. We need to punish this lot second half. Poorest team I've seen this season. They don't even look half-arsed.

I was thinking that. It seems like game against opposition from 2 divisions below. Not that I want to curse it and turn them into Eastern Brazil in the second half.

[rob_bridge]

Traore superb

Been very good

[Des Little]

Early goal this half and we should look to tie this game up