Post-Match Thread - Aston Villa 1 - 3 Abominable Kit Stealers

[Goldie.7]

Crappy, tippy-tappy, wanky, lacklustre football. Martinez, Barkley, McGinn and Luiz all need to be dropped for Arsenal.

Atrocious, garbage - 1/10.

You’d drop Emi? Come on - he had a bad game, but he’s been great for us.

One bad game? You must've missed his horror show against Burnley. Yes, I'd drop him - Heaton is an excellent keeper.

Barkley > Ramsey
McGinn > Sanson
Luiz > Nakamba

The team has gone stale and it needs freshening up, immediately.

[Risso]

It was just so easy for them tonight, they didn't have to break sweat at any point in the match.

[aev]

Ollie doesn't need a rest.

I thought he played well (again), certainly as he was isolated for much of the time.

[Legion]

Collectively poor. Squad rotation please, Smith.

[Des Little]

That midfield tonight looked dreadfully ponderous, the polar opposite of the Burnley first half.

[SamTheMouse]

Fucking rancid display. Most disappointing thing was they doubled up on Jack, yet we totally failed to take advantage. When Jack finally switched sides, he created a goal. Hopefully we'll learn from that.

[Risso]

Just seen the third goal again.  Absolutely abysmal from Martinez, more or less threw it in.

[coreyfeldman]

There were some shocking performances, the worst were Barkley and Ollie.

Ollie scored and hit the post in one of our worst performances. He was constantly isolated and had barely any service, name me a prem striker who would have done more than him tonight in that team

[Risso]

That midfield tonight looked dreadfully ponderous, the polar opposite of the Burnley first half.

Barkley and McGinn both look overweight and unfit, I've had it with McGinn to be honest, not good enough.

[PeterWithe]

Given the individual and collective lethargy of the first half, singling out El Ghazi for the half time hook didn't strike me as particularly clever management.

I dont know, El Ghazi didn't put a foot right, it was a very, very poor poor half.

[ChicagoLion]

Watching their goals, absolute shambles , Mings Luiz ffs.

[Ads]

Ollie miscontrolling two when Martinez could have thrown his fucking cap on them, doesn't mean Ollie is tired. He's not. He was sharp and scored and could have had more. He had absolutely nobody between him and Mings tonight.

[Risso]

Given the individual and collective lethargy of the first half, singling out El Ghazi for the half time hook didn't strike me as particularly clever management.

I dont know, El Ghazi didn't put a foot right, it was a very, very poor poor half.

I agree, just about the one thing Smith got right to be honest.

[Allan C]

It’s already been said but by a long way our worst performance of the season. Not one player, including Jack played poorly. For me it’s down to fatigue, too many games in such a short space of time. I just glad we’ve been injury free with the amount of games we’ve played. Hopefully there’s not the usual scapegoating cos they were all equally bad tonight

[PaulWinch again]

Douglas looks to have lost his spark a bit - clearly needs a break.