Brighton 0-0 Aston Villa post match thread

[TonyD]

Fuck.

I was really and genuinely looking forward to us playing in Europe next season.

Had all sorts of thoughts of us all travelling away and singing load and proud somewhere.  (If restrictions allowed)

Dean n Co.  Please sort the midfield out and make it happen. 

[Bobby Boy]

Refreshingly honest interview from Martinez there.

Brighton had 26 shots. If we had lost 3-0 we couldn't have argued.

Too many of our forward players contributed absolutely nothing.

Dean has to pick on performance not reputations.

McGinn was poor.Traore and Barkley... Sorry, don't merit their place remotely at the moment.

[Toronto Villa]

That was the performance of a team on 35 points with two games to go. Very worrying.

Eh?

I assume he means a team on 35 points struggling to get out of the bottom 3 with a couple of games left, and not a team on 35 points chasing Europe with almost half a season left.

[Exeter 77]

We lacked ideas tonight and we never seem to do well against three centre backs. Their midfield even smothered our counter attacks and Ollie Watkins was very isolated because we couldn’t get Barkley (who was completely anonymous) close enough to him. That said last season an individual error would have cost us the point.

[N'ZMAV]

Defence was ok, keeper was outstanding. The rest were turd.

Lucky to get away with that.

[Villa Lew]

The good news is we've gone above Spurs.

[paul_e]

We were very poor there's no denying that but that was one of the most pathetic refereeing performances I've seen in years, horribly inconsistent.

[pauliewalnuts]

Have to take a massive positive, though, play pretty terribly, still don't lose.

[hipkiss92]

Martinet is absolutely fantastic. Calling out the rubbish from the outfield players - barring the back 4 tbf

[ez]

I'm glad Martinez is disappointed with that result. He did his bit. If the team were as on it as him we would have won.

[Ads]

Have to take a massive positive, though, play pretty terribly, still don't lose.

Could be worse. Could be Brighton playing "well" and still being that shit.

[N'ZMAV]

The midfield two just couldn’t hack that today.

I wonder if we need to go back to a 3 in midfield for some games.

[Drummond]

They are the form team (other than ManCity) and we nullified each other. They were better but rarely threatened.

It's another point.

Mate, if they rarely threatened, Martinez wouldn’t have needed to be the reincarnation of Dino Zoff 1982

Nah, there were a couple of decent saves but all saves you'd expect him to make.

Proper attitude from him.

I think for the next game Sanson needs to start. I'd also be tempted to start Davis and play Watkins wide. That way, we won't be reliant on Grealish to hold it up and create.

[olaftab]

That was the performance of a team on 35 points with two games to go. Very worrying.

Eh?

I assume he means a team on 35 points struggling to get out of the bottom 3 with a couple of games left, and not a team on 35 points chasing Europe with almost half a season left.

Thanks TV.

[Toronto Villa]

Emi Martinez after half a season is arguably the best keeper we’ve ever had. He’s genuinely that good.