Aston Villa v Tottenham Match Thread

[curiousorange]

4-3-3 is crap and we're crap at playing it with the squad we've assembled. The ball was dropped in the transfer window and we've been marking time since.

[Pete3206]

Sanson. Is he any good? Because he's been shite so far.

See also Luiz, Douglas

[andyh]

You can’t keep playing 4-3-3 when your wingers are as piss poor as Trez and Traore.

Agree. But that commands a level of flexibility and nous from the coach.

[CT]

You can’t keep playing 4-4-3 when your wingers are as piss poor as Trez and Traore.

Exactly this. Change to a diamond.

For all his running, Trez offers nothing. Traore is also offering nothing except being sloppy and half arsed in possession. Ollie is literally feeding off scraps and you could tell he was getting frustrated. As was Tyrone.

[jwarry]

Doubt Dean will change it but we are not going to get back into this unless we start getting some shots in which will require a rethink

[Nii Lamptey]

Toothless.... which is so frustrating, as Spurs are shockingly bad! For those clamouring for Jack, cast your mind back to the last few performances WITH him. The rot set in before he got injured so he’s not the knight in shining armour people make him out to be.
This game is done now... At most, Smith will make like for like changes, but with slightly shitter players coming on in their places. The Portuguese Dyche strikes again!

[SamTheMouse]

Traoré has been shite, but at least he has the ability to do something good occasionally.

Trez should be playing for Rotherham or someone.

[ROBBO]

Toothless, no creativity, we don't have a player that can go past his marker. Not sure what DS will do because i can't see any answers on the bench.

[Pete3206]

He has to hook either Trez or Bert, surely?

[frank black]

Playing like a team happy to stay up, been so poor for sometime now.

[Ads]

Think Spurs have been awful all over the pitch myself, we've just been very lacking in the final third. Wouldn't mind seeing a diamond as our best width comes from Targett and Cash, but I don't think we'll see a change of shape mid game.

Sanson out of position, Trez out of his depth. AEG and Barkely for me. Still well within the game and find the reactions on here baffling.

[frank]

You can’t keep playing 4-3-3 when your wingers are as piss poor as Trez and Traore.

substitute them both now

[Bobby Boy]

You can’t keep playing 4-4-3 when your wingers are as piss poor as Trez and Traore.

Exactly this. Change to a diamond.

For all his running, Trez offers nothing. Traore is also offering nothing except being sloppy and half arsed in possession. Ollie is literally feeding off scraps and you could tell he was getting frustrated. As was Tyrone.

Trez should get no credit for running a bit. That's the least anyone should demand.

His lack of quality is spirit draining. But he's not alone in that.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

we are a one man team anyone that thinks different is just fooling themselves

Rubbish! How can you expect us to compete with only 9 players? I'd take off Trez and Traore and replace them with Ramsey. A 10 man Villa team should have enough to beat this lot.

[brontebilly]

Watching that goal back, Cash was dreadful for it. Terrible clearance from Martinez too obviously but Cash doesn't track Moura from the first play.