Aston Villa v Tottenham Match Thread

[balloubaby]

Been dog shit since Christmas and clearly not enough winners in the squad. Too many happy going through the paces and Spurs taking the piss now literally walking pace. We will lose players by not addressing this slide as football moves fast these days and if we appear to accept mediocrity those with ambitions will move on. I know we have made good strides this season but all that good work can so easily slip away...

[CT]

Smith without Grealish looks like a championship manager.

Smith without Grealish IS a championship manager.

Where’s the big input from Terry and Shakespeare then? Plenty lauding them when we were doing well, but they just vanish when our form drops through the floor.

[SoccerHQ]

Very worrying, Burnley, Palace and Brighton to name but 3 of the weaker Prem teams would all have given Spurs more of a game tonight. Something not right.

Burnley and Palace lost 4-0 and 4-1 to them in last three weeks!

Agree on Brighton.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Luiz looks uninterested

[Nii Lamptey]

Dross Barkley

[Smithy]

Hřjbjerg is some player. He's nicked the ball god knows how many times tonight, and been everywhere for them.  We definitely need someone like that in the summer, someone who'll grab it by the scruff of the neck and not give the opposition any time.

[brontebilly]

Luiz looks uninterested

A gutless disgrace today, jumping out of tackles all game....

[Drummond]

Season over ........Will struggle to stay mid table at this rate
So very disappointing ......some big decisions to be made at the end of the season including the manager .......

Yes because getting us to where we are has been shit.

[andyh]

Makes you wonder what the manager is doing to compensate for the loss of his star player?
What tactical changes or game plans he has.

[paul_e]

Is there any chance we'll ever have a run of bad form under Smith and someone won't claim that we only got promoted because of Jack?

[BC Villain]

Been dog shit since Christmas and clearly not enough winners in the squad. Too many happy going through the paces and Spurs taking the piss now literally walking pace. We will lose players by not addressing this slide as football moves fast these days and if we appear to accept mediocrity those with ambitions will move on. I know we have made good strides this season but all that good work can so easily slip away...

Have to say its all becoming very "Pulis-like".  His teams seemed to have the "get to 40 points and then clock off" attitude.

[CT]

Kane is such a cheating shit.

Grabbing his hamstring, looking at the ref and then just gets up.

[brontebilly]

Spurs played on Thursday night, but we're the ones struggling with condition it seems. That's also not a good sign.

It's genuinely embarrassing, it was the same against Leicester recently

[Smirker]

Worst period of the season for us.

Really feeling deflated week after week watching us play. Didn't think we'd be so flat without Jack but it just shows how hard we must make it for anyone to buy him.

Need more quality going forward. That has to be the priority this summer. Traore/Trezeguet/El Ghazi are squad players and not good enough to start games. I hope we don't sign Barkley. And McGinn has been poor for a while now.

International break is needed.

[Monty]

I'm afraid this is just not good enough, and there may be many culprits but, ultimately, one man will take the blame.