Plucky Naive Aston Villa 1-3 Penalty United post match thread

[Toronto Villa]

There’s no worse position in sport than being an Aston Villa team leading at home to Manchester United.

[Goldie.7]

Same old shit, just a different day.

Douglas Luiz is a complete liability. I really hope City buy him back for £30m. He's a non-scoring midfielder who constantly gives away free-kicks in dangerous areas and really stupid, I'm talking imbecile level penalties away.

[TonyD]

That just reminded me quite how much I loathe that club. 

[Uknowthescore]

Luiz fucked up, mings made his usual fuck up, but I bet the ref gets the blame on here.

[PaulWinch again]

Weak is how I’d describe it. Very soft goals to concede. Midfield too often looks to chip it over the top and we lose it. We need to be better in the midfield and when transitioning from defence to midfield. Also can we get a fucking set piece coach in.

[Deano's Mullet]

It’s the hope that kills you.
It really does.

[Toronto Villa]

Naivety as an athlete or as a team is what divides the good from the great.

[BC Villain]

Super performance in the first half, but we give a stupid penalty away and completely lose our heads.  Denied a blatant penalty, but in the end we got what we deserved .  Watkins was a disgrace as well.

[villa for life]

Hate it when your team loses and yet your players are still grinning and chatting with their pals at full time

[kipeye]

Luiz fucked up, mings made his usual fuck up, but I bet the ref gets the blame on here.

if anyone fucked up -it was Martinez. He should have saved that comfortably.

[bilsim]

The sun, the moon and Villa getting shafted against Yanited. I really don't like slating referees as a general rule but that was an outrageously poor performance from Kavanagh.

Going forward we looked much better again and against any other side in world football I imagine we'd have taken at least a point.

[Sexual Ealing]

It's always the most irritating loss of the season. I wish Barkley had played.

[NorthYvillan]

Luiz fucked up, mings made his usual fuck up, but I bet the ref gets the blame on here.

Yes to the first . ? to the second - and the ref's treatment of our players compared to theirs needs has to to take some  blame.

[CT]

Until we match them in the way they influence every single decision in the game, we'll never beat them.

They have the referee in the palm of their hands.

We need to crowd the ref, appeal for that fucking handball. Roll around and scream for a free kick or the inevitable penalty,

Chris Kavanagh - job done as far as he’s concerned. Sure he’ll get a bonus for that.

Finally, is there a bigger c**t in world football than Bruno Fernandes?

[SoccerHQ]

Can't believe how thick Luiz was. Start of second half and they've upped the tempo and are pushing more forward and he keeps nibbling at Pogba and basically just gives a goal away.

Considering what happened in January I find it inexplicable.

We lost belief after that and as usual in this fixture they took full advantage.

How that wasn't a penalty for the handball is beyond me though.

Cavani is a bloody good striker to bring on for last 20 minutes, he tracked back well and class run and finish. Still would like one of those types in our squad, someone who can come on in second half and quickly get into pace of the game and score the odd goal.

Davis put himself about as usual but deciding not to shoot and square it to Ollie sums him up at key moments, just dosen't have that killer mentality.

Will be interested to see how we line up on Thursday. If it goes badly (against a team we dominated a week ago) then I wouldn't say it's a good thing in the long run as expecting Ollie to play every minute of every game next season aswell is a bit complacent.