Aston Villa vs Brentford Post-Match Thread

[Bad English]

Frustrating.

[Hillbilly]

AEG and Luiz were the pick of the bunch. Ollie seemed to gee things up at the end.

[SaddVillan]

Fair result I guess.
Plenty of learning points.

Squad depth better than last season, 3 starters missing, but the team wasn't too bad.
Chucky made his full debut and did quite well.
We STILL NEED A PROPER DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDER.
A number of alternatives off the bench.
Ollie getting back to match fitness.
Hause - you can see why Tuanzebe was brought in.

Think the team is progressing but injuries/Covid buggering things up and Smith is still looking for his best starting XI and formation.

[Ger Regan]

Makeshift team so a bit of a disjointed performance. Positives were a lovely goal from emi^2 and thought el ghazi played well, as did Doug and Nakamba when he came on.

Carney needs more time as he's not ready for regular starts, hopefully that comes with time. Starting to get concerned with cash, he gets caught on the ball too often.

Really annoyed by konsa's injury, shouldn't have risked it and we don't seem to have learned from the trezeguet situation.

[Percy McCarthy]

Watkins made quite an impression once he got into it. Probably should have come on sooner. Frustrating but happy enough with how we are shaping up with good players to come back.

Need a centre-mid obvs.

[pauliewalnuts]

Meh.

Been said by many people already but we're always going to make things harder for ourselves if we insist on ceding midfield from the start.

[Risso]

Fair result given the absences. Chuwuemeka did OK but then the game seemed to pass him by later on. Ings is a passenger a lot of the time. Buendia had his best game.

[BoVillan esq]

Not good enough, we needed a good win backed by a confident solid performance, we got neither, all 3 points today was a must, games coming up could leave us in some difficulty playing like this, still need to be very active in the transfer window.

[ez]

That was a struggle. We're not looking much like top four material at the moment. Thankfully we scored soon after them because we looked unlikely to score after that.

[brontebilly]

Only saw second half but thought Cash was dreadful. Sunday league defending when one on one, getting caught under the ball etc...Luiz anonymous I thought. Buendia, AEG and Targett were best. Might not be the worst point with all the unavailable players. Watkins looked sharp when he came in.

[LukeJames]

We're boring as fuck to watch and we have been in all 3 games so far this season. Slow ponderous build up around midfield and the back until we inevitably launch it up one of the flanks for somebody to chase.

I haven't enjoyed watching any of our League games so far this season.

[BC Villain]

European tour?  Not on that evidence.

Our haphazard preseason really is showing at the moment.  We don't have any identity or apparent gameplay.  The international break has come at tbd right time.  Get some of these players fit and working together.

And please reconsider our transfer business being over Villa.  We're criminally short in the middle of the park.

[Monty]

There was a moment towards the end where the Scouse co-commentator tried to sum things up. He said 'both teams have set their stall out for the season: Brentford, they keep the ball, they press aggressively; Aston Villa...well...they're trying to move into this post-Jack Grealish era now...erm..."

And that about sums it up for me. I know we had injuries, a draw isn't a bad result considering those. But what is our style of play? Can anyone actually tell me what our plan is? How do we attack, how do we press, how do we beat the opposition press, how do we move in the final third. We must be the team whose players spend the longest average time on the ball, because a player will just get it, everyone will run away from them, and they'll end up tapping it sideways or playing one of those shit slice-chips into the channels or up to well-known target man Danny Ings.

I don't think we want to be some sort of long-ball team. But we don't have any actual positional patterns, or movements, or strategies. We're aimless. And the period of play with the 2 up top - I know it was a disjointed end to the game, I know everyone goes long at the end anyone, but it's probably the least coherent passage of play I've seen from any team this season. Please, coaches, sort it out.

[Villan82]

I don't know what it is but something at villa hasn't seemed right since after the Euros. We signed Buendia in a blaze of glory and then the Judas situation and a really shambolic pre-season unfolded capped off by two coaches departing. It all feels like a real test.

The injuries/Covid situation with key players are absolutely sickening.

It all feels disjointed at the moment and we can't build any momentum.

[sickbeggar]

Shit performance
Shit formation
Injuries granted
4 points from 2 promoted teams and Newcastle

looking at the upcoming games we're gonna have to play like we're this Europe chasing team or it could look a bit bleak come October.