Aston Villa vs Brentford Post-Match Thread

[Legion]

https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/teams/aston-villa/12393457/ft-aston-villa-1-1-brentford

[UK Redsox]

Awful game and dreadful referee.
I doubt any one could have predicted we would field that team this season.
The performance was disjointed against a team that were intent on spoiling and shithousery.
Surprised Tunzabee played ahead of Hause. Hope the break enables us to get our best X1 on the pitch.
It has not been a great start to the season.

The most inconsistent refereeing display that I’ve seen in ages. Very similar incidents resulting in completely different decisions.

[sickbeggar]

I think a lot of the disappointment for me stems back to the Watford game personally. If we hadn't fecked up our preparation so badly for that then a lot of the accumulation of injuries/bad luck since then wouldn't be such a blow. I had us down for 5 points by now - not particularly optimistic but a good solid start from an easy-ish run of games. Suffice to say when I saw that team with Young and a kid in midfield I knew we weren't winning today. Now we're going into 4 tough games and I do fear where we'll be by the time they finish. Probably playing catch-up unfortunately. oh well...

[Legion]

Emi 1 worries me a bit at the moment. A couple of times today, he could have come to gather the ball but stayed back.

I assume that nicking the ball after a keeper throws it in the air is some form of obstruction that I wasn’t aware of. We thought it was a goal

Disappointed in Chuk the Younger. He didn’t have much involvement.

Targett did ok after a ropey start, but still gets caught past the ball.

Would have liked to see JPB come on.

Shame for Cam that he didn’t quite make it on.

Great to see Leeg for the first time in a couple of years.

Same, apart from Emi. Thought he did OK. He has to be allowed to release and dstribute the ball so it was a foul. Ref was atrocious.

[LamBeast]

What I love about Smith is that opportunity knocks..he is not afraid of making unpopular choices..holds us in good stead..

[ChicagoLion]

A lot of doom merchants on here. Couldn't go today so had to listen on 5-live. Their take was two good sides battling it out and could have gone either way - an enjoyable game, which fizzled out towards the end. I think we have allowed the 'let's challenge the top six' mantra get to us. Top ten? Maybe. Right direction? Definitely. Shit performance? Not from what I was hearing. I may stand corrected after watching the re-run, but for now we have lots to look forward to.

I am not one to be a doom-monger (I hope), but for "Right direction?" I'd answer "let's see" right now.  In all of Smith's games sans-Grealish, I have yet to identify a pattern to our play, or a method to create chances from open play.  If this does not change, I'd put us in the Newcastle-Burnley-Southampton-Brighton bracket, ie 11th to 15th place.

i can not agree with the 2 good side’s battling it out either. It was 2 poor sides and the longer the game went on the worse the football got.
They wanted to waste time , generally frustrate and cheat. We just kept going long to either AEG or Ings, unsurprisingly without success.

[PaulWinch again]

Chuk did alright for me. He’s going to be some player. Our squad is too light though.

[Damo70]

So far we have played three teams who will quite probably be struggling in the bottom six this season and we have struggled against two of them.

We didn't struggle today, we laboured. I don't agree that Brentford played the ball out well, they created nothing second half and created 2 chances all game. Would we have laboured with a team of;

Martinez

Targett
Mings
Konsa
Cash

Dougie
McGinn
Buendia

Bailey
Ings
Watkins

We'll never know, but I'd suggest probably not.

I don't know how you differentiate between struggling and labouring but I am worried at what I have seen from us so far in the league.

[ChicagoLion]

Awful game and dreadful referee.
I doubt any one could have predicted we would field that team this season.
The performance was disjointed against a team that were intent on spoiling and shithousery.
Surprised Tunzabee played ahead of Hause. Hope the break enables us to get our best X1 on the pitch.
It has not been a great start to the season.

The most inconsistent refereeing display that I’ve seen in ages. Very similar incidents resulting in completely different decisions.

completely lost the plot.

[LamBeast]

If you think too 6 is our level you are deluded.We build within our means.Simple.

[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.

i thought it was a good game to watch- very tight. Reminds me of a bit like watching MOTD in the 80’s and there’d be all these slinging tackles going in and the ref only blows up if someone’s leg falls off!

Ok sound, MOTD in the 80's. Describes it well.

[Damo70]

I was concerned about how the Ashley Young move would work out and so far my fears seem to be right.

[Legion]

I was concerned about how the Ashley Young move would work out and so far my fears seem to be right.

Same here.

[Footy-Vill]

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.

i thought it was a good game to watch- very tight. Reminds me of a bit like watching MOTD in the 80’s and there’d be all these slinging tackles going in and the ref only blows up if someone’s leg falls off!

Ok sound, MOTD in the 80's. Describes it well.

Last on MOTD tonight

[RamboandBruno]

The gobsmacking thing is Smith presumably had days knowing McGinn was out and that's what he came up with? An injury in the warm up and I could understand it.

If NcGinn was out due to either contracting covid or being track and traced, smith could if found out yesterday at some point.
What would your suggestion have been out of interest? The only real alternative I can see is Hourihane and Nakamba, I don’t see that changing the game dramatically.
A points ok under the circumstances. We’ve got more than half a first team to come back.