Spurs 2 Aston Villa 1 Post match thread.

[Ads]

Poor that in a poor game all round. We did not play well at all, but then neither did Spurs. Still can't complain about the defeat.

So many poor decisions taken at crucial points. McGinn seemed to give the ball away incessantly, Luiz couldn't shake N'Dombele and the ball didn't transition through midfield at all. A game too far for Ramsey who was probably the worst of the midfield 3.

The front two aren't linking well yet, but that said, we didn't put much in the way of quality delivery for either of them too often. The time we did, we scored.

Stupid time to concede and you could see the back stick crying out for the ball and that's where Roller Skates Son (the diving soft ******) put it.

So many players off, you wonder about systems but if you're not joining up the fundamentals, it's going to be a long day.

A day where we needed Bailey's magic to maybe add that individual brilliant amongst a collective sluggish performance.

Kane looks totally disinterested to me too. No conviction in anything bar falling over.

[Brend'Watkins]

Watkins - 5 - two marks for the goal, otherwise a really, really crap display.

I totally agree. Very poor overall.

[Astral Weeks]

Well that was every bit as woeful, inept and generally fucking shite as I've seen from Villa for a long time.
It's astonishing to see highly paid professionals unable to do the basics, like pass the ball to each other over short distances and keep the ball in play without hacking it into touch. So frustrating.

[Clampy]

I'm not sure we were diabolical but it was frustrating because they wasn't great either. We needed that spark in the final third and it wasn't there. We gew again.

[N'ZMAV]

not one aspect of the game we did well at today.

[Richard E]

not one aspect of the game we did well at today.

We did the losing aspect pretty well.

[john e]

Just buy Son in the January window…. Sorted

[Risso]

Well that was every bit as woeful, inept and generally fucking shite as I've seen from Villa for a long time.
It's astonishing to see highly paid professionals unable to do the basics, like pass the ball to each other over short distances and keep the ball in play without hacking it into touch. So frustrating.

How many times did we pass the ball out for a throw today under no pressure at all. They were just all over the place today. You can almost take losing in an otherwise decent display like away at Chelsea, but today was as bad as anything in the last couple of years, and with a full team bar Bailey as well. Unacceptable really.

[Percy McCarthy]

Really disappointing. I think the fact that our passing was so bad from the start really affected us in stopping us getting any sort of rhythm to our play.

[Demitri_C]

All on the manager. Looked rubbish after 45 mins. Ramsey having a absolute stinker and leaves him on. Getting battered fir first 15 minutes before making a change.

Watkins despite his goal was awful.

Hause shouldnt start anymore games as was absolute liability.

This is why people get pissed off with smith.could have created a gap from one of our European rivals yet he blows it. Also spurs played Thursday night and still looked better than us.

You got so many options on the bench to change the game but dean failed miserably today.

[RichardBatchelor]

not one aspect of the game we did well at today.

We will still finish higher than Spurs.

[Risso]

not one aspect of the game we did well at today.

We will still finish higher than Spurs.

Not playing like that we won't.

[SoccerHQ]

Well that was every bit as woeful, inept and generally fucking shite as I've seen from Villa for a long time.
It's astonishing to see highly paid professionals unable to do the basics, like pass the ball to each other over short distances and keep the ball in play without hacking it into touch. So frustrating.

Today wasn't great but Watford first 70 minutes was definition of a team that didn't have a clue on basics of football. We've improved since then. You had people on here after the Chelsea defeat incredulous at how there could be any positives from a 3-0 defeat but there were and we then produced two excellent performances and wins.

Today is disappointing but we can take points from the October games so no reason to panic imo. Mid table teams just throw in these performances regularly, I suspect West Ham and Leicester fans aren't happy either with what they've seen today either. They're more established but we've got a shot of finishing above both as long as we don't have one of those three month winless runs we like doing every season.

[SoccerHQ]

Just buy Son in the January window…. Sorted

Just get Bailey fully fit and he'll be that sort of player for us.

[wince]

Maybe to much cockiness from the win last weekend. Team looked complacent when you should be building on getting points. We beat manure last weekend but so fucking what? We are one of the teams in the minority who haven’t beaten that lot. Mindset of expecting every team to roll over is very poor and I would drag every one of them in for extra training and bollock them for poor passing.

Am I concerned? Not really but team needs instilling into them that you have to work your arses off every week. And manager needs to work on his own shit or glory approach as we cannot afford a dry patch now of routine losses no matter how hard or good the team play. A loss is a loss but the team and the manager need to get their heads out of their arses and sort things out rather than riding a result like last week as if they’d won the league. Because today was complacent. And ings and Watkins just isn’t working.