Arsenal vs Aston Villa match thread

[caster troy]

Do the players want John Terry back as manager or something? I couldn’t bear to watch after about 10 minutes, it was like watching a car crash in slow motion.

[saint13]

I must admit I don’t watch much of Arsenal these days as they’re a neither here nor there team but I don’t usually associate them with having the level of battle they showed tonight. Fucking typical. Unfortunately the ref seemed pretty tolerant of them particularly early on. We were utterly shit though, no doubt.

I have watched them a lot and they are generally ordinary wit the odd flash of excellence here and there. We have been so bad & so limp we have made them look like the Arsenal Invincibles of 04...that's how bad we've have been.

[LukeJames]

We've been shit, but that was never a penalty.

Five at the back doesn't work & it should have been changed after 15 minutes.

It obviously should, but has Smith ever made a formation change so early that wasn't inforced? I don't think he would have a clue how to.

[nick harper]

Well the team weren’t playing for the manager in that half. Completely run over by the most mediocre arsenal line up I’ve seen for a long time.

[Clark W Griswold]

Heeeeeeres LEON !

[Whiney MacWhineface]

My younger daughter is miserable, in with Arsenal fans watching this shit for her first game

[Steve67]

You don't have to make substitutions to change the shape of the side.  He will bring Bailey on now, when it's possibly already too late.  No doubts, he will be injured again by the end of the game!  Could have pushed Konsa right, Watkins up front on the left and gone 451.  Terrible in-game thinking.  Saying that, the excuse will be that we conceded two set pieces, rather than in open play, although open play led to the penalty to be fair.  Get rid of zonal marking, go and buy a fucking DCM in January.

[andyh]

Well, go 2 down then make the change that should have happened after 1 minute.

[Goldenballs]

Hadn't they changed the rules to stop players buying penalties by sticking their leg in front of someone who's trying to play the ball?

[Holte132]

Smith has made a substitution. I need to lied down to recover from the shock

[SoccerHQ]

FA cup 2015 stats here, 0 shots on or off target. Arsenal had 14.

At least we've had one corner.

[Lastfootstamper]

Changed my shirt. That should fix it.

[PaulWinch again]

There have been consistently dreadful efforts this year. We’re really poor far too frequently and less than the sum of our parts.

[ChicagoLion]

Ffs it has taken 2 defeats and a 2 nil deficit to realise that maybe just maybe he has got his tactics wrong.

[Hillbilly]

This isn’t going to work without a bit of snap in midfield.