Matty Cash

[dcdavecollett]

Perhaps we already have.

[ChicagoLion]

He is ok until he has to play against a decent winger, Johnson had him on toast.

[Risso]

He’s perfectly good enough when Unai doesn’t have a brain fart like yesterday.

[Ian.]

I’m not sure what other options we had yesterday. Unless we play Tim in the Kamara role instead of five at the back.

[Risso]

I guess the options were either Rogers in Ramsey's spot, or Tim in midfield. Both of which would probably have been better. Cash in a 5 is always a stupid idea.

Spurs away - absolute garbage until halftime when Emery sees it's not working.
Liverpool away - dreadful
Forest away - awful
Brentford away - terrible until the idea gets binned, and then we end up winning
Spurs at home yesterday - disaster

When Emery bangs on about learning from the mistakes, how about having a look at the last time he tried that experiment against the very same team?

[tomd2103]

He’s perfectly good enough when Unai doesn’t have a brain fart like yesterday.

Have to disagree to be honest mate.  Think he's been exposed a bit this season unfortunately. 

[Ger Regan]

He's nowhere near good enough if we want to be fighting for top four, regardless of in a back 4 or 5. He slows our play down dramatically, can't cross, is not a good defender and it always feels like he's got a penalty concession in him. Right back is a priority position for me in the summer (even allowing for the new kid), along with DM and backup striker.

[Sexual Ealing]

He's nowhere near good enough if we want to be fighting for top four, regardless of in a back 4 or 5. He slows our play down dramatically, can't cross, is not a good defender and it always feels like he's got a penalty concession in him. Right back is a priority position for me in the summer (even allowing for the new kid), along with DM and backup striker.

All of this.

[Risso]

I know you can prove anything with stats but:

When he's played at right back in a back four, we've won 11 out of 15 games, and drawn 1. That's 34 points from 15, which is better than our overall totals.

[PeterWithe]

We are always going to be up against it when the game plan seems to be for Cash (and whatever left back is on) to have to dribble around two player in our defensive third to make any progress up the field. He didn't play well, he wasn't alone in that but Unai didn't do him any favours. 

[LeeB]

We are always going to be up against it when the game plan seems to be for Cash (and whatever left back is on) to have to dribble around two player in our defensive third to make any progress up the field. He didn't play well, he wasn't alone in that but Unai didn't do him any favours. 

It feels like he shouldn't be the key to any tactical adjustments but he is, every time.

[Ian.]

I guess the options were either Rogers in Ramsey's spot, or Tim in midfield. Both of which would probably have been better. Cash in a 5 is always a stupid idea.

Spurs away - absolute garbage until halftime when Emery sees it's not working.
Liverpool away - dreadful
Forest away - awful
Brentford away - terrible until the idea gets binned, and then we end up winning
Spurs at home yesterday - disaster

When Emery bangs on about learning from the mistakes, how about having a look at the last time he tried that experiment against the very same team?

When you spin it the other way round and look at what the team and himself have learned in the 15 months he’s been here is quite remarkable. Top 4 from relegation candidates to the highest win percentage of any Villa manager.

If he had improved on this with the limited squad we have (comparing to any of the teams in the top six) we’d be nearly winning the league.

I know we all want more and we all hate losing but there’s always going to be the odd blip along the way.

[Risso]

I'm not talking about his overall record Ian, just reacting to a basic and very obvious error. He was really chippy with the reporter who asked him about the change to 5 at the back in the post match interview, saying only "we've played it before." Yes we have, and nearly every single time it's been an absolute load of rubbish. Yesterday wasn't a blip, it was absolute carnage.

[Drummond]

I'm not talking about his overall record Ian, just reacting to a basic and very obvious error. He was really chippy with the reporter who asked him about the change to 5 at the back in the post match interview, saying only "we've played it before." Yes we have, and nearly every single time it's been an absolute load of rubbish. Yesterday wasn't a blip, it was absolute carnage.

It wasn't in the first half. The game was lost after those two errors in three minutes in the second half.

[Risso]

A game is judged over 90 minutes. We didn't have a single attempt on target in the first half, and played really badly.