Aston Villa vs Chelsea Post-Match Thread

[Bad English]

Not good enough. Mings was playing for the White Hart.

[Chap]

Ming’s goes to pieces when up against a top notch striker.

[Three Spires Villa]

Cash didn’t help!

[Bad English]

Chelsea scored all four goals too. No teeth in the final third.

[Bobby Boy]

We were comfortable first half until Cash lost his mind.

Having said that we were truly awful second half. OK, maybe, maybe, Covid can be used as a mitigating factor but we were horribly passive.

We should cut our losses with Ings. He will never be able to play the high pressing game that Gerrard will demand so we should accept that and get what we can.

Buendia was awful too. How can we compete with Chelsea when 2 players are so off it.

Thought Sanson looked decent but overall, very poor.

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

I wonder if we might have equalised if the substitutes had come on earlier? 

[brontebilly]

Destroyed second half. Mings and others bullied by a resurgent Lukaku. Disappointing after a very promising first half. Traore showed some nice touches when he came in. Not much else to enthuse about. Matty Rash for first, Mings a joke for second, Targett unable to even pull Lukaku back for the third. Don't think we even had a shot second half, very poor.

Martinez 7, Cash 5, Konsa 6, Mings 4, Targett 4, Luiz 7, Sanson 6, Ramsey 6, Buendia 3, Watkins 3, Ings 3. Traore 7, AEG 5, Carney 4.

[PhilVill]

A work in progress if I ever saw one. Appreciate what they trying to do but sometimes a foot on the ball wouldn't go amiss. A work class striker exposed Ming's badly and as much as I love Matty Cash, he gifted them a very quick way back into the game. Excited to see a fully fit Sanson, Konza is our captain in waiting and we missed our manager and SJM badly. Hey ho....

[Villa Lew]

Disappointing 2nd half, poor from Mings for their 2nd.

[Eckybloke]

I liked the pressure and ball retention as we tried to equalise…but…the hard numbers don’t lie, there was no pressure on Mendy during that spell. We’re not quite incisive enough although I do like what SG etc is trying to do.

If we only lose against the likes of City, Liverpool and these tw@s  then it’s fine I suppose.

[Meanwood Villa]

I hate Chelsea

[Bad English]

I thought Traoré showed fuck all. However, this is to be expected when coming back from injury.

[N'ZMAV]

Chelsea scored all four goals too. No teeth in the final third.

Agreed - we was poor in both boxes today. Tidy in the middle, but it wasn't good enough to give me hope we'd get back into it once they were winning.

[Legion]

First half was OK until the penalty. Second half was poor. Watkins and Ings DOES NOT WORK.

[NorthYvillan]

Mings saves far more points than he costs us. I don't see what so many people seem to jump on him.

Konsa failed to deal with the ball and, in the resultant move, Mings get beaten by Lukaku - one of the "poorest" centre forwards in world football. Its all Mings' fault - No Konsa should have put it into row Z