Brentford 2 v Aston Villa 1 Post Match Thread

[Villan82]

Sloppiness shouldn't be acceptable at this level.

I hate saying this, but it struck me the past four seasons (2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 and now 21-22) that we seem to be less up for it heading into January? The form always seems to drop off this time of year (I know we had Covid last year but still, I got a distinct 'job's done' vibe off some of our players last Jan-Feb-March). Again, this isn't really acceptable. We need to be up for it at all times.

[jwarry]

By far and away the better side all game. Hause poor on 2 occasions and it leads to 2 goals

We always lose here and it always rains.

Is the right assessment

[Toronto Villa]

That’s a terrible defeat. Seems our latest Covid shutdown has really taken the momentum away from us. Instead of playing Burnley at home after an easy win at Norwich it’s all come apart a bit. Somewhat understandable given the circumstances. But it’s also revealing to the manager just who might make it and who needs to be replaced as the window opens. We were very good at times today and conceded a very poor goal right before the break. After that it was an even game until their goal. This won’t sit well with Gerrard.

This is on Gerrard at least as much as any player.

I fully expect him to take ownership over this defeat. It lands on all of them not to have got something from this game.

[Sexual Ealing]

Piss poor, thought we got over that type o performance, looking at today team you are talking about needing 4 or 5 players to up grade, don't mind losing if we played well, but this looks like a performance under Dean smith before he left

Yep very much a Dean game. 

Maybe Dean wasn't the problem?

[sid1964]

Let’s hope that some of our average squad players find a club that is willing to pay them as much as Aston Villa do?

[jwarry]

If I’m honest I was expecting a tougher game from Brentford but we kept them quiet for 80mins of that game.  How we lost it I will never know!

[TonyD]

That’s a terrible defeat. Seems our latest Covid shutdown has really taken the momentum away from us. Instead of playing Burnley at home after an easy win at Norwich it’s all come apart a bit. Somewhat understandable given the circumstances. But it’s also revealing to the manager just who might make it and who needs to be replaced as the window opens. We were very good at times today and conceded a very poor goal right before the break. After that it was an even game until their goal. This won’t sit well with Gerrard.

This is on Gerrard at least as much as any player.

It’s completely on SG.  We could all see who and when needed changing and he didn’t do it.   

[Demitri_C]

That’s a terrible defeat. Seems our latest Covid shutdown has really taken the momentum away from us. Instead of playing Burnley at home after an easy win at Norwich it’s all come apart a bit. Somewhat understandable given the circumstances. But it’s also revealing to the manager just who might make it and who needs to be replaced as the window opens. We were very good at times today and conceded a very poor goal right before the break. After that it was an even game until their goal. This won’t sit well with Gerrard.

This is on Gerrard at least as much as any player.

Who is gerrard suppose to choose? I mean look at this squad its down to the bare bones with a 16 year old on the bench.

At least gerrard knows where we need players and who is shit *coughs* trez

[HolteLower]

Piss poor, thought we got over that type o performance, looking at today team you are talking about needing 4 or 5 players to up grade, don't mind losing if we played well, but this looks like a performance under Dean smith before he left

Yep very much a Dean game.

Absolutely what I thought at the end.

[AV82EC]

That was utter bollocks against a team who weren’t interested in attacking and just parked the bus hoping for the odd chance going forwards.

Hause - there’s a reason he’s back up to Mings and you saw every reason why today.
Targett - in constant acres of space on the left and never made any use of the space he had and his delivery is meh.
Luiz - sloppy and slow
Buendia - sublime to the The useless in virtually every phase of play.
Trez- did the hard work then utterly embarrasses himself what a clown
Traore - utterly frustrating and wasteful.
Cash - limited in the final third.

No pace to our play, everyone needs 2 or 3 touches, honeymoon over and I hope Gerrard is telling a number of these players a few home truths. Utterly unacceptable from numerous of them today.

That cheque book needs to be out as there are several players who need replacing.

[Aldridge Villa]

When Luiz and SJM are so ineffectual in the same match, the outcome is fairly inevitable.

[andyh]

By far and away the better side all game. Hause poor on 2 occasions and it leads to 2 goals

We always lose here and it always rains.

We’ve never played there before

[Deano's Mullet]

Brentford take 4 pts off us for the fourth successive season we've played them. It's extremely hard to take. I haven't been so livid after a game for ages.

[PaulWinch again]

Hause isn’t good enough sadly.

[Ads]

By far and away the better side all game. Hause poor on 2 occasions and it leads to 2 goals

We always lose here and it always rains.

We’ve never played there before

Alright, we always lose in Brentford.