Villa Arsenal Post Match

[Skerra]

I think we have far too many players that are similar. With regards to Watkins and a few others that other clubs want to sign from us, get the best money for them and let them go. I doubt Ollie will ever be a top player as he lacks the 2 things that the great strikers have, pace and instant ball control. I’d give Ings a few more run outs in place of Ollie. Let’s face it, realistically, the highest we can finish is where we are now, 9th. We are not going to go down either so worth giving different players, like Sanson, a go and start to make players have to fight for their places. We’ve nothing to lose.

[Toronto Villa]

We have players bought mainly for the way the former manager wanted to play. I don’t see wingers as part of the future as much as I would love to see Bailey make the right side his own in a Salah role, and two better players for the other front two spots. But in order to do that we need two superb DM’s and give Coutinho that free role in front of them. We don’t have the right mix of players to do that at the moment.

[Villafirst]

I can see why Forest knocked Arsenal out of the FA Cup with that showing against Liverpool. Compare our pathetic effort yesterday. Forest showed passion, desire and no mean skill in a pulsating game; we showed 'respect' for Arsenal ffs!

[Rudy65]

I can see why Forest knocked Arsenal out of the FA Cup with that showing against Liverpool. Compare our pathetic effort yesterday. Forest showed passion, desire and no mean skill in a pulsating game; we showed 'respect' for Arsenal ffs!

My thoughts exactly

[Toronto Villa]

I can see why Forest knocked Arsenal out of the FA Cup with that showing against Liverpool. Compare our pathetic effort yesterday. Forest showed passion, desire and no mean skill in a pulsating game; we showed 'respect' for Arsenal ffs!

If Forest show so much of the passion you want us to show, why then are they 9th in the Championship, whereas we are in that position an entire division above them?

[eamonn]

Partly cos this Forest side has only in the last 6 months been been rejuvenated by one of the best young managers in the UK. Oh and we have way more cash to throw at players and coaches....

[Ads]

As they're not very good. Hence why they're midtable in the 2nd division and getting very excited about playing the Scousers.

[SoccerHQ]

I hope they come up tbh. Another local game to raise interest compared to Huddersfield or Luton.

Kienan has also done very well there so possible they'd give us 6-7m for him full time.

They also had 1 point from first 10 games under Hughton otherwise they'd comfortably be in top 6 since Cooper came in.

Despite the scoreline Southampton gave Man. City a very good game for 70 minutes so that's why yesterday was disappointing, barely laid a glove on Arsenal in first hour.

[Scamps180]

We need one he'll of a beast in dougies place, too many attack minded midfielders being asked to do the so called nasty side of the game, they just can't do it.I like Ollie but we need an all round forward who can hold the ball and also give defenders a real rough time, press is the norm now for most teams so we need a higher tempo and players who can play rough when needed. Just my opinion.

[ChicagoLion]

People point out that the reason Forest beat Arsenal is the way that most teams beat Arsenal, so we slag Forest off for being in a lower division than us.

[sid1964]

We need at least 2 top quality midfield players, we are just a very average side.

Reminded me of when Wenger would bring his team to play us and we would admire them and wait for them to score.

[The Edge]

My biggest concern about Saturday is that we appear to be going backwards. Under DS we were going toe to toe with Arsenal and we even had the club trolling them for a while. We even had the cheek to offer 30m for Smith-Rowe now look at us. We were meek almost to the point of accepting second best on Saturday. It's not acceptable and I'm sure hoping that SG will be making that point in no uncertain terms on the training ground today.

[cdbearsfan]

I can see why Forest knocked Arsenal out of the FA Cup with that showing against Liverpool. Compare our pathetic effort yesterday. Forest showed passion, desire and no mean skill in a pulsating game; we showed 'respect' for Arsenal ffs!

Our first team didn't do too badly last time we hosted Liverpool.

[Drummond]

My biggest concern about Saturday is that we appear to be going backwards. Under DS we were going toe to toe with Arsenal and we even had the club trolling them for a while. We even had the cheek to offer 30m for Smith-Rowe now look at us. We were meek almost to the point of accepting second best on Saturday. It's not acceptable and I'm sure hoping that SG will be making that point in no uncertain terms on the training ground today.

And because he doesn't then follow it up by dropping anyone, the players still won't give a shit.

The only one he's dropped so far was Sanson, for what appeared to be a shit back pass and a show of frustration either at that, or having to come off.

He needs to make changes, give someone else a chance because right now against the teams above us in the league, our system isn't working.

[Smithy]

I can see why Forest knocked Arsenal out of the FA Cup with that showing against Liverpool. Compare our pathetic effort yesterday. Forest showed passion, desire and no mean skill in a pulsating game; we showed 'respect' for Arsenal ffs!

If Forest show so much of the passion you want us to show, why then are they 9th in the Championship, whereas we are in that position an entire division above them?

We were poor on Saturday, but that's no reason to dismiss Forest and their achievements since Steve Cooper came in. They have been a revelation since he took over earlier in the season.  They are top of the form table in the Championship over the last 10 games, and will be in the play-off positions if they win their game in hand.  They were bottom of the league after 7 games, with 1 point and 6 losses when he took over.  At that point, they were 15 points behind Fulham.  If they win their game in hand they'll be 16 points behind Fulham.  They've pretty much matched the runaway league leaders since he came in, and he's taken them from the very bottom of the league to the verge of the play-offs.

The fact they are ninth is no reason to dismiss their performance yesterday, they've been playing like that for a while now.  Fingers crossed they get promoted via the play-offs and give us £10m+ for Keinan.