Manchester City vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread.

[Risso]

Get shut of Ollie Watkins the moment the transfer window opens. Honestly, it's embarrassing watching him try to control a ball.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Sadly a predictable result.
Bench boy not even getting on the pitch shows how much they trust him.
Great that we went 2 up, but the rookie got undone by Pep in the end in a way no pl team should ever get done.
The naivety from our bench and players with 15 to go doesn’t display a winning/grind out a result mentality for me and isn’t that supposed to be one of our manager’s strengths?
It’s simply not good enough and no doubt it won’t have gone unnoticed on Merseyside.
Anyway...
Best away result-win at Man Utd
Best away goal- Hause for that win
Worst away result(besides today)- loss at Newcastle.
UTV!

[Proposition Joe]

The ONLY consolation is that their greasy prick didn’t get a kick.

If only Pepiola brought Greasy on instead of Gundogan. That chance would have gone over the bar.

[andyh]

This team needs a whole new spine.

Oh, you are so right….in both senses.

[villadelph]

Just viewed table. Finishing below Leicester and those above is reasonable. Finishing below the next 5 is most certainly not.

Below Toon and Brentford is a crime.

I had no expectations going in to today but with the way things went I am rightly angry. So sick of these soft under-belly cock ups. No grit.

Fix the fucking team or gtfo.

[Villan82]

Get shut of Ollie Watkins the moment the transfer window opens. Honestly, it's embarrassing watching him try to control a ball.

has more prem goals than Bent and Atkinson for us (in two seasons). Hmm,

[ez]

This isn't normal. It's been like this for 20 years or something now, ever since that Cup game against Man Utd where we blew a 2-0 lead. Does anyone else collapse so regularly from these positions? There's something in the club at this stage, spines of sponge for decades now.

Bang on, that was the start of it

Using that analogy, it would have started a month beforehand when we went 2 nil up at Arsenal at their place and then lost 3-2.

Everyone having a go at Gerrard should remember that if he had a decent striker to select we would have got at least 2 more goals today. Ollies never going to be a top striker. He totally lacks any composure in the box. Probably our most frustrating player in years for me.

why keep him on the pitch then?

Because the only option is even worse.

[achilles]

Expected us to lose and we did brilliantly after building up our hopes, what did you really expect?

The worse thing is putting up with all the bullshit regarding how Pep got it right by his subs etc, not by how spineless Villa are!

Still we have next season to look forward too, with a 6 week siesta in the middle of it, oh the joys of modern day football!

[The Edge]

This isn't normal. It's been like this for 20 years or something now, ever since that Cup game against Man Utd where we blew a 2-0 lead. Does anyone else collapse so regularly from these positions? There's something in the club at this stage, spines of sponge for decades now.

Bang on, that was the start of it

Using that analogy, it would have started a month beforehand when we went 2 nil up at Arsenal at their place and then lost 3-2.

Everyone having a go at Gerrard should remember that if he had a decent striker to select we would have got at least 2 more goals today. Ollies never going to be a top striker. He totally lacks any composure in the box. Probably our most frustrating player in years for me.

why keep him on the pitch then?

Lack of options?

[villa for life]

Saddest thing is any football fan  under 40 Will think villa did pretty well this season. Stayed up and all that.. need to change the narrative

[Risso]

Get shut of Ollie Watkins the moment the transfer window opens. Honestly, it's embarrassing watching him try to control a ball.

has more prem goals than Bent and Atkinson for us (in two seasons). Hmm,

Atkinson played a lot of his games when when it was still the old first division so that stat means the square root of fuck all.

[Villafirst]

Have we won playing in that bloody blue kit? I think Martinez could've made the difference and it didn't help only playing on Thursday when City had a full clear week.

[Bobby Boy]

Get shut of Ollie Watkins the moment the transfer window opens. Honestly, it's embarrassing watching him try to control a ball.

He wants to be a killer, apparently. A cold-eyed goal-scoring assassin....

Hmmmm.

Learn how to control a football eh Ollie.

We'll take it from there. Baby steps.

[Beard82]

What fucks me off is once they scored one - you knew they would come at us - where are the leaders, or even the common sense.  Feign an injury, make a sub take a couple minutes, start some kind of meaningless commonition Take the ball to the corner - just see the next 5 minutes through. 

Take the momentum out of it. 

For me Nakamba, Luis, Watkins, Ings just aren’t up to the standard - certainly not in the system we play.

Just wish we had been spineless from the start then I wouldn’t be so pissed off right now

[john2710]

We made them work fucking hard to win that & anyone who says anything else is talking shite. I've no criticism of the team or the manager for today's result. We are not strong enough to last 90 minutes & that started long before Gerrard arrived

I'm certain the spine of the team will be replaced next season & we'll be a much tougher prospect.