Manchester City vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread.

[Taylor]

Our midfield is so poor.

McGinn and Luiz, and that Nakamba.

Three very limited, very shit football players. All.unfit, too few assists and goals.

Anyway, ranting over.

Up the Villa! Here's to a better.one next season!

Why doesn't he modify the system until he gets his 'own' players. Truth is he can't and he has no planB up to this point at least.

“Plan b”. Oh for f**ks sake.

[AlwaysVilla]

Watching that,and not for the first time this season, makes me grateful I'm old enough to have been at Highbury in 1981 and then saw us win on that special night in 1982. The saddest part these days is that those that never saw that have very low expectations of what our club should be achieving.  There is no shame in being angry at the type of performances  and believing a club like villa should be finishing above Brentford.....yes, Brentford
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[RichardBatchelor]

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!

Yes, it’s unbelievable bullshit. It comes down to neither good managerial decisions nor ‘character’, and totally to money. We helped them too.

[LeonW]

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.

I think the point being made here is that this is a problem which precedes Gerrard and has been there for a long time.

[Jon Crofts]

Imagine us being in a position like theirs one day in the near future, I know it’s hard but we’d fuck it up.

[rob_bridge]

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.

Same number of goals. Atkinson about 80% of games 71 v 85 Olie done in 2 seasons. Dallian took 4 to get that many.

[Footy-Vill]

So disappointing
Thought engineered a great position at 2-0 and had set up pragmatically.
Unfortunately didn't manage to even take the point.
Olsen did ok . Especially after nervy start and provided some decent kicks up field including for the goal.
Buendia was missing and looked astray
Nakamba out if his depth.
Brilliant by Cash and Coutinho
Watkins needs more ruthless.
Await to see the summer window and what lies ahead.
See you next season God Willing
Best wishes to all this summer
Up the Villa!

[Randy Gurner]

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

Totally agree. Abysmal control, loose passing, missed twice when through on goal and alongside Mings’ mistakes is one of the key factors why we’ve ended up 14th.

[astonvilla82]

Watkins has been like this all season

[The Edge]

And another thing what happened in injury time? They put up the board for 4 mins. They didn't restart for another  2 minutes. The ref stopped the game just over the 4 minutes. 2 minutes were just lost.

[rob_bridge]

Our midfield is so poor.

McGinn and Luiz, and that Nakamba.

Three very limited, very shit football players. All.unfit, too few assists and goals.

Anyway, ranting over.

Up the Villa! Here's to a better.one next season!

Why doesn't he modify the system until he gets his 'own' players. Truth is he can't and he has no planB up to this point at least.

“Plan b”. Oh for f**ks sake.

Oh yeah. Doing somethings in a game differently.  For fuck Sake. That's a Death Crime suggestion.

Gerrard thus far has demonstrated Zero Imagination. If we are lucky he will be MON2. With the wage bill to match

[danno]

Man City and Liverpool get late goals not because of desire or mentality or character, its because their benches are far stronger than everybody elses.

Roy Keane knows that better than anybody the absoloute tool. Because back in the 90s Man Utd had players on their bench to bring on who would start every game for all but 3 teams in the league.

Today they brought on Englands best player in the last tournament, and their top goalscorer from last season.
In contrast when we tired we had Nakamba and Ashley Young to turn to.

[wittonwarrior]

McGinn was running on empty second half why not sub him off.  Ings had to com on sooner and nakamba right player wrong time.   Allowed them to move forward

[Meanwood Villa]

Man City and Liverpool get late goals not because of desire or mentality or character, its because their benches are far stronger than everybody elses.

Roy Keane knows that better than anybody the absoloute tool. Because back in the 90s Man Utd had players on their bench to bring on who would start every game for all but 3 teams in the league.

Today they brought on Englands best player in the last tournament, and their top goalscorer from last season.
In contrast when we tired we had Nakamba and Ashley Young to turn to.

Only going to get worse with five subs

[four fornicholl]

Olsen attacked by a shitty fan?