Manchester City vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread.

[N'ZMAV]

Watkins is a good one touch finisher, give him a few touches and time to think then he's not so good at times

[Billy Walker]

This match sums up the season well.  I think our first choice eleven are more than capable, it's simply our strength in depth that lets us down.  If we can get get to the position where the likes of Mings, McGinn etc are squad players and not guaranteed starters, we'll be heading in the right direction. I'm glad the season is over, a big summer ahead awaits (hopefully)...

[BC Villain]

Roy Keane said 'there is a softness to this Villa side, that's why they've lost so many games'.  So very, very true.

There’s a softness to our fans.

That's at least 3 times this season we've surrendered a 2 goal lead alone.  Not to mention countless surrenders over the last 25 30 years.

Until we remove this mindset of getting into great positions and then shitting our pants, we will not progress.

Given what we've spent since 2019, we find ourselves going into our 4th season back in this league where we're still depending on our owners lavish wealth to dig us out of a hole.

Not acceptable

[Flamingo Lane]

After a nervous opening ten minutes I thought we gave a really good account of ourselves against real quality opposition with everything to play for, and therefore felt far more nervous throughout this game than I'd expected (on the skybet6 I'd put us down to lose 5-0).

Two points.

One, I cannot for the life of me understand why Gerrad took off Coutinho immediately after he'd  put us 2-0 up.  With him still on the field we'd have been as likely to go 3-0 up on the break, as they would have been to get a goal back (let alone three).

Two, special shout out for Sky TV's live coverage, pretty much missing showing our second goal in order to show us a clip of Son almost scoring a goal at Carrow Road, in a game that Spurs had effectively already won.

[Dinas_Caerdydd]

FFS. I just came on to check if anything happened in the pitch invasion as I turned over in a strop once it finished.

https://www.mancity.com/news/mens/club-statement-aston-villa-63788839

[cdbearsfan]

Thanks. What a bunch of wankers. What the fuck is wrong with people?

[astonvilla82]

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[Goldenballs]

I dont think it's spinning it to say to include context myself.

It shouldn't happen at any point in any game, between professional players in the same league. Someone go down for treatment, get cramp, do something to take a breather and the sting out of it.

Embarrassing.

[Rudy65]

Thanks. What a bunch of wankers. What the fuck is wrong with people?

Add the wanker parents who help their kids up to sit on the goalposts. Firstly, they could fall and hurt themselves and others and secondly you’re damaging your own clubs property. No respect

[astonvilla82]

Is it me only that thinks Mcginn is running with lead in his boots

[Ads]

I dont think it's spinning it to say to include context myself.

It shouldn't happen at any point in any game, between professional players in the same league. Someone go down for treatment, get cramp, do something to take a breather and the sting out of it.

Embarrassing.

You're talking as if there's a level playing field or even remote parity between us and them. I'm not embarrassed by today. I cannot fathom why anybody would be.

[Clampy]

We did really well I thought. We got the crowd rattled, kept our shape but as soon as Nakamba came on, I had a horrible feeling about it. It just wasn't needed. It made us all go into defensive mode and the last thing you do against a team like that.

[olaftab]

That was an awful collapse irrespective of the opposition after managing so well for an hour.

The third goal was the worst with Mings and then Luiz.

I really wish we had just lost 3-0 in a routine manner as now we will be featuring in a Sky Sports special or documentary for years about how Pep won the title in such a dramatic way.

This 1 million per cent

Yes this for me as well. A straight forward 4-0 thrashing would have been a thousand times better.

[steamer]

I thought our first half structure and passion was great, probably best of the season
 5 mins of brain farts lost us the game, I do not recall too many predicting us to go 2-0 up.
So sad but not devastated
if first 45 mins is replicated with some classy additions
i an positive

[tomd2103]

After a nervous opening ten minutes I thought we gave a really good account of ourselves against real quality opposition with everything to play for, and therefore felt far more nervous throughout this game than I'd expected (on the skybet6 I'd put us down to lose 5-0).

Two points.

One, I cannot for the life of me understand why Gerrad took off Coutinho immediately after he'd  put us 2-0 up.  With him still on the field we'd have been as likely to go 3-0 up on the break, as they would have been to get a goal back (let alone three).

Two, special shout out for Sky TV's live coverage, pretty much missing showing our second goal in order to show us a clip of Son almost scoring a goal at Carrow Road, in a game that Spurs had effectively already won.

Thought even we couldn't mess it up to the extent we did from being 2-0 up and fairly comfortable.  The defending was really poor for the second goal when the their left-back was allowed to cut in and then again for the third goal with Mings and Luiz.

We had a chance to salvage something from the season today and show what we were about on a global scale.  Instead, we just capitulated to the point where Manchester City didn't even really have to go all-out to win.