Manchester City vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread.

[Ian.]

Gerrard got completely schooled yesterday by Pep.

I'm not his biggest fan but this is completely wrong.

Yeah Ok, it would be good having that bench as a back up when you’re two nil down.

[PaulWinch again]

Gerrard got completely schooled yesterday by Pep.

I'm not his biggest fan but this is completely wrong.

Yeah Ok, it would be good having that bench as a back up when you’re two nil down.

And have it compounded from a 3 day turnaround.

[Pat McMahon]

Saw on Twitter that some of our fans had lighters, coins and smoke bombs thrown at them.

Cannot stand MC. I can't stand MU either but you can respect their achievements throughout history. The blue shits have got nothing. I hate them.

I had completely forgotten but a flare landed at our feet, just missing us, in the top tier. I was so focused and miffed at our collapse it had completely slipped my mind but a friend messaged earlier to remind me.

Their security were very strict on searching at the gates. They even checked inside my glasses case. God knows how the flares got in.

[markeeeebeeee2005]

Different standards for checks on Villa fans to home fans I imagine. Not much to like about that club. They’re clinical, but the football is boring. Their money is straight from the pockets of human rights abusers. And Jack Grealish looks like the biggest muppet this side of Sesame Street the dirty drink driver.

[Ads]

Leaving aside fencing in fans...surely security questions have to be asked of clubs about how fans are able to bring flares into a football stadium? 

Just look at the perfunctory searches we get for the reason. The only thing that can stop them is sniffer dogs.

There's always a lab outside the grounds these days, but I'd never seen so many pyros set off by us and them.

[Toronto Villa]

Gerrard got completely schooled yesterday by Pep.

I'm not his biggest fan but this is completely wrong.

Yeah Ok, it would be good having that bench as a back up when you’re two nil down.

And with 5 subs coming that situation only gets worse for most clubs who simply won’t have the depth. The richest clubs can bring on a £50m player late on and still have 3 or 4 others that they still can.

[Drummond]

Gerrard got completely schooled yesterday by Pep.

I'm not his biggest fan but this is completely wrong.

Yeah Ok, it would be good having that bench as a back up when you’re two nil down.

And with 5 subs coming that situation only gets worse for most clubs who simply won’t have the depth. The richest clubs can bring on a £50m player late on and still have 3 or 4 others that they still can.

When Tyler and Neville were banging on about them making another change I thought I'd missed a rule change to this.

Imagine, they could have brought on another 2 strikers....

[RichardBatchelor]

Gerrard got completely schooled yesterday by Pep.

I'm not his biggest fan but this is completely wrong.

It’s wrong for me too - he just had a billion pound bench.

[Nunkin1965]

Gerrard got completely schooled yesterday by Pep.

I'm not his biggest fan but this is completely wrong.

It’s wrong for me too - he just had a billion pound bench.

Have to agree.
Pep had a slight advantage!!

[ChicagoLion]

20 minutes to go and 3 sub options, piss poor game management.

[RamboandBruno]

Can't agree, coutinhio looked out on his feet, I honestly didn't sit there when we were 2-0 up with 20 mins left and think what mistake bringing on Nakamba is. It seemed the sensible thing to do at the time. They brought Sterling on for Mahrez, Gundgohan for Silva and De Bruyne busting a gut, it's a different level, it just seems a bit petty to say Pep schooled Gerrard.
Its all its and buts now, but if we'd held on for another 5 mins, they would of panicked as Pep might of if Liverpool had took the lead when we were 2-0 up.
I saw enough to think with another centre back, striker and maybe another midfielder, we'll Have a really good season next year.

[Beard82]

my biggest frustration was when the momentum shifted we didnt do more to stop it.  I Nalamba made sense at the time.  But when they got there first we should have done the kind of gamesmanship the top teams do.

[danno]

my biggest frustration was when the momentum shifted we didnt do more to stop it.  I Nalamba made sense at the time.  But when they got there first we should have done the kind of gamesmanship the top teams do.

Like Man City did against Real Madrid?   

[Beard82]

my biggest frustration was when the momentum shifted we didnt do more to stop it.  I Nalamba made sense at the time.  But when they got there first we should have done the kind of gamesmanship the top teams do.

Like Man City did against Real Madrid?   

We’ll you could argue that they were found lacking of character in that game and maybe so we’re we.  I’m not saying if we had done that we would have held on but I just think we could have made the last 15 mins a lot more tricky for them

[danno]

my biggest frustration was when the momentum shifted we didnt do more to stop it.  I Nalamba made sense at the time.  But when they got there first we should have done the kind of gamesmanship the top teams do.

Like Man City did against Real Madrid?   

We’ll you could argue that they were found lacking of character in that game and maybe so we’re we.  I’m not saying if we had done that we would have held on but I just think we could have made the last 15 mins a lot more tricky for them

Yeah agreed, my point really was that very good teams will take their chances.
It's probably why recent Liverool v Man City games have been 2-2 rather than 0-0.