Aston Villa 0-2 Chelsea post match thread

[passport1]

Until Mings and Watkins are shipped out we are going nowhere.

[Exeter 77]

Gerrard made subs which changed the game. They made us far worse.

[dave.woodhall]

I said it before and I said it after - why have five defensive subs and a midfielder who won't get on in any circumstance short of mass murder? Stick one of the youth forwards on the bench and it might just have made a difference.
 

[Mister E]

I said it before and I said it after - why have five defensive subs and a midfielder who won't get on in any circumstance short of mass murder? Stick one of the youth forwards on the bench and it might just have made a difference.
 

Yup, said the same thing when I saw the matchday squad.

[Legion]

I said it before and I said it after - why have five defensive subs and a midfielder who won't get on in any circumstance short of mass murder? Stick one of the youth forwards on the bench and it might just have made a difference.
 

I think they only played the other day.

[Mister E]

My takeaway from the game was that Gerrard was forced to change his usual straitjacket-tactics, because they haven't been working, and  - apparently - Critchley has been advocating for a quicker transition and less of the pointless passing around the back 4. It showed today and looked much better. However, our frontline players are devoid of confidence. Ironically - and not surprising, I suppose - we looked worse after Gerrard made the substitutions: Buendia is too easily knocked off the ball and Phil is - well - not very good.
I'm just wondering when the announcement will be.

[Legion]

Yes. Lost 1-2 yesterday.

[achilles]

Shocked to see how defensively bad Chelsea were today even after the 2 subs at half time and we still couldn't score!

Really flat atmosphere as well, suppose everybody is just waiting until SG is finally sacked, only a matter of time as Villa are going backwards!

[Clark W Griswold]

People moaning about Dendonkar who has had probably less than 45 mins in a Villa shirt so far yet no comments about Buendia who despite being ‘technically gifted’ is looking more and more of an ineffective pointless piss flap of a player by the week. Watkins surely has to be dropped now too, a very good first season but has got progressively worse since. Bench the fucker permanently unless of injury or even worse form from anyone who takes his place. Mings after a good start to the season reminds us that he’s still capable of totally fucking a game up for us on his own. The others were not too bad, I thought Ings and particularly Bailey first half were a real threat to them.
As for Gerrard, we’ll yes, we weren’t bad first half but overall just not enough again, surely a loss against Fulham and he’s got to go.

[KevinGage]

My takeaway from the game was that Gerrard was forced to change his usual straitjacket-tactics, because they haven't been working, and  - apparently - Critchley has been advocating for a quicker transition and less of the pointless passing around the back 4. It showed today and looked much better. However, our frontline players are devoid of confidence. Ironically - and not surprising, I suppose - we looked worse after Gerrard made the substitutions: Buendia is too easily knocked off the ball and Phil is - well - not very good.
I'm just wondering when the announcement will be.

Reckon he'll get until at least the Brentford game next week.

[Toronto Villa]

The reaction when even your teammate knows it’s a red card

https://twitter.com/addictedtovilla/status/1581680654349058049?s=46&t=TMJjCPGSf83NcwDGmrjABg

[PaulTheVillan]

Shit in either box.

Gerrards fault? No

[NorthYvillan]

Mings is Zat Knight 2.0

What rubbish. Like any central defender he makes mistakes but he has been our best and most consistent defender since he joined the club.

[pauliewalnuts]

Gerrard made subs which changed the game. They made us far worse.

Absolutely.

Fucking nuts.

We totally lost any impetus at that point. For the last 25 minutes or so we just ambled around like it was a park kick around.

I reckon he's lost the players.

[astonvilla82]

Shit in either box.

Gerrards fault? No

agreed