Aston Villa 0-2 Chelsea post match thread

[Hillbilly]

While Mings contributed to the first I don't think it's all on him. I'd guess he was set to block a shot, the ball looped up probably spinning, he had to reset for the header and misjudged it. But everyone else was slow to react apart from Mount. I would have expected Martinez to be quicker out but he was pretty static.

[Archieavfc]

It might have been my poor internet but i thought i heard a few "Steve Gerrard" songs being sung in support of him, surely i am wrong about that, no way can anyone that actually spends their time and money going to VillaPark be in favor of him staying?

[PeterWithesShin]

It might have been my poor internet but i thought i heard a few "Steve Gerrard" songs being sung in support of him, surely i am wrong about that, no way can anyone that actually spends their time and money going to VillaPark be in favor of him staying?

That was Chelsea fans.

Steve Gerrard Gerard, he slipped on his fucking arse, he gave it to Demba Ba, Steve Gerrard Gerrard.

[Archieavfc]

Ah that makes sense. Anyway, i am no longer amazed we are clueless on the pitch and no longer amazed we are clueless off it proven by the fact he is still here. Each defeat is just met with a yawn!

[ChicagoLion]

I thought our performance was very good up until the substitutions, Ings and Mings were the problem today.

[Dave P]

There’s an old adage that the Holte End sucks the ball towards the goal. That was true in the first half whenever Mings had it on his own on the half way line and just kept turning around and passing it back.

[sid1964]

Mings (who seemingly cannot be blamed for anything on here) every time he received the ball he either launched it down the pitch or passed it side wards 

You can see why Gerrard brought in Carlos and also wanted another centre half who can pass a ball forward.

Mings has now been responsible for the goal at Forest and for yesterdays under 5s calamity, maybe the sun was in his eyes?

1st half had enough chances to be at least level at half time, but the 2nd half was poor, and the supporters were so quiet.

Purslow has stated in a meeting last week that Gerrard is under no pressure and therefore will remain as our Manager - Onto Fulham hopefully we will win.

[London Villan]

I think because of the ok performance Gerrard got off very lightly with regards to the reaction from the crowd.

[Mister E]

I am not defending  Gerrard but that performance was not down to him ...

... unless you regard his role as "head coach" important in defining the play that we're now witnessing.
We can't pin individual errors (a la Mings) on Gerrard, but the cumulative effect of his involvement is now showing through.

Any more Stevie-time at the club is dragging us further into the relegation mire.

[Allan C]

'fun' fact, if Chelsea beat Brentford, Potter will have the same number of wins from his 4 league games at Chelsea as Gerrard has in his last 21 with us.

And one more than he managed with Brighton in 27 games last season.

Haha, you hate Potter, don't you?

No of course not. It's just not a surprise that he's winning games with a billion pound team though really is it?

He won't be there long.

Indeed, let’s see what the reaction is when the inevitable poor run comes along

[Clampy]

I think because of the ok performance Gerrard got off very lightly with regards to the reaction from the crowd.

I think that's fair enough though because it was a lot better and we deserved more out of the first half.

[London Villan]

Agreed - and if it was on the back of some other ok performances and results no-one, would want him out. But it isn't

[Risso]

It's no good saying "if we play like that we'll be fine" if you the don't then back it up. We played really well against Man City but then struggled to score against Leeds and Forest.

[Chris Smith]

I think because of the ok performance Gerrard got off very lightly with regards to the reaction from the crowd.

Yes he did but with only around a third of the crowd still in the ground after 85 minutes most had voted with their feet.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

I think because of the ok performance Gerrard got off very lightly with regards to the reaction from the crowd.

Let's face it because of the apathy the crowd barely sung for the Villa yesterday.
Chelsea fans taking the p*ss out of our manager didn't even get a rise out of our fans and certainly no show of support for him. It seemed to me we let the Chelsea fans do our talking for us and our silence either way should also have been noted by purslow and the owners.