Aston Villa 1 Jorge Mendes clients 1 post match thread.

[pauliewalnuts]

Refreshing to see two managers involved in a tactical chess match, changing things throughout the match, though. As someone said above, how refreshing to know that we have a manager who is not afraid to change things rather than the likes of Gerrard who’d usually just stand there impassive and hope for an improvement.

Five subs from them and four from us, including three at once - what a change in game management.

We were awful first half and they were absolutely excellent. We were the better side second half and a draw was about right.

I’d rather we hadn’t had that first half performance but thats going to happen a handful of games in, with a manager still getting to know his squad, all of whom were chosen by someone else.

The difference between us under Carpethead and after five league games of Emery is absolutely immense though. You also know that Emery was, and will still be angry about a few things last night and will be out on the training field with his team today working on improving things whereas most managers we have had in recent years would be sat in their office, detached from it all.

Promising times ahead.

[brontebilly]

One sleep later and the positives are starting to settle a bit. We're going to play a bit shit sometimes, and to have scrapped a draw and arguably should've won isn't too bad. Also, we do have a manager who genuinely changes things around when they're not working, this is good.

It makes watching the game far less depressing knowing that even though we're struggling at a point in the match, you're confident the manager will react as opposed to sitting there thinking "we're fucked" after 10 minutes

I thought it shouldnt have taken until half time to move Cash. Think Emery was a little fortunate that we were only one down at the break. Konsa cleared one off the line but Wolves had lots of threatening attacks.

[London Villan]

He wasn't happy from the first 10 mins - forward players not closing down quick enough, positioning not right. He was animated in a good way, passing information on to players. Very active in-game management.

[Ian.]

I missed our bad half and managed to watch the second half with my brother (a Wolves fan).

He said Wolves were absolutely fantastic rather than saying we were shit. However I thought second half we completely bossed it and looked the more likely winner.

What struck me was how quick that 45 minutes went. It was a great game.

[PeterWithe]

Thought it was an interesting game rather than a good one, Tatters will be more pleased in how their game plan was executed. First half they were excellent without the ball pressing hard in numbers very high and not giving us any space or passing options. Their back line then easily dealt with the long ball we were forced to play. I think the key was getting to half time only one down as we were never going to be as poor second half, that said Emi only really had one save to make.

As expected Emery made changes and we had complete control without creating that much, for all the talk of how much better we were second, I dont think their GK had a save to make (?) I think they gave us territory and encouraged us to make crosses which they dealt with pretty easily.

Buendia needs to make better choices if he is going to start games, he gave the ball away far too easily albeit when we needed someone to make something happen. Overall about a fair result.

Thought we might have tried Baily on the left for at least part of the game.

MOM - Mings

[chrisw1]

We were the better team second half, but they still tested our keeper more than we tested theirs.  Traore had a shot on goal the first two times he touched the ball.

As for Bailey, it wasn't just the miss at the end, he failed to beat his man all night.  A game to forget.

[Small Rodent]

I think the match preview I read had Emery only winning 1 of 6 previous head to heads with the Wolves manager.

It was always going to be a game of chess.

[PeterWithe]

And a word on a very good tactical foul from Phil at the end, lad with the ball had an easy vertical pass straight through the middle of our defence to Traore who no-one would have caught, over he went, yellow card and a point. Top notch cheating.

[Nev]

I noticed that the Manager sat down around the 30 minutes mark, something I can't recall him doing before. I always criticised the previous incumbent of hiding when he did this, it was always when things were going tits up. However, last night I hoped that Emery was actually detaching himself from the game to assess just what was wrong, he popped up again just before the break.

He did change things so maybe my optimistic outlook was correct, or he could've been having a rest I suppose....

[Gareth]

Mings and Konsa interchange the ball so much because neither are particularly good at playing it out.

They do it because Emery has told them to.  The passing around the back is to draw the press and hopefully find space for a pass further up the field.  It pisses me off when the crowd get antsy about something the manager has clearly directed the players to do.

The passing between them isn’t the issue, I don’t think either are proper ball playing centre halves but when they have the ball at the back the lack of movement in front of them to give targets is a much bigger issue.  Ollie makes runs but nothing from Buendia / Bailey on the whole.

[enigma]

First half Wolves dominated, 2nd half we did well and maybe could of snatched a win - but a fair result

Thought the Wolves number 3 who came on as sub, looked an excellent player

Ait Nouri. Left midfielder. He’s been good. He won’t be there much longer if he’s got any ambition.

He's the only player they have that I'd take if they were to go down.

I'd definitely take Neves and Neto. Excellent players.

[eamonn]

Ings was well-pumped up by his goal. Kept shouting "WHAT?" at the Holte, angry and proud, as if he were our master.

[LeeB]

Ings was well-pumped up by his goal. Kept shouting "WHAT?" at the Holte, angry and proud, as if he were our master.

It was a fantastic first touch, it was so good it panicked the keeper and he slipped.

We didn't work that keeper anywhere near enough, he looked ropey and has done whenever I've watched them.

[martyn ellis]

A couple more points:
Wolves look like a team way above their station in the bottom three and probably their best performance all season. I like their manager's style.
Ait-Nouri (sp?) is class - not sure why he didn't start.
Augustinsson's volley worthy of a worldy but equally matched by the headed clearance.
If Sa hadn't slipped he may just about have smothered Ings' shot for his goal, so we had a bit of (deserved) luck there.
A more confident Bailey may have chipped the keeper (Ings-like?) from just outside the area before trying to go round him which took him too wide.
All in all a fair result from two good sides. I bear Wolves no ill-will when they play like that and make them odds-on to get well clear of the bottom before long.

[kippaxvilla2]

Refreshing to see two managers involved in a tactical chess match, changing things throughout the match, though. As someone said above, how refreshing to know that we have a manager who is not afraid to change things rather than the likes of Gerrard who’d usually just stand there impassive and hope for an improvement.

Five subs from them and four from us, including three at once - what a change in game management.

We were awful first half and they were absolutely excellent. We were the better side second half and a draw was about right.

I’d rather we hadn’t had that first half performance but thats going to happen a handful of games in, with a manager still getting to know his squad, all of whom were chosen by someone else.

The difference between us under Carpethead and after five league games of Emery is absolutely immense though. You also know that Emery was, and will still be angry about a few things last night and will be out on the training field with his team today working on improving things whereas most managers we have had in recent years would be sat in their office, detached from it all.

Promising times ahead.

Carpet head - hilarious.