Aston Villa v Leicester City Post Match Thread

[Risso]

That was a defensive shit show mixed in with our usual prolifigacy in front of goal. No Strikers or attackers to bring on when we are a goal down so once it went 2-3 it was game over. A Striker was a MUST in January, instead we made our usual excuses. We'll finish 12th ish, see the better players want to leave and we're back in the cycle of trying to replace from positions of weakness.

Yep

[achilles]

Absolute garbage, worse performance of the season.
Players need to take a good hard look at themselves as they let everybody down today.
Buendia gets a 6
Watkins gets a 5
The rest get 4 and below.
Luckily a lot of these players won't be here after next season!

[Smirker]

Absolute garbage, worse performance of the season.
Players need to take a good hard look at themselves as they let everybody down today.
Buendia gets a 6
Watkins gets a 5
The rest get 4 and below.
Luckily a lot of these players won't be here after next season!

I think they will tbh.

[andyh]

On what planet is a player, whether that be the goalkeeper, one of 2 CH’s, or a midfielder, deemed to be playing football or doing something constructive, by standing just outside the box with their foot on the ball just looking at the pitch in front of them for 30 odd seconds.
What exactly the fucking purpose of that wank

[Clampy]

Four of the easiest goals an away team will ever score.

[tomd2103]

Fuming about that one.  If we'd have been outplayed then fair enough, but we were the better side for periods of the game, only to go and gift them goals with terrible defending. 

Their first goal set the tone really and then it was just littered with sloppy mistakes throughout.  If the tone of the transfer window was "we'll just settle with our lot" the performance today was an epitome of that attitude.

[pauliewalnuts]

Two problems.

The defensive clownery and clangers were just uncharacteristically terrible from us. Really, really poor. We won't be that bad again this season.

The profligacy up front is a problem we knew we had and that was a perfect example of it today,. We didn't do anything to address it in the window (in fact, we made it worse), so we are going to have to live with it for the remainder and hope we start to convert more chances.

Not the manager's fault today, it was the players who fucked it up.

I wonder if - at the back, certainly - we were starting to believe some of our own publicity.

[aj2k77]

Absolute garbage, worse performance of the season.
Players need to take a good hard look at themselves as they let everybody down today.
Buendia gets a 6
Watkins gets a 5
The rest get 4 and below.
Luckily a lot of these players won't be here after next season!

They will. We will be too busy replacing Martinez and Kamara to find the time to upgrade Bailey, Mings, Watkins etc. It will be like the Grealish scenario again. The Summer spent trying to replace what we've lost. We take too much time over things, we've done fuck all for decades now and there's always a reason why we can't go out and do something rather than making it happen. Look at the joke appointment of Gerrard, the belief that no one decent would actually come. The eternal excuse ''like who?'' which covers any new players or managers. Other teams get a bit of momentum and move past us. All the money in the world but no belief or thrust to make things happen.

[FatSam]

No Strikers or attackers to bring on when we are a goal down so once it went 2-3 it was game over.

I know what you mean, but he did bring on Coutinho and Duran, who are strikers or attackers.

[Toronto Villa]

We are trying to play it out from the back, and I never want us to go back to lump it football. If we make mistakes on that journey and get players in ultimately then I’m all for it.

[AV82EC]

Thought we played alright in the main but the defensive mistakes cost us. Thought Leicester played a very good high press which we sometimes passed through with ease but both Kamara and Luiz at times utterly failed to find space. Bailey, what can you say, beats his man about 4 times in the first ten minutes then disappears off the face of the earth and quite frankly played like a total fanny. That’s probably the best we’ve played at home this year and yet we’ve lost….ho hum. Onwards….

[Legion]

https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/12803181/aston-villa-2-4-leicester-premier-league-highlights

[steamer]

Playing it from the back and moving it fast is one thing
passing it to a centre half or midfielder that stands on it, gives away possession or passes it to someone else who losses is it something all together different.

[RamboandBruno]

Scores out of 10

Martinez - 3
Young - 5, Cash - 4
Mings - 2
Konsa - 3
Digne - 3, Moreno - 3
Kamara - 1
Luiz - 5
Buendia - 6
Ramsey - 2, Coutinho -5
Bailey - 4
Watkins - 5

There is a lot of nonsense in here and a couple of points of truth. Martinez??? Luiz?? Watkins??? I agree Bailey was poor and the big lad did more in 5 mins and all that.

[clash city rocker]

We are £200m away from a top 4 place