Aston Villa 2 The Arse 4 Post Match ah well what could have been thread

[baddowvillans]

Two Arsenal player stood in front of Martinez for the winner.  Will Arteta be demanding Villa are awarded a point?

[Villa Lew]

Forget the 4th, we were beaten by a fluke of a goal, against one of the best teams in the league. Thought there were lots of positives, Arsenal will not have too many tougher game the rest of the season.

[baddowvillans]

Sorry should say standing in offside positions.  Look to be interfering more than we had one disallowed at their place

[AV82EC]

Thought we did ok first half and probabaky deserved to be in front but second half we just didn’t get at Jorginho enough and he ran the game  really. It’s fine margins though, Baileys shot hits the bar and comes out Jorginhos bounces in off Emi. We’re better than we were a couple of seasons ago but still too brittle. Onwards….

[baddowvillans]

Offside and interfering with the keeper?

[Risso]

When was the last time our defence has been this bad and badly organised. We’re an absolute shambles.

[PaulWinch again]

Forget the 4th, we were beaten by a fluke of a goal, against one of the best teams in the league. Thought there were lots of positives, Arsenal will not have too many tougher game the rest of the season.

Yes the main positive was the quality of our goals. We’ll score plenty with incisive play like that. The defending as a team however needs massive improvement. The midfield just doesn’t closedown well enough, the fullbacks get out of position too easily, and the centre backs make basic errors too regularly.

[Woody17]

A bitter pill to swallow but felt it was inevitable that we’d concede late on.
I still think we’re heading in the right direction, we played some good stuff again today, our second goal was beautiful. An upgrade on our two centre halves (with Carlos being one of them) and with Mings on the bench is what we need to happen sooner rather than later.
I’m convinced we’re not a million miles away from being a very decent team and I can’t help being a tiny bit excited about Duran…..there’s a player there.

[LukeJames]

Arsenal will not have too many tougher game the rest of the season.

As Alex Ferguson used to say every season after beating us again.

[Footy-Vill]

Emery has now publicly called out Martinez .
Unai said he has never asked a goal keeper to go up for corner .

[pauliewalnuts]

Emery needs to stop us conceding so many. 11 in 3 games is abysmal.

[Scott Nielsen]

... but we defended really well for the majority.

If today is an example of us defending well for most of the game then I don't want to be around when the wheels come off.  Villa's defending is less about reading the game, being one step ahead, spotting danger; it's more about desperate firefighting, often due to our own mistakes.

Agreed Hilts. We are all over the place defensively. At hardly anytime have we defended well lately. It's not solely down to the last four either, our midfield has been danced through in our last few games.

[astonvilla82]

Simple things like that short corner, sort it out and the third goal doesn't exist

[Paul.S]

When was the last time our defence has been this bad and badly organised. We’re an absolute shambles.

It’s individual mistakes not the organisation and this has been the case for a few seasons. What can Emery do about goals like their first?

[Paul.S]

Arsenal will not have too many tougher game the rest of the season.

As Alex Ferguson used to say every season after beating us again.

Exactly!