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

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

It worries me that we're giving new contracts to the likes of Mings if we seriously want to challenge the top half of the table.

Possibly keeps any fee on the higher side rather than a reduced rate because of an expiring contract. The majority of the players should think they’re not exempt from being shown the exit door.

[Nunkin1965]

Well I thought it was a fantastic game, really open end to end game with both sides going for it. Our final big chance hits the bar and stays out, theirs goes in. We matched a team top of the league. Much to be impressed by, much to improve on.

Such a shame all their goals looked avoidable.

Yes my thoughts aswell.
Still purring about Coutinho's goal!

[PeterWithe]

Arsenal deserved to win, but God some of their fans are utter helmets......

https://twitter.com/AFTVMedia/status/1626988527144632320?t=H2XFruFS7BQAaYkkAMlusg&s=19

Ha, I like that, it’s just reinforces my perception of what all Arsenal fans are like. It wouldn’t take much imagination to think of him supporting an alternative team last season when they weren’t doing well.

[Clampy]

Well I thought it was a fantastic game, really open end to end game with both sides going for it. Our final big chance hits the bar and stays out, theirs goes in. We matched a team top of the league. Much to be impressed by, much to improve on.

Such a shame all their goals looked avoidable.

Yeah, the third goal was unfortunate and the last goal made it look worse than it was. I thought 2-2 would have been a fair result overall.

[Chris Smith]

Well I thought it was a fantastic game, really open end to end game with both sides going for it. Our final big chance hits the bar and stays out, theirs goes in. We matched a team top of the league. Much to be impressed by, much to improve on.

Such a shame all their goals looked avoidable.

Yes my thoughts aswell.
Still purring about Coutinho's goal!

Same here, great game and in stark contrast to some of the sterile stuff served up by Gerrard’s teams.

[Stu]

Some more players are going to get shipped out in the summer. Squad needs a rebuild. Arsenal as an example - it took them 2/3 seasons to rebuild to this stage and lots of money. Villa went toe to toe with them yesterday and they got lucky. Anyone expecting a quick return to the top 6 and Europe needs to cool their jets, it’s going to take ages yet.

And in any case, now that the Qatari government are going to be running Manchester United, we may as well all just pull up deckchairs anyway, it’s not exactly a competition anymore.

[Nunkin1965]

Well I thought it was a fantastic game, really open end to end game with both sides going for it. Our final big chance hits the bar and stays out, theirs goes in. We matched a team top of the league. Much to be impressed by, much to improve on.

Such a shame all their goals looked avoidable.

Yes my thoughts aswell.
Still purring about Coutinho's goal!

Same here, great game and in stark contrast to some of the sterile stuff served up by Gerrard’s teams.

Watching that goal again excites me for the future for us.
Emery is clearly frustrated with our lack of ability to keep possession and the team as a whole will improve with his experience and his dedicated ambition for us to succeed along with additional players of course.
It's just not going to happen overnight and he's trying to turn around years (decades)  of a Villa side turning over the ball needlessly to opponents.

[ChicagoLion]

I thought we were hanging on since we went 2 1 and then was battered in the second half.
We struggled to put more than 3 passes together after the break. I was surprised he didn’t do more to help out Moreno as Saka was their main threat the whole game.

[pablo_picasso]

Because VAR owed them one for Arteta whinging all week about theirs last weekend...

How different was it to the McGinn goal at their place a couple of years that was disallowed because Barkley was in front of the gk?

The difference?

The crest.

[PeterWithe]

It looked to me like a clear plan to overload Moreno and then drag him centrally, Sako then hugs the touch line and then gets the long diagonal, he then attacks 1v1. We might have been a little fortunate that, goal aside, not a lot went right for him and he wasted some great positions.

[pablo_picasso]

It worries me that we're giving new contracts to the likes of Mings if we seriously want to challenge the top half of the table.

This.

[ChicagoLion]

It looked to me like a clear plan to overload Moreno and then drag him centrally, Sako then hugs the touch line and then gets the long diagonal, he then attacks 1v1. We might have been a little fortunate that, goal aside, not a lot went right for him and he wasted some great positions.

It was, Odegard took a position between the arse players in possession and Saka,then at the right time moved to create the passing Lane.
It was clever stuff.

[pablo_picasso]

Arsenal deserved to win, but God some of their fans are utter helmets......

https://twitter.com/AFTVMedia/status/1626988527144632320?t=H2XFruFS7BQAaYkkAMlusg&s=19

Ha, I like that, it’s just reinforces my perception of what all Arsenal fans are like. It wouldn’t take much imagination to think of him supporting an alternative team last season when they weren’t doing well.

"Villa fans need to go back to Burminum..."

...while standing in Birmingham.

Stupid fucking cockerney bellend.

[Nunkin1965]

Arsenal deserved to win, but God some of their fans are utter helmets......

https://twitter.com/AFTVMedia/status/1626988527144632320?t=H2XFruFS7BQAaYkkAMlusg&s=19

Ha, I like that, it’s just reinforces my perception of what all Arsenal fans are like. It wouldn’t take much imagination to think of him supporting an alternative team last season when they weren’t doing well.

"Villa fans need to go back to Burminum..."

...while standing in Birmingham.

Stupid fucking cockerney bellend.

He's not even liked by Arsenal supporters.
I did see him before the game yesterday walking towards the away entrance and there didn't seem much interest in the guy by any gooners.

[mrfuse]

I thought it was a good match but obviously extremely disappointed with the result.

Yes Mings could have done better with his header and probably should have put it behind for a corner.I know it wouldn't have counted but his clearance of the line was something else. At the moment we are better with him than without him so the new contract makes sense.

Buendia is an enigma for me, I wish he would cut out the going down too easily followed by throwing his hands in the air while the opposition are then carrying the ball forward.