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

[Risso]

Matty Cash's problem was summed up late in the game when Bailey was attacking with the ball, Cash overlapped and was played the ball --with everyone in the box, he again crossed woefully to an area outside the box, Arsenal picked the ball up and they were away!

The goals against is down to a poor defence, that has been obvious for a while. Moreno is a much welcome addition to left-back, but we need the other 3.

Martinez can go as he takes far too many risks playing out ( his time wasting is just boring and embarassing) and he seemed to keep aiming for a bloke in the first row of the Doug Ellis during the 2nd half rather than Moreno!

Cash's ball for the Watkins goal was brilliant though.

[Drummond]

We did well for large parts of the game and played some really nice football. Watkins looks good again. Bailey unlucky with Ramsdale pulling off a great save. Duran showing plenty of promise.

They scored a fluke off Martinez's head. The last goal was just one of those things that we won't see again. (Emery's comments appeared to me to show that he hadn't previously said not to go up, but that he has now), I noted that Bailey made no attempt to chase back and I think he could and should have . Their first was a great finish, and I'm still in two minds about Mings' header, should be have sent it out and conceded a corner? Hindsight says yes of course. The one that pissed me off was the Zinchenko goal that replicated Stevenage. Garbage and so annoying that it was allowed to happen again.

[steffo]

When you have a goalkeeper who is quite happy and competent to catch the ball. Why do we have 11 men in the box. Put 2 on the halfway line, they will have 3 markers. It stops the snipers outside the box like yesterday.

[astonvilla82]

When you have a goalkeeper who is quite happy and competent to catch the ball. Why do we have 11 men in the box. Put 2 on the halfway line, they will have 3 markers. It stops the snipers outside the box like yesterday.

even one on the halfway line, it's taking two to mark him,it puzzles me why we don't do it

[Smithy]

Matty Cash's problem was summed up late in the game when Bailey was attacking with the ball, Cash overlapped and was played the ball --with everyone in the box, he again crossed woefully to an area outside the box, Arsenal picked the ball up and they were away!

The goals against is down to a poor defence, that has been obvious for a while. Moreno is a much welcome addition to left-back, but we need the other 3.

Martinez can go as he takes far too many risks playing out ( his time wasting is just boring and embarassing) and he seemed to keep aiming for a bloke in the first row of the Doug Ellis during the 2nd half rather than Moreno!

Cash's ball for the Watkins goal was brilliant though.

Indeed. And not just the ball, but also the fact that he robbed the ball from Zinchenko in the right-back position, burst away from him over twenty yards into midfield and then dropped a peach of a ball into Watkins' run. If that had been Alexander-Arnold they'd have been creaming themselves over it on MOTD.

I still think his crossing is generally poor, but you have to also give credit where it's due, and his assist yesterday was absolutely brilliant.

[FatSam]

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.

That’s basically where I am with this.

[Mister E]

When you have a goalkeeper who is quite happy and competent to catch the ball. Why do we have 11 men in the box. Put 2 on the halfway line, they will have 3 markers. It stops the snipers outside the box like yesterday.

Oh yes!!

[The Edge]

Just watched the re-run on motd. It was a great game for the neutral as they say but gut wrenching to lose in the way we did. Watching their 4th when Emi went awol it occurred to me that giving Digne the corner on that side was a big mistake. Because it's an outswinger it just needed a defender to head it out and the break was on. Surely a right footer making it an in swinging corner was the way to go? Still we will learn. I've a feeling Unai Emery will have quite a lot to say to them about those two injury time goals.

[ROBBO]

They dominated the second half and were much the better team. We can look at highlights where we broke away and looked dangerous but i'm sad to say we have a long way to go. Our ball retention is hopeless and most of that realistcally is down to the quality of player we have. Hopefully we have a good trading period in the summer.

[LukeJames]

They dominated the second half and were much the better team. We can look at highlights where we broke away and looked dangerous but i'm sad to say we have a long way to go.

I agree they were much better second half, we allowed Jorginho to get the ball and spray it out wide at will, Saka, Odegaard and White tripled up on our left all through the second half. I'm a massive Emery fan but I kept waiting for him to make a change to put somebody on Jorginho and shore up our left to negate this but unfortunately he didn't.

[ChicagoLion]

They dominated the second half and were much the better team. We can look at highlights where we broke away and looked dangerous but i'm sad to say we have a long way to go.

I agree they were much better second half, we allowed Jorginho to get the ball and spray it out wide at will, Saka, Odegaard and White tripled up on our left all through the second half. I'm a massive Emery fan but I kept waiting for him to make a change to put somebody on Jorginho and shore up our left to negate this but unfortunately he didn't.

Just as I saw it, the main tactic was to get Saka 1 on 1 and we did nothing to stop this. I was expecting Emery to do something but he didn’t.

[Bad English]

I was waiting for Sawiris to run into the Holte and deputise a few fans who knew what to do to counter Arsenal but unfortunately he didn't.

[ChicagoLion]

I was waiting for Sawiris to run into the Holte and deputise a few fans who knew what to do to counter Arsenal but unfortunately he didn't.

Perhaps he was too busy demonstrating how to open a can and pour it into a glass.

[The Edge]

Had a look in on an Arsenal forum. Something I do to get the away fans perspective also I'm a bit masochistic. What a bunch of tit for tat pricks!! They hate Unai Emery and they detest Martinez presumably because he chose being first choice keeper with us over second string obscurity with them. I mean how could anyone choose crappy  little Aston Villa over the mighty Arse? Which reminds me they call us Aston Virgina which I guess must be tit for tat for us calling them The Arse. And finally someone posted a podcast done outside the North Stand which featured a little black guy with his red and white scarf frothing at the mouth with vitriol towards us. He hopes we get relegated and we should go back to Birninhum. OK then. Weirdos.

[Risso]

I think with Martinez it's more that he had a couple of not so subtle digs at them after he left. He didn't really need to, but Emi being Emi and all that...