Aston Villa vs Crystal Palace Post-Match

[Astnor]

This "IF Watkins and Cash had put their chances  away" argument isnt that valid IMO, If you look at the stats Watkins usually dosent put his chances away and Cash isnt really a putter either. (I m not looking for problems just trying to be realistic)

[Percy McCarthy]

I fully and completely back this manager after he took us to 7th in two thirds of last season.

Disappointing to see negativity creep into match threads when things go against us. We always have a chance of a turnaround with this manager.

Get a grip, mate.

It's a match thread on a football forum. What do you think is going to happen when we are losing at home to Palace, and not playing that well?

I’m with Villain82 on this one. Some posts sound like they are written by primary school kids with players veering from being total shit to world beaters within minutes.

I'm not.

He's talking out of his arse, I'm afraid.

But anyway, we won, it's not far off 2am here and I'm going to have a cigar on the balcony

Agreed. I'd much rather read the opinions of people concerning the game in the match and post match threads (whether positive, negative or indifferent), than posters criticising others for daring to say that we possibly weren't playing that well. There's no badges given out for being Bestest Fan of the Month that I'm aware of.

Twitter is full if that shit - comments on how people support the team rather than just opinions on the game itself. Does my crust in.

[N'ZMAV]

Palace are horrible time-wasting negative wankers.
Referee was poor today.
Watkins and McGinn had poor games.
Cash had so much space down that right in the first half, needs to learn to whip one in first time.
Pau Torres needs a rocket up his arse some times, but man he can pass a ball.
Overall a 6/10 sort of performance. Would have settled for a point at 80 mins so chuffed with a win.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Im not an evangelist but I don’t really see too much criticism for Unai in this, only recognising what needed to be done and making some changes of players and tactics that paid dividends.

Unai is going to have to find a way to play teams like Palace who won't play our game and refuse to press, instead getting bodies behind the ball. Palace weren't the first and most certainly won't be the last, even Hibs did it with some success at Villa Park.

As you rightly said in a previous post to the "Mommy! A nasty man is saying bad things about Unai" comment, 'He’s not above criticism, but some people love looking for problems', change 'problems' for 'solutions' and you're pretty much there. As you well know, it's a football forum where we discuss erm.. football. Wanting Villa to improve shouldn't be looked down on. Opinions, eh?

[The Edge]

Two great balls from Tielemans, a game-changing substitution. Bailey involved again, good to have competition for starting places.

I've never seen Tielemans knackers so I couldn't possibly comment 😅

[Daley’s dreads]

We did score 3 against Hibs though and 3 today! First goal was always going to be crucial today, yet we still found a way to win.
Watkins will knock a few in soon and Torres will end up being brilliant once he adapts.

[KevinGage]

1-0 down playing pish = 3-1 win.

Accept it. It’s what actual big clubs do.

[RamboandBruno]

Im not an evangelist but I don’t really see too much criticism for Unai in this, only recognising what needed to be done and making some changes of players and tactics that paid dividends.

Unai is going to have to find a way to play teams like Palace who won't play our game and refuse to press, instead getting bodies behind the ball. Palace weren't the first and most certainly won't be the last, even Hibs did it with some success at Villa Park.

As you rightly said in a previous post to the "Mommy! A nasty man is saying bad things about Unai" comment, 'He’s not above criticism, but some people love looking for problems', change 'problems' for 'solutions' and you're pretty much there. As you well know, it's a football forum where we discuss erm.. football. Wanting Villa to improve shouldn't be looked down on. Opinions, eh?

Absolutely, we all want Villa to improve and nothing wrong with divergent opinions at all. Mine diverge from yours on this, I think the manager recognised  what needed to be done and did it. If we don’t completely agree on this, fine, alls well in the world.

[Risso]

1-0 down playing pish = 3-1 win.

Accept it. It’s what actual big clubs do.

Although that's only the second time we've come back to win after falling behind under Emery. (To be fair though, it's because most of the time we haven't fallen behind).

[LeeB]

That was the kind of end to a game Arsenal or Man Utd have done to us so often in the past, it's what seperates the wheat from the chaff.

I think it will have a massive impact on confidence where when we're on similar situations in future we won't panic,

And Diaby is weapons-grade good, he looks an absolute steal at £50m.

[The Edge]

Palace are horrible time-wasting negative wankers.
Referee was poor today.
Watkins and McGinn had poor games.
Cash had so much space down that right in the first half, needs to learn to whip one in first time.
Pau Torres needs a rocket up his arse some times, but man he can pass a ball.
Overall a 6/10 sort of performance. Would have settled for a point at 80 mins so chuffed with a win.

I agree about the ref. His decision not to give Dacoure a yellow card when he scythed down Dougie from behind was ludicrous. It was as blatant a booking as your ever likely to see. He did however redeem himself somewhat when he refused VARS attempt to disallow the penalty.

[paul_e]

Im not an evangelist but I don’t really see too much criticism for Unai in this, only recognising what needed to be done and making some changes of players and tactics that paid dividends.

Unai is going to have to find a way to play teams like Palace who won't play our game and refuse to press, instead getting bodies behind the ball. Palace weren't the first and most certainly won't be the last, even Hibs did it with some success at Villa Park.

As you rightly said in a previous post to the "Mommy! A nasty man is saying bad things about Unai" comment, 'He’s not above criticism, but some people love looking for problems', change 'problems' for 'solutions' and you're pretty much there. As you well know, it's a football forum where we discuss erm.. football. Wanting Villa to improve shouldn't be looked down on. Opinions, eh?

But he did find a way to play again them, we could easily have been 2-3 up by half time. We were the better team until they scored and their goal had a huge element of good fortune about it. From there we used the bench and won the game. What more should he have done to avoid criticism?

[LeeB]

Correct Paul, the man is the reason we're celebrating a 3-1 win and not a 1-0 loss like so many we've seen before in the same circumstances.

You carn tess with Emery, we're going to earn so many points we wouldn't have with a mere mortal in charge.

[London Villan]

No panic from Emery on the bench either. Calming things down, very much ‘don’t panic’. The only time he got animated was when he told Dean Henderson to come on for Johnstone.

[LeeB]

No panic from Emery on the bench either. Calming things down, very much ‘don’t panic’. The only time he got animated was when he told Dean Henderson to come on for Johnstone.

And when Cash spooned that clearance out for a throw.

There was another point in the ame second half when a defender lumped it and the crowd around me moaned because he could've bought it down, and I thought this is good, we're setting the bar higher as fans.

That shit's in the past, it's not the Villa way now.