Legia Warsaw vs Aston Villa post match thread.

[AV84]

Feels like last season Emery knew how to get the best out of the players he inherited. Now he's added a few of his own choosing and is trying to fit them in and change the style and maybe it's all a bit too much at once?

We've seen how good we can be when it works but it seems there's a chance every game that we concede first and early, and then everything goes to shit.

I trust it will all come good eventually but it needs to come soon or we're making everything an uphill battle.

[Villan82]

Apparently our recruitment team follow 40 leagues in detail, but seemingly couldn't find us a right back to replace Young. You can't prepare for losing Mings for a season but we all knew losing Ash, a leader and competent defender and not replacing him would be a mistake.

Mate, please read what the Everton forum are saying about Young. He was great most of last season but The signs were there late on last season - age has caught up with him.

[Small Rodent]

Legia are crap.

We should have beaten them.

I enjoyed the atmosphere from Legia. It was fantastic. I didn’t get beaten up by their fans because I cheered their goals. My post-grad year at the Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art in 1990 helped me obviously. Mother fucking method acting!

[Sexual Ealing]

Having taken some time to gather my thoughts - I didn't want to go off like a Bloser in a tattoo emporium - I want to say this (I wouldn't have liked to make a fool of myself!): the worst thing we ever could've done is employ a good manager with a track record of doing good things because we will ruin him just like we ruined ourselves many decades ago we don't deserve nice things we always fuck it up always we remind me of Aston Villa oh why are we always so shit when it matters why can we do everything by the book and then still always fail and why can we be the plaything of a Chinese chancer and we don't even get a sugar rush before it all goes tits up our sugar rush was Steve fucking Bruce oh what's the fucking point.

I think we'll be fine in the end. UTV.

[N'ZMAV]

Martinez was awful with the third - should never have let that in

[jwarry]

Having taken some time to gather my thoughts - I didn't want to go off like a Bloser in a tattoo emporium - I want to say this (I wouldn't have liked to make a fool of myself!): the worst thing we ever could've done is employ a good manager with a track record of doing good things because we will ruin him just like we ruined ourselves many decades ago we don't deserve nice things we always fuck it up always we remind me of Aston Villa oh why are we always so shit when it matters why can we do everything by the book and then still always fail and why can we be the plaything of a Chinese chancer and we don't even get a sugar rush before it all goes tits up our sugar rush was Steve fucking Bruce oh what's the fucking point.

I think we'll be fine in the end. UTV.

Ok

[Aldridge Villa]

When the starting eleven was published I was a little underwhelmed at the defensive part. And that’s pretty much how it all panned out.

[PaulWinch again]

Feels like last season Emery knew how to get the best out of the players he inherited. Now he's added a few of his own choosing and is trying to fit them in and change the style and maybe it's all a bit too much at once?

We've seen how good we can be when it works but it seems there's a chance every game that we concede first and early, and then everything goes to shit.

I trust it will all come good eventually but it needs to come soon or we're making everything an uphill battle.

I think there’s an element of players not being fully aligned yet. But we cannot keep turning insipid displays like this in.

[Astnor]

Feels like last season Emery knew how to get the best out of the players he inherited. Now he's added a few of his own choosing and is trying to fit them in and change the style and maybe it's all a bit too much at once?

We've seen how good we can be when it works but it seems there's a chance every game that we concede first and early, and then everything goes to shit.

I trust it will all come good eventually but it needs to come soon or we're making everything an uphill battle.

The pessimistic view is that we have not looked ready since the Valencia game and you could look at it like that today and against Palace and Anfield and stJames speks for itself. Didnt show that much against poor Everton and Burnley. We look a promising team though so I think we will be good as the season comes on further.

[Risso]

I think there’s an element of players not being fully aligned yet. But we cannot keep turning insipid displays like this in.

Yep, it's not like we're a bit flat, we've defended horrendously away from home and got some old fashioned shoeings. Getting a bit disappointed that Emery so far seems unable to do anything about it.

[Beard82]

Did Watkins actually touch the ball?

Not a lot. Service was shite to be fair.

There was one touch, the ball came in to him on the edge of the box and in customary Watkins style, he 'trapped' it about 20 yards.

Only player whose trap is more powerful then there shot

[Beard82]

Apparently our recruitment team follow 40 leagues in detail, but seemingly couldn't find us a right back to replace Young. You can't prepare for losing Mings for a season but we all knew losing Ash, a leader and competent defender and not replacing him would be a mistake.

All day long

[brontebilly]

Did Watkins actually touch the ball?

No I don't think so, although he was annoyed about Tielemans not pulling the side netting shot back for him.

That was terrible from Tielemans. We created a few chances late on, Diaby missed a big one and Ramsey too.

[Beard82]

Having taken some time to gather my thoughts - I didn't want to go off like a Bloser in a tattoo emporium - I want to say this (I wouldn't have liked to make a fool of myself!): the worst thing we ever could've done is employ a good manager with a track record of doing good things because we will ruin him just like we ruined ourselves many decades ago we don't deserve nice things we always fuck it up always we remind me of Aston Villa oh why are we always so shit when it matters why can we do everything by the book and then still always fail and why can we be the plaything of a Chinese chancer and we don't even get a sugar rush before it all goes tits up our sugar rush was Steve fucking Bruce oh what's the fucking point.

I think we'll be fine in the end. UTV.

[FatSam]

When the starting eleven was published I was a little underwhelmed at the defensive part. And that’s pretty much how it all panned out.

Yes, me too. I was surprised that we didn’t go with a stronger starting 11, especially in defence, for the first group game. We are playing catch up from now on.