Man Utd vs Aston Villa post-match thread

[AndyB6]

No Torres.
No Kamara.
No composure.
That's how it looked to me (but I am in the pub).
We got dragged into their playground back and forth and couldn't stick to our plan.
Maybe sometimes you need to work the channels and forget tidy football too.

[AV84]

It's disappointing but most of us probably weren't expecting 6 points from the Man City and Arsenal games. We'll probably/hopefully finish the month on the amount of points we would have happily taken at the start of the month.

[Hopadop]

Well that was both very disappointing and totally predictable.

[Astnor]

I still think we are the beter team. We where a little unlucky second half - a couple of chances could easily gone in and their goals theyhad margins on their side. Overall they did fight us out of our style second half and we culdnt answer that after a brilliant first half from us. Lets beat Burnley and we are in a good place after all. If being critical cuold Emery done something to make us more defensively sound second half and bringing on Duran just make us worse, if he shall play must be in the box last minutes and not being the one trying to make our attacks with Watkins in the box (the same     appear to Zaniolo to al esser degree). I dont care that much about commentators and media being all United, we are the better team anyhow.

[Forge10]

Shit night. No need to panic yet as Emery will sort this. Just need to be patient and not get ahead of ourselves as we are still top 4

I think you may be editing this weekly 🤔

[Bad English]

I am now forgetting this game. In twenty years I might moan about Diego Carlos scoring for them in some nostalgic post but for now it never happened.

[Axl Rose]

EMI 5 did ok
Konsa 7 our best player
Digne 4 sloppy
Carlos 3 kept giving the ball away
Lenglet 5 not the problem
Luiz 4 poor
Ramsey 4 well off the pace
Bailey 5 ok
Watkins 4 hold up play and first touch pub league level
SJM 6 at least he tried
Donk too too slow

Emery 4 he needed to change it as we were over run in the second half and he did nothing.

You're being far too kind, fella.

[CT Villan]

Complete and utter bottle job. Utd didn't win that, we gifted it to them in the 2nd half.

[dave shelley]

I always feel being 2-0 up and losing is a real bitter pill to swallow.  It should never happen given the standard we are playing at.  Seen it so many times and it never gets any easier.

[Steve67]

5 players stood and watched the winner go in and we turned back into benovelent Villa with that spotty forward scoring for the first time in a decade.  We were our own worst enemy, misplaced passes, lack of movement, poor defending.  Man United are not a good side but when you hand it to them on a plate thanks to terrible passes and crap defending, we only have ourselves to blame.  I wonder if the players are running on empty because several were really poor this evening, Watkins, Carlos, Luiz.  Duran and Diaby added nothing, in fact, I'm beginning to think Duran should go out on loan now.  Truly awful performance and I can't stand the cumfest that is the commentary and by playing like we did, we handed it to them.  I hope Emery is giving them a proper roasting.  Need to beat Burnley.

[Keeno]

That Kamara red card at Brentford looks worse and worse. I don't think tonight was a personnel problem really, apart from him, who gives us that level of safety on the counter which we totally lacked, they just played cutting pass after cutting pass through the centre of the pitch.

Don't think there's the need to tear everything up and start again - tbh, I think that's the worst (and most tactically out-played) I've seen us play under Emery this season. United's press stopped us playing all night and the most worrying thing was we didn't seem to have an answer.

Burnley won't do what they did tonight, will be a different challenge. Win there and we're still in a great spot. Really annoying to lose it how we did though.

[steamer]

Got what we deserved, could not match them for passion or desire in the second half, sloppy passing and far too many players did not put in a shift.
I hope we have a list of recruits for Jan

[PaulTheVillan]

Maybe some of the players had too much fun over Xmas

[andyh]

Tht second half was the worst performance since Emery arrived, absolutely Bruce-esque. Players were disgracefully shite and Emery got it all wrong.

Hard to disagree with that

[Steve67]

Normal service resumed.

Yet another troll.