Man Utd vs Aston Villa post-match thread

[LeonW]

I know Emery is always trying to exert emotional control over a game. But we will have games like this where we need to have some aggression in the locker and fight for phases of a game.

[SaddVillan]

Injuries, bookings and squad depth catching up with us?

[Rudy Can't Fail]

The only positive I can think of right now is I had a ticket for the game in the home end sitting with my Manc brother-in-law. Thanks to the Post Office, who sent it to fucking London delaying it by 3 weeks,  my passport only arrived on Xmas Eve and I couldn't make the trip.

Oh and Tim looks a player. Unai needs to keep working with him and give him minutes he's quality, something Dougie Luiz was a couple of months back. Too many today waiting for somebody else to take responsibility. Shower of bollox the lot of them against a shite Plastic team.

Unai needs to raise the standards away from home. Apart from Burnley we've been average at best.

[wolfman999]

Sigh.

I'm thinking of cancelling the zoom call with my best mate this evening now. (He's one of them)

Best mate? You need to have a long, hard look in the mirror. Mind you, my best man is a Nose.

[Goldie.7]

As soon as that united supporting commentator said we've never lost from a winning start I backed the filth at 10/1.

We are completely blowing out of our arses and have overextended. What was really impressive about that horror show is we were second best to every 50/50 throughout.

Macheda madness 2.0.

[Forge10]

Not at all. 51 year old Villa fan, been watching since 79. Season ticket since 1980, anything else you know about me?

[wolfman999]

Injuries, bookings and squad depth catching up with us?

Or Villa just " doing a Villa".

[algy]

What was that 2nd half?!

Started before then, last 15mins of the 1st half we looked shaky.

Emery is still a genius, but I wish the Villa would stop doing Villa things

[itbrvilla]

Injuries, bookings and squad depth catching up with us?

Away performances catching up with us.

[TonyD]

How many times 2.0 up against them.

[ROBBO]

We started well dominated the play scored two then went to sleep. JJ should have been subbed after half time, bit worried his injury has affected his pace. It was reminiscent of Villa of days past, just when you think you have a team can't lose from two up we put in a performance like that. We badly missed Kamara if he plays we win. That's two poor performances in a row. Not a fan of Carlos thought he was a liability today. We need to get a couple of quality players in January.

[paul_e]

The fair criticism for tonight is that Lenglet, Ramsey and Donk all looked fucked by half time because none of them are match fit for games of that intensity. Maybe we needed to be trying to give them more game time earlier in the year but it's hard to do when things are going so well so Emery was always walking a bit of a tightrope over how he used the squad.

Once you consider we had 3 players who were at about 90% it's no shock that the rest of the team started to struggle having to cover more space than normal and not being able to trust their mates as they're used to.

Earlier subs might've helped but it would've been bold to bring Tim on much earlier and for Ramsey the only option was to go much more attacking once Digne got injured.

[Stinkin_Thinkin]

Why does he keep shoving Konsa out wide to RB to play a mediocre pairing at the back. Konsa is the best defender and the most comfortable on the ball out of those 3 and they get keep getting the shirts.  It's costing us.

[murgsy]

Is it me or was Tim looking very composed and some fine touches when he came on?

[olaftab]

This is worrying. This has happened to us many times before but I thought we were different this season but it seems not.