Aston Villa 1-3 Newcastle Post match cry

[Steve67]

Schooled in every department.

OK, I'm seeing this said as if Newcastle were good. They weren't. They do two things: 1) they defend; 2) balls over the top, maybe win a set-piece. Emery's Villa just lost to O'Neill's Villa.

The worked hard to close us down, they were more aggressive, cynical fouls and slowing the game down when they needed to.  Better, quicker passing than us.  Easy to see.  Newcastle were better, they are poor, yes, but so are we at the moment.

Their 'passing' is hoofing it ahead of Gordon and getting him to sprint at it. Hey, when it works, it works. But it is very MON.

And it worked.  What was the score?  Lucky goals or not, their plan was better than ours. Hoof ball works with a high line.

We're 11 points ahead of them.

Let's hope it stays that way eh?

[Percy McCarthy]

Despite all the justified criticism, we probably would have won had Bailey started instead of Diaby. Now he’ll probably play at Sheff Utd and turn in his usual shit away performance.

[BC Villain]

Emery had a nightmare. From setting up with a high line - no press (again), to sticking with Diaby over Bailey. We’ve been largely rubbish for 6/7 weeks.

Howe has done a right number on Emery this season.

Only McGinn, Luiz, Watkins and Bailey come out with any credit.

I’d send Zaniolo back tomorrow. With or without a replacement. Singlehandedly tried to slow every attack we head, with added moronic fouling.

At least he turned his back on that smug bastard Tindalls offer of a handshake

[Footy-Vill]

Well Sheffield Utd away will be an interesting but very winnable match to get back on track.
Unfortunately today just not enough players at it and didn't deserve to win.

Very disappointing but it's all part of the process in improving and in general we are.

Up The Villa!

[malckennedy]

Diaby again had an ineffective evening. Zaniolo again was completely inept.

Diaby worked hard but nothing came off for him. Zaniolo was completely inept.

 Diaby can quite clearly be a force again. Zaniolo is completely inept.

[Monty]

Schooled in every department.

OK, I'm seeing this said as if Newcastle were good. They weren't. They do two things: 1) they defend; 2) balls over the top, maybe win a set-piece. Emery's Villa just lost to O'Neill's Villa.

The worked hard to close us down, they were more aggressive, cynical fouls and slowing the game down when they needed to.  Better, quicker passing than us.  Easy to see.  Newcastle were better, they are poor, yes, but so are we at the moment.

Their 'passing' is hoofing it ahead of Gordon and getting him to sprint at it. Hey, when it works, it works. But it is very MON.

And it worked.  What was the score?  Lucky goals or not, their plan was better than ours. Hoof ball works with a high line.

We're 11 points ahead of them.

Let's hope it stays that way eh?

It's just, 'schooled' really makes it sound like some sort of tactical masterclass, when really they did a few very basic things right and we played literally our worst game of the season (I think this was worse than the reverse fixture - we actually were in that before things went mental after an hour).

[Footy-Vill]

Emery had a nightmare. From setting up with a high line - no press (again), to sticking with Diaby over Bailey. We’ve been largely rubbish for 6/7 weeks.

Howe has done a right number on Emery this season.

Only McGinn, Luiz, Watkins and Bailey come out with any credit.

I’d send Zaniolo back tomorrow. With or without a replacement. Singlehandedly tried to slow every attack we head, with added moronic fouling.

At least he turned his back on that smug bastard Tindalls offer of a handshake

Always looking to get booked.
Very strange behaviour.
Tonali his mate would have enjoyed his performance i suppose.

[Olneythelonely]

Emery had a nightmare. From setting up with a high line - no press (again), to sticking with Diaby over Bailey. We’ve been largely rubbish for 6/7 weeks.

Howe has done a right number on Emery this season.

Only McGinn, Luiz, Watkins and Bailey come out with any credit.

I’d send Zaniolo back tomorrow. With or without a replacement. Singlehandedly tried to slow every attack we head, with added moronic fouling.

At least he turned his back on that smug bastard Tindalls offer of a handshake

Yeah, he won me back a tiny bit doing that.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Great substitution by Howe, bringing Zaniolo on.

Another awful cameo form Zaniolo. I have no idea what he brings to the team. All he did tonight was jog around fouling people.

I hope we have a few kids left who can come off the bench and bring some energy to the side.

[Percy McCarthy]

As if things weren’t bad enough.

[Risso]

Diaby again had an ineffective evening. Zaniolo again was completely inept.

Diaby worked hard but nothing came off for him. Zaniolo was completely inept.

 Diaby can quite clearly be a force again. Zaniolo is completely inept.

I’d sell Diaby and send Zaniolo back.

[Nev]

A word about the officials. Their goal went to VAR but wasn't shown, ours was. Flag up straight away for us but not them. It wouldn't have made any difference but these don't look like mistakes, they look deliberate.

[Rudy65]

This is Aston Villa.  This is what we do.  For this see Coventry 1993, Norwich 1990, see stoke 2008 or whenever.  It’s endemic I don’t know how we will ever change.  Top 7 if we are lucky in my view.

Wimbledon 0-3 more relevant in 1990

[PaulWinch again]

Talk of selling Diaby is knee jerk, and just daft. He’s obviously struggling a lot, but we shouldn’t give up on him. He was one of a load of dreadful performances tonight.

[Toronto Villa]

Diaby again had an ineffective evening. Zaniolo again was completely inept.

Diaby worked hard but nothing came off for him. Zaniolo was completely inept.

 Diaby can quite clearly be a force again. Zaniolo is completely inept.

I’d sell Diaby and send Zaniolo back.

And many would have sold Bailey last season. That’s not me saying Diaby isn’t above criticism. But it took Bailey a year to adjust. I’m not writing Diaby off yet. I don’t think Zaniolo is here next season. He simply isn’t effective.