Aston Villa 1-3 Newcastle Post match cry

[RamboandBruno]

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.

He’s been piss poor for months and he’s an Emery pick. Useless.

All of Emery's signings are looking suspect . - Diaby / Zaniolo / Moreno

You are tedious

[pauliewalnuts]

Very disappointing really, not helped because Newcastle were no great shakes either. Looked better when Bailey came on which should have been at half time really. The only other player that was really on it was Mcginn.

We seem to bounce back quickly under Emery though so let's hope we do again.

Looked better for about 10 minutes when Bailey came on, until Howe put Livramento on and shut him down again.

[VillaTim]

Luiz has been playing like he's in a trance the last few games . seems way off it

[LeonW]

Another major opportunity missed to put a significant points tally ahead of a potential CL spot rival. More importantly; we’ve been found out. The last month has shown that. The question now is how we address that, otherwise the season is dead.

[Clampy]

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.

He’s been piss poor for months and he’s an Emery pick. Useless.

All of Emery's signings are looking suspect . - Diaby / Zaniolo / Moreno

You are tedious

Oh dear. I'm glad I muted him ages ago if this is how he is still going. I've not missed much.

[ChicagoLion]

Not sure how anyone can have watched that and thought that McGinn was shit.

Agree, he was the stand out player.

[andyh]

We have been found out, there is no doubt about it.
Every single game is Groundhog Day.

When you goalkeeper consistently receives more passes in a game than your centre forward then surely something cannot be right ?

I just don’t get it.
I don’t get why we play 90% of out football in front of the opposition, constantly and consistently playing the ball slowly from side to side but not actually doing anything.


It now seems that our sole purpose is keep possession. Sod doing anything with the ball, just keep hold of it even if it means 50 passes to go 5 yards forward and 30 yards back.


Both central midfielders were terribly guilty of dilly dallying on the ball, with Dougie being particularly guilty.
A midfield general who has an incredible amount of the ball and yet tonight did fuck all to influence the game.

Diaby, must be in the mother of all sulks because he has been awful for months.

I love Unai, I love what he has done for us.
But bloody hell, he has to shake things up, modify the way play and give us more spark, energy and oomph.

Oh, for a Brighton or Man City performance again. Wouldn’t that be nice?

[PeterWithe]

I didn't think we were terrible, just not anywhere near the heights of other games this year.

We looked slow to move the ball forward and allowed Newcastle to get set into their defensive positions but we've pretty much always done that under Emery. I thought it was a pretty even game in which they were more clinical than we were.

Another day we dont conceded from corners and sneak it.

I haven't seen any replays but I thought One of our players was clearly fouled when heading the ball away just before the second goal, anywhere else on the field its a foul.

We need to get back into our stride, and quickly.

[Baldy]

This team, this manager has given me an year of pure pleasure sitting in my seat at Villa Park. So whilst disappointed with the result tonight I am not going to go in hyperbole mode like some of you on here and start using awful words to describe our performance, and signalling individuals out in most unpleasant derogatory manner.  Just get a grip folks.
Yes we need to take stock of where we are and go again. It’s a challenge now for Unai to recover our composure and rebuild cohesion and vibrancy that delivered unbelievable run of results.  But there is no need to jump off the cliff for anyone, please stay calm.

Agreed 100%.

[Clampy]

We do seem to have lost our mojo for want of a better word, especially in the final third. I'm not sure we've been found out as such, we've just lost what spark we had.

[eamonn]

Not sure how anyone can have watched that and thought that McGinn was shit.

He thinks with his arse first a bit too much though.

[levico]

Teams have learnt to put the super press on us as we try and play it out from Emi.
The result is we lose the ball and put ourselves under pressure.
Emery needs a plan B and soon.

This. Time and time again we boxed ourselves in.

[PeterWithe]

We certainly lacked intensity in and out of possession, and only found it when we were 3 down, dead and buried.

[Oklahoma]

It's all gone Pete Tong ever since Heck delivered his State of the Union prior to the Sheffield United game!!

Diaby never appears to have full control of the ball, he looks miles off it.

A very flat team performance.

[Villatillidie1982]

 No movement off the ball in the first hour. There appeared to be no confidence and it was all too slow. But after the substitutions, it vastly improved for a while which gave me some hope that the dip might end soon. Zaniolo did okay but Bailey was superb. Watkins did okay once he had some service and if he had delayed his run for a scond for the offside goal we might have got something out of that. McGinn worked hard all game as well but not sure that Diaby should ever wear a Villa shirt again.
Finally, Martinez must have nightmares playing behind Lenglet.