Abject Villa v Chelsea post match thread.

[Martyn Smith]

Kamara and McGinn delivered disappointing performances.
Tielemans remained anonymous and was wrongly given a free kick against him for further insult.

Watkins, as well as Cash and Bailey, deserve praise for effort, but seeing such a poor performance was really disheartening.
I actually thought Martinez could have saved Gallagher goal as he seemed to expect it to go wide the way he dived.
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Well done to Diaby for his goal.

Let's move on now to the next one and the league game v Man Utd.

I don't think they showed any more effort really than anyone else.

Agree that Emi could have got closer at least to the second goal. Even he didn't have a great game.

[Risso]

Two identical home defeats in a row isn't good however you spin it. And they were scarily similar.

Yep, completely outplayed from start to finish. And extremely worryingly, Emery couldn't do anything about it. This show, slow, slow build up just isn't working any more. Man U are going to absolutely have a field day if we play like that again.

[KevinGage]

Puke football.

[brontebilly]

Rotten from the first whistle. It's like we believed the hype from hammering a pub team. Douglas Luiz in particular played like running and tackling was beneath him.  If we don't have application from 1-11 we don't have anything. Starting to fear PL standard managers (not Wilder!) have figured out how vulnerable we can be down the flanks with the likes of McGinn tucked in. Tactically Emery got it all wrong, we can't play a high line with Carlos and Lenglet and Konsa out. Let's hope Torres can start at the weekend as we can't play out from the back without him.

Possibly the only positive was Diaby scoring at the end. Might give him a lift, he made a very good run a few minutes later. Thought only giving Iroegbunam and Zaniolo a few minutes was borderline disrespectful given the rubbish being played by the regulars. No half time changes again killed any hope of a comeback.

An awful night and the fear is it's part of a trend. Last three first half performances, Sheff United aside, have been shambolic. Huge game on Sunday now.

[Jon Crofts]

The worst thing about it was the inevitability of them scoring soon after half time, I said 5 minutes and I was wrong, it was 8.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Three out of ten for all of them with the exception of Bailey who gets a 4, Martinez and Diaby 5 and Big Tim 6.

[Demitri_C]

Body language post match - they didnt give a shit. Speaks volumes.

Now if we put on a fucking shit show like this against manure i am gonna bw furious

[PaulWinch again]

Our midfield collectively decided that top four is more important than the FA Cup. Handed it to Chelsea on a plate.

They owe us one against Man Utd.

I wish it was that - did they decide that against Newcastle too?

[kippaxvilla2]

Manure are a counter attacking team so if they score first I fear for us.

[Tony Daleys Shorts]

We were shit and deserved fuck all. Something iffy going on with the 4 minutes injury time, should have been 7 or 8.

Oh well, we always win after a defeat, so looking forward to Sunday.

[CT Villan]

Utter shite apart from Emi, Ramsey, Diaby and if I'm being charitable, Bailey.

No urgency until the 92nd minute says it all.

[VillaTim]

absolutely abhorrent performance

[taylorsworkrate]

Three out of ten for all of them with the exception of Bailey who gets a 4, Martinez and Diaby 5 and Big Tim 6.

I think thats incredibly generous

[PaulWinch again]

Three out of ten for all of them with the exception of Bailey who gets a 4, Martinez and Diaby 5 and Big Tim 6.

I think thats incredibly generous

As do I, I’d give most of them 0/10.

[Gerrin]

When's our Tyrone back?