Abject Villa v Chelsea post match thread.

[VillaTim]

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

No urgency until the 92nd minute says it all.

Watkins and Cash deserve credit. Especially Watkins. He was tireless.

Cash was poor. His positional sense was laughable

Moreno was equally poor, if not worse

[curiousorange]

All coincidental of course, and THAT week was an obvious high point, but it does feel like all the noise surrounding the North Stand and the new branding broke our concentration.

Myself, I'm all for Emery to tell the Premier League to sod off if he's ever near a sniff of Manager of the Month again.

[Demitri_C]

This is where we miss a grealish
 A villa lad to dig you out when performances are dropping. As he will feel the fans pain

[ez]

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.

For me top four takes priority over the fa cup this season as we have got ourselves into a good position in the league. If we get that I'll be happy. I'm not convinced we intentionality underperformed tonight though.

[coreyfeldman]

I think that without konsa or torres on the pitch that there are huge positional issues and a lack of understanding of the press, and konsa is often one of our most composed players on the pitch. We desperately need those two more than anyone else for the run in now.

Almost everyone was dire tonight, special shout out to youri and kamara though

[CT Villan]

Watkins and Cash deserve credit. Especially Watkins. He was tireless.

Cash banked no credit with me...he was technically, positionally, offensively and defensively bankrupt.

[Footy-Vill]

Chicago Lion, Dogtanian, mpls villa, ChrisW1, skerra, Dave P
Eamonn, Aldridge Boy, Somniloquism, VillaTim, Sid1964, N'Mav foresaw this would happen and said Villa would be knocked out to Chelsea.

I never expected such a result so fair play to your foresight.

[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.

For me top four takes priority over the fa cup this season as we have got ourselves into a good position in the league. If we get that I'll be happy. I'm not convinced we intentionality underperformed tonight though.

Of course we didn’t, just look back to our last home game for proof of that.

[TonyD]

If we do manage to stay top 4 when the European games start again.  I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw another couple of shite cup performances. 

[wince]

Cashless society

[Aldridge Villa]

Our Holy Grail appears now to be reaching the 5th round, never mind winning the frigging thing.

[TonyD]

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.

For me top four takes priority over the fa cup this season as we have got ourselves into a good position in the league. If we get that I'll be happy. I'm not convinced we intentionality underperformed tonight though.

Of course we didn’t, just look back to our last home game for proof of that.

We were way shitter than Newcastle especially 2nd half where we at least tried. 

[brontebilly]

We have a real problem once the opposition runs at us. We become wide open and we seemingly do nothing on the sidelines or on the pitch to try and alter it. Break up the play with niggly fouls? drop Tielemans back into midfield for 10 minutes so our mf is not wide open? go to 4-3-3 and hit them on the counter so they have to drop back? We do nothing but invite it on repeatedly. Man Utd, Newcastle and today have all been identical once the opposition have started attacking and sensing how fragile we look.
I love SUE but he's to loyal to the plan at times.  I remember Brighton away in his first season, we went 1-2 up and he killed the game with a 6-4-0 formation for 30 minutes, Brighton didn't have a sniff for the remainder of the game, that should've been what we did for the end half at Old Trafford.

I'm there too, we seem slaves to the system this season. Last season we were pragmatic in many games, Spurs away another one. There's nothing wrong with setting up a bit more conservatively or changing things quickly during a game.

Within the first 5 minutes, Luiz had been caught ahead of the ball three times. We can't have midfielders running unopposed at our fourth and fifth choice centre backs. Why are we allowing basketball type games to develop? Failing to check things tactically yet again.

[mrfuse]

When was the last time we played the offside trap?

We would do that umpteen times in a match but we cant do that anymore with tonight's back 4. This causes us to give teams more space to play in and then we cant press like we used too.

I'm afraid until Konsa, Torres and Digne are back we are going to really struggle.

[saint13]

I said to my Mrs before the start that it would be so Villa to fuck it up tonight and Sunday.

The next 2 games are massive. Win, with a good home draw in the next round, they had a fantastic opportunity to go deep in a competition and provide momentum for the most important league game of the season, (beat Manure and they pretty much guarantee 5th place barring a collapse).

What I didn't expect however, was a performance as bad as that. It was an absolute stinker. We made bang average Chelsea team look like Man City.

When we don't get the ball forward quickly, we are so ordinary and a number of players are simply not good enough.