Abject Villa v Chelsea post match thread.

[pauliewalnuts]

I reckon in that side tonight, the ones who clearly are not good enough and need improving on are Carlos, Cash and Lenglet (I know he's just a loan, but fuck me).

Moreno was terrible, too, but has got a fair amount of credit in the bank. However, then again, we seemed to look much more balanced with Digne playing.

[Proposition Joe]

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.

The weird thing about the slow, slow, slow is that we started doing it after they scored. Before their goal we were on it.

We either need a Man City esque totally dedicated pressing performance on Sunday, or we need to sit deep and play direct. Not this worst of both worlds style we've used the last two home games.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

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

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

Watkins was gash too.

[VillaTim]

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.

cheers FV

[Brend'Watkins]

Conf’ cup and CL qualification is where it is now. Major kick in the nuts that was. No one really showed up today, they wanted it far more than us and when our midfield have an off day like tonight we are done for. Very poor attitude from the team allowing Chelsea to look so dominant for so long. Work to be done to get us back to where we were. We miss Mings more than ever.

[curiousorange]

What gets me is that until five minutes in, there was one team going to win tonight - a real continuance of how we played Saturday. The potential was there, then Bailey gets tipped over, and we looked spooked as fuck. It was as if we suddenly flashed back to the Newcastle game.

[mrfuse]

I reckon in that side tonight, the ones who clearly are not good enough and need improving on are Carlos, Cash and Lenglet (I know he's just a loan, but fuck me).

Moreno was terrible, too, but has got a fair amount of credit in the bank. However, then again, we seemed to look much more balanced with Digne playing.

Totally agree.

Moreno wasn't great when he first started for us but massively improved so I think he can do that especially when he plays with a decent left footed centre half.

[nick harper]

The space Newcastle and Chelsea found in the first halves was scarily similar, especially down the flanks. Something is going seriously wrong there and is the core of the problems.

It feels like the gap between the back four and midfield has got wider, maybe because of the lack of pace in the centre halves, but I’m not sure if that’s planned or they are just dropping off.

[kippaxvilla2]

I watched most of the second half tonight with no commentary it was very blissful not having to listen to Twatterface

[Rudy Can't Fail]

defeat against another team that had less time to recover from their previous game. It's becoming a trend.
There really are no excuses for that half arsed performance. None.

[Nev]

Appalling. Anything else is just a waste of words.

[kippaxvilla2]

Watkins did score tonight.  Marley for Kilmarnock.

[Toronto Villa]

Let’s just fucking hope we put in a show versus those ****** at the weekend to wash some of this away. Fuck sake man.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Appalling. Anything else is just a waste of words.

[curiousorange]

It was a really poor January both on and off the pitch. The injury to Konsa was unlucky, and this FFP Everton/Forest thing put the shits up everybody, but if we were talking about selling an asset, Cash should have been the first waved off. Somebody would have given us decent money because we seem to be the only ones who recognise how limited he is.