Villa 1 Man. United 2 Post match thread.

[brontebilly]

Overall performance not bad at all, just lacking in front of goal.

Got back in the game once Leon began to turn it on and then took him off.

Unai said no injury, it was a tactical decision. Ho hum.

Long post alert!

Emery had the team prepared superbly tonight, no question. After the shambles midweek it was some turnaround in a few days with McGinn supporting Watkins in the press, a world apart from Tielemans efforts. Ramsey on left worked out really well, our left flank had been a mess for weeks. Our midfield two played as a pair and thoroughly dominated. Even our offside line, while still shaky, was far better tonight. No space between midfield and defence, Cash got isolated at times but Moreno was much better protected. Also after a very ropey start our spirit was excellent, we completely dominated the game really but failed to make multiple openings count. After Luiz equalised it looked like there would only be one winner but....

Unfortunately Emery had a nightmare with his subs. Kamara should have been replaced by Tim really and the same shape retained. Even so moving McGinn back wasn't a big problem. Bringing on Diaby wasn't even the main issue either, granted he was dreadful, but Bailey had Lindelof on toast and needed as much space as possible. Rashford wasn't going to help him out and Casemiro can't run. Diaby predictably occupied the same space as Bailey and killed the threat. Switching to a 433 would have been preferable with Diaby on the other flank. Emery I think recognised the error with the Tielemans sub but bringing off Bailey was ridiculous and McGinn was left in no man's land. To top it off if Digne was fit enough for a cameo he should have come for 10 mins earlier for a clearly gassed Moreno, the winner unfortunately came from that flank. Zaniolo seemed to be clueless where he was supposed to be playing. We barely created a chance late on and I think Emery was at fault for that.

After calming down, I'm actually a lot more positive after that performance today and the season ahead. Torres hopefully starting next week and Digne back is huge. Konsa hopefully not too far off. I'd give Tim his chance at Fulham rather than dropping McGinn back.

Also we made them look really average, Varane and Casemiro are truly finished, Shaw and Martinez are injured again and they have the laziest front three in the division. They are on a hot streak results wise but that won't last.

[Nunkin1965]

Some absolute garbage being posted.by Villa fans on some of our pages. The seasons over apparently. You couldn't make it up.

Yes let’s go for it , we can do it, it’s in our hands, we need a positive mental attitude, anything is achievable.

No point turning up next week then.

Absolutely.
Seasons over and nothing to play for according to some

[PeterWithe]

I thought that was the best we've played since Dec, we really should have buried them but wasteful finishing, some good saves and sheer bad luck meant we didn't get in front.

And then the inevitable happens completely against the run of play, and queue the torrent of texts from 'Massive United fans' who the closest they get to a game as the far end of a remote control.

They really have the Indian sign over us, even with one of the shittest teams I can remember them having. 

[PaulWinch again]

I thought that was the best we've played since Dec, we really should have buried them but wasteful finishing, some good saves and sheer bad luck meant we didn't get in front.

And then the inevitable happens completely against the run of play, and queue the torrent of texts from 'Massive United fans' who the closest they get to a game as the far end of a remote control.

They really have the Indian sign over us, even with one of the shittest teams I can remember them having. 

To be honest though it’s our own fault. To scuff the odd chance is one thing, to miss the number we did is just not good enough.

[PeterWithe]

Absolutely. I said to the bloke next to me that when we miss this many opportunities, only one thing will happen against these. But there was no head of steam from them, just the inevitable one chance and goal.

[papa lazarou]

I thought that was the best we've played since Dec, we really should have buried them but wasteful finishing, some good saves and sheer bad luck meant we didn't get in front.

And then the inevitable happens completely against the run of play, and queue the torrent of texts from 'Massive United fans' who the closest they get to a game as the far end of a remote control.

They really have the Indian sign over us, even with one of the shittest teams I can remember them having. 

To be honest though it’s our own fault. To scuff the odd chance is one thing, to miss the number we did is just not good enough.

This is about right. There was a lot of concern about our defenders before the game but if we had taken our chances it wouldn't have mattered, we would have scored more than them.
Anyway, I hate them bastards more than any of you lot.
I'm off to find an episode of Murder She Written to watch.

[Nii Lamptey]

To whoever said Ramsey was poor, you need your head looking at!
Only midfielder we have who is comfortable driving forward with the ball, and that was by far as close to the Ramsey of old we’ve had since his return.
Only player that boiled my piss today was Diego Carlos. The rest played well.
Hate losing to these shits. They all come out of the woodwork.
Onto Fulham, let’s start accruing some points and goals again.

[Demitri_C]

I appreciate some are trying to stary positive and its admirable i wish i could be.

But i feel massively let down. They played WOEFUL on Wednesday night and i was ok to let that slide if we got something today. This is a awful united side. Not long ago we bottled a 2 goal lead. That should be enough motivation to put it right but they failed.

We can all say we didnt expect to see ourselves in this position so we should be happy to be in mix. But the bigger picture is this the best chance we will ever get for CL. Manure chelsea and Newcastle wont be this bad next year.  So will be even tougher next year.

Then you have to add in will luiz for example want to stick around if we miss out on CL? These are some issues will could have if we miss out on CL.thats not even including all the revenue money we will miss out having CL to help with FFP

We are 1 point off 4th spot after 24 games. Pretty amazing I'd say.

We onky half why in. If we finish 6th for me its a disappointment unless we win the conference cup

[Lsvilla]

The better team by a mile.

Our record $50M forward came on to replace Bailey, how is that settling for a point??

1 point off ‘title chasing’ Spurs in 4th & 5 points above the mighty Manchester United. We are struggling for consistency but Jesus fucking wept let’s not throw in the towel just yet.

UTFV!

We lost, which makes us losers. I’ll bet you any amount of money we don’t finish in the top 6. Typical losers 

I'll take that bet. £50. To the charity of our choice.

[olaftab]

I appreciate some are trying to stary positive and its admirable i wish i could be.

But i feel massively let down. They played WOEFUL on Wednesday night and i was ok to let that slide if we got something today. This is a awful united side. Not long ago we bottled a 2 goal lead. That should be enough motivation to put it right but they failed.

We can all say we didnt expect to see ourselves in this position so we should be happy to be in mix. But the bigger picture is this the best chance we will ever get for CL. Manure chelsea and Newcastle wont be this bad next year.  So will be even tougher next year.

Then you have to add in will luiz for example want to stick around if we miss out on CL? These are some issues will could have if we miss out on CL.thats not even including all the revenue money we will miss out having CL to help with FFP

OK you have convinced me and I am off to that clinic in Switzerland. No point in continuing in the catastrophe  you have illustrated.

[Keeno]

Cracking post Bronte - now I’ve calmed down post match, actually much more positive about the games coming up than if we’d stunk it out and shithoused a 1-1.

We passed the ball through the midfield as well as we did v City. Just didn’t take our chances.

I have one criticism of Emery in taking Bailey off - but in fairness he can’t kick the ball in the net himself, I thought he got the tactical game plan right and we created more than enough chances to win the game.

Play 80% of that level in the next three and we’ll be right in there going into the Spurs game at home.

Keep the faith - long way to go yet. 

[stubbsyandy]

Some absolute garbage being posted.by Villa fans on some of our pages. The seasons over apparently. You couldn't make it up.

It is as good as over. We’ll finish at best 6th and exit the conference league no later than the semis.

Bollox

Come back to this thread at the end of the season and tell me I was wrong

When will villa boy be a man and stop getting the vapours…have you not seen our progress, we are way ahead of where we were and a few bad results should be taken in context. Support your team.

[VillaTim]

The better team by a mile.

Our record $50M forward came on to replace Bailey, how is that settling for a point??

1 point off ‘title chasing’ Spurs in 4th & 5 points above the mighty Manchester United. We are struggling for consistency but Jesus fucking wept let’s not throw in the towel just yet.

UTFV!

We lost, which makes us losers. I’ll bet you any amount of money we don’t finish in the top 6. Typical losers 

I'll take that bet. £50. To the charity of our choice.

The Samaritans

[olaftab]

The better team by a mile.

Our record $50M forward came on to replace Bailey, how is that settling for a point??

1 point off ‘title chasing’ Spurs in 4th & 5 points above the mighty Manchester United. We are struggling for consistency but Jesus fucking wept let’s not throw in the towel just yet.

UTFV!

We lost, which makes us losers. I’ll bet you any amount of money we don’t finish in the top 6. Typical losers 

F in pathetic post. And well said Oklahoma.

[SoccerHQ]

Gutted we lost, but 2 years ago we'd have played that game with 10 men behind the ball. We dominated them almost completely but weren't clinical enough where it mattered. Other than the finishing I can't fault anyone.

Bailey did have them on the back foot for 30 mins or so & the substitutions took some of the threat out of our game. But how many 90 minutes has Bailey ever played?

Two years ago we were taking four points off them in the league and even coming back from 2-0 down in the VP game which was pretty much the high point under Slippy.

It's annoying we're resorting back to having an inferiority complex against them as this really isn't a good Man. United team at all.

We are a better footballing team than them. Do we really believe that though? We haven't at various points in the two games and we'll see if the team can really believe it can hold them off with a 5 point gap, they better still believe they can.