Villa 1 Man. United 2 Post match thread.

[PaulWinch again]

Good at least it’s a bit of an error, rather than him being injured.

[V1lla]

Anyone know why there were so many PA warnings over racist / homophobic abuse in the first half?

[Taylor]

 Pissed off with the result. But we played well today. I thought Ramsey did everything but score, I also thought Diaby made a difference when he came on.

[Drummond]

We did well today.and except in a couple of key moments, we were by far the better side.

Dougie should have done better, Watkins should have scored, we could have defended better.

Ramsey just didn't quite have the match sharpness, Lenglet doesn't have the distribution of Torres, Carlos is nowhere near as composed as Konsa.

For all of Bailey's skill, we were behind when he went off. Trying something different was worth it.

Who knows how long he can last for, and whether he is fully fit. And that is irrelevant in the context of today.

I hate losing to this lot, but shit happens, we need to move on, and with that performance, there is evidence we will.

[Richard]

We were level when Bailey went off and the momentum was with us.

[Drummond]

We were level when Bailey went off and the momentum was with us.

Yep, sorry I mixed up two points I was trying to make into one and got that totally wrong.

[ROBBO]

Can you imagine how we would be if we did not two regulars at the start of the season, two very important players, then we seem to have had more than our fair share of injuries during the season that seems to go on for ever. In spite of that we still have a good chance of Europe.

[Percy McCarthy]

Can you imagine how we would be if we did not two regulars at the start of the season, two very important players, then we seem to have had more than our fair share of injuries during the season that seems to go on for ever. In spite of that we still have a good chance of Europe.

Indeed. I think we’d be navigating this tough patch a lot more comfortably if we had Mings and Torres battling it out for a spot/deputising for each other.

[taylorsworkrate]

We did well today.and except in a couple of key moments, we were by far the better side.

Dougie should have done better, Watkins should have scored, we could have defended better.

Ramsey just didn't quite have the match sharpness, Lenglet doesn't have the distribution of Torres, Carlos is nowhere near as composed as Konsa.

For all of Bailey's skill, we were behind when he went off. Trying something different was worth it.

Who knows how long he can last for, and whether he is fully fit. And that is irrelevant in the context of today.

I hate losing to this lot, but shit happens, we need to move on, and with that performance, there is evidence we will.

We weren't behind when Bailey went off. It was Bailey who put the cross in for Dougies goal

[Demitri_C]

Another controversial decison why wasnt we given a pen for that blatent shirt pull?? If that was other end manure would have got a pen hands down.

I cant believe our players did not protest more about it. Too soft and nice in my opinion

[LeonW]

Another controversial decison why wasnt we given a pen for that blatent shirt pull?? If that was other end manure would have got a pen hands down.

I cant believe our players did not protest more about it. Too soft and nice in my opinion

Considering Casemiro and Fernandez were going for academy awards to avoid a booking you’ve probably got a point. We should be more street smart.

[PaulTheVillan]

Feel Emery was too slow to react as Maguire easily had the beating of Kamara at corners etc

[Ian.]

We talked about the importance of the twelfth man all week, it’s just he turned up wearing black and carried a whistle.

[ChicagoLion]

Feel Emery was too slow to react as Maguire easily had the beating of Kamara at corners etc

It was ridiculous, how did the coaching team not see the mismatch on the 2 previous corners.
They saw it and played it to Maguire and we go 1 nil down.
This is basic stuff, but he did not have a good day with the substitutions either.

[Ian.]

I’d rather focus on how Emery got us to play. We were good to watch, controlled the tempo and controlled the game. We looked very good. Individual errors cost us the game, not Emery. Errors from some of our players and refereeing decisions.

Emery has completely turned us around and we’ve played some fantastic football along the way. He’s helped turn Villa Park into a ground most teams fear again. Yesterday was not his fault. If we defended the corner better (which shouldn’t have been), buried our chances, it would have been a great win. All ifs and buts, but the way Emery has managed us since he’s arrived is incredible and other than the score, we played extremely well yesterday. There’s also players coming back from injury now and Ramsey was a huge plus yesterday.