Villa 1 Man. United 2 Post match thread.

[SoccerHQ]

And Onana can blow all the kisses he likes towards the Holte in the middle of the game trying to goad Villa fans but nothing will ever be as funny as Martinez shagging the post in front of the Stretford End

He's absolutely shite as well. I've never seen a shorter or fatter keeper. He appears to waddle out to miscue a ball into the stands on a regular basis.

He probably won them the game though yesterday, and was easily MOTM in my opinion. Unlike Emi who let their second goal go straight through him.

He couldn't save that, was too close range to react in time.

Onana is one of those hit and miss keepers, will be 9/10 one week and then chucking them in and 4/10 the next so difficult to build when your keeper is so random.

Was some save from McGinn though considering he hit it at full pelt. The rest of the saves we just shot straight at him so all he had to do was stand still and let the ball hit him.

[PaulWinch again]

Agree there’s carelessness around how we end up matching our defenders to attackers. One thing that bugs me a bit is I would expect DC to be front and centre for any physical challenges we face but he often isn’t.

Agreed. It should have been him on McTominay as the closest central defender. It was just piss poor defending all round.

It happens with Cash and DC a fair bit, they don’t seem to be synced up in terms of who should be taking who. See also the Jackson goal in midweek.

[VillaTim]

It's ball watching ultimately by several of them

[Villa Lew]

Unai is the best manager we've had since Sir Ron, but possibly the only slight criticism I would have of him, is he sometimes leaves his substitutions too late, yesterday the subbing of Bailey did baffle me, maybe cost us the game. Anyway, obviously ignoring the result, there were far more positives than negatives, on another day we would have won quite comfortable, possibly the most pleasing thing was the improvement of JJ, still some way off his best, but he's getting there.

[Risso]

Unai is the best manager we've had since Sir Ron, but possibly the only slight criticism I would have of him, is he sometimes leaves his substitutions too late, yesterday the subbing of Bailey did baffle me, maybe cost us the game. Anyway, obviously ignoring the result, there were far more positives than negatives, on another day we would have won quite comfortable, possibly the most pleasing thing was the improvement of JJ, still some way off his best, but he's getting there.

He's behind Big Ron and Little for me, still. Obviously the rest of the season still to go so that may change.

[London Villan]

At the moment they are (rightly) ahead of him as they both won a trophy and finished in the top 4. This season has a long way to go yet though.

[Smithy]

Agree there’s carelessness around how we end up matching our defenders to attackers. One thing that bugs me a bit is I would expect DC to be front and centre for any physical challenges we face but he often isn’t.

Agreed. It should have been him on McTominay as the closest central defender. It was just piss poor defending all round.

It happens with Cash and DC a fair bit, they don’t seem to be synced up in terms of who should be taking who. See also the Jackson goal in midweek.

I could be wrong, as I certainly haven't studied our defensive corners in any detail, but it "seems" like depending on the numbers they commit forward, our midfielders take the opposition defenders at corners (generally trying to make it difficult for them), while OUR defenders are free to attack the ball.  See Carlos trying and failing to win the ball against Maguire - he wasn't marking him, but attacking the ball (just a foot behind where Maguire met it).

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He's a better manager than either of them. Hopefully he achieves as least as much for us as they both did.

[Risso]

He's a better manager than either of them. Hopefully he achieves as least as much for us as they both did.

Not for us he isn't, yet. Ron had us finishing second and won a cup. Little had us 4th and 5th, and won a cup. All Emery has done so far is emulate Gregory and O'Neill in getting us all excited at being in the top three before falling away. He's got time to change that this season though. And Emery's cup record for us is dismal.

[London Villan]

I'm confident he'll win something with us, based on his past success.

Although I do question the performances of his teams in the cups - 4 soft exits now. And the European games at home we've scraped over the line in two of them.

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He's a better manager than either of them. Hopefully he achieves as least as much for us as they both did.

Not for us he isn't, yet. Ron had us finishing second and won a cup. Little had us 4th and 5th, and won a cup. All Emery has done so far is emulate Gregory and O'Neill in getting us all excited at being in the top three before falling away. He's got time to change that though. And Emery's cup record for us is dismal.

That's why I said hopefully he achieves as much as they did. All Emery has done so far is take us from skirting relegation battles to being one of the best sides in the country in a period of time where its much harder to be one of the best sides in the country. He's one of the best managers in the world. So let's keep on this trajectory.

[Drummond]

Not much to smile about yesterday but the round of boos that went up when Southgate’s face was shown on the big screen was funny.

Yep, enjoyed that, and the speed with which it was taken down when the booing got louder.

A bit childish, he's only human and he was a great player for us. Probably helps that I don't support England.

Sorry dad.

[Pete3206]

Unai is the best manager we've had since Sir Ron, but possibly the only slight criticism I would have of him, is he sometimes leaves his substitutions too late, yesterday the subbing of Bailey did baffle me, maybe cost us the game. Anyway, obviously ignoring the result, there were far more positives than negatives, on another day we would have won quite comfortable, possibly the most pleasing thing was the improvement of JJ, still some way off his best, but he's getting there.

He's behind Big Ron and Little for me, still. Obviously the rest of the season still to go so that may change.

Nurse!

[Clampy]

Tough crowd.

[JUAN PABLO]

Just spoke to my very down lad who watched it round mates and actually had that Mark Goldbrige on in the background instead of the comms and he said Goldbridge was shitting it all through the game and thought including their fans Villa was hammering them and was so desperate for the draw.

Most of them said If only Villa had players who could finish itll be 5 or 6 1 .

Still think we will be Top 4 and expect us to go on a run now . Spurzzz wasnt convincing against Brighton and we are so much better than Manure.

Just need Diaby to click again .  JJ  will finish the season on fire.