Villa 1 Man. United 2 Post match thread.

[john2710]

A few weeks ago we played Man City off the park. Yet it took a deflected goal to win a game we should have won hands down. A few days later, we were fortunate to beat Arsenal with probably our only chance.

Yesterday was similar to Man City, our movement & passing opened them up with ease. We just weren't clinical enough & we conceded another soft goal. We've come a long way in 18 months & whilst I'm gutted we lost to those wankers, there's a lot more right than wrong. I enjoyed watching us play.

[Edvard Remberg]

Ramsey and Watkins were woeful.

Ramsey wasn’t.

Totally agree….especially good in the first half

He was making all the wrong decisions 1st half, and very poor finishing - not sure why people are less critical when it's him

[Pat McMahon]

One extra thing that really, really irked me yesterday was the replays on the big screens. Normally we only see Villa action but for some reason they were also showing replays of Manyoo chances. It’s our ground, don’t show action that encourages the opposition and their support.

On the pitch, the more I’ve thought about yesterday the more I think we played well and got a lot right. Fine margins etc but we need to be more clinical. 2 months ago we would have won that game.

[Lastfootstamper]

I don't think I'd use the word 'woeful'. I've seen that many a time over the years, and Ramsay weren't it. He looked like a player playing himself back up to speed in his best position, and I think he's just about there now. I thought he got stronger and better as the game progressed. There'll be no chance that ball skips away from his toe ever again.

He's the only dribbler we've got, and he's going to be hugely influential on where we finish.

[PaulWinch again]

Bailey dribbles with the ball really well.

[astonvilla82]

We weren’t superb, we were good at creating chances. We missed most of them and we let in two really soft goals, that’s not superb.

Seen the first Manchester goal only tonight it was really poor

[Lastfootstamper]

Bailey dribbles with the ball really well.

Why do players slip my mind?? Yeah, he does. And he's getting better at it.

[Ian.]

Bailey doesn’t dribble, he dances with the ball. It’s mesmerising at times.

[VillaTim]

Superb was the display against Man City , we should only use the word when it's warranted.

[Gareth]

Superb was the display against Man City , we should only use the word when it's warranted.

We were superb against Abu Dhabi City but we were no more clinical against them than we were against the other mob from that city. 

We played well on Sunday but the defensive lapses and the fact we were playing a very very average team would stop it being any better than played well.  Use of the ball was the compete opposite of the Chelsea game so was a positive but we still don’t get enough shots away, too often we want the extra pass rather than pulling the trigger, a bit more greed particularly Douglas & JJ is required.

[Ads]

That's a good point. We should have put 4 or 5 on Man  City. We should have put 3 or 4 on Man United (in both games).

[London Villan]

I’d say we weren’t at all clinical. In both games we only scored one goal and missed a load of chances. The difference is the defence. Man city had 2 shots all game. The 90s tribute act had loads.

[pauliewalnuts]

That's it, Man City was a great performance, probably the best under UE, but if you have 22 shots and score with 1 of them (via a deflection), you're not clinical.

And that is one of our problems (seen again in this match), not taking our chances. The other one, unfortunately, is defending.

[brontebilly]

I’d say we weren’t at all clinical. In both games we only scored one goal and missed a load of chances. The difference is the defence. Man city had 2 shots all game. The 90s tribute act had loads.

In terms of genuine chances in the second half I can only remember Garnacho putting one past the post. I may have blocked out the others. Their winner was quality but it was out of the blue really. You were always nervy of our high line when that wasn't the case that night against Man City.

It's sickening as after Luiz equalised we looked sure to go on and win the game. Watkins x 2, Luiz, even McGinn in the first half...those were gilt edged and we put them all at Onana. One of those nights.

[ez]

The winning goal should never have happened. I think they walked the ball into our half unchallenged. Even then we stood off while the guy picked out a pass. I hate to think Emery has told them to do this.