Aston Villa vs Spurs post match embarrassment

[PaulWinch again]

Bailey played like he's back on the laughing balloons.

Of all the players who shouldn’t get stick it’s him. One bad day from him, in what has been a sensational season for him. Give it a rest.

[VillaTim]

Bailey played like he's back on the laughing balloons.

Was he on the laughing balloons previously then?

Yes. Do you not read the papers .

[RamboandBruno]

Well done unai great starting 11. Biggest game in years and you get us humiliated at home.  Cheers

Most rational people would find it difficult to blame Emery for ‘getting us humiliated’ today. If it’s our biggest game in years, that’s only because Emery has got us into this position in the first place. Maybe Stevie G, or whichever better candidate happens to be out there would have been able to make you prouder?

Mate there is losing a game, and there is losing a game like this. Top teams do not lose 4-0 at home against a team they want to finish above. We looked DREADFUL. Im sorry but when you perform that poorly you deserve to be criticised. It was awful today. Emerys selection was all wrong and it all falls on him

I pretty much said this to my son on the way home. He pointed out Man City won the league after being humped by Everton 4-0. I love facts like that and the fact a soon to be 14 year old can dismantle by melodrama so easily.

It was dreadful today from manager and many players, who looked like they would rather be anywhere but playing football in the cold and rain. But we’re still fourth and still in with a great shout.   

[VillaTim]

Bailey played like he's back on the laughing balloons.

Of all the players who shouldn’t get stick it’s him. One bad day from him, in what has been a sensational season for him. Give it a rest.

Absolutely , which is why it's a shock he looked so off today.

[VillaTim]

Five at the back at home I just can't understand.  How many of our competitors would do that. Pack the defence and hope to nick a goal on the break is what rank underdogs do.

Agree . Terrible management today.

[Keeno]

Think individual errors cost us today whether that’s from physical or mental fatigue. The setup restricted Spurs to their least creative 45 all season in the first half.

We then made some stupid, stupid errors - from Konsa giving it away for the second to the worst one McGinn’s red card - that effectively ended the game.

Clearly we were tired and I think the plan was to keep it tight for first hour then open up. But again, we concede in the first 10 of the second half and everything unravels.

I’m absolutely livid with McGinn for the red card - not having him for next 3 games is vital and he let his emotions get the best of him. Worst part of the day for me.

Fortunately we have a quick opp to bounce back v Ajax and then international break.

[not3bad]

Commiserations and respect for anyone who stayed for the full 10 minutes of added time.

[AV82EC]

“Well it started badly, it tailed off a little in the middle & the less said about the end the better! But apart from that, excellent!"

Not a good day today. My scores on the doors

Martinez - 6 - didn’t have much to do other than pick the ball out the net a few times.
Cash - 4 - started ok apart from his studs but got worse as it progressed including turning into trouble on numerous occasions.
Konsa - 4 - woeful at first and actually got better as it progressed.
Lenglet - 5 - didn’t seem to do much wrong but lost Maddison for the first.
Torres - 6 - was ok but you can tell he’s not up to speed yet.
Digne - 6 - thought he kept Kulsevski quiet until
Substituted
Luiz - 5 - ineffective
McGinn - 1 - lost his head and was a total twat getting sent off.
Tielemans - 3 - totally ineffective
Bailey - 2 - Mr 50p boots today, back to frustrating Leon today.
Watkins - 5 - ran his bollocks off but not clinical when he did get any ball.

Diaby - 2 - did nothing of note
Zaniolo - 2 - did nothing of note
Moreno - 2 - did nothing of note
Tim I - 4 - helped shore it up and had a few nice touches
Carlos - 3 - nearly gave away two more goals

Unai - 2 - totally wrong set up, handed the initiative to them, one of his poorest performances as the Manager.

I can’t tell you how fucking annoyed I am with McGinn, just when you need a captains performance of control and urgency you get headless chicken and he’ll miss the next 3 games. Time for Tim I to step up.

[astonvilla82]

Are Tottenham still two points behind us?

[JUAN PABLO]

Five at the back at home I just can't understand.  How many of our competitors would do that. Pack the defence and hope to nick a goal on the break is what rank underdogs do.

even when they broke away villa was usless in passing, control and choices,  which of course isnt Emerys fault.

I know it was offside but WTF was Ollie doing not shooting and passing ?   And If Dougie had released it quicker he would not have been offside.

[villabear]

This is the first time after a defeat that I haven’t thought to myself about putting things into perspective and look how far we’ve come.
A genuinely disappointing result and performance.

[Paul.S]

The issue wasn’t the formation, it’s been gifting goals and that’s been us for a while now.
More terrible defending today has cost us again and that’s what’s got to be worked on. The formation was working ok first half and then we go and gift them a few goals in the space of a few minutes. Some of the goals we’ve given away have been nothing short of calamitous.
The McGinn sending off will seriously hurt us but we are still in it.
We are still 4th, it’ll be tough with all the injuries we’ve got but I’m sure the players will be as angry as we are about it.
When we are bad, we are terrible but what I’d like to see from someone who’s just come on (Zaniolo) is a bit of energy. If you hadn’t seen him come on you’d think he’d been playing all game and his commitment today is way short of what we need.

[Demitri_C]

Well done unai great starting 11. Biggest game in years and you get us humiliated at home.  Cheers

Most rational people would find it difficult to blame Emery for ‘getting us humiliated’ today. If it’s our biggest game in years, that’s only because Emery has got us into this position in the first place. Maybe Stevie G, or whichever better candidate happens to be out there would have been able to make you prouder?

Mate there is losing a game, and there is losing a game like this. Top teams do not lose 4-0 at home against a team they want to finish above. We looked DREADFUL. Im sorry but when you perform that poorly you deserve to be criticised. It was awful today. Emerys selection was all wrong and it all falls on him

I pretty much said this to my son on the way home. He pointed out Man City won the league after being humped by Everton 4-0. I love facts like that and the fact a soon to be 14 year old can dismantle by melodrama so easily.

It was dreadful today from manager and many players, who looked like they would rather be anywhere but playing football in the cold and rain. But we’re still fourth and still in with a great shout.

Man i wish i could be like your son! I think its more for im getting so much grief from my spurs mates its effecting my emotional state 😂

Its just worrying how bad we are at home now. Honestly its deeply alarming

[Paul.S]

Are Tottenham still two points behind us?

I must be looking at the wrong table. My’n says so but perhaps not.

[PaulWinch again]

If this were a one off I’d be annoyed, but less concerned. But this is very similar to Newcastle and Chelsea. Our levels just aren’t where they need to be when we play decent opposition.