Aston Villa vs Spurs post match embarrassment

[VillaTim]

Zaniolo

Did ok again.

[London Villan]

His lack of effort for the third goal was shit.

[VillaTim]

His lack of effort for the third goal was shit.

Who Irogbunam

[JUAN PABLO]

We're notoriously shit at West Ham and then have Wolves who we never seem to do well against these days. Two very tricky games without 2 of our starting midfielders. McGinn has let us down a bit today. Terrible day at the office, can only be made worse if someone has picked up an injury.

Man City away after those two as well.

Playing McGinn at the oil cheats wouldnt make much difference.       

[Monty]

His lack of effort for the third goal was shit.

Who Irogbunam

Moreno was the biggest culprit in the moment, but really when you're a man down and you lose a fifty-fifty the space is going to open up like that.

[olaftab]

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

Just a little issue of WHU away on 17th as well. McGinn misses WH, Wolves and Man City games and will not return till mid April.

[Demitri_C]

Im sorry but even you go down to 10 you dont give up and fall apart like that. Totally unacceptable in my eyes. Lose with pride, not like losers. Esp against your closest rivals.  GD could be vital at end of season.

Just dont understand how you just fall apart like that.

[London Villan]

His lack of effort for the third goal was shit.

Who Irogbunam

Zaniolo

[PaulWinch again]

First half we took the ball off them in their half several times but never made use of it. Nothing in it at half time then we conceded 2 bad goals & the game is over. McGinn's red card was harsh & the result of Spurs over reaction rather than the foul itself.

Our forward play just never worked & Bailey in particular was poor.

Nope it’s a red every which way you look at it.

[brontebilly]

Im sorry but even you go down to 10 you dont give up and fall apart like that. Totally unacceptable in my eyes. Lose with pride, not like losers. Esp against your closest rivals.  GD could be vital at end of season.

Just dont understand how you just fall apart like that.

Up to injury time I thought our players did well to keep it at 0-2. Zaniolo missing a couple of chances too but Spurs didn't look that bothered either.

[nick harper]

I thought the shape of the side was ok. Spurs were pretty much at full strength (I was at the game but assume our injuries weren’t highlighted on the tv) and play on the front foot all the time. Their wide players and full backs push right on and I thought we restricted them well and had a number of opportunities on the transition that we might have done better with.

I think if we had been 0-0 after an hour I’d have fancied us to go on and win it but poor decisions and individual errors finished the game in five crap minutes. Shame about the sending-off as McGinn had just got the crowd fired up, but it was a really bad second half as Unai admitted.

At the level we are, occasionally games just go wrong. We’ve still got everything to play for and this manager is far too good to let the season fizzle out.

[Percy McCarthy]

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 .

Who does? Although it might have been reading that taught me where to put question marks.

[Risso]

Two full seasons for a £50m player? Jesus, I hope not.

Bailey might not of cost as much, but is a prime example of the need for patience. As is Luiz to a lesser extent, McGinn has been written off wtc etc.

Bailey came into a relegation threatened team and played for Smith and Gerrard. We’ll never achieve anything if we always have to wait two years for a player to come good.

[Grande Pablo]

Had time to calm down whilst taking it out of a couple of interior doors with a paint brush in the garage...

Line up wrong.  Wouldn't have minded if Cash would have been in midfield, but the flat back 5 created masses of space in the middle for Spurs to exploit.  Would love to now UE's rationale behind this.

Missing Kamara.  This appears to be our biggest issue missing him with Luiz in tandem.  Curved ball solution - Torres being good on the ball could fill in with Lenglet & Konsa behind him.

First goal seems to be caused by the Van de Ven sub - we seemed to nod off.  That should have been the turning point for us with them missing his pace, although Ollie's knocks he took in the first half seemed to affect his.

Zaniolo I thought did as good as he's ever done after coming on even through there is a very low bar.  However, his reaction after tangling with Moreno for their 3rd or 4th (apologies, been trying to expunge it from my memory) was not acceptable.

We can get back on the horse by beating a poor Ajax team on Thursday.  More importantly we need to keep fit to beat the kit stealers next week.

[Skerra]

I did say that if we went high press, we would win the match. However, if we went for our slow, slow and even slower style, we would get beaten. Unfortunately, it was Spurs that went for the high press.
I just can’t accept this thing about us being tired because we played on Thursday. We hardly broke a sweat v Ajax and, continued in the same vein today. Also, if we think we can’t handle playing in the conference league, how the hell are we going to cope if we go into the champions league. Teams will be much stronger than the conf league ones and, we really can’t afford to rotate players so much in the ECL.