Aston Villa vs Spurs post match embarrassment

[Demitri_C]

Based on what i saw today, they would have trounced us at home if they ahd all their players available

They are better than us and have more squad depth. It fucking pains me to say it.  I think they did somw great business in the summer while ours looks mixed now

[passport1]

I am putting this down to playing on Thursday a lot of below par performances. The only positive was we enjoyed the Directors Club hospitality. The downside was having Daniel Levy and his cronies stood behind us at the end . Onwards and upwards.

[dave.woodhall]

Based on what i saw today, they would have trounced us at home if they ahd all their players available

They are better than us and have more squad depth. It fucking pains me to say it.  I think they did somw great business in the summer while ours looks mixed now

If we'd have had all our players fit we would have trounced them today.

[Demitri_C]

I am putting this down to playing on Thursday a lot of below par performances. The only positive was we enjoyed the Directors Club hospitality. The downside was having Daniel Levy and his cronies stood behind us at the end . Onwards and upwards.

Sorry mate but im not buying that excuse. We went only a 45 minute flight. It wasnt a good performance against ajax and we didnt really use that much energy up. Very slow game.

It was a shit performance.  The formation was a poor gamble by emery and i hold him responsible today for this loss.

Im almost certian if he went back four cash konsa pau and digne the balance of the team looks better. We were pretty miserable in cm today so i would have had timmy in there for lenglet

5 at back the back was a disaster. Never wanna see that shit again

[SoccerHQ]

It’s a good job we always play really well and get great results away at West Ham.

TBF our home record v them was equally poor up to the October game and that was one of our best attacking performances of the season throughout 90 minutes.

They have injuries and will need to put a fair bit in for Freiburg so hopefully they'll be flatter than us on Sunday.

If we want to get 4th then West Ham away is probably a game we'll have to win as Spurs could go there and win in a few weeks.

I can't see us bouncing back I'm afraid. The midfield looks wrecked now without Kamara McGinn and possibly Ramsey .

Ramsey wasn't far off today so can see him being involved next weekend although going by the disruption to his season probably better we hold off until the Wolves game.

We'll just have to get on with things. Unai will just have to find another formula that maybe goes against his principles up against the might of Kalvin Phillips next weekend.

We will also likely be facing a Wolves team without all three of their main forwards.

Believe it or not but other teams around us or just below in the table also had serious injuries this season.

[ROBBO]

It was a very strange watch from the start, Bailey for all his good form of late was abysmal, he and Watkins gave no threat throughout, such a game as this and we have zero shots on goal. The midweek game and our long list of injuries played a part for sure, West Ham last season struggled to cope with playing european games. JM let us down badly at the end, the game was lost and he took his frustration out in the worst way, Emery really has his work cut out now for three weeks.

[Demitri_C]

Based on what i saw today, they would have trounced us at home if they ahd all their players available

They are better than us and have more squad depth. It fucking pains me to say it.  I think they did somw great business in the summer while ours looks mixed now

If we'd have had all our players fit we would have trounced them today.

Would we? Who was missing JJ and kamara. Mings and buendia we havent had all season so cant really include them.

They had something like 6-7 out vs us and still gave us a game. We had two players out and got destroyed. Im not convinced we would have trounced them at all dave

[Somniloquism]

Based on what i saw today, they would have trounced us at home if they ahd all their players available

They are better than us and have more squad depth. It fucking pains me to say it.  I think they did somw great business in the summer while ours looks mixed now

Who did they have missing today? And who did we have missing today?

[Somniloquism]

Based on what i saw today, they would have trounced us at home if they ahd all their players available

They are better than us and have more squad depth. It fucking pains me to say it.  I think they did somw great business in the summer while ours looks mixed now

If we'd have had all our players fit we would have trounced them today.

Would we? Who was missing JJ and kamara. Mings and buendia we havent had all season so cant really include them.

They had something like 6-7 out vs us and still gave us a game. We had two players out and got destroyed. Im not convinced we would have trounced them at all dave

So you don't think that not having them means our squad is not weakened for the whole season. The two replacements for them are Lenglet and Zaniolo for one. And whilst  Lenglet has been alright, he doesn't offer the rock we need or the leadership on the pitch, especially when under the cosh.

[PeterWithe]

First half was pretty poor from both sides, neither keeper got their gloves dirty.

First one we need to defend the cross more aggresively, when that fanny Maddison shows more desire to get on the end of it you haven't done enough

Second was a result of Unais tactics and formation, Konsa simply had no passing options, got pressed, they broke. Game over.

We just weren't brave and ambitious enough, Torres didn't step up into midfield when we had possession, the full backs didn't go high enough. Watkins and Bailey were isolated, unsupported but utterly abject as well. Both played like they were in a team bottom of the league without a goal in 10.

Any bright spots? Well McGinn showed a desire utterly lacking in his teammates, shame he couldn't control his frustration, Zaniola did very well and showed heart.

Put it behind us and move on quickly.

[Demitri_C]

Based on what i saw today, they would have trounced us at home if they ahd all their players available

They are better than us and have more squad depth. It fucking pains me to say it.  I think they did somw great business in the summer while ours looks mixed now

Who did they have missing today? And who did we have missing today?

They had richarldson missing who is a big player. Sessganon and one othee who i forgotten

I answered who we had out. JJ and kamara. We are near enough full strength otherwise since the 3rd game of the season. Its nowhere near as bad as spurs was when we went there

[PeterWithe]

Also nice to see Benacur resurrected to play a few minutes. Hallelujah..

[Gareth]

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.

I agree with every word of this. 

Don’t want to see a back 5 again & whenever Konsa and Torres are available they should be our centre backs

[Demitri_C]

Based on what i saw today, they would have trounced us at home if they ahd all their players available

They are better than us and have more squad depth. It fucking pains me to say it.  I think they did somw great business in the summer while ours looks mixed now

If we'd have had all our players fit we would have trounced them today.

Would we? Who was missing JJ and kamara. Mings and buendia we havent had all season so cant really include them.

They had something like 6-7 out vs us and still gave us a game. We had two players out and got destroyed. Im not convinced we would have trounced them at all dave

So you don't think that not having them means our squad is not weakened for the whole season. The two replacements for them are Lenglet and Zaniolo for one. And whilst  Lenglet has been alright, he doesn't offer the rock we need or the leadership on the pitch, especially when under the cosh.

We havent had eithee player all season. Although i agree they are better than zaniolo and lenglet we knew they are probanly not gonna play this season so really we cant include those two players.

We cabt be losing 4-0 at home and saying we have major injuries when we only have two players out

[dave.woodhall]

If a player's out all season he isn't really out. I don't want to even try to counter that kind of logic,