Aston Villa v Olympiacos - Post-Match Thread

[SoccerHQ]

What a disaster.

At this stage of tournament football you need Martinez and Torres out there and boy do we miss them.

Just when we got momentum back Luiz then is completely idiotic in the box.

The only thing we can do now is be positive right from the first minute over there. We don't have any hope of going through just passing it casually around the centre circle for an hour if we're petrified of conceding.

I know it's not really in Unai's nature but we're going to have to take some risks from the first minute next week imo.

[CT Villan]

Garbage again. Olympiakos are nothing special, I am at a loss to understand how we screwed that up quite so royally.

[Stu]

Thank fuck away goals don’t count I guess because that was catastrophic 🙈

Too many games for the team I feel. Players are knackered and we can’t change it up easily due to injuries.

[stevo_st]

Well, I think we can play better in the second leg than the first

[Stinkin_Thinkin]

Luiz is thick as a brick giving away that pen. Just take one in the face, it's a football not tyson fury's fist. Crucial moment in the tie.
It's a big ask to go to a cauldron, score 3 and keep a clean sheet.

[Astnor]

We can do them down there with Martinez,  Tielemans and Pau back.

[taylorsworkrate]

Luiz and McGinn played like hungover Sunday League players and I may murder someone if Lenglet puts on a Villa shirt again.

Can't see a turnaround in what will be a cauldron of an atmosphere

[Dave]

2-0 down. All to play for.

I reckon had we gone to Lille a goal down instead of a goal up we'd have played much better than we did. It's just forced us to try harder in Greece than we otherwise might have done.

And on the plus side, all the "Champions League qualification is more important" crowd will be thrilled with how this evening has gone.

[PaulWinch again]

Absolutely pathetic - so many players played appallingly. Doug clearly what is hopefully his nadir, but SJM was terrible. The back 5 were utterly hopeless as well.

Shipping 4 goals at home is shit at any time, but in a semi-final fucking hell.

Played into their hands and humiliated ourselves. Need an absolutely colossal performance in the second leg, by the problem is we concede far too many goals - which means coming back from this is so fucking hard.

[Chris_Jephcott]

Oh dear. That’s all I can say about that.

[Bad English]

You can stick your pyrotechnic coach arrivals up your arse after that.

[itmustbe_it is!]

Early goal over there and we are right back in it again.

[Axl Rose]

Just not very good.

Unprofessional and inept.

Hopefully we won't be keeping Lenglet and Olsen after this season.

[Monty]

And on the plus side, all the "Champions League qualification is more important" crowd will be thrilled with how this evening has gone.

Not really necessary, no?

[Percy McCarthy]

Never a 2-4 performance (by either side) everything that could go against us did.

2nd leg could be 4-0 either way or anything in between.

Agreed.