Aston Villa v Olympiacos - Post-Match Thread

[stubbsyandy]

We haven't really played that well in this tournament at all, apart from pockets here and there, just my opinion but tonight was really poor.  Olsen is crap, I'd rather have the kid in goal as he's an unknown quantity and we all know what Olsen is like.  Konsa needs a proper partner, even he was poor tonight.  Cash, Lenglet need to go.  Digne's crossing was shit and his defending not a great deal better.  Luiz is slow to move the ball and the penalty at both ends, summed up his last few weeks.  Diaby offered little either.  It was poor all round.  What a time to have a collective shitfest performance.  We can score goals, but we cannot defend.

It’s a miracle we are having our best season for 42 years

[levico]

Villa and Spurs doing what they do best on the same night.

[Somniloquism]

Why did Emery leave Pau Torres on the bench??

Heck said we are paying Lenglet a lot of money, and Barca have slipped us some more as they want to sell him and need him to play to show other teams.

[SamTheMouse]

I reckon we'll do them over there. They were mostly quite disciplined tonight, but their no doubt highly excitable crowd will make them play more rashly at home and we can smash them on the break.

We'll need Martinez and Torres back though.

[baddowvillans]

Its not just tonight though. We fell apart 2nd half against chelsea and almost lost the game.

Injuries are nit helping we know that but somwtimes you have to give some youngsters a chance to breed some energy. He is rarely used kesler or kellyman for example.

Honestly thwy should be embarrassed by that performance.  They masisveky disgraced themselves tonight ans the fans expected better

Thank you for once again remaining so positive in the face of a setback.  I am sure your comments will be really helpful in inspiring the side for Sunday and next week.

[PeterWithesShin]

They don't strike me as a side that will shut up shop, either side could score 5 next week with our attack, and defence.

[AV84]

Not making excuses because there were faults all around but did the jerseys look as similar on the pitch as they did on TV? There were quite a few time we got in good positions and then looked like we were literally passing it to them.

[Skerra]

The only good thing about getting CL is the money the club get. Very much doubt we’ll go beyond the 8 group league matches. Only being realistic.

[Tony Daleys Shorts]

Its not just tonight though. We fell apart 2nd half against chelsea and almost lost the game.

Injuries are nit helping we know that but somwtimes you have to give some youngsters a chance to breed some energy. He is rarely used kesler or kellyman for example.

Honestly thwy should be embarrassed by that performance.  They masisveky disgraced themselves tonight ans the fans expected better

Nobody disgraced themselves, please stop talking utter shite.

[pauliewalnuts]

Not making excuses because there were faults all around but did the jerseys look as similar on the pitch as they did on TV? There were quite a few time we got in good positions and then looked like we were literally passing it to them.

Yes, I thought straight away there was a kit clash, was quite surprised.

Unfortunately, though, we were literally passing it to them, that wasn't about colour coordination.

[Steve67]

We haven't really played that well in this tournament at all, apart from pockets here and there, just my opinion but tonight was really poor.  Olsen is crap, I'd rather have the kid in goal as he's an unknown quantity and we all know what Olsen is like.  Konsa needs a proper partner, even he was poor tonight.  Cash, Lenglet need to go.  Digne's crossing was shit and his defending not a great deal better.  Luiz is slow to move the ball and the penalty at both ends, summed up his last few weeks.  Diaby offered little either.  It was poor all round.  What a time to have a collective shitfest performance.  We can score goals, but we cannot defend.

I'd agree with that, but I think we've put in more shit performances than decent ones for about two months now, but seem to be just about getting away with it, both in the league and this competition.

Couldn't agree more Paulie.  The Arsenal game apart, Bournemouth too I guess, I can't recall a performance since Christmas where we've smashed it and played really well. 

[taylorsworkrate]

Why did Emery leave Pau Torres on the bench??

Heck said we are paying Lenglet a lot of money, and Barca have slipped us some more as they want to sell him and need him to play to show other teams.

Well that would have massively backfired for Barcelona tonight. Anyone wanting to sign Lenglet next season need sectioning

[Steve67]

We haven't really played that well in this tournament at all, apart from pockets here and there, just my opinion but tonight was really poor.  Olsen is crap, I'd rather have the kid in goal as he's an unknown quantity and we all know what Olsen is like.  Konsa needs a proper partner, even he was poor tonight.  Cash, Lenglet need to go.  Digne's crossing was shit and his defending not a great deal better.  Luiz is slow to move the ball and the penalty at both ends, summed up his last few weeks.  Diaby offered little either.  It was poor all round.  What a time to have a collective shitfest performance.  We can score goals, but we cannot defend.

It’s a miracle we are having our best season for 42 years

Tonight makes our season then does it?  Good job we can score goals.

[baddowvillans]

Villa and Spurs doing what they do best on the same night.

Get a grip

[PhilVill]

If there is one positive that I might be able to draw, it’s overconfidence.

They’ll be going home thinking that it’s game over and they have a 2 goal lead. In the next game, if we have Emi back, swap Lenglet for Pau we ditch Dougie and replace him with Tielemans, and go all chaos on the attack, they will not know what has hit them.

A full strength Villa is a very different Villa to what we have seen in the last few weeks.

We are tired, our paper thin squad has been stretched by fatigue, injuries and suspensions. Dougie is gassed. He does care, his reaction to his missed penalty says it all.

It’s going to be a massive ask though in a very hostile environment. And I don’t think we’ll do it this time. If that penalty went in, we would have. But based on the performance tonight, the ineptitude of the CL referees and past history, it doesn’t look likely.

I just hope we learn from this. We’re good at times, but equally a chronic attack of the turds at other times. We need to wise up to this, we’ve been unlucky with injuries… but maybe we were lucky to have lasted this long without a meltdown somewhere?

This, 100%.