Aston Villa v Olympiacos - Post-Match Thread

[levico]

Just to put a tin hat on this disappointment what’s the betting that Blues survive relegation.

[pauliewalnuts]

One things for sure that’s the last match thread I’m logging in for 😂

REJOICE! REJOICE! REJOICE! REJOICE! REJOICE! REJOICE! REJOICE! REJOICE! REJOICE! REJOICE!

[LeonW]

Olsen has to go now . If he plays again it's gross negligence.

He has 78 caps for Sweden. Any 'keeper we try to sign knows they will never unseat Emi- won't be that easy to get a better no.2

It’d be very easy.

Who? Suggest one that would be prepared to sit on the bench and used on an occasional basis.

There is no club where there are two goal keepers at the same level. The sell is to say to someone that they’re working day in day out with Martinez, learning from the best in the world. Who better to learn from. They’ll get opportunities.

Olsen is pretty average goal keeper and not particularly young. His caps for Sweden are because they don’t have an alternative of any note (as can often be the case at international level). His club career has been very averageand his wages are likely reasonable. Young lad with potential and lower wages that can be dropped in every now and again. Sure our scouts are already on it. Might be Gauci.

[ChicagoLion]

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.

Spot on. I can’t believe, after the way we’ve battled against the odds to achieve what we have so far this season, people are a) surprised we’ve run out of steam, and b) not full of admiration for the players and manager. Disgrace my foot bottom.

Agree. Bonkers.

[PaulWinch again]

How on Earth though do you legislate for the amount of injuries we’ve had? Look at our bench tonight…..We don’t have the luxury of a big squad. To be where we are is incredible even though things have been incredibly disappointing of late. During the match threads feelings are magnified and that’s why things seem so bad.

Spot on.

The season overall has been fantastic, but whilst injuries are a factor they are not an excuse for tonight’s performance. Or to put it another way, would any of the Olympiacos players get in front of the Villa starting 11 tonight? Maybe I’m ill informed but I don’t think so. The season has been brilliant, but injuries or not tonight was dreadful.

Isn’t it just the season taking its toll? Injuries, suspensions and generally running out of steam. Luck not quite on our side too? It’s happening at Liverpool who have far more resources than us.

At times tonight going forward we looked excellent but whenever they attacked we looked vulnerable and very disjointed and lacking in confidence, which sums up what I said above.

If that is the case we may as well not turn up next week, because it won’t get easier. I just think it’s a bit of an easy out to say it’s down to injuries, resources etc. I don’t doubt it’s an influencing factor, and I’ve no idea how many games Olympiacos have played but I imagine it’s plenty. The team we had out tonight should have been much better, but they underperformed. They have a chance to fix it, but it was dreadful tonight and that team should have coped better.

[steamer]

An interesting comment from the commentator, which every one except for me probably knew was that the Olympiacus owner is also the Forest owner.
Their one substitute was an on loan forest player.
Any way regardless of this they played well, game on next Thursday.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'd fancy it's a lot less physically and mentally demanding playing a season in Greece than it is in the PL.

[Forge10]

One things for sure that’s the last match thread I’m logging in for 😂

Yet you will be there like every game 😁

This was only the second game I’ve logged in for, Chelsea being the other.

I can be disappointed tonight because I want my team to win. My first season ticket was watching a Villa squad that contained Dean Glover, Paul Kerr, Mark Burke, Simon Stainrod and David Norton. This now is light years from that…… So to see people calling players a disgrace when they’re playing in a European Semi final and currently fourth in the league is nonsensical. The same players have put us where we are this season.

[Ian.]

How on Earth though do you legislate for the amount of injuries we’ve had? Look at our bench tonight…..We don’t have the luxury of a big squad. To be where we are is incredible even though things have been incredibly disappointing of late. During the match threads feelings are magnified and that’s why things seem so bad.

Spot on.

The season overall has been fantastic, but whilst injuries are a factor they are not an excuse for tonight’s performance. Or to put it another way, would any of the Olympiacos players get in front of the Villa starting 11 tonight? Maybe I’m ill informed but I don’t think so. The season has been brilliant, but injuries or not tonight was dreadful.

Isn’t it just the season taking its toll? Injuries, suspensions and generally running out of steam. Luck not quite on our side too? It’s happening at Liverpool who have far more resources than us.

At times tonight going forward we looked excellent but whenever they attacked we looked vulnerable and very disjointed and lacking in confidence, which sums up what I said above.

If that is the case we may as well not turn up next week, because it won’t get easier. I just think it’s a bit of an easy out to say it’s down to injuries, resources etc. I don’t doubt it’s an influencing factor, and I’ve no idea how many games Olympiacos have played but I imagine it’s plenty. The team we had out tonight should have been much better, but they underperformed. They have a chance to fix it, but it was dreadful tonight and that team should have coped better.

Maybe with Torres, or Mings for that matter and Emi in goal, it wouldn’t have been four against us?

Although Konsa did have a stinker, bloody woeful.

[Monty]

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.

Spot on. I can’t believe, after the way we’ve battled against the odds to achieve what we have so far this season, people are a) surprised we’ve run out of steam, and b) not full of admiration for the players and manager. Disgrace my foot bottom.

Agree. Bonkers.

Yeah it was a very poor performance, but it was also a bit of a freakshow. Having both the opening goal ruled out AND the penalty not given for Bailey was a bit mad, they got a bunch of goals that honestly all had some fortune involved, and we missed an actual penalty.

It was a terrible display, yes, but it was also a cursed one.

[Risso]

I'd fancy it's a lot less physically and mentally demanding playing a season in Greece than it is in the PL.

Not sure about that, it's 26c over there at the moment.

[Paul.S]

Defensively very poor again, Luiz is off his game and we’ve been punished for it tonight.
Lille could’ve done the same to us at Villa Park so we need to find something there and crawl over the line in the league now.
I think the missed penalty may have killed us in this tie but a big shout out to that bloke in his lovely bright top who apparently was the referee. It’s a pity he forgot his red nose and oversized shoes.

[Forge10]

One things for sure that’s the last match thread I’m logging in for 😂

REJOICE! REJOICE! REJOICE! REJOICE! REJOICE! REJOICE! REJOICE! REJOICE! REJOICE! REJOICE!

😂

[PaulWinch again]

I'd fancy it's a lot less physically and mentally demanding playing a season in Greece than it is in the PL.

No doubt, but on the flipside PL teams have the resources to have better players.

[Demitri_C]

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.

Ok you accept mediocre results like this if thats what you prefer and not to win anything  but if you think that peffor.ance ronight was acceptable your expectations are low.

Lose a game but bloody die for the shirt. So none of that. We collapsed just like we did saturday. So dont see how i am talking shit wh i just want to see a bit of passion from the players and we have seen veey little of that.

As i said before if fatigue is a issue why isnt unai using playees like kesler and kellyman.more ?