Aston Villa v Olympiacos - Post-Match Thread

[olaftab]

Everything that could go wrong did for us tonight. Everything that could go right for Olympiacos did tonight. This will not be repeated.
Let’s see what happens next week. We are going there to win no ifs no buts.

[The Edge]

Olympiacos were good, particularly Podence.
We had our moments, but looked tired.

Podence is the new Nathan Dyer. No matter what kit he's wearing the little ****** seems to turn up and damage us no matter how his season is going.

[ChicagoLion]

I’ll bow to the greater wisdom here, but if that is the case then there’s little sense in turning up for the rest of the games isn’t there? The players who might come back have plenty of games too so they’ll be tired. Like I said, I’m sure it’s a factor, but it doesn’t excuse how bad we were tonight.

Actually it does.

Not sure it does, but if we continue to deteriorate then I guess you’re right.

Just like we managed to get enough energy against Bournemouth, we can hopefully do that again. But our options are limited because of squad depth and injuries.

[Keeno]

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.

As I said before taken Footy’s crown. Long live the king

[Nev]

Barmy night, Doug's worst game ever, Olsen just isn't good enough but not really to blame, if we didn't have bad luck etc etc but I've certainly not given up.

Would you leave at HT at 2 nil down and who gave us a chance at Arsenal?

UTFV

[PeterWithesShin]

I do think we need Emi back if we are to turn it around.

[ASHTONVILLA]

Everything that could go wrong did for us tonight. Everything that could go right for Olympiacos did tonight. This will not be repeated.
Let’s see what happens next week. We are going there to win no ifs no buts.

Agree. It was just one of those days. We can definitely still go through.

Spurs result softens the blow, as does Blues in the relegation spot. It's been a good season.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

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

They're a team generally made up of rejects. As to why we lost, I suggest you take it right back to the beginning.

[Aldridge Villa]

As has been said, I think if we'd just been one down after tonight, we would have had a reasonable chance. They have shipped plenty of goals in Europe this season.

Luiz has been poor for a while, and tonight summed up his recent form, which was very costly.

When we played at pace, they struggled, but they were happy with our slower deliberate moves.

The referee wasn't great. Easy to say after losing, but why do we get an Italian referee when the other semi features an Italian team?

Because he can’t referee the other semi I guess.

[villadelph]

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.

As I said before taken Footy’s crown. Long live the king

He wears it like a badge of honor, which is the funniest part!

[LukeJames]

That was fucking weird. They were never 2-4 better than us but when we conceded we do it in style, we either keep a clean sheet of fall apart. There strikers scored a hat-trick and barely broke sweat.

Also the atmosphere in the Upper Holte K1/K2 was horrible as soon as we went 0-1 down, constant arguing, sniping, people being separated. But was toxic as fuck up there.

[Keeno]

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.

As I said before taken Footy’s crown. Long live the king

He wears it like a badge of honor, which is the funniest part!

They’re like a world class midfield duo.

[SoccerHQ]

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

Reminded me of that Bolton SF from years back. Went into that game as favourites, went 2-0 quickly, got it back to 2-2 and still lost 5-2 in the end.

Gave it a good go in the second leg but still fell short so that feels similar to next week.

[Hookeysmith]

Any update on the fan that required medical attention?

Was told it was a 24yr old. Hope all is well.

Next time we complain about Premier refs just remember some of the clowns we have had in this comp, tonights was the worst.

We have simply ran out of players and gas. We look shattered and its making us make poor mistakes that it seems everyone is being punished.

We have had a fantastic season (and I agree thist tie still has some twists to it) so let's not complain too much.
4 years ago we was going nowhere in the championship other than possibly out of business. We will learn and become stronger

[itbrvilla]

Strange game. I didnt think we played that badly really and I think an early goal for us would have made it a different outcome. Their pen so soon after we got back into it killed us. Tbe place was rocking and I think they might have wobbled.

Disappointed but we're still in it

It was so shit from Lenglet in the context of the game, trying to see the ball out when he'd touched it last, dickhead.

We did that twice. Stupid fucks