Reflections on Conference League

[Legion]

Not our night.

[Risso]

There was very little to be proud of in those two legs. We were shocking tonight, and they looked like they'd given up.

Oh please, just give over.

Your one post tonight isn't on the match thread, it's to have a go at me. Exactly the same last match. Probably best you just put me on ignore, I really don't need a weird stalker in my life, cheers. Baby Reindeer.

[curiousorange]

We were favourites to win this trophy and didn’t win it, and we lost home and away to a team that we should have beaten over two legs. It’s a failure.

That's where I am as well. There won't be an asterisk next to the score in the history books saying that we had a ton of injuries. It'll just be Olympiacos in the final and the folk memories of two sets of fans wondering where the hell this El Kaabi bloke came from for one week in May 2024.

[Vegas]

Fucking hell there’s some bollocks being talked on here.

We’re all gutted to lose, because this was obviously winnable.

But we’re knackered, running on empty, riddled with injuries. We’ve had a great season but there’s very little left. The players it there tonight are heroes for what they’ve done this season. Olympiacos are a decent side and had the weekend off.

We weren’t great but there’s also a lot of variance - their dodgy penalty, ours not given, our missed pen, three fine margin offside goals etc.

To use words like “embarrassing” and “a disgrace” is a fucking joke after where these players have got us.

[SaddVillan]

Which twat put this up on the BBC Website?

Am I the only one who thinks Emery has underachieved with this Villa squad? Not a bad season but should be winning this competition."

[TonyD]

Proper post match thread title.

[Legion]

https://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=64921.0

Why?

Reflections on Conference League.

[Gareth]

No lack of effort, a few look mentally shot which knocks onto poor decision making - we needed likes of Teilemans / Zaniolo / Moreno & Rogers in the squad tonight.  One look at that bench said we couldn’t afford to need to resort to plan b.

Personally I have no wish to slag any of them off….theyve given everything this season, come up short on this occasion, we just have to hope we don’t where 4th is concerned.

UTV

[Astnor]

We dont to conference and the likes, we do champions league and whatever it was called in English in 82.

[Bad English]

Great European run. We didn't have what it takes to get to the.final. we can only learn from this and try to do better next time.

[Paul.S]

Massively disappointed tonight but I’d wrote us off after last weeks game.
Hopefully Tielemans is back on Monday along with Zaniolo and Moreno to boost the bench. Looking at it tonight show the dire state of what we’ve got to change games at the moment.
Unlike other seasons we are fighting on 2 fronts and are guaranteed European football again next season.
What a fantastic season this has been. Just one last push on Monday could make us all forget this game.

[Ducksworthy]

There was very little to be proud of in those two legs. We were shocking tonight, and they looked like they'd given up.

Oh please, just give over.

We can have a diminished squad go further than they might have under the circumstances and be disappointed by how poorly we ultimately did at the crunch. Both things can be true.

[nick harper]

Down to our last 11 senior players, some playing out of position, all mentally exhausted. It’s the alertness of thought, and sharpness of passing that has deserted us. It’s the definition of hitting the wall.

Frustrating as Olympiacos are the definition of average. The turning point of the whole tie was Dougie’s raised arm at 2-2. Having got back level, I think we’d have we’d have put the tie out of reach.

[astonvilla82]

Just went back on the match day tread and it's like reading the like of Manchester United and Chelsea forums, generally if you want to whine people up please go onto another Villa forum

[Mellin]

Not a competition I personally got very excited about but I do feel sorry for the younger fans who haven't seen us win a trophy yet. For me though Champions league qualification will be a bigger achievement.

Yeah, I'm not pissed off at all, which means I don't rate the competition or the mitigation is enough. Or maybe we were that shit it's been obvious for a week now. Either way, fall over the line into fourth, celebrate, let the lads go and have a breather.