Ipswich Town vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[john e]

Everyone’s grumbling but two teams play football and Ipswich were superb. It may turn out to be a decent point.

We played some great stuff going forward and defended badly. Carlos is truly awful. No longer the Sevilla player.

Great stuff going forward? Really? How many shots on target did we have in the second half? I think you'll find it was a big fat zero.

One that I can remember, Barkley's piledriver, but that was about it.  Far too tippy tappy and not ruthless enough.

Ramsey put a pretty decent chance over just after they scored.

You’re all forgetting Buendia’s close effort free kick

Which had Row Z written all over it as soon as it was awarded.

Still counts as an attempt…..just

[Stu82]

Very poor, seemed like the team was thinking about Bayern game, no go about them.
Get Konsa back in middle of defense for next week, and get Carlos out of the team.
Thought Ramsey was poor.

[john e]

And another thing everyone moaning about Cash before he got injured but now missing him like mad
Same goes for McGinn

We really looked like we couldn't get a grip on midfield without SJM

We were conceding just as many goals with McGinn in the side.

We’d have won that game with McGinn imo
We’ll miss him while he’s out

[Beard82]

Kamara is the biggest miss - I think hes our most important player - bar maybe Watkins. 

Hes reading of the game, and composer is unquie within our squad.  We have some very good midfielders - but he offers something different to all of them. 

[Demitri_C]

Whats concerning for me is we rested a  majority of the team vs wycombe so should have been fresh for this one yet we were really bad. Lucky to get a point.

It did feel at times players were trying not to get injured foe the munich game. Not aggressive enough.

That midfield without mcginn really struggled

Ipswich were imo the worst sort of team we could've played away three days before Bayern Munich. They remind me a bit of how Luton were last year and we just about won there after a torrid second half.

I think they'll stay up as they're more positive than Leicester who probably have a better starting 11.

They've played six games in prem now and they've only lost to Liverpool and Man. City so they're a long way from being no hopers at this level. Think they'll take points off the likes of Newcastle and Spurs if they can keep that 11 fit.

Although i agree i think if we played better we would have won it easy. We were so poor with the ball ans our counter attacking was so bad. We moved the ball around so slowly i just don't understand why we dint try get the ball forward quicker at times. We slow down then just look for the side or back pass.

Ipswich were counter attacking excellently yet they dont have the players  we do.

I thought the subs were not great either. They made minimal impact today

[rougegorge]

I think there could have been subconscious complacency at 2 1 up. We could have ended up losing in the end.

They saw where we were weaker down our right and kept playing balls in behind.

Konsa at RB weakens us in two places, so shouldn't we mitigate and play him at CB and play Nedeljkovic?

Bailey set up Watkins, but was off key,  Onana was too languid today and Ramsey isn't clicking yet. Based on today and the other bit parts this season, I don't get the point of Philogene as there was no outlet when he came on.
 

[PaulWinch again]

I’ve been saying it for a while, and I’m far from the only one, we are just too poor defensively and have been from the start of the year. We pretty much always concede one and pretty regularly concede two. It’s also generally really sloppy play that allows it, and it’s against weaker sides.

For all of our attacking quality, if we don’t start to control games better and take more pride in our defending we’ll fall away. We simply won’t be able to sustain scoring two plus goals each game to accumulate points.

[brontebilly]

Anybody would think we'd lost today! We missed McGinn and Cash. It'll be different when they're both fit along with Mings and Kamara.

We should be beating Ipswich anyway. They are a poor team. I thought their LB, Davis, was decent, Phillips was good and Delap a decent presence up top. But their keeper, Tuanzebe, O'Shea, Greaves, the guy who should have been sent off...seemed miles off PL standard. We were cruising against them in about second gear for most of the second half.

[VillaTim]

The return of Mings should make a huge difference

[AlexAlexCropley]

Least we're not Utd.Or Wolves.

[MalcolmP]

Now that WAS a shit performance. Philogene - what’s the point?

he got into a good position on several occasions but ball not played to him. Not his fault for that.

[Mister E]

Piss-poor all game; very few chances created and we were dragged into a dogfight that we should have avoided. Don't get me wrong: I was expecting a draw but the manner of our performance really disappointed. Particularly, their second goal was poor; bad decision-making and execution by Konsa (one of our senior players).
We were bullied, meaning that Ramsey disappeared early on, Bailey was ineffectual until he got to the line and crossed (we scored) and Onana didn't really impose himself.

[brontebilly]

Our counter attacking is shit at the moment. So many times we burst forward, then either give it away with a terrible pass, or knock it 50 yards back giving the defence time to regroup. Rubbish.

Digne is a problem in this part of our game. He's miles behind the play when we break and hasn't the legs to get in behind anymore. Maatsen should have started today to test him out properly.

[john e]

Anybody would think we'd lost today! We missed McGinn and Cash. It'll be different when they're both fit along with Mings and Kamara.

Feels like a loss to me

[VillaTim]

Anybody would think we'd lost today! We missed McGinn and Cash. It'll be different when they're both fit along with Mings and Kamara.

Feels like a loss to me

Yeah big 2 points dropped. Top 4 you have to win these games