Ipswich Town vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[SamTheMouse]

Watching Spppuurrrrssss just now makes me realise what a quick, incisive break looks like - we are sooo slow on the break sometimes.
Re our defence, I wanted Nedeljkovic too okay today: having a bit of zip on the right would have been welcome, and I think his defending has looked pretty okay so far .

The thing with Nedeljkovic is he's a natural right back he knows about positioning and the way you need to support both defense and attack and it just brings a better shape to the team. Konsa doesn't have that RB vibe in my view. 

I think until Cash is back we need to just go with Ned at RB. Need to get Konsa away from RB and back in his best position, and we need to get Carlos as far away from the pitch as possible

Completely agree.

[Mellin]

Or call Moreno back, if we can, and stick whichever of our three excellent left backs has the best right foot at right back until Cash is fit/January. Just stop playing Carlos. It's killing us.

Also, first person to slag off Matty Cash when he's back in the team is getting a knock on the door.

[brontebilly]

Watching Spppuurrrrssss just now makes me realise what a quick, incisive break looks like - we are sooo slow on the break sometimes.
Re our defence, I wanted Nedeljkovic too okay today: having a bit of zip on the right would have been welcome, and I think his defending has looked pretty okay so far .

Ned did very little to suggest midweek that he's ready for PL football. I've never been a fan of moving our best CB to RB to accommodate Carlos.

[tom jennings III]

Watching Spppuurrrrssss just now makes me realise what a quick, incisive break looks like - we are sooo slow on the break sometimes.
Re our defence, I wanted Nedeljkovic too okay today: having a bit of zip on the right would have been welcome, and I think his defending has looked pretty okay so far .

The thing with Nedeljkovic is he's a natural right back he knows about positioning and the way you need to support both defense and attack and it just brings a better shape to the team. Konsa doesn't have that RB vibe in my view. 

I think until Cash is back we need to just go with Ned at RB. Need to get Konsa away from RB and back in his best position, and we need to get Carlos as far away from the pitch as possible

Completely agree.

Impossible not to agree with this. I think Konsa is ok at right back but we desperately need him alongside Pau in the middle so Ned/Bogarde whatever it takes until Cash is back. Massively regret not signing a first teamer in this position over the summer.

[Gareth]

We were certainly underwhelming in killing the game second half but it wasn’t a terrible performance & credit has to go to the opposition.

I’ve always agreed with the comments ref Konsa at right back as he isn’t a good enough ball player to offer anything out there & he should be first choice centre back.

[Aldridge Villa]

Our weekly 2023 administered autumnal thrashing’s in our favour seems along time ago. Hopefully that will change courtesy of a kick up the derrière.

[Tony Daleys Shorts]

Not great today but a few reasons to be cheerful.

We’re 2 points off top of the league.
Unbeaten away from home.
Watkins is on a hot streak, 4 in 3.

Don’t think we’ve actually played particularly well this season yet sit 5th, there’s more to come from this side.

Roll on next week, two home wins would be magnificent.

[Allan C]

We wouldn't keep a clean sheet against Walsall at the moment and today was the day it finally caught up with us. Konsa/Carlos axis an absolute nightmare all game. Their goals came when we were in cruise control the game, I thought Ipswich had ran out of all ideas until the chuckle brothers combined for their equaliser. Ipswich were so poor at the back we should be scoring more than two, we overplayed a bit too much at times. Philogene looks nowhere near ready either.

Martinez 6 - two brilliant saves somewhat made amends for failing to stop the first
Konsa 2 - horrid. Tucking in far too narrow all game and gave the ball away constantly like for their second goal.
Carlos 2 - rubbish, idiotic free kick given away early on for another error strewn performance. Sent for a bag of chips for the equaliser.
Torres 7 - ropey at times when ran at but saved a certain goal and decent on ball
Digne 5 - solid defensively but we need a lot more going forward in that position. Emery should have started Maatsen today
Onana 6 - anonymous first half but much better after the break I thought
Tielemans 6 - bit of a lazy performance, would have brought Barkley on sooner for him
Bailey 6 - decent first half and assist but disappeared in second half, dummied himself twice
Ramsey 6 - poor first half but much better after the break. Needs to improve first touch
Rogers 7 - fine first half and unless he was injured that was a mistake to replace him so early
Watkins 7 - bullied their defence...until Duran came on and that killed his impact

Philogene looks way off it and Duran didn't make an impact today. Buendia, Barkley and Maatsen all did ok and will be disappointed they weren't brought on earlier

I'm normally raise a smile with bronte's L'Equipe style ratings but this is absolutely spot on.

I largely agree but would give Bailey a 3 and Ramsey a 4, Carlos was a 1 all day long

[Mortimer's Bear]

Bollocks to Ed Sheeran.

[ChicagoLion]

We wouldn't keep a clean sheet against Walsall at the moment and today was the day it finally caught up with us. Konsa/Carlos axis an absolute nightmare all game. Their goals came when we were in cruise control the game, I thought Ipswich had ran out of all ideas until the chuckle brothers combined for their equaliser. Ipswich were so poor at the back we should be scoring more than two, we overplayed a bit too much at times. Philogene looks nowhere near ready either.

Martinez 6 - two brilliant saves somewhat made amends for failing to stop the first
Konsa 2 - horrid. Tucking in far too narrow all game and gave the ball away constantly like for their second goal.
Carlos 2 - rubbish, idiotic free kick given away early on for another error strewn performance. Sent for a bag of chips for the equaliser.
Torres 7 - ropey at times when ran at but saved a certain goal and decent on ball
Digne 5 - solid defensively but we need a lot more going forward in that position. Emery should have started Maatsen today
Onana 6 - anonymous first half but much better after the break I thought
Tielemans 6 - bit of a lazy performance, would have brought Barkley on sooner for him
Bailey 6 - decent first half and assist but disappeared in second half, dummied himself twice
Ramsey 6 - poor first half but much better after the break. Needs to improve first touch
Rogers 7 - fine first half and unless he was injured that was a mistake to replace him so early
Watkins 7 - bullied their defence...until Duran came on and that killed his impact

Philogene looks way off it and Duran didn't make an impact today. Buendia, Barkley and Maatsen all did ok and will be disappointed they weren't brought on earlier

I'm normally raise a smile with bronte's L'Equipe style ratings but this is absolutely spot on.

I largely agree but would give Bailey a 3 and Ramsey a 4, Carlos was a 1 all day long

Agree.
I think he is being generous to Ramsey Bailey Onana.

[Villan82]

Carlos is the obvious weakness we have. Such a shame we couldn't ship him out and get an upgrade in.

The other concern I have is the Diaby sale. For one thing, Bailey played his best football for Villa while we had Diaby on the books. For another, I think Philogene has been quite 'meh' so far so we don't even now have that alternative to Bailey we had last season

[Mortimer's Bear]

We’ve lost I game in 8 this season by the way. Today was disappointing but let’s not get too upset, on to Wednesday.

[Stinkin_Thinkin]

Our 2nd goal was champagne football knocking it around patiently. When Rogers and Bailey went off we lost some cutting edge.
If Konsa doesn't try that suicidal trent alexander arnold slide rule pass and uses the simple option to Philogene we win that 2-1. They only looked threatening on the counter. Oh well it's a point, just very dissapointing when ever we get a sighter of being top of the premier league we absolutley shit it.

[Clampy]

Individual and manager errors for me. Should have cleared the  ball for the first goal, Konsa needs to pass it out wide for their second and we really didn't need Duran and Billie Jean on at 2-1 up. Barkley for Rogers would have been fine.

[brontebilly]

Our 2nd goal was champagne football knocking it around patiently. When Rogers and Bailey went off we lost some cutting edge.
If Konsa doesn't try that suicidal trent alexander arnold slide rule pass and uses the simple option to Philogene we win that 2-1. They only looked threatening on the counter. Oh well it's a point, just very dissapointing when ever we get a sighter of being top of the premier league we absolutley shit it.

They missed some big chances, two before half time and Torres made a goal saving block for one in the second. That's a ridiculous number of goal scoring chances to be conceding to Ipswich. Balance of team isn't right even ignoring the Konsa/Carlos debacle. We are getting done on the counter far too easily.