Villa v Palace Post Match Thread

[Paul.S]

The plus points were Mings and Kamara looking fit enough to start in the league. The minus points were Bailey and  Philogene and our ability, no matter who plays to give away stupid goals.
McGinn held the midfield together and gave his usual 100%.
I think we’ve got to accept that modern football is all about the top 4 and CL football. I don’t like one little bit but that’s how it is. Hopefully one day we take the domestic cups seriously.

[jon collett]

Can’t work out what’s wrong with Bailey. Still wonder about a hernia.

He does enough sprints, running flat out to show that there's no injury, he just seems to have reverted back to 2022 era Bailey, ie not very good at all.

He doesn’t seem to have the acceleration he had. Never seen such a drop in performance. Looks like a different player who is a lot slower.

[coreyfeldman]

Take the bloody cups seriously for once!  Feel sorry for the people that go.

I do feel sorry for anyone paying and having to schlep back and forth to Aston on a work night in winter but maybe we’re just taking other things seriously. Withdrawing isn’t a serious consideration so we have to prioritise.

As I’ve said elsewhere, all means nothing if we don’t show up against Spurs and Brugge though.

Next season i think a majority of our fans will give the carabao a miss as we dont give a shit about this competition as a club so why should the fans.

Sets a poor example

Just hope we dont lose sunday otherwise im gonna be a tad bit pissed off we rested players for nothing

Resting players isn't about guaranteeing to win the next match it's long term strategy around minutes for players, development, seeing where the squad is at. Emery said this last year also. If we lost Sunday and finish in champions league very few people will begrudge tonight's result imo

[Martyn Smith]

As soon as I saw that bench I thought uh-oh. Suppose we find ourselves say a goal down and struggling. Who have we got to turn it around?

The three lads who came on tried their best, bless 'em, and showed some nice touches. But they were never going to do it and it isn't right to expect them to do so

And I've only just got on the train at Aston. Delayed by 25 minutes owing to striking a shopping trolley on the track...

[coreyfeldman]

The Bayern win has papered over a lot of cracks . Our form is distinctly average and nowhere near good enough .

We are 4th dickhead

[DC1874]

Put simply I'm going to stop going to domestic cup games because of this rinse and repeat shit - ok losing to Chelsea last year in the FA Cup but Stevenage, Everton and Palace at home FFS!

[rougegorge]

Well the bonus is that it was a quick getaway this evening.

Palace only had two attempts on target and Gauci's effort to save the 2nd goal was remarkable, just falling to his knees instead of attempting to save a stoppable 20 yard shot.

Philogene was very poor, and Bailey is still really off form whilst Buendia lost the ball so often. Kamara was the plus point.

I've no idea why we didn't have a few more senior players on the bench. When the subs came on, it was almost a tacit admission that we weren't too bothered.

[VillaTim]

The Bayern win has papered over a lot of cracks . Our form is distinctly average and nowhere near good enough .

We are 4th dickhead

Again get back under your bridge

[levico]

All I know is that, before Emery came to Villa, he was known as a cup specialist and winning a few as well. Of course, come to a club like ours, which has been trophy less for too many years and, now doesn’t seem to want to know about the domestic cups. We will end this season with no trophy again so, just hope we can get top 4 again, although I suspect it’ll be about 7th. The Club will also be happy if we can go a couple of rounds in the CL knock out stages which means £££££’s for the club but not that much to many of the fans. Sadly, that’s football nowadays.

Nailed it.

[coreyfeldman]

The Bayern win has papered over a lot of cracks . Our form is distinctly average and nowhere near good enough .

We are 4th dickhead

Again get back under your bridge

It is you who is the troll you absolute bell end. Distinctly average is 4th and top of champions league. Get fucked you cretin

[supertom]

Another terrible League Cup display unfortunately and it's not like it's good sides we're playing. Palace weren't very good.

Unless I missed something about an injury I'm not sure why we wouldn't start Barkley today. It doesn't suit us playing two out and out wingers, and particularly when both Jaden and Bailey were poor most of the game. McGinn was all over the place. We really should have kept a couple more senior options on the bench too.

Great to see Mings back and Kamara was probably a class apart but both tired. I think they (Mingsy especially) will be some way off going a full 90 minutes in the Prem.

I thought Nedeljkovic showed plenty of promise. Still young, positioning and decision-making needs work as you'd expect but I don't think he's too far from pushing Cash. In all honesty, we do still lack something at right back that might need rectifying in Jan.

Not convinced about Gauci at all. Baffling that Olsen is on the bench in the league and didn't get the nod today. Again, I may have missed some news. The second goal was a poor goal all around to concede but it wasn't the hardest shot. His view wasn't completely obscured. He's got to be saving that comfortably. That I'm disappointed that Robin Olsen didn't play today, probably says something. He's a year or two away IF he's good enough.

Duran was good first half, but anonymous in the second, not helped by the service drying up and his growing frustration making his general hold-up play less effective.

I hope the players turn up for the FA Cup. It's great being in Europe and competing for fourth, but they don't give trophies out for that and if we're ever gonna win one again in the next decade, it's gonna be while Unai is in charge.

Clearly too, Tielemens leaves a void we're gonna find difficult to fill when he's rested. Barkley would have been closest.

[cdbearsfan]

I'm sure the point has already been made but, while I can understand us not starting our strongest team, I can't comprehend why we don't have more potential impact subs, or bring on the one that we did have.

As inept as we were, if we'd brought on Ramsey, Rogers and Watkins with twenty minutes to go, it would have given the whole place a lift and we'd have had a chance of getting back into it.

The young lads we did bring on may well go on to be great, but bringing them on in those circumstances just gave the opposition a boost, not that they really needed it.

Anyway, well done to Palace for taking it seriously. Hope they win the cup.

[Paul.S]

The Bayern win has papered over a lot of cracks . Our form is distinctly average and nowhere near good enough .

Top of the champions league group and 4th in the league. If that’s average I’m all for it.

[DC1874]

Yes but still pisses me off those c##ts on the other side of the city have bragging rights on the last domestic trophy in this manor!

[pauliewalnuts]

The Bayern win has papered over a lot of cracks . Our form is distinctly average and nowhere near good enough .

Yeah before tonight wasn’t it just the one match lost this season, and top of the champions league?

Terrible form.