Villa v Palace Post Match Thread

[VillaTim]

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.

I said distinctly average which it is - domestic form -
Palace 1-2
Bournemouth 1-1
Fulham 3-1
ManUtd 0-0
Ipswich 2-2

Last 5 league games we’re 5th in the league on form

look at who we've played

[VillaTim]

The most exasperating moment of the entire game was Jaden getting himself into a great position on the left of the area and then fannying around with it instead of at least trying to get a cross in

i was convinced my stream had frozen . it hadn't , shocking .

[LeeB]

I went and I'm honestly not arsed at all about going out, and neither is the manager.

I think this cup is in its death knell, I wouldn't be surprised if it was gone inside the next 5 years.

[Percy McCarthy]

I went and I'm honestly not arsed at all about going out, and neither is the manager.

I think this cup is in its death knell, I wouldn't be surprised if it was gone inside the next 5 years.

I hope not.

[Olneythelonely]

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.

I said distinctly average which it is - domestic form -
Palace 1-2
Bournemouth 1-1
Fulham 3-1
ManUtd 0-0
Ipswich 2-2

Last 5 league games we’re 5th in the league on form

look at who we've played

I did. You’ll have to stop talking about form and make it about something else then.

[LeeB]

I went and I'm honestly not arsed at all about going out, and neither is the manager.

I think this cup is in its death knell, I wouldn't be surprised if it was gone inside the next 5 years.

I hope not.

It's given me still arguably the three best days supporting us but it's inevitable, it's getting squeezed all the time.

[caster troy]

I thought Bailey, Buendia and Philogene were really poor. Basically killed us as an attacking threat. Disappointing as I was hoping to see all three take the opportunity.

On the plus side once Kamara got going he looked really good, and Mings did brilliantly all things considered.

[john2710]

On the plus side, it was good to see Mings & Kamara play the 90 mins. They will be important players as the season progresses.

Other than that it generally pretty poor all round. Palace didn't need to be good to beat us. We lost the ball twice & they scored.

Philogene had an opportunity to show why we brought him back but failed miserably. He got a right bollocking from Mings for a half arsed challenge on the edge of our box.

[AV82EC]

Positives: Mings and Kamara, Duran’s goal, Ned at RB.

Negatives: Everything else

[mrfuse]

Unai has been unequivocal -  domestic cups aren't top priority. (He's only won cups in the one horse race of Ligue I).

The goal is to increase our income as quickly as possible to generate the money we need to build the club on and off the pitch. The 2 best routes to do that most effectively are the EPL and Champions League - they're his clear targets.

The Carabao and FA Cups are, for the moment nice to haves - but they're not that significant in terms of prize money.

Given time, we'll strengthen the squad such that we'll have proper strength in depth and a group of properly rotatable players, sufficient to compete on all 4 fronts.

At the moment that isn't where we are.

Getting to a position where we're regular (almost guaranteed) ECL qualifiers is Unai's goal. As and when we get there, then the domestic cups will come into view.

As a longstanding fan whose waited a lifetime to win the Holy Grail this is difficult to swallow, but it's where we are at the moment.

That might disappoint traditionalists (and I am one), but it's our current reality.

Excellently put. Lots of people stating "Emery is a cup specialist" but european cups have been his thing, not domestics

Totally agreed and a lovely post. The treble is still on.

[Percy McCarthy]

I wasn’t overly pissed off about losing. I had a nice night out with the babby (although he said after he regretted missing training, and thinks he might be dropped on Sunday because of it), and saw a few old mates.

Lovely to see two of our really big players come back and look great. I had my head in my hands when Mings went down injured.. Kosta looks like he’ll be good when he gets more experience.

I thought McGinn did well and hopefully Bailey will gain a bit of confidence from another assist.

Duran has now matched last season’s goal tally.

I was much more depressed after Saturday’s late equaliser, but I still really loved just going the match (with my daughter that time).

I’m in the ‘stay in the CL next season’ camp. Although I’m getting on a bit, I think it will do us more good in the long run. I know it shouldn’t matter, but we’ve made over €44m in prize money so far, and if we make the top 8 that willl rise to about €60m, not including gate receipts, sponsor bonuses etc.

I’ve never been convinced that goalies need a rest.

[KevinGage]

Gauci's performance tonight makes me pine for Olsen. Jumped over the first one, and then sort of did nothing at all for the second. Rubbish.

Didn't see tonight's game but fcuk that must have been bad.

[cdbearsfan]

Don't think Gauci could have done much with either goal tbh.

[Ads]

Frustrating. We all know Emery doesn't care, but it still gets annoying watching painful dross. That 2nd half was eye bleedingly bad, from both sides.

Felt the same down at Wycombe, bored senseless. No real positives.

Felt we looked unbalanced with 2 wingers, both full backs want to go forward, which stopped effective overloads.

McGinn was utterly dreadful and his poor touch would have made Gavin McCann look like Pirlo.

They're awfully physical and the referee was quite content to let it happen, which swallowed Buendia. Rank decision making from Philogene too.

Just an awful performance. I just wish we didn't bother entering this or the FA Cup. Just don't bother.

[tomd2103]

I went and I'm honestly not arsed at all about going out, and neither is the manager.

I am bitterly disappointed about going out, but although I imagine that those at the club would be disappointed to.pise the game, the focus will shift to the weekend pretty quickly.