Spurs v Villa Post Match Thread.

[Drummond]

Some people just can't wait can they?

Clearly not.

[VillaTim]

McGinn really poor again , kept turning into trouble, Watkins did nothing other than miss his weekly 1 on 1 . Play like that at Anfield it will be 7 or 8

[Sexual Ealing]

We looked so much like a team that only has one way of playing. When that doesn't work we're screwed.

You dont trust Unai, then?

So what if he doesn't? This isn't a cult.

[Rigadon]

No need to overreact.  That was never a 4-1 game.  These score lines don’t mean anything.  We should’ve been 3 up at halftime but because it was only 1-0 it was always up for grabs. 

I will say this though, for all the talk of a great bench… I’m not sure it’s that gray when we’re chasing a game, Duran aside.  And I’ll also say that bringing Rogers off was a rare mistake from the genius - we looked worse with Watkins and Duran on the pitch (bit still should’ve scored at least 1 goal when they were): 

Finally, the ref. Awful awful game where he basically let spurs shut down breakaways with rotational fouling without any booking.  There were borderline red cards that were not even yellows and they literally kicked us off the pitch.  Shocking ineptitude. 

Grr.  But we’ll finish above these wankers again, regardless of what’s said in the media over the coming week. 

[villadelph]

We looked so much like a team that only has one way of playing. When that doesn't work we're screwed.

You dont trust Unai, then?

So what if he doesn't? This isn't a cult.

It was a genuine question. Relax.

[kippaxvilla2]

That’s the most positive of positive spins on a really shit performance overall.

[cdbearsfan]

We looked so much like a team that only has one way of playing. When that doesn't work we're screwed.

You dont trust Unai, then?

So what if he doesn't? This isn't a cult.

You won't get a place on the spaceship to Heaven with that attitude.

[Demitri_C]

And now we are seeing not strengthening the team the impact. You let two of your most goal scoring attackers in luiz and diaby go yet bring no one to replace them. What did they think was going to happen?

Honestly that was as a bad as it gets. You rest the team and they go and give us that shite?

We weren't in a position to strengthen from a position of strength due to PSR. It's design is to stop clubs going bankrupt but it's outcomes mean teams having to sell promising academy players and first teamers who they can get good money for.

We never should have signed diaby then for such a big fee if we were going to be in such deep FFP issues. I love onana but for 50m id rather have kept diaby.

Our attack play looks so slow and bad since he left. How many times would diaby break and cause problems ? We have looked so bad and slow for large periods of the season.

Its just really depressing that we worked so hard to get top four and then appear to be going backwards 😔 still a long way but im still thinking 6th is bwst we can hope for

[amfy]

And now we've got to support Man U FFS to stay 5th. 🤬

Never!

To be fair it is made slightly easier by them playing Chelsea.

[PaulWinch again]

It's great innit, a few weeks ago we were world beaters vs Bayern. Lose today & are crap vs Spuds and no it's all gone to sh*t.

It’s neither of those things though - we weren’t world beaters when we beat Bayern and we’re not hopeless now. But we do have some fundamental issues around defending and control of the game, which if we don’t address we’ll fall away.

[AlwaysVilla]

The defence Is a massive problem this season. We need to find a system that allows Mings to return, not because he is our best defender but because he has great organisational skills, constantly talking to those around him. Carlos made us look even worse at the back today. We have to bring Kamara back ASAP and none of this is helped by the fact Bailey, Watkins  and Philogene have not played a decent game yet. Watkins scoring rate one on one has to Improve as our game is designed getting him through the middle

[cdbearsfan]

And now we've got to support Man U FFS to stay 5th. 🤬

I'm still backing a plague of locusts in that game. Green Army!

[john e]

Some people just can't wait can they?

Clearly not.

We played crap though
What’s the point in coming on here and pretending we didn’t that’s just stupidity

[Stu]

We looked so much like a team that only has one way of playing. When that doesn't work we're screwed.

That's not true. We've seen Villa under Emery adapt and change play within games many times before today. Come from a goal down to win more than a few times, too.

[Drummond]

We lost our second game from the first ten.

It was shit but it happens. It doesn't define the season, any more than a win would have done. And there doesn't need to be an immediate finger pointing exercise either