Bruges v Aston Villa PMT.

[eamonn]

Sounded awful.  Mings should be banned and docked wages.  Top 24 if we are lucky.  Form since Bayern not fabulous.

Nah, we've 9 points already so you can't doom-predict us lower than 16th.

[Demitri_C]

Not too worrying on its own, as we have nine points from twelve. What's concerning is we've now looked knackered for the last three and a bit games. This run is in danger of severely fucking up our season. Liverpool away next isn't exactly a nice easy one to put things right, either.

I don’t know how we’re knackered. We never run anywhere.

It's more mysterious considering we keep resting/rotating players especially so they won't be knackered, too.

Sorry CD but im not buying that excuse. How can we be tired already? We looked shite on sunday and rested the team midweek.

Just think the teams not good enough. We replaced key players with players nowhere near the level and defensively we look even worse than last year

I wasn't making any excuse. I was stating my bemusement.

Oh ok mate 😃

Just to add never playel duran and ollie together  again. Its a fucking disaster ans doesn't work

[eamonn]

Completely missed the Spurs game.  But that was the worst performance I’ve seen under Emery. 
Look like they have never played together before. 
Bizarre. 

They hadn't.

[rougegorge]

Players look tired and slow but I just can't fathom how any of the players are tired about a quarter of the way through the season.

[cdbearsfan]

I'm going to numb this awful day out with alcohol.

[eamonn]

Emery had  better not try and defend that performance.  It was Gerrard-esque

None of them were the best version of themselves.

Mings won't be able to look anyone in the eye.

[Meanwood Villa]

Maatsen 6
Everyone else 2

Maatsen was one of the worst. How does Digne get so many touches of the ball and this bloke's anonymous?

[andyh]

Players look tired and slow but I just can't fathom how any of the players are tired about a quarter of the way through the season.

Our numbers previously showed we cover the least distance in the league.

[Jane]

I'm going to numb this awful day out with alcohol.

Ditto.

[nordenvillain]

Worst performance under Emery.  By a looong way.  Awful.

We need to start Duran or Watkins.  Playing both of them does not work. 

Shit shit shit. 

Watkins had 58 minutes on his own and Durn 10, i.e. they played together for 22 minutes. It wasn't the system that was wrong, it was the player's attitudes. As I wrote in the Match thread, it looked like they were running in treacle. There has to be a Plan B, C etc. if what we are trying, i.e. Plan A, is not working.  Emery has to take some of the b;lame for that performance.

[Steve67]

Our summer business is looking shady.  We have been poor for weeks, lack of pace, lack of creativity.  I wish we'd stop telling the press how good we are, because every time we get a national interview, we fall apart.  Under the radar, back to basics.

[Chip Butty 111]

The worst display in ages, no one looked overly bothered. If I'd paid a lot of money to travel over there I'd be fuming. One of the daftest goals ever conceded to make it worse...

[Meanwood Villa]

I'm going to numb this awful day out with alcohol.

Me too. Fortunately Belgian beer is rocket fuel.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

We play like we're trying to save energy for the next game - every bloody game. We play in slow motion, no urgency until the last few minutes and even then tonight we rarely threaten. Watkins and Bailey are now as dangerous as an empty water pistol. Both a waste of space. Why play Kamara if everybody else is on the back foot?

Rotation is great if nobody notices the changes. However, right now nobody notices the changes because we're shockingly underperforming. That's not supposed to happen, Unai.

[TonyD]

Liverpool will be interesting.
A bounce back.
Or a fisting.