Bruges v Aston Villa PMT.

[Bobby Boy]

What is going on? You can lose a game of football any time but we have lost any semblance of drive or intensity or passion.

We seem to want to slow every game down so that it feels as though we are playing in slow motion. Not just tonight but for weeks now.

Constant rotation so there's no connection or understanding between the players.

Play your best team Emery then play them again. Let's get some momentum.

[pauliewalnuts]

Liverpool are gonna fuck us up on Saturday night!

I won't be watching that, won't be able to, and am frankly glad.

[Sexual Ealing]

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

None of them were the best version of themselves.

[PhilVill]

No tempo, no passion, no common sense. Mings still has the ability to fuck it up sparodically, Tileman's was dog shit, McGinn and Watkins look well off it. Well Mr Emery. You've had shitloads of goodwill for two years, now it's time to show some mettle. Kamara looked very good, Maatson and Emi were also OK. The rest can fuck off as that was unacceptable.

[TonyD]

It’s like all the basics went down the shitter. 

[PaulTheVillan]

Something seems off

[Percy McCarthy]

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

None of them were the best version of themselves.

We needed a moment of magic. Bring Phil back.

[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

[andyh]

I don’t know what has happened.
We have suddenly gone from a team that plays with pomp and confidence, to one that looks, ponderous, nervous and devoid of confidence.

If you didn’t know better, you would think we were a team in the middle of a relegation battle.

Ollie looks like he is battling demons.
Torres, who is unquestionable for some reason, is a liability who gives the ball away too much.
McGinn is caught in possession to often.
Our full backs are not allowed (?) to bomb on, but have to turn inside, constantly.
A super sub, who is just that. A super sub. Nowhere near good enough to start , yet the media screams out for him.
And Bailey has decided to be the shit Bailey that we saw in season 1.

Someone said on the match thread that we look like we believe our own hype.
I tend to agree, we seem to have forgotten that you need to run, tackle move and work.

Slow, backwards and sideways works sometimes.
But we have to mix it up.

[jon collett]

When you try and play slow paced to control the game it's very hard to suddenly slam through the gears and batter a side when it doesn't work and you go behind. And it's not something Unai seems keen on us doing.

We look shitter and slower with a full squad than we have at times when we barely had a bench.

The strange thing about that is there were games we started and played at a big pace not so long ago and thrashed the opposition. They couldn’t live with us.

It definitely seems to be a deliberate tactic as I saw Mings and Konda telling the others to slow it down.

[PaulWinch again]

When you try and play slow paced to control the game it's very hard to suddenly slam through the gears and batter a side when it doesn't work and you go behind. And it's not something Unai seems keen on us doing.

We look shitter and slower with a full squad than we have at times when we barely had a bench.

But we’re too imprecise to get control too.

[cdbearsfan]

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.

[TonyD]

Yep. I saw Konsa do it several times

[JUAN PABLO]

Maatsen 6
Everyone else 2

thought kamara was 7

[DB]

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

Kamara is back and was our best player, we have the players.  It has been poor. But Buendia is not the answer from the bench.