Bruges v Aston Villa PMT.

[amfy]

I saw a similar mistake as Mings made by a player in another game I watched earlier this season - it was during a game with Wrens Nest Under 8's.

An awful mistake by Mings, he is not at the level we need to compete against Europe's elite.

My grandson is the goalie for Wrens Nest Under 8s!

[eamonn]

I’ve just worked out that the PMT in the title stands for post-mortem.

I was rather puzzled, before that.

Me too, then assumed it was post-match.

[VillaTim]

After a night of reflection on my home end hand sitting, a rather panicked trip back to the airport to catch my flight and a crap nights sleep I’ve come to the conclusion we were shite.

3 defeats in a row and I’ve been to all of them. We’ve got worse in each one as well, which doesn’t make me think a trip to Anfield at the moment is top of anyone’s list of things we’d like to do.

bad enough watching these games on the couch , can't imagine how bad it is in person and the time / money hosed away

[Brend'Watkins]

A few 'morning-after' thoughts:
- Emery needs to review the playing style to be both tighter and more intense - too much pitty-patty stuff that results in nothing.

Just upping the tempo now and then would be a start. We used to be good to watch but now we’ve become so dull.

[ChicagoLion]

We seem to be adopting this slow it down, try and frustrate and grind the opposition down away from home. It has worked to a great extent but I think we have been sussed out.

[Risso]

It's OK to watch when we're winning, when we're not it's absolutely bloody excruciating.

[astonvilla82]

And when one player has the ball, he looks up to see who he can pass too and then he passes it to the player a few feet away (had to get that off my chest)

[Demitri_C]

One player that looks way off the oace is buendia. Man he has looked bad most games

Think we should have loaned him out to rebuild his fitness because he is offering nothing at the moment

[VillaTim]

One player that looks way off the oace is buendia. Man he has looked bad most games

Think we should have loaned him out to rebuild his fitness because he is offering nothing at the moment

harsh to single him out when there are so many simply not doing it, Bailey 2.0 is a liability, Maatsen looks like £35M wasted when we had Moreno, McGinn miles off it all season, Watkins missing great chances week after week, Rogers now miles off it , Torres a shadow of a defender

[Demitri_C]

One player that looks way off the oace is buendia. Man he has looked bad most games

Think we should have loaned him out to rebuild his fitness because he is offering nothing at the moment

harsh to single him out when there are so many simply not doing it, Bailey 2.0 is a liability, Maatsen looks like £35M wasted when we had Moreno, McGinn miles off it all season, Watkins missing great chances week after week, Rogers now miles off it , Torres a shadow of a defender

Not just yesterday tim. I think buendia has looked off the pace every time called upon so far. He looks really weak and slow. Loses the ball far too much

[Louzie0]

I’ve just worked out that the PMT in the title stands for post-mortem.

I was rather puzzled, before that.

Me too, then assumed it was post-match.

Oh, of course! 

[Ads]

We've not been sussed out. We keep gifting the simplest of opportunities to the opposition. Last night, Spurs, Palace. If you're easy to score against, you will lose.

[VillaTim]

We seem to be adopting this slow it down, try and frustrate and grind the opposition down away from home. It has worked to a great extent but I think we have been sussed out.

I think you're right, the main weapon lately has been give it to Rogers and let him turn and run. Teams have sussed this out and are taking Rogers out of games

[Rico]

If it had been the other way around, and a Bruge player had committed exactly the same offence that Mings did, I'm not sure what my reaction to the penalty would have been. It's not cheating, but it still feels wrong to take advantage of something that was quite clearly a mistake. The Bruge fans celebrated like they had actually won the Champions League, but to me it left a very bitter taste.

[Risso]

It doesn't matter what we feel about it, the ball was in play, and Mings bent down and picked it up. The fact that Arsenal got away with a similar passage of play is neither here nor there. The referee in that game made a mistake, and I'm sure he was marked down because of it and probably told not to do it again.