Aston Villa v Liverpool - Post-Match Thread

[CT Villan]

Not good enough. Once again sub-par performances throughout the team. I didn't agree with the subs either - at the very least Rogers should have been hooked at HT. The ref was a biased twat too, though he didn't lose us the game.

Not sure who you had commentating, but over here it was Peter Drury who is beyond awful - he was calling Kamara Traore and gave us the immortal line,  "Anfield sounds as wonderful as nature intended", wtf does that even mean ? His words paint such evocative pictures, kinda like a Picasso.

[Paul.S]

A decent enough performance but how many defensive mistakes can a team make? It’s getting beyond a joke so I’ve got an idea.
Play your best central defender in central defence. It’s so frustrating at the moment but we’ll improve. I don’t think enough to finish in a CL place but enough for a European place.
When your goal shy up front and a circus act at the back you’ve got issues.

[ChicagoLion]

Thought the game plan worked well. Liverpool created very little. We did well at turning the ball over and last season we would have punished Liverpool. We have lost our cutting edge over the last few weeks. Watkins, Rogers and Bailey below par and thus we are missing those chances. That Rogers miss early in the second half was so crucial. Two shit goals on the break meant it was one of those nights.

How many times has this been the case? Too many, it’s now one of those months.

[brontebilly]

We are a mid-table side now for sure

7th/8th is not mid table.

Bit of arrogance creeping into this site and elsewhere if we're just writing off seasons now when we drop out of top 4.

We will win games playing like this in the next month so have some faith. The less two years have surely earnt that?

If Spurs and Newcastle win their game in hand tomorrow we’ll he 10th. It’s not remotely good enough, we’ve been dire for weeks.

We weren't dire tonight.

Just not good enough when it really mattered.

That's true but we were looking likely to equalise I thought until Carlos intervened. Not decisive in either box tonight but we matched the best team in the division for most of the game. Daft defensive errors and big misses at other end. We looked vulnerable on the counter all night, poor organisation at the set pieces.

Just watching the second...what the hell was Konsa at. Running away from Salah

[Demitri_C]

Improved performance but same story  poor defensive mistakes and not finishing key opportunities that we are later punished  for.

[kippaxvilla2]

This is now officially a crisis.

[john2710]

This is now officially a crisis.

It's not great, but it's not a crisis.

[LeonW]

* Missed chances
* Can’t defend
* Gift goals in new ways
* Bailey poor
* Nothing from the officials at Anfield
* Ramsey off injured
* Customary Carlos f*ck up

Story checks out

[manic-road]

This is now officially a crisis.

No it's not.

[PaulWinch again]

No it’s not.

We played much much better tonight. We’re still conceding daft goals and not being clinical enough, but it was a much better level of play. Pau, JJ before he got injured, and Digne were all excellent tonight.

[Demitri_C]

Improved performance but same story missed opportunities and poor defensive mistakes cost us again.

One win in 7 is not good and that palace game now is huge.

[Stu]

Better performance though. Defence needs sorting, doesn’t look like we’ll be troubling CL again next season though

[PaulWinch again]

* Missed chances
* Can’t defend
* Gift goals in new ways
* Bailey poor
* Nothing from the officials at Anfield
* Ramsey off injured
* Customary Carlos f*ck up

Story checks out

Story might, but the level of performance was completely different.

[Rigadon]

****** referee.

[Stu82]

No where near a crisis, Unai will get us back on track.