Aston Villa v Liverpool - Post-Match Thread

[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

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

And yet…outcome the same.

[Demitri_C]

Don't understand how pau doesnt get a penalty foe a shirt tug then he books kamara for exactly the same thing.

Its pathetic

[VillaBoy_23]

That’s our season finished. Utter garbage. Slow, ponderous, kept giving the ball away, terrible set pieces, players then out of position and we make the same mistakes over and over and over again. And to top it off we threw away our only realistic chance at a trophy this season. Watkins, Rogers, Bailey, Philogene and McGinn completely ineffective. The one time we have momentum in the first half we drop off ten yards and let them have the ball uncontested. The honeymoon period is well and truly over.

[Steve67]

I'd still rather be where we are than Wolves.  Not a crisis, but a wobble and I am looking forward to seeing how Unai manages it.

[Chris_Jephcott]

We are too wasteful.

Too many missed chances which are costing us.

Watkins has his hot spots and the “not so hot” spots. He’s been subdued all season, despite scoring a few goals, he’s missing many many more than he should be.

Rogers is brilliant - but finishing isn’t his strength at the moment.

Bailey is struggling.

Our entire attack is ineffective at the moment. It’s costing us. We equalise today and we win. But we offer as much going forward as a fart against thunder presently.

[Bobby Boy]

Not a bad performance but similar recent frailties of poor finishing and individual errors again leading to goals against us.

Emery needs to have a proper rethink over the next 2 weeks and hopefully we can see the benefits against Palace next time out. Losing that doesn't bear thinking about...

[Virgil Caine]

Much better performance and will prove to be the end of the bad form blip. Still think some our tackling is half hearted.

[SoccerHQ]

I thought we'd get trounced tonight so the performance pleased me. We were more than competitive and were still pushing Liverpool close in the last ten minutes.

This is more like the standard we had for 3/4 of last season so we need to replicate it after the break and that will win us games and get us back in the top part of the league.

Our worst player tonight was funnily enough Rogers who barely got a pass right once over the halfway line. Jaden's cameo wasn't great either. Some good performances though, Onana had a good game breaking up play.

We need to build on this and to me that means starting Duran and Maatsen in our next match.

[villa for life]

Don’t know why we didn’t play our best side v palace in the cup. Surely it was worth prioritizing?

[Dave]

Our worst player tonight was funnily enough Rogers who barely got a pass right once over the halfway line.

Not sure it warrants the "funnily enough", that's been the case for the last four matches.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Well if we don't go all in for the FA cup I'll be wracked off

[Baldy]

I thought we played well and showed signs of our form about a year ago.

Not the disaster many of us feared.

[Demitri_C]

Our worst player tonight was funnily enough Rogers who barely got a pass right once over the halfway line.

Not sure it warrants the "funnily enough", that's been the case for the last four matches.

No i think bailey gets that award

[PaulWinch again]

Blimey some people really throw the towel in quick. I’ve been annoyed at recent displays, but that performance was miles better than we’ve seen in the last week. Daft goals to concede yes, but the general level was good. Season over? Fucking hell, get a grip.

[Bobby Boy]

Don’t know why we didn’t play our best side v palace in the cup. Surely it was worth prioritizing?

Not playing our strongest team against Bruges was the one that still rankles. What a wasted opportunity..