Aston Villa v Liverpool - Post-Match Thread

[Ads]

Nobody should give up on anything. Tight as a nuns chuff this league. We'll be reet.

[VillaTim]

Their best attacks were our corners.
Obviously disappointed by the result but the performance was good .
better days ahead UTFV

[Aldridge Villa]

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.

Bailey struggling understatement of the season. He’s blooming awful.

[Percy McCarthy]

That’s our season finished. Utter garbage.

FFS, man. We're a point off third, albeit with unequal games played, and in the top 8 of the Champions League.

We have a poorer squad than last season, playing worse football and have no money to spend.

How do you know we’ve got no money to spend?

[kippaxvilla2]

If we sell Jaden, Carlos, Buendia, Bailey we will have money to bring in decent replacements. 

[TonyD]

Liverpool scored two on the break.
We were decent. 
Has 3 good chances.
No issues.
It’s a long season. 
The futures bright.
UTV

[TonyD]

We are not far from being the best in the PL.
All is good.
The only team that I reckon can stop us winning the CL is Barcelona.
I predict us v Barcelona in the semis.

[TonyD]

Nobody should give up on anything. Tight as a nuns chuff this league. We'll be reet.

True. 

[eamonn]

So predictable, totally distraught tonight.

Trump?

[PaulWinch again]

Nobody should give up on anything. Tight as a nuns chuff this league. We'll be reet.

Especially after that performance. Clearly we need to tighten up at the back and be more clinical in front of goal, but that performance was a significant step up from the laboured, sluggish displays of the previous week. If we keep up that level and sharpen up a bit we’ll win plenty of games.

[adrenachrome]

Nobody should give up on anything. Tight as a nuns chuff this league. We'll be reet.

Especially after that performance. Clearly we need to tighten up at the back and be more clinical in front of goal, but that performance was a significant step up from the laboured, sluggish displays of the previous week. If we keep up that level and sharpen up a bit we’ll win plenty of games.

That was my take.

We'll be back to our best soon.

[Percy McCarthy]

Oh and Carlos is nowhere near good enough. The guy is a fucking chump. I don’t care if he was great at Arsenal last year or in any single match, he’s a clanger waiting to happen, he can’t be relied upon.

I realise people find it boring pointing this out, but the reason Emery picks the combination of defenders he picked today is because (without Mings obvs) it’s the combination that concedes the fewest goals. Argue against that fact. Nothing to do with a single game against Arsenal. Or Man City. Or Bayern Munich. Or Bologna. Or Arsenal again.

 It’s a bit much accusing someone who might stick up for Carlos of using an unrepresentative and small sample size, when actually, it’s the accuser who’s doing exactly that.

It would be more accurate to say ‘I don’t care if he’s played in over two-thirds of our clean sheets since the beginning of last season’ or ‘I don’t care if we concede more goals when Cash and Konsa play in their traditional positions’.

Truth matters a bit, surely? As does arguing with the points people make instead of making up shit ones because they’re easier to argue against.

[Matt C]

Performance was a step up today, l’ll take that against the current best team in the league. We need a bit of a reset so perhaps, for once, the international break comes at a good time.

[ChicagoLion]

Performance was a step up today, l’ll take that against the current best team in the league. We need a bit of a reset so perhaps, for once, the international break comes at a good time.

We said that at the last international break.

[remy]

Might be by age but there is some real over reactions on here.
‘Season over’ ‘Crisis’ ‘we were awful’
Calm the fuck down. Lost 4 on the spin ok - one of them we threw, one was a single brain fart, one was a 2nd half collapse, one was against the best team in the country and Europe away!
Were we watching the same match? A massive improvement on our play from previous matches overall.
Players intelligent and respectful enough to know they repeated the crap play of previous it’d been a massacre. We weren’t overrun despite pre match predictions and our luck wasn’t with us with the best performer going off, sitter missed and gifted breakaway goals. Not to mention the of-course biased ref.
Emery (right now) is prepping for the Palace game. I think we’ll be fine and bring in a couple of faces in Jan and improve that right hand side.