Quote from: taylorsworkrate on February 01, 2025, 08:05:55 PMQuote from: brontebilly on February 01, 2025, 07:56:03 PMOk second half I guess after a frankly disgusting performance in the first half. 4 subs tells its own story. We can all quibble with the odd selection decision or sub but:- without Cash we went through three different right backs today- our best midfielder was at LCB and had a nightmare- Tielemans a 10, playing at 6 again where he's a liability- Watkins limping off unsurprisingly after 9 games in last month, no striker in reserve to come on- likes of Rogers and Tielemans clearly fatiguedMonchi has not given Emery much of a chance here. I couldn't stand Carlos but playing 2 x PL games and1 x CL game with one fit centre back is ridiculous. Martinez 6 - beaten too easily for the goal but stopped first half being a routGarcia 3 - crazy decision to start him in that back 4, lost Konsa 2 - I'm not sure what has happened to turn him into one of the most dislikeable Villa players I can remember. A responsibility dodging pr*ck today starting with the first ball that came his wayKamara 3 - nightmare first half exposed him out of position. At fault badly for first and nearly anotherDigne 5 - far from the worst but Bellegarde caused a lot of problemsBogarde 5 - utterly lost in first half but reasonable defensive shift in second at RBTielemans 5 - tidy with ball usually but a liability without it in that position.McGinn 6 - at least played like it was a derby, getting stuck in but not much quality where it matteredRogers 4 - fatigue obviously and issue at this stage but ball retention was really weak today. Didn't seem up for the physical duelsRamsey 1 - awful in just about everything he did. First touch needs huge work. Attitude all wrong. Watkins 4 - struggling anyway with his hold up play and limping clearly for 5-10 mins before half timeMaatsen was decent enough I thought, Bailey started well, got kicked a few times and hid then, Onana is a dud, Malen isn't a 9 but few times he spun to left he looked decent. Ned was ok in likely his last appearance for us. Some poor marks there, but I still think you've been generous to a number of our playersWhich ones! Just with derby games and Wolves fighting relegation we should be expecting a very physical battle first 20-30 mins. Match them for intensity and our quality will tell. Our experienced players started like they were still hungover from making heavy weather of beating an awful Celtic team earlier in the week. Unacceptable not being up for the battle.
Quote from: brontebilly on February 01, 2025, 07:56:03 PMOk second half I guess after a frankly disgusting performance in the first half. 4 subs tells its own story. We can all quibble with the odd selection decision or sub but:- without Cash we went through three different right backs today- our best midfielder was at LCB and had a nightmare- Tielemans a 10, playing at 6 again where he's a liability- Watkins limping off unsurprisingly after 9 games in last month, no striker in reserve to come on- likes of Rogers and Tielemans clearly fatiguedMonchi has not given Emery much of a chance here. I couldn't stand Carlos but playing 2 x PL games and1 x CL game with one fit centre back is ridiculous. Martinez 6 - beaten too easily for the goal but stopped first half being a routGarcia 3 - crazy decision to start him in that back 4, lost Konsa 2 - I'm not sure what has happened to turn him into one of the most dislikeable Villa players I can remember. A responsibility dodging pr*ck today starting with the first ball that came his wayKamara 3 - nightmare first half exposed him out of position. At fault badly for first and nearly anotherDigne 5 - far from the worst but Bellegarde caused a lot of problemsBogarde 5 - utterly lost in first half but reasonable defensive shift in second at RBTielemans 5 - tidy with ball usually but a liability without it in that position.McGinn 6 - at least played like it was a derby, getting stuck in but not much quality where it matteredRogers 4 - fatigue obviously and issue at this stage but ball retention was really weak today. Didn't seem up for the physical duelsRamsey 1 - awful in just about everything he did. First touch needs huge work. Attitude all wrong. Watkins 4 - struggling anyway with his hold up play and limping clearly for 5-10 mins before half timeMaatsen was decent enough I thought, Bailey started well, got kicked a few times and hid then, Onana is a dud, Malen isn't a 9 but few times he spun to left he looked decent. Ned was ok in likely his last appearance for us. Some poor marks there, but I still think you've been generous to a number of our players
Ok second half I guess after a frankly disgusting performance in the first half. 4 subs tells its own story. We can all quibble with the odd selection decision or sub but:- without Cash we went through three different right backs today- our best midfielder was at LCB and had a nightmare- Tielemans a 10, playing at 6 again where he's a liability- Watkins limping off unsurprisingly after 9 games in last month, no striker in reserve to come on- likes of Rogers and Tielemans clearly fatiguedMonchi has not given Emery much of a chance here. I couldn't stand Carlos but playing 2 x PL games and1 x CL game with one fit centre back is ridiculous. Martinez 6 - beaten too easily for the goal but stopped first half being a routGarcia 3 - crazy decision to start him in that back 4, lost Konsa 2 - I'm not sure what has happened to turn him into one of the most dislikeable Villa players I can remember. A responsibility dodging pr*ck today starting with the first ball that came his wayKamara 3 - nightmare first half exposed him out of position. At fault badly for first and nearly anotherDigne 5 - far from the worst but Bellegarde caused a lot of problemsBogarde 5 - utterly lost in first half but reasonable defensive shift in second at RBTielemans 5 - tidy with ball usually but a liability without it in that position.McGinn 6 - at least played like it was a derby, getting stuck in but not much quality where it matteredRogers 4 - fatigue obviously and issue at this stage but ball retention was really weak today. Didn't seem up for the physical duelsRamsey 1 - awful in just about everything he did. First touch needs huge work. Attitude all wrong. Watkins 4 - struggling anyway with his hold up play and limping clearly for 5-10 mins before half timeMaatsen was decent enough I thought, Bailey started well, got kicked a few times and hid then, Onana is a dud, Malen isn't a 9 but few times he spun to left he looked decent. Ned was ok in likely his last appearance for us.
As bad as it gets and a perfect example of what happens when yet another transfer window is completely mismanaged, we played a second half without a recognized striker, some would say the whole game, if that wasn't a classic for bringing Duran on and him scoring I don't know what is.You can't stop a player leaving but surely in the crazy state we are in we could have had some condition that allowed us to keep him until the end of the season, its very simple now, before this window closes we need to see 4 or 5 players in (obvious positions)The other point to this, Emry said a few days ago that you can let a player go if its good for the player, good for the team and good for the club, well this certainly wasn't good for the team today and its a disaster for the club.If you can get beat by Wolves we can get beat by anybody in the Premiership when the fizzy pop goes out the CL and we are looking at the reality of this season in the cold light of morning, the chickens are going to come home to roostQuote from: shipscat on February 01, 2025, 08:04:33 PMYou can have a checklist of nearly every away performance this season... the home team work hard, shut off the avenues and impose their gameplan on us...go one down to the first shot they have and then we look increasingly more inept.. halftime...a bit of juggling, better performance without barely laying a glove on them. Rinse and repeat. We're gonna finish about 9th/10th like this..We need something different for a lot of these aways...the controlling , measured approach has been counteracted by a lot of opposition now..Again, hardly any of the front 5 held it up or did anything meaningful... fatigue is a factor. I'd rather we had changed it and had Ramsey, Rogers to come on after their efforts midweek...Felt for Garcia and he probably would have benefited from coming off the bench too..all hindsight but think we all knew this would be a tight game with the Dog heads pressing us, especially in the first half as every ferker seems to do. agree with everything you say
You can have a checklist of nearly every away performance this season... the home team work hard, shut off the avenues and impose their gameplan on us...go one down to the first shot they have and then we look increasingly more inept.. halftime...a bit of juggling, better performance without barely laying a glove on them. Rinse and repeat. We're gonna finish about 9th/10th like this..We need something different for a lot of these aways...the controlling , measured approach has been counteracted by a lot of opposition now..Again, hardly any of the front 5 held it up or did anything meaningful... fatigue is a factor. I'd rather we had changed it and had Ramsey, Rogers to come on after their efforts midweek...Felt for Garcia and he probably would have benefited from coming off the bench too..all hindsight but think we all knew this would be a tight game with the Dog heads pressing us, especially in the first half as every ferker seems to do.
What a load of shit that was. Special mention for Bailey, I’m not sure how much more I can take at this point. If I have to watch anymore of him slipping over constantly, going down injured under the slightest contact or trying a ridiculous trick when there is a simple pass available I’m going to end up putting my foot through the TV.
Quote from: colin69 on February 01, 2025, 07:32:16 PMWow, how shit was that.Sold far too many players, threadbare at the moment.I’m sorry but I really don’t think Emery is all that!!Wow that last bit is up there with the biggest load of bollocks ever said on this site.Really?Have you read some of the shite posted on here?Please tell me who is to blame for endless poor performances!
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