Wolves vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[brontebilly]

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 fatigued

Monchi 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 rout
Garcia 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 way
Kamara 3 - nightmare first half exposed him out of position. At fault badly for first and nearly another
Digne 5 - far from the worst but Bellegarde caused a lot of problems
Bogarde 5 - utterly lost in first half but reasonable defensive shift in second at RB
Tielemans 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 mattered
Rogers 4 - fatigue obviously and issue at this stage but ball retention was really weak today. Didn't seem up for the physical duels
Ramsey 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 time

Maatsen 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.

[Jon Crofts]

The number of times we were muscled off the ball by them with the ease that an adult takes a lollipop off a toddler. Pathetic.

[Gareth]

Officials wrecked the game with that disallowed goal…disgusting decision

[Demitri_C]

Officials wrecked the game with that disallowed goal…disgusting decision

It was horrible i agree but we should ahve been 3 down at half time. The performance  was not acceptable

[itbrvilla]

Officials wrecked the game with that disallowed goal…disgusting decision

We wrecked the game by being shit. Should have already been dead and burrows by then.

[wolfman999]

And the whole post-Champions League not winning a game, is an insult to the fans. It smacks of a lack of any desire from the players to knuckle down to the bread-and-butter.

And all we ever hear is that players are desperate to play in the Champions League. After  every game mid week, it's followed by a similar half-arsed performance like tonight. Well paid  professional athletes should be able to cope with games three days apart, especially against one of the worst teams in the league who are coming off a terrible run of results.

[Paul.S]

No need to panic. A week off now, we’ll improve and get players back and add to the squad.
Poor today and robbed by another pathetic decision by what are the worst set of officials in European football.
We have a great coach who will lead us to success. It’s not easy and we are battling against financial restrictions that are there to keep the few happy.

UTFV

[Nev]

That's VAR for you. There is no way on God's earth that it would be ruled out in a game where the officials come any sort of scrutiny.

[PaulWinch again]

We played one of the poorest teams in the league and they won pretty comfortably. Unacceptable.

Disagree, we had them penned-in for most of the second half, 90% possession at one point. Only the good sides are able to recycle the ball for long periods of time. And it was a local derby where form/quality often goes out the window.

They were more up for it physically and emotionally and they'd had four extra days to prepare for it. We weren't great but I think we deserved a draw.

Was that 90% period when we mustered 1 shot?

[Chip Butty 111]

Conceded with their first shot, Kamara had a mare 1st half at CB..shouldn't be playing there clearly, and as a result we were losing the midfield,  the Ref was crap, Ollie took a full elbow to the face and a horrible knee to the back, both in the box..came off injured..good goal ruled out, lino couldn't keep his flag down, we outplayed them 2nd half and got done with a soft goal after Rogers was fouled..but we were crap in reality..

[taylorsworkrate]

Our disallowed goal was a joke I 100% agree with anyone making that point.

At the same time I also think the general performance and effort levels were pathetic.

[shipscat]

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.

[BoVillan esq]

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 roost.

[Clampy]

First half, rubbish. Second half, better and who knows what would have happened had that goal stood? I wasn't feeling that confident really for some reason anyway. They were never better than us, that's the sad thing.

[VillaTim]

Goal 1 , what is Kamara doing , then Martinez what is he doing .
Goal 2 , what is Konsa doing , and yet again Martinez beaten by a low cross shot .
Overall that was a rancid performance, which we all predicted anyway . Sad .