Wolves vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[taylorsworkrate]

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.

Some poor marks there, but I still think you've been generous to a number of our players

[dorsetvillian]

Yes it definitely was a foul on Rogers before the second goal. Still Konsa needed to do so much better..

[Gareth]

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

We were poor but we weren’t 3 down at half time because their chances weren’t taken which happens….the officials made a dreadful decision that they had no right to get wrong…would have made a completely different game for last half hour

[itbrvilla]

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.

were not controlling anything until we're already a goal behind most of the time.

[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.

Some poor marks there, but I still think you've been generous to a number of our players

Which 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.

[Small Rodent]

Bad as we were, we probably would have won had our perfectly legal goal been allowed.

This I agree with.

I thought our forward play second half was rather silky.

[kippaxvilla2]

In the summer there needs to be another big clear out for those championship players that don’t have the mentality to cope with elite football two to three times a week.  Konsa McGinn Bailey all need to be replaced.  That’s for a start off.

[Bobby Boy]

When your own people sabotage the team then you are going to struggle.

A shocking indictment of Monchi was shown under the Molineux lights tonight.

Two days of the transfer window left with opposition clubs knowing we are desperate so can inflate transfer fees accordingly.

Utterly ridiculous, self-inflicted wounds.

[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

We were poor but we weren’t 3 down at half time because their chances weren’t taken which happens….the officials made a dreadful decision that they had no right to get wrong…would have made a completely different game for last half hour

Yeah i know what your saying Gareth it could have changed it but i still think we probably  would have lost.  We were so bad in that first half. Honestly. 2nd we improved abit but still didnt do enough. I think sa made what one save?

Even after the disallowed  goals there was zero urgency  to score.  We are passing balls sude to side, then back 50 times without getting anywhere thwir box. Then when it does eventually come in its either miles wide or a comfortable keeper catch. Its unbelievable.

You expect to struggle to  create chances against thw better sides but ita fucking  wolves! Onw of the shittest teams in the league. Not acceptable to lose 2-0 in any capacity

[Small Rodent]

When your own people sabotage the team then you are going to struggle.

A shocking indictment of Monchi was shown under the Molineux lights tonight.

Two days of the transfer window left with opposition clubs knowing we are desperate so can inflate transfer fees accordingly.

Utterly ridiculous, self-inflicted wounds.

Bobby boy bollocks

[jon collett]

When your own people sabotage the team then you are going to struggle.

A shocking indictment of Monchi was shown under the Molineux lights tonight.

Two days of the transfer window left with opposition clubs knowing we are desperate so can inflate transfer fees accordingly.

Utterly ridiculous, self-inflicted wounds.

And him doing self promoting interviews advertising it makes it even worse. How on earth did he have enough time to sit in the stands this evening? Surely someone appraises his work?

[Villan82]

When your own people sabotage the team then you are going to struggle.

A shocking indictment of Monchi was shown under the Molineux lights tonight.

Two days of the transfer window left with opposition clubs knowing we are desperate so can inflate transfer fees accordingly.

Utterly ridiculous, self-inflicted wounds.

Can't disagree. This is the angriest I have been in two and a half years.

[astonvilla82]

Hopefully wolves will moan about the VAR decision

[taylorsworkrate]

We sort of deserve Watkins to be injured the way we've gone about thie window

[Demitri_C]

When your own people sabotage the team then you are going to struggle.

A shocking indictment of Monchi was shown under the Molineux lights tonight.

Two days of the transfer window left with opposition clubs knowing we are desperate so can inflate transfer fees accordingly.

Utterly ridiculous, self-inflicted wounds.

Can't disagree. This is the angriest I have been in two and a half years.

Its horrible feeling mate. Sad thing is this could have e been avoided