Aston Villa Reserves v Forest Post-Match Thread

[eamonn]

We're great, aren't we?

Only for 20 minutes a game. It's usually enough to win but I'm not sure it'll be enough against PSG and some of our other remaining opponents.

[Goldenballs]

Massive result, keeps them in the mix too although they have some decent fixtures.

We've kept ourselves in there for now.

[Brazilian Villain]

My thoughts go out to BC at this difficult time.

When you have a 6-2 win and a 2-1 loss on the same day, you don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[bilsim]

Horrible to watch that second half but substitutes did their job on suring things up. Forest are a tough, horrible side and I lost count of how many times our outball was being manhandled and nothing given.

[Somniloquism]

Outclassed in the second half, we should really have lost that game. Every single restart from Emi seemed to result in the ball coming back at us.

They pressed us too well for us to play out from the back and when we went long, Forest won the 50/50s.

I've dismissed Forest as counter-attacking merchants but they kept us pinned in our third for most of the second half and we kept coughing-up chances. I worry for us in Paris after that, to be honest.

I didn't see it myself. The change to strengthen the right didn't work out until Malen was hooked, and I think Elanga off for Jota took the team some getting used to, but once we made out 60min changes, either team had chances but ours were alot better.

[eamonn]

Outclassed in the second half, we should really have lost that game. Every single restart from Emi seemed to result in the ball coming back at us.

They pressed us too well for us to play out from the back and when we went long, Forest won the 50/50s.

I've dismissed Forest as counter-attacking merchants but they kept us pinned in our third for most of the second half and we kept coughing-up chances. I worry for us in Paris after that, to be honest.

I think should have lost is over stretching it. We let them get on top and they had their chances, but so did we - Rogers and Rashford both should have probably scored.

Our chances were on the break. They kept winning possession from our own restarts. Can't believe how bad we were at retaining possession, swapping Onana for Kamara and Asensio for McGinn didn't make a huge difference.

[Brazilian Villain]

Had to pop out with 15 mins left. Came back fully expecting it to be 2-2 at full-time. Big win.

[PeterWithesShin]

Should have lost? After 17 shots and 8 on target and they had 3 on target?

[Somniloquism]

Should have lost? After 17 shots and 8 on target and they had 3 on target?

And two of them were the tame efforts in the first half.

[rob_bridge]

Good subs today. Other than the HT one.

[CT Villan]

We rode our luck in the second half, but a great win nonetheless.

[eamonn]

Should have lost? After 17 shots and 8 on target and they had 3 on target?

Hitting the bar and a couple of very narrowly wide-efforts from Gibbs-White and Williams which were gilt-edged may not be on-target but they were still damn close.

 They managed to get in behind our defence way too often for comfort. And the recent clean-sheets shouldn't hide that we have a lot to improve in terms of defending as a team.

[Legion]

3 points. Happy with that.

[PeterWithesShin]

So not on target then. If they keep missing they don't deserve to win. Meanwhile their keeper was a contender for their MOTM.

[PaulWinch again]

We should have been better second half, but to say we should have lost is just overdoing it. It doesn’t matter if our chances were on the break, they were still chances that forced saves.