Aston Villa v Palace Post-Match Thread

[Steve67]

I'd have played both Mings and Onana for their height as much as anything. Plenty of the Villa players underperformed but the subs were also poor and it's about time Emery realised that Torres and Konsa does not work.  Another wasted chance at a cup win, another goal conceded with their first effort on goal, another 90 minute plus goal, another 3 goals game conceded.  Not sure if 7th wins us Conference League football with the Barcodes likely to get Champs League and winning the League Cup.  Doesn't winning the FA Cup get a Europa place? 

I have to say, I am a tad angry but not in the least bit surprised by today as we are Villa, always the bridesmaid thanks to some players who need shifting.

[Goldenballs]

Sure it's been done to death, but do the stats back up that Pau is a wet fart and we shit the bed with him in defence?

[LukeJames]

We'll never have a better opportunity than last season to win a European Cup, We'll probably not have a better opportunity than this season to win the FA Cup and for some unfathomable reason we seem to think the League Cup is below us.

[Percy McCarthy]

Aaaand that's why so many of us shat ourselves once we were drawn against them. They just have our number at the moment and we have just massively dropped last 2 games. I still don't like Rogers on the right, plus he's very clearly shattered. Really strange blind spot.

The maddest blind spot of all is that he keeps picking our worst defence, which anyone vaguely literate and numerate (no offence bronte) can work out from looking at a match programme.

[russon]

That's our worst performance there for me. Again we made Palace look incredible and got a fucking beating off of a mid table team.

A bad bad week from Emery too. You have to win these big games, not hope the opposition lose them. Really poor all round today. I'm getting pissed.

21 years since I last had a drink but I daren’t leave my flat tonight or it could be life changing. Arse biscuits.

[The Edge]

The signal moment there was for the third goal. Youri stood still with the ball, the Palace player said thanks, I'll have that and it was then only going to finish one way

That was a tactic from the off. They literally didn't allow our players to turn. Wharton must've picked Tielemans pocket 10 times during that game. They swarmed our midfield and packed the defence wherever we got forward. Basic stuff but totally effective and they knew it.

[Louzie0]

A scratch team from Ward End Park would have beaten us today.

As for our team,
I wouldn’t pay them in washers.

[Steve67]

Pau Torres is the Robin Olsen of defenders.

[Skerra]

Just glad it was only 0-3. Could have been 6 easily.

[Cropley10]

Play was soo slow again and we played right into their hands by messing about, losing possession and off they go on the attack . We were lucky it was only 3-0. The players just didn’t want it enough, god knows why!

[Mellin]

Mings might have made a difference, but this wasn’t just a defence thing. We produced barely anything and looked like we had no plan. The defence was bad, but so was the whole rest of the team.

At least we had sterile possession until Konsa and Torres both shat themselves, within two minutes of each other, under the first bit of pressure either faced all game. I am so fed up with it.

[Somniloquism]

Aaaand that's why so many of us shat ourselves once we were drawn against them. They just have our number at the moment and we have just massively dropped last 2 games. I still don't like Rogers on the right, plus he's very clearly shattered. Really strange blind spot.

The maddest blind spot of all is that he keeps picking our worst defence, which anyone vaguely literate and numerate (no offence bronte) can work out from looking at a match programme.

Mings was playing in the EFL game, albeit he had just come back so was probably rusty. Neither played at their place but then like today, that applied to the whole team. But yes, as soon as Mings, who you know would drive the club / players in this type of game wasn't picked, the fans would be nervous, and so would the team.

[edgysatsuma89]

Aaaand that's why so many of us shat ourselves once we were drawn against them. They just have our number at the moment and we have just massively dropped last 2 games. I still don't like Rogers on the right, plus he's very clearly shattered. Really strange blind spot.

The maddest blind spot of all is that he keeps picking our worst defence, which anyone vaguely literate and numerate (no offence bronte) can work out from looking at a match programme.

Torres's passing was shite today, and if you're not even getting that benefit, then there really is no point.

[Billy Walker]

They beat us with the exact same tactics they employed in all our recent meetings...Unai is the man, as far as I am concerned, BUT I'd love to know why we simply played the same old way against them again?  Like Forest, they are physical, they sit back and counter, we all know this...why play into this kind of team's hands like that?  It's all incredibly frustrating, but fair play to Palace. 

Once the dust settles, this game will hopefully turn out to be another staging post on our evolutionary journey to the top.  UTV.

[RichardBatchelor]

He’s had an iffy season, but only Leon Bailey comes out of that with any credit.

I am 58 years old with a life expectancy of early 80s. We will never win the FA Cup in my son’s lifetime probably.

Bloody disgrace. And Glasner is not a good manager because he can only motivate his team for selected games. They are very, very good and 11th for them is very poor.