Aston Villa v Palace Post-Match Thread

[aj2k77]

Asensio a big no from me in the Summer. Massive wages.

[Brazilian Villain]

Disappointed. More so for my 87 year old Dad (who couldn't bear to watch the match) than me.

There's still good times ahead, days like this will make them all the sweeter.

[AV82EC]

Martinez 3
Digne 3
Torres 1
Konsa 1
Cash 2
Tielemans 1
Kamara 1
McGinn 6
Asensio 1
Rogers 1
Watkins 2

Barkley 1
Maatsen 1
Ramsey 1
Malen 3
Bailey 5

Bronte could have posted those and I don’t think anyone would disagree. Absolute shocker of a “performance” from the team and Unai and his team.

Oh well…..

[KevinGage]

Until Emery realises that over here we determine that effort, speed, determination are every bit as important than just having skill. While we tap the ball around, passing it from side to side, without making opponents chase about, we will lose to these sides like today who put the effort and determination in. On the two times we have used these efforts in the second half against PSG and against Newcastle we were on top and proved we were the better side.

Palace played like a smart counter punching boxer.  We played like Fraudley Harrison.

[Somniloquism]

His first game back after 14 months. Look at the results in games he’s played since, and count the goals conceded. Compare and contrast.

Hence the rusty comment. And I was also in the Mings to start today camp and been in it all week. I even accepted playing Torres last week being a price to pay to have Mings today.

[BC Villain]

Asensio a big no from me in the Summer. Massive wages.

If we don't make the Champions League he won't be back anyway.  Starting to get vibes of Countinho with him

[Villan82]

Shocking, worst game of the season.
Only McGinn looked up for it.

Struggling to find the words

Worst game in a long, long time.

One of the worst. This is going to haunt me. I don't know where we go after this, properly feels like the end of an era.

[Nev]

It's over for me, you can talk tactics all you you like but to do that to us, on our most important day is unforgivable.

[PaulWinch again]

Unai keeps doing the same thing against Palace and they lap it up. It’s utterly bewildering when someone so obviously brilliant has such a big blind spot.

[PeterWithesShin]

They scored 3, missed a pen, had one wrongly ruled out and missed a couple of decent chances. We had a few half chances. That was an old school drubbing.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Wrong team selection (Mings should have started).
That is down to Unai.
McGinn our best player on the day should not have been subbed.
That too is down to Unai.
We bottled it! The 11 players of Palace wanted it more than ours. The Palace fans appeared to want it more also. Some of our fans no doubt left their voices in the pub...again.
This is the cup I want more than anything else. I'm resigned to it never happening, especially after that fiasco today!

[DB]

Well that was shit.
All were awful. Too slow, played into Palaces hands and just so sloppy. One of the worst performances of the season.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

They beat us with the exact same tactics employed in 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. 

Maybe Unai thought it worked so well against Man City on Tuesday night. Let's face it, the Newcastle game was pretty much a one-off this season. It was that type of approach I was hoping for today. Instead we got once again shot ourselves in the foot. It was pathetic from start to finish.

[Somniloquism]

Asensio a big no from me in the Summer. Massive wages.

If we don't make the Champions League he won't be back anyway.  Starting to get vibes of Countinho with him

I don;t think Coutinho, more that we are not playing with good balls into the box to capitalise on the late runs or against teams that crowd all our midfield out. Some of out slightly decent play came through him. Rogers was a damn site worse today.

[Mellin]

For some reason, I did not get worked up before the game.
Sat shaking my head as to how dreadful we were and how they did to us  what they have done before this season, press, bully and defend in numbers
Not a single player can leave with his head up
Our so called depth was as deep as a puddle

Same. Devastated after PSG. Angry after Man City. Numb today and was from the first minute.

Second I saw the line-up I knew. Judging by the comments at the start of the match thread, so did a fair few others. We could've put a team out to beat them today.