Aston Villa v Palace Post-Match Thread

[Somniloquism]

This is why we shouldn't be all "lets buy Sarr". (unless it is just to stop him doing us).

In his six career starts against Villa, Ismaila Sarr has either scored (seven goals) or assisted (two goals) in each one. :'(

[aj2k77]

We've been in 2 semi finals now, against Olympiakos and Crystal Palace and lost 9-2. That's really shit. We've looked really ragged and wild in both of those ties.

[brontebilly]

That defence can go fuck itself. Every time we play it we conceded a fucking raft of goals.

I think the only way we can play Torres would be in a 3….hes just not a great defender and that’s his bloody position!!!

His distribution was atrocious too. Twice near end when we were getting a bit of pressure on he put it out of play. Unfathomable decision really to start Torres over Mings today of all days.

[puppyfeat]

All awful, except SJM, Bailey and (first half) Ollie. I understand the 'Konsa likes playing with Mings" stat, but he was awful.

They must love playing us. I hope they get absolutely ruined in the final.

Really? I don’t like Palace but I’d rather they win it than Forest or City - and if they play like they did today they’ll deserve it.

[Ger Regan]

I paid 38 quid to watch that utter toss on the plane back from tokyo. That's our season finished I'm afraid, we're going to fade away, which is what we deserve, there have been far too many similar performances this season, even accounting for injuries

[Somniloquism]

Last season we were on fumes at the end with the injuries and the amount of matches, so not going to use last seasons one to knock him. But this season that excuse doesn't fly with the players he had available. He has run Tielemans and Rogers into the ground though. All he had to do to gee the players up for this was to start Mings and show them we haven't won it since 57 which is atrocious for this club.

[Le Lapin]

The thing is, this was their day....they will probably play like us today in the final.

[brontebilly]

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.

Go to bed Perry.

[PeterWithesShin]

The thing is, this was their day....they will probably play like us today in the final.

Like the Liverpool semi for us.

[PaulWinch again]

That defence can go fuck itself. Every time we play it we conceded a fucking raft of goals.

I think the only way we can play Torres would be in a 3….hes just not a great defender and that’s his bloody position!!!

His distribution was atrocious too. Twice near end when we were getting a bit of pressure on he put it out of play. Unfathomable decision really to start Torres over Mings today of all days.

Yes and they might be a fair shout, and suggest Pau isn’t in form. That’s fair enough and Mings should have started, but this weird vitriolic narrative towards Pau suggesting he’s a terrible player, hasn’t done anything, is just odd.

[dave.woodhall]

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.

Go to bed Perry.

Behave.

[KevinGage]

We've been in 2 semi finals now, against Olympiakos and Crystal Palace and lost 9-2. That's really shit. We've looked really ragged and wild in both of those ties.

Indeed.

No guarantee we'd have seen off Fiorentina in the final.

But we shouldn't have been losing 6-2 to a side as average as that over two legs.

Win that last year and it would've got the monkey off our back. Might have helped us this year n'all.

[SoccerHQ]

We've been in 2 semi finals now, against Olympiakos and Crystal Palace and lost 9-2. That's really shit. We've looked really ragged and wild in both of those ties.

I think the Olympiakos one can be passed as CL was clearly the priority last season and we also had loads of injuries and looked completely done at that stage of the season.

No such excuses this time with the form and bar Rashford all our squad was fully fit for this. Just baffling team selection and in form players not even put on as the first subs again.

[PeterWithesShin]

You can argue with Torres that when he's on form he adds more to our overall play than we lose defensively. When he's not on form then you just lose out defensively.

[Mellin]

Martinez

Cash
Konsa
Mings
Maatsen

Kamara
Onana

Malen
McGinn
Ramsey

Watkins

I wanted to see something like that today. Solid at the back and take out your players running on fumes. Bailey in for Malen maybe, but only after seeing how well he did today, so probably not fair to call that in hindsight.