Manchester Utd v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Smirker]

Is there any sort of man city points deduction we can pray for?

Well the verdict is due any day. Whether the punishment will be retrospective or not, who knows. It should be.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Just fuck off, Villa. Emi - hope we get some decent money, you temperamental twat.

A rush of blood to the head….for both you and Emi

Oh thanks for that! What did you think was going to happen when Emi did what he did?

In hindsight he should have pulled out of the challenge but it’s a split second decision, I’d still rather have him in nets than anyone else next season.

[Beard82]

I have never been this angry after a game I am fucking fuming.

We shit the bed.
Cash fucks up
Emi loses his mind
We have a completely good goal disallowed
Then normal old Trafford takes over

I think most of all I am angry at that total non performance that’s the third time in the last month that when it matters we just wilt

Bent referees is nothing new so I guess we have to live with it

[Somniloquism]

Exactly, and I can't work out why so many on here are willing to ignore just how bad a decision it is so they can instead blame Emery and the team. We were shit on the day, no one denies that, but plenty of teams have played shit and won a game with a goal against the run of play and that's what should've happened today.

But then you are going into the sliding doors realm. Old Trafford going a goal down after that performance, might have broken them, or they might have ended the match 3-1 winners. Ultimately that decision shouldn't have had any bearing on the game if we didn't start so badly. But we did which lead to Martinez having to bail us out which lead to the rush of blood after and the sending off.

[itbrvilla]

Probably because we allowed the opposition to build confidence and to become emboldened. The they pressed the shit out of us and we made it easy for them. Cash gifted them the win because we invited them on for 40 mins and had no counter. Not won at home since December yet we roll over.

[cdbearsfan]

Turns out GD is worth a point after all.

Well, no. Because if we had got one more point we would have finished fifth.

So worth a point then as we needed 1 more point than the side with a superior GD.

Not sure why your first thought after a typically irritating loss is "I'll try to wind someone up", but I'll leave you to it.

If our gd was better than Newcastle we finish 5th: ergo it's worth a point.

If we had got one more point, who would have finished higher, Villa or Newcastle? Villa. By a point. Because goal difference isn't worth a point. It is worth an indeterminate number between 1/infinity and 1-(1/infinity). But not a point.

Semantic nonsense.

Not really. Can you point me in the direction any league where a team finished with one more point than another team, but the league decided to place them lower because the other team had a better goal difference? No, because goal difference isn't worth a point, is it?

[saint13]

It’s gutting. I hate VAR and would get rid of it entirely. It isn’t doing what it was supposed to do - removing the “howler”.

Good season all round though. We just had too much to do. I am really looking forward to seeing what happens over the sunmer

I agree it has added nothing to the game. It has sucked the joy and spontaneity out of 80% of all goals. There is still loads of unconscious bias in the refereeing, there is simply more time and opportunity to manufacture the outcome they want.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Turns out GD is worth a point after all.

Well, no. Because if we had got one more point we would have finished fifth.

So worth a point then as we needed 1 more point than the side with a superior GD.

Not sure why your first thought after a typically irritating loss is "I'll try to wind someone up", but I'll leave you to it.

If our gd was better than Newcastle we finish 5th: ergo it's worth a point.

If we had got one more point, who would have finished higher, Villa or Newcastle? Villa. By a point. Because goal difference isn't worth a point. It is worth an indeterminate number between 1/infinity and 1-(1/infinity). But not a point.

Alan Turing in the house

[Astnor]

That last minute goal at Man City....

👍

Jacksons red card against Newcastle.

[Rigadon]

Tonight isn’t a night for smarmy know it all ****** or “well DUH” comments.  We’ve missed out here, YET AGAIN
Against these ******,  because of a referee who has failed. 

[TopDeck113]

So disappointing, but ultimately so utterly predictable. 

They say that the final table doesn't lie and whilst today's no-show is so frustrating, we can look at games across the whole season where we dropped points that would have made the annual Old Trafford capitulation irrelevant.

[DB]

That last minute goal at Man City....

It was too many dropped points after CL matches. Drawing twice with Ipswich

[itbrvilla]

Tonight isn’t a night for smarmy know it all ****** or “well DUH” comments.  We’ve missed out here, YET AGAIN
Against these ******,  because of a referee who has failed. 

We were lucky to still be in it by then

[Beard82]

Tonight isn’t a night for smarmy know it all ****** or “well DUH” comments.  We’ve missed out here, YET AGAIN
Against these ******,  because of a referee who has failed.

100% this - that ref should never be allowed to ref a professional game - that wasn’t either gross miscomptance or corruption.  Either way unforgivable

[LukeJames]

One narcissistic twat not doing his job properly is now probably the difference between our whole Summer plans.

More importantly though I don't know how one club can be so mentally against playing in Manchester, and how a brilliant manager is so useless up against a 3-4-3.