Aston Villa v Newcastle Post-Match Thread

[PeterWithesShin]

As poor as we may think we were we'd be livid if we'd done as little as Newcastle did against 10 men.

[Olneythelonely]

Watkins was especially shit.

Of course he was

[PaulWinch again]

Blaming Cash for the red card is peak confirmation bias as well. It was a misplaced pass into the box - although why no one was there I’m not sure. There was so much to happen after that and Konsa got it horronly wrong. He let Gordon run off him and then put his hand on his shoulder, it was an inevitable red.

[paul_e]

I think we were poor for the first 20 but then there wasn't much between the teams for the rest of it, even after the red card. No one played particularly well (keeper aside) but the only truly poor performances were McGinn and Rogers, who were both too narrow and struggled to retain possession, which was why we weren't creating anything.

[PaulWinch again]

I said before the game I thought the set up was wrong - setting up to battle Newcastle in midfield is daft. It is really apparent we need a centre-half, a winger, and Asensio in. We were so plodding and lacking in invention.

At least we didn’t lose.

[Somniloquism]

Watkins was especially shit.

Of course he was

I was about to point out that what support did the front line actually have, then realised it was smirker who would be moaning about the chances Watkins missed even if he scored a brace.

[CT Villan]

Better in the 2nd half. Konsa was poor for the red. Bizot our best by a country mile. Cash gets a special mention for his 2nd half defending too.

[steamer]

I hope we have a plan B with our tactics as it all seemed a bit aimless

[Somniloquism]

Blaming Cash for the red card is peak confirmation bias as well. It was a misplaced pass into the box - although why no one was there I’m not sure. There was so much to happen after that and Konsa got it horronly wrong. He let Gordon run off him and then put his hand on his shoulder, it was an inevitable red.

Especially as it wasn't the only misplaced pass from the team.

[Brazilian Villain]

A point more than we deserved, that'll do in the circumstances.

[JUAN PABLO]

Blaming Cash for the red card is peak confirmation bias as well. It was a misplaced pass into the box - although why no one was there I’m not sure. There was so much to happen after that and Konsa got it horronly wrong. He let Gordon run off him and then put his hand on his shoulder, it was an inevitable red.

both to blame for me .

did cash actually look up , we was just starting to get on top too I thought.

anyway Bizot MOM and Kamara did ok dropping into the back 4 so he gets a tick too .

But we was really under par and couldnt even pass the ball and roger needs to stop falling over on his runs.

New signings please .

[OzVilla]

Cash’s inch perfect ball in for Elanga basically took every Villa player out of the game. The only decent thing Elanga did all game was play the fairly simple ball through for Gordon to run on to.

I like Cash but he dropped us in it there. We got away with it though.

[ExclDawg]

Are we allowed to criticize Emery here?  I'm not sure he got the game plan right here as we struggled to make anything happen.  He subbed in an attacker after we went to 10 men, and honestly we looked more threatening than we did the whole game before that.  Then he never made another sub in a game where we were trying to kill off time.

[Somniloquism]

New signings please .

They would be left on the bench like Guessand anyway.

[DB]

1st games are often not an indicator for the rest of the season.