Aston Villa v Newcastle Post-Match Thread

[Somniloquism]

Hard to drop Bizot after today and hope he gets to continue.

Very easy to drop him. He was better then Olsen but his saves would have also been expected from Emi. He did anticpate well but distribution-wise, was part of the problem getting forward.

[Smirker]

Watkins was especially shit.

Of course he was

Other than get caught offside, lose the ball and have one shot straight at the keeper what did he do?

A lot more than Rogers

Rogers had a few dangerous runs and was fouled.

Rogers was also not far off Ollie's goal return last season btw. Despite not being a striker.

and tripped over his own feet and gave away posession on several occassions. to me, he always tries to take on just that one too many before passing

I agree but he has time to improve in this aspect.

[Demitri_C]

Yeah i wouldnt drop emi either tbh. But its reassuring we can trust to use him for europa and domestic cups

[lovejoy]

I think that snide Gordon waited for contact and flung himself to the ground the fucking cheat.

[PaulWinch again]

I think that snide Gordon waited for contact and flung himself to the ground the fucking cheat.

Of course he did, but Konsa put his arm on his shoulder. It was daft.

[jwarry]

I think that snide Gordon waited for contact and flung himself to the ground the fucking cheat.

He did but Konsa duly obliged

[Sexual Ealing]

Yeah, none of ours would ever do that.

[kippaxvilla2]

Having bizot will make Emi better in my opinion.

[PeterWithesShin]

Pretty much every player will go to ground as soon as they feel the contact.

[django]

Nobody beats the biz.

[SoccerHQ]

Forgot Bunedia was on the bench, thought he might've come on for McGinn just to press a bit more.

Going forward we need to work out some sort of formation that will get Maatsen, Malen AND Guessand out from the start against selected opposition. Do that and we might actually score a goal inside the first 20 minutes which we didn't do much of last season.

What I don't want to see is Asensio coming back and just exiling Rogers out wide while those above remain on the bench.

It was way too pedestrian first half today and not good to watch at all.

[Crown Hill]

Thought we got psyched out today although it’s a good point in the end.

Unai packed the central midfield which meant we had no balance and no width. We badly missed Bailey so need a replacement if he isn’t going to use Malen and Guessand.

Newcastle pressed us first half and we didn’t seem to know what to do so went long. Second half they seemed to run out of steam and we were getting on top.

Unai doesn’t seem to trust his subs so we didn’t have the usual 60 minute changes before the sending off.

We need to get a couple of players in now.

Thought the ref was awful and Newcastle wearing white shorts didn’t make viewing easy where I was.

[kippaxvilla2]

How long is Martinez out for?

[Dante Lavelli]

How long is Martinez out for?

He's available for the next game.

[Richard E]

I thought Newcastle had run out of ideas and we were starting to get on top in the second half and then the red card happened and it was damage limitation after that.