Aston Villa v Newcastle Post-Match Thread

[Dante Lavelli]

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.

Agree.  We were starting to dominate but the red card changed the objective completely.  It was quite comfortable in the end and we even had a few breaks ourselves.

[Nii Lamptey]

Frustrating performance. Feel for Malen not starting as he was our best player preseason.
My biggest concern is the form of Rogers…. Looks to have carried on from where he left off end of last season. Slow to read the ball, knocked off it constantly and managed to tackle himself on a few occasions today. Needs dropping to show he has to earn his spot.
Positives - Bizot and Cash. Thought both were impervious today.
Ref was god awful too!

[PeterWithesShin]

We're only 37 wins away from winning the league.

[Dante Lavelli]

Needs dropping to show he has to earn his spot.

Controversial, but I think you might be right.  Plus Malen/Guessand, even Buendia, need to be given chances to play so they remain fully committed.

[andyh]

We look a bit stale. Very much same old, same old.

Firstly the ref was a fecking disgrace. I hope there is not some sort of ‘let’s shaft the villa’ as they rally round their colleague who fucked us over at Man U.

What has happened to Rogers ?
He continued today as he finished last season, shocking.

Watkins worked hard but in reality, Burn had him in his pocket.

Cash, Ginny and Mings were very good and we have a very good second goalie.
I’m not sure that Emi is an automatic choice next week.

[bodkins14]

Controversial i know, as much as I love SJM he was blowing out of his arse in the second half and offered very threat. I said to my son at half time Malen needs to come on to provide width and some sort of threat going forward.
Thought Biscuit did well nice to have a good back up to Emi

[AlexAlexCropley]

Livramento motm, ref woeful second half, we didn't have enough forward ambition.Pleased with a point and actually enjoyed the occasion after a season hiatus.

[Paul.S]

A typical opener between 2 clubs that will have stronger and fitter squads in a few weeks.
Not the best first half and we took time to bed in defensively. I’m sure we’d have won it with 11 but the way we managed the game after that was fantastic.
McGinn superb as always, leading by example with his commitment and effort.
Another very poor performance by the officials, including the linesman on the Trinity side who I thought was going to wet himself when Burn shouted at him and made him change his mind. I have no confidence in any of these, they are all miles off it.
Emery giving it to the smarmy TalkSPORT top 6 lover Matterface was a joy to listen to.
We will be fine with Emery in charge so all in app not the worst day.

UTV

[rob_bridge]

Struggle to get the ball out of defence quickly though. Which possibly contributed to our lack of a win.

Not stating Torres would have stopped them scoring, OR improved the attack, but he might have at least threaded some balls to the forward four, especially with Tielemans not being back to take the ball off Mings and do that.

We score more when Torres plays and we concede more.

[AV82EC]

The positives:

Clean Sheet
Bizot
Stuck at it when down to 10 men and restricted Newcastle to nothing.
1pt
Unbeaten at Fortress VP for a year.

The negatives:

We looked rusty and there was no flow to our game
Sloppy passing
Rogers and Watkins - dear oh dear
Referee was a clown.

Onwards…..

[BC Villain]

Good to hear Emery slap that pompous big six arse licker Sam Matterface back into his box.

[Pete3206]

Malen should have been on a half time.
Tielemans struggled to get in the game.
Rogers looks unfit.
Keeper was OK.
Referee was a clown.

[Ads]

Cagey really from us with the set up. McGinn and Digne instead of Maatsen and Malen left us with no pace and a midfielder too many for me. Really struggled first half to keep hold of it and build anything.

Second half was better and we were on balance the better side until Cash abysmal cross set them loose for Konsa's red card.

After that I was happy with a point, given they were able to make that man advantage count Boxing Day. They didn't create much mind and look pretty toothless without Isak.

Given it went down to goal difference last season, not giving anything away in the six pointers is going to be key. A couple of additions needed.

[rob_bridge]

Good to hear Emery slap that pompous big six arse licker Sam Matterface back into his box.

Emery admitted Konsa should have got sent off and Matterface then asked if Konsa would have done the same if it was a match later on in the season. FFS - you can ask a thousand more insightful questions than a nonsense what if like that.

[Paul.S]

Good to hear Emery slap that pompous big six arse licker Sam Matterface back into his box.

Emery admitted Konsa should have got sent off and Matterface then asked if Konsa would have done the same if it was a match later on in the season. FFS - you can ask a thousand more insightful questions than a nonsense what if like that.

I think what got under his skin the most was him saying they’d had loads of chances to win it. It was downhill from there with Emery asking him if he wanted his assessment of the game or his own. He stuck him straight back into his little hole after that.