Aston Villa v Newcastle Post-Match Thread

[Mister E]

Watkins was especially shit.

Of course he was

as one news outlet said "Ollie Watkins, who had opened the scoring inside 40 seconds when Newcastle were dismissed 4-1 here in April, gave an outstanding display of forward running down the channels but Villa, apart from Morgan Rogers, simply could not get enough men supporting him"

[Mister E]

I said at halftime that Guessand and Malen should have replaced Rogers (clearly not fully fit) and Onana so that we could have offered more on the wings against 2 fullbacks who were there to be bullied. I think we did the opposite of our last home game against the Jawdies: have them too much respect, failed to wrest the initiative and gave over possession easily.

[Exeter 77]

A really drab game. The bright spots were the performances of Bizot, McGinn and maybe Kamara after he dropped into the back four. Newcastle were poor after we went down to 10 with loads of over-hit crosses.

Also, when were walking back to the car there was a guy with and easel doing a sketch of the (closed) Bartons.

[andyh]

Have we now had 2 sendings off in consecutive games instigated by sheer crapness from Cash ?

[lovejoy]

People are both praising McGinn and slating him.

Also red card apart what did the ref do which was so bad.

[Gareth]

Two sides cancelled each out and a draw was the fair result, they did very little attacking king wise either.

Positives - Bizot performance and we appear to have survived a game against that hopeless tackling thug Joelinton

Anyone else get frustrated with the subs? Not just the face only one made but also 6 of them just stood at the corner flag watching and gossiping…warm up properly or sit down ffs

[AlexAlexCropley]

People are both praising McGinn and slating him.

Also red card apart what did the ref do which was so bad.

I thought he favoured Newcastle all second half.Rogers especially was fouled with no redress

[Villafirst]

We have to add at least two more players to this squad. Certainly cover at right centre back, plus another wide player now Ramsey gone and Bailey likely to go. I'd imagine they'd have to be loan signings due to these ridiculous rules and restrictions.

[enigma]

What does Emery have against Malen? To my untrained eye he looks more than useful but Emery is clearly not convinced by him.

[Somniloquism]

I said at halftime that Guessand and Malen should have replaced Rogers (clearly not fully fit) and Onana so that we could have offered more on the wings against 2 fullbacks who were there to be bullied. I think we did the opposite of our last home game against the Jawdies: have them too much respect, failed to wrest the initiative and gave over possession easily.

Forgetting the enforced Emi change, we had Asensio and Maatsen  in last seasons game rather then Onana and Digne. Obviously that enforced a position change for Youri as well which I think was the main key issue.

[Mister E]

We have to add at least two more players to this squad. Certainly cover at right centre back, plus anothe wide player now Ramsey gone and Bailey likely to go. I'd imagine they'd have to be loan signings due to these ridiculous rules and restrictions.

I know what you're saying but I'd like to see Malen and Guessand actually given some gametime before bringing others in (other than at RCB, obviously).

[Toronto Villa]

We had little width or true outlet ball to bring the attack to Newcastle. We need variety and adventure added in the next couple of weeks of the window

[Demitri_C]

Rogers i agree wasnt  fit. He had a very bad game. Not sure why unai didnt take him off sooner that was a wierd one

[martin o`who??]

Yard slower all over the pitch. Bizot sound enough debut for sure. Pope had the quietest first half in his career i should think. Couldnt keep the ball up front. Decent point against a champions league club and a clean sheet with twenty minutes+ with ten men - i'll take it - albeit reluctantly.

[PaulWinch again]

Have we now had 2 sendings off in consecutive games instigated by sheer crapness from Cash ?

Both players who were sent off in those incidents are culpable themselves.