Aston Villa v Newcastle Post-Match Thread

[garyellis]

Did anyone listen to Unai been interviewed by Sam Matterface?
Sorry if it was mentioned earlier and I’ve missed it.

[dorsetvillian]

Just home. Seemed a very rusty performance despite all the pre season games. First half poor all round. I thought we were in control second half until the sending off. Crucially about the time that I'm sure Malen and maybe the new lad would come on. A good point in the end and very comfortable down to 10 men. I was really surprised to hear pundits say how good they thought Newcastle were.

[rougegorge]

Did anyone listen to Unai been interviewed by Sam Matterface?
Sorry if it was mentioned earlier and I’ve missed it.

Yes it was. I thought he was uncharacteristically a bit tetchy, as usually he is very calm and collected. However, I think he is frustrated at how the club is being hamstrung by PSR,  as reflected in his programme notes.

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[Demitri_C]

I did think we would lose today after ezris red so thats a point gained which i am very happy about. Newcastle  blew it today as i think we were there for the taking

We desperately  lacked any form of pace today. Before the red i really do think we could have made won it if he we bought on malen at half time. Guessard didnt get minutes, you would  imagine because of the red. Im sure the plan would have been to get him on. But he has ezri to thank for that due to his foolish red card

[VillaTim]

I was really surprised to hear pundits say how good they thought Newcastle were.

VP has become one of the toughest grounds to go to so i can see why NUFC got praise for their performance and getting a point .

[pelty]

Did anyone listen to Unai been interviewed by Sam Matterface?
Sorry if it was mentioned earlier and I’ve missed it.

Yes it was. I thought he was uncharacteristically a bit tetchy, as usually he is very calm and collected. However, I think he is frustrated at how the club is being hamstrung by PSR,  as reflected in his programme notes.

Would you or someone please summarize his notes? Thanks in advance.

[kippaxvilla2]

Thought Biscuit did well nice to have a good back up to Emi

It was a Nice performance.

[The Edge]

Did anyone listen to Unai been interviewed by Sam Matterface?
Sorry if it was mentioned earlier and I’ve missed it.

Yes it was. I thought he was uncharacteristically a bit tetchy, as usually he is very calm and collected. However, I think he is frustrated at how the club is being hamstrung by PSR,  as reflected in his programme notes.

Who can blame him? He's got big ambitions as have the owners but they're being totally hamstrung by PSR. Add that to the agonising way we missed out on CL qualification and it's understandble if he's a bit "tetchy" He's probably raging inside. I didn't think i could hate anything more than VAR but PSR is worse. Both are designed to favour the Greedy6.

[Halfway to Moseley]

We were awful in the first half. Really disjointed, like we’d never played together - perfectly illustrated by at least two occasions where our players collided or got in each others way.

Improved a bit after the break until the sending off. Fortunate that Newcastle deteriorated as the second half went on - so many poor passes/crosses from them, I was never really worried they were going to score.

[kippaxvilla2]

Thing is how long will Emery want to stay around for this and us not being able to realise his ambitions.  I don’t know why I just feel as flat as I’ve been for a few seasons.  Ironic really when we’ve had the best time the last three.

[SaddVillan]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/aug/15/youri-tielemans-aston-villa-unai-emery-interview?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

"Don't lose those stupid points"

Today was a prime example of putting this into practice.

[PaulWinch again]

I hope two things really, and they’re interlinked - a. we get some additional players b. we don’t set up like that again. Whatever style we want to play we have to have an outlet and out ball.

We set up worrying about what Newcastle would do to us, rather than thinking how we best threaten them. It resulted is a very stilted and unthreatening side. Even without additions we could have put out a better balanced side. Unai will hopefully reflect on that.

Result was ok with the red card, but how we set up from the start was horrible.

[olaftab]

We played badly. They had 2/3 half chances, not loads. Bizot made couple of routine saves. We played 30 mins with 10 and in that period matched Newcastle. Newcastle would have been more or less sorted if we had not lost Konsa.
Rogers...what's going on?

[pelty]

We set up worrying about what Newcastle would do to us, rather than thinking how we best threaten them. It resulted is a very stilted and unthreatening side. Even without additions we could have put out a better balanced side. Unai will hopefully reflect on that.

Result was ok with the red card, but how we set up from the start was horrible.

Spot on. Problem is, this is not the first time. It almost seems like Emery does not trust the team to defend if we get expansive or press.