Brentford vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[aj2k77]

I thought we played at a snails pace because we had a long season ahead in the Champions League and needed our players to keep some fitness in the tank? Bollocks, we just play slow dull football. What has happened?

The team need freshening up, it's all so stale. Oh and Onana can fuck off, he bottles tackles.

[mrfuse]

Yeah we’ve been rubbish two weeks in a row, and that can happen, but the worrying bit is we have been set up in a way that very obviously undermines our ability to attack. We’ve performed exactly in the way you’d expect from how the team is structured, unable to threaten much. It’s very strange, and is entirely the wrong way to go about things.

I agree in fact we probably got lucky getting a player sent off as we had an excuse as to why we had no cutting edge last week.
When Emery first came in we played with a high line, Pressing high up the pitch.Why have we reverted to a very slow build up?  Whats with playing McGinn on the right wing.  We have no width whatsoever now. It's really strange when we do actually have players that could give us width and more attacking options.

[Paul.S]

If we don’t sign a couple or three good players next week then we won’t be compete in Europe and the league. The squad seems threadbare.

We will

[TonyD]

Are there any deals on the horizon?

[PaulWinch again]

That would have bern a fantastic achievement.

However, regardless of who we might sign, we have set up in a really strange and negative way in the first two games and delivered performances you’d expect with that set up. It’s also very different from how we’ve approached pre-season. That is odd and concerning. Hopefully whatever has muddled our thinking clears, because it is not an approach that will win many games.

[Paul.S]

Are there any deals on the horizon?

I don’t think anyone knows but we tend to try and keep things close to our chest.

[DB]

You do wonder if the selling of Ramsey, shrinking of the squad and not getting CL has taken the wind out their sails, including
Emery. They need to get their mojo back and quick.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Can somebody, preferably Unai, explain how it's possible we can simultaneously get immediately and constantly pressed trying to bring the ball out of defence yet the opposition will have 10 men (they left one up front for the counter) behind the ball when we advance up the pitch? Tactically it shouldn't be possible yet somehow that's exactly what happened today.

[villa for life]

You do wonder if the selling of Ramsey, shrinking of the squad and not getting CL has taken the wind out their sails, including
Emery. They need to get their mojo back and quick.

How?

[PaulWinch again]

Can somebody, preferably Unai, explain how it's possible we can simultaneously get immediately and constantly pressed trying to bring the ball out of defence yet the opposition will have 10 men (they left one up front for the counter) behind the ball when we advance up the pitch? Tactically it shouldn't be possible yet somehow that's exactly what happened today.

We are so incredibly slow and ponderous in transition and have nothing out wide so teams can pretty easily block up the middle and we then go backwards.

[TonyD]

You do wonder if the selling of Ramsey, shrinking of the squad and not getting CL has taken the wind out their sails, including
Emery. They need to get their mojo back and quick.

How?

Special K.

[adrenachrome]

Can somebody, preferably Unai, explain how it's possible we can simultaneously get immediately and constantly pressed trying to bring the ball out of defence yet the opposition will have 10 men (they left one up front for the counter) behind the ball when we advance up the pitch? Tactically it shouldn't be possible yet somehow that's exactly what happened today.

We don't attack the space we have have created with ball retention. BFR use to call it "open grass".

[VillaTim]

If it wasn't for Pau's gift we could of got a decent point on the road here, could of maybe nicked it if it was still 0-0.

Utter shite performance overall by the team and another incredibly soft goal conceded courtesy of Torres being slow off the mark and weak in the challenge .
We are so boring to watch, sideways slow ponderous play . That was abysmal out there today but we should have got a 0-0 .

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Can somebody, preferably Unai, explain how it's possible we can simultaneously get immediately and constantly pressed trying to bring the ball out of defence yet the opposition will have 10 men (they left one up front for the counter) behind the ball when we advance up the pitch? Tactically it shouldn't be possible yet somehow that's exactly what happened today.

We are so incredibly slow and ponderous in transition and have nothing out wide so teams can pretty easily block up the middle and we then go backwards.

You know that, I know that, pretty much everybody who saw the game knows it too except the only person who can change it. When I saw McGinn standing alone on the far touchline in acres of space, he may as well have been sitting in the dugout, the defender leaving him to fall back into position, you just knew the tactics had failed, not that everything going on wasn't evidence enough.

[Crown Hill]

Let’s assess at the end of the week but it feels like we’ve played a bad hand terribly in this window.