10-Man Sunderland vs 0-Win Aston Villa Post-Catastrophe Flagellation

[Villa Lew]

If we hadn't gone defensive after going ahead and shown the same urgency we did in the last 10 mins or so, a lot earlier, we would probably have won it. A word for Maasten, it's good to see a player going to the bye line and putting crosses in.

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

Sky off our game to the Arse Citeh game in the quickest switch I have ever seen.

Good.

[MillerBall]

In short our opponents this season have shown far more dynamism and positivity in every game than we have.
I suspect that that the rumours throughout the summer about key players (Watkins, Martinez, Rodgers) wanting to leave were true and this has sucked a lot of energy from the squad.
There are no excuses, however and the players are still being paid to represent the club until such time as they leave..
Nobody can be exempt from fair criticism and includes the Manager as well
Something is very flat and very rotten in the state of Aston at the moment.
The other thought is that the Manager has, until now worked wonders with a squad of players that perhaps have been  over achieving but now the chickens have come home to roost.

[Mortimer's Bear]

Rogers showed Dwight Yorke against Everton levels of effort today, pathetic.

[Steve67]

The fact that we started with 9 out of 11 players who have been with us since before Emery got here is poor. Crap recruitment.   55 minutes against 10 men and never really looking like we were going to score/win, was poor.  Leaving Sancho on the bench until the last 10 minutes when I could see that Sunderland had adjusted to three sitting in the front of their defence, so get it wide and back in quickly, was overlooked by Emery and very poor.  Watkins, Rogers poor, Malen looks like someones mate was asked along to the game to make up the numbers.  Slow moving the ball around the pitch to make use of the extra man.  A times, it looked liked Sunderland, who are not a good side, had the extra man.  Crap defending for their goal, again.   Altogether, utter tosh.

[wolfman999]

Rogers showed Dwight Yorke against Everton levels of effort today, pathetic.

Where's John Gregory with his gun when you need him.

[aev]

Maatsen Sancho link up looked “promising”.

[Ads]

Really poor as Im sure has been said. I felt pissed off from 10 minutes in and save 5 minutes my irritation didnt subside. Felt that was the general mood of most.

We are a bunch of cowards. Absolutely terrified to take a player on or put a cross in. The running is so limited. Take a out blocking passing lanes all you want, the cause of this is not external. We are terrified in the final third. Slow and predicatable.

Sancho coming on with 10 to go. Why? He draws men to him, he creates an option for Maatsen.

We get the selection wrong and have done all season

Soft fucking goal. Mings too slow to step up.

Awful.

[tom jennings III]

Slightly better performance than against Everton albeit out-fought and out-played by 10 man Sunderland. Scored a goal but only thanks to their keeper. Very very flat. Sancho and Elliot looked mostly decent. Cash our best player probably. Kamara also pretty good and Guessand tried hard. Watkins, Rogers and Digne were particularly bad. 3.5/10

[N'ZMAV]

Sancho was the only one with any idea - that's how low the bar is set now.

Watkins is goosed.

[Steve67]

If we hadn't gone defensive after going ahead and shown the same urgency we did in the last 10 mins or so, a lot earlier, we would probably have won it. A word for Maasten, it's good to see a player going to the bye line and putting crosses in.

And yet, not a single player reacted to it or attacked the front post.  Wasn't the greatest ball in to be fair but sometimes you have to work harder to make a poor ball a decent one.  Lazy box work from Villa today.

[wolfman999]

Sancho was the only one with any idea - that's how low the bar is set now.

Watkins is goosed.

I blame his missus. This has only happened since he got married!

[tomd2103]

In short our opponents this season have shown far more dynamism and positivity in every game than we have.
I suspect that that the rumours throughout the summer about key players (Watkins, Martinez, Rodgers) wanting to leave were true and this has sucked a lot of energy from the squad.
There are no excuses, however and the players are still being paid to represent the club until such time as they leave..
Nobody can be exempt from fair criticism and includes the Manager as well
Something is very flat and very rotten in the state of Aston at the moment.
The other thought is that the Manager has, until now worked wonders with a squad of players that perhaps have been  over achieving but now the chickens have come home to roost.

Yep, at the moment we are looking like a team with a number of players who don't want to be there, a number who shouldn't really still be there and a few last minute hopeful deadline day punts .  Not really a great mix.

[Nev]

Regardless of how bad he was on Tuesday, I was disappointed to see Guessand go off, thought he was much better.

As for the goal, I absolutely lost my shit, they stood like statues as an unchallenged header was looped into the box. Dreadful stuff.

[Hampshire Villa]

Poor. Very frustrating. We get to 25 yards and just have no idea whatsoever.
Too many players not performing and believing their own press