Aston Villa vs Man United Post-Match Thread

[Somniloquism]

[olaftab]

A tough watch. We were poor all over the park and never really got going. I'm not sure how wingnut missed that header from 5yds but hey ho, fantastic Morgz.

Teams on a good run usually have a bad patch. Our's was today and now we can get going again against Chelsea.

[Steve67]

Awful performance really. I think only three players played up to par. Was quite impressed with Man United. Tactically they did us in midfield, both Cunha and Mount were very impressive. Fortunate we have this complete freak of a player playing on our left today. Outstanding.

Martinez 7 - solid throughout
Cash 5 - awful mistake for the goal, made one great block in second half
Konsa 6 - one great block too but a bit iffy including  a weird defensive header
Lindelof 4 - shocking indictment on West Ham they didn't press him onto his left foot like today, Konsa and him watched Cunha miss that sitter
Maatsen 6 - a bit meh but had a big problem next to him
Kamara 5 - poor today, caught ahead of ball constantly
Onana 5 - age old problem evident again - unable to play on half turn
McGinn 8 - great ball to Rogers for the first, battled really well
Rogers 9 - outstanding goals, dug us out of a massive hole today with his quality
Tielemans 4 - really poor. Anonymous first half and not much better in second
Watkins 4 - midfield was the problem position today but can't ignore his current level of performance

Not sure about subs today, Buendia should have come on a lot earlier I thought. Digne was ok.

Utter rubbish, anyone would think we got battered.

[aj2k77]

Neville can get it up him too the red twat. More biased than the ref today.

[Percy McCarthy]

Thank god for morgs. Watkins has to be replaced asap

He is dreadful.

We need a poll on the Watkins thread to see how many people are still Watkins Worshippers.

A reckon a few have become atheists over the past few weeks.

Great assist for the winner though.

[Villatillidie25]

I actually thought he was ok today (cue getting pelters 🤣). United’s press was pretty impressive today and we never worked it out. Thakfully Rogers was the difference.

Neville can get it up him too the red twat. More biased than the ref today.

[Mister E]

Awful performance really. I think only three players played up to par. Was quite impressed with Man United. Tactically they did us in midfield, both Cunha and Mount were very impressive. Fortunate we have this complete freak of a player playing on our left today. Outstanding.

Martinez 7 - solid throughout
Cash 5 - awful mistake for the goal, made one great block in second half
Konsa 6 - one great block too but a bit iffy including  a weird defensive header
Lindelof 4 - shocking indictment on West Ham they didn't press him onto his left foot like today, Konsa and him watched Cunha miss that sitter
Maatsen 6 - a bit meh but had a big problem next to him
Kamara 5 - poor today, caught ahead of ball constantly
Onana 5 - age old problem evident again - unable to play on half turn
McGinn 8 - great ball to Rogers for the first, battled really well
Rogers 9 - outstanding goals, dug us out of a massive hole today with his quality
Tielemans 4 - really poor. Anonymous first half and not much better in second
Watkins 4 - midfield was the problem position today but can't ignore his current level of performance

Not sure about subs today, Buendia should have come on a lot earlier I thought. Digne was ok.

Largely agree with this, although I thought Lindy did okay, given that the oppo were very aggressive in the press.

[Somniloquism]

Obviously there is no version of us beating them that wouldn't be very satisfying.

But after the last thirty years I reckon them coming away saying how they were probably the better team on the day, and had they only scored that one chance it might have all been different, or if that one player hadn't needed to go off injured, and how they can take a lot of positives from the performance if not the result, and how sometimes a better team just has one brilliant player and that's all they need to get a result even if they're not playing well...

Has to be up there as one of the better versions of it.

It really only needed the "that one refereeing decision to have gone the other way" for the full house of our post-Man Utd commentary from the last couple of decades.

More from Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim speaking to Sky Sports:"I saw from the beginning of the season a team that is going forward, but sometimes relax a little bit and sometimes is not there in the right moment to fight. Today was completely the opposite, we were the better team against a team that is strong at home and in a very good run. We were really unlucky today."

Almost.

[Mister E]

Neville can get it up him too the red twat. More biased than the ref today.

well, of course he was. He doesn't hide his affiliation ... don't know what you expected ...😁

[Smirker]

Thank god for morgs. Watkins has to be replaced asap

He is dreadful.

We need a poll on the Watkins thread to see how many people are still Watkins Worshippers.

A reckon a few have become atheists over the past few weeks.

Great assist for the winner though.

It wasn't even an attempt at a pass, he was trying to get a touch on it ahead of the defender and it dropped to Rogers who wasn't even in the line of the direction of the ball. It goes down as an assist, same way if you rolled the ball from a free kick and someone scored it you'd get the assist, but it's hardly a great assist.

[Somniloquism]

Largely agree with this, although I thought Lindy did okay, given that the oppo were very aggressive in the press.

Most of the opposition players and the manager worked with Lindelof until 6 months ago so they would definitely know any weaknesses to his game, especially on his weaker side.

[Villan For Life]

I don’t care how we played, we beat those insufferable plastics and we owe them plenty more than this.

Thank you Villa, we are third at Christmas and I love it!

[NorthYvillan]

Great win but I still feel that we need to work out how to play against a 3-5-1-1 or 3-5-2 with an intense press. Crystal Palace have beaten us the last 3 or so times using it and United gave us trouble all game doing the same thing. We play Palace away in January and need to have it sussed by then.

[Nev]

A tough watch. We were poor all over the park and never really got going. I'm not sure how wingnut missed that header from 5yds but hey ho, fantastic Morgz.

As someone said earlier, the litany of games where they rely on the ref to turn us over, and let face it, it was like that today. Fernandez ran the game in the first half and that sap of a ref let it happen. We've hammered them and been stitched up but today we gave it em back. Fuck them.

We'll play better.

[Skerra]

We won’t lose another match now until the 7th January. We visit Palace on that day so, would probably save The players legs and just award them the 3 points. However, I do fancy a win at The Bridge and at least a draw against The Arse.