Aston Villa v Brentford Post-Match Thread

[9fingers]

Missed Watkins.

[Monty]

Bloody clueless by Emery. 
Same approach all half.

You are always great for the comedy. Should we sack him then

So you don’t agree Emery was tactically inept today?   On other days he is a genius but today was a stinker. 

What did he get wrong then, Ein Stein?

[Olof's Beard]

Two points from eighteen Vs Brentford, Palace and Everton. Even an average set of results against this lot would have us top. We seem to be doing our best to repeat the opening five games of the season.

[curiousorange]

What is the solution to this low block kryptonite? I'm getting sick of us passing it around doing nothing. We may as well stand there and scratch our heads.

[PaulWinch again]

I thought he made a big mistake in basically leaving one centre mid on. God knows what’s up with Onana, but we needed to build from the middle and instead just emptied the midfield.

[Goldenballs]

If you're going to sling it in the box for 20 minutes chuck Mings in there

[Halfway to Moseley]

We always struggle against these stoke city types. They defended well, wasted time and every bounce seemed to fall for them. Even their goal was a flukey bounce.

Didn’t help that we played it around so slowly and seemed completely devoid of ideas.

The disallowed goal was a joke - may as well pull it all the way back to kick off.

[TonyD]

Bloody clueless by Emery. 
Same approach all half.

You are always great for the comedy. Should we sack him then

So you don’t agree Emery was tactically inept today?   On other days he is a genius but today was a stinker. 

What did he get wrong then, Ein Stein?

Should have at the very least put more height in the box with Onana & Mings. 
Also ordered them to give it to Rogers at every opportunity. 

[Stu]

£50 safely in my pocket rather than watching that shit. Second 0-1 loss at home to a middling team in a row, garbage signings, it’s like being a Villa fan again. Woooooo!

[eamonn]

The middle was far too congested, we needed wingers to keep swinging balls in and anticipate the knock-downs. Except we left two of our best aerial assets, Mings and Onana, catching splinters on the bench.

It wasn't a game for nifty but lightweight players like Buendia and Elliott. We had to fight fire with fire. But Emery just stroked his chin and pulled those odd expressions of his.

[Sexual Ealing]

Real Madrid have to play against teams that play like that every game. Think on, Unai.

[devilla]

We could've been playing against 10 squirrels and still wouldn't have scored.

[PhilVill]

We were never remotely good enough to win the league and with three such good midfielders injured, I'd take a top 8 finish and win the Europa League now.

For what its worth the last 25 mins would have been Mings up front and ball after ball into the box, the tippy tappy just gave them ample time to organise.

VAR is killing the game, that ball was more than likely out but you couldn't say it was  100% definite so the goal should stand.

[Hopadop]

We need to lobby for a change in the rules so we get a choice as to whether the opponent loses a player.

This is very true. At kick off I was half expecting disappointment today. When they went down to 10 I fully expected it.

[Baldy]

You take the engine out of a car and it runs crap.