Aston Villa v Brentford Post-Match Thread

[Monty]

Just to say - it seems extremely obvious to me that we missed Tielemans like a missing limb today, and this doesn't seem much discussed yet.

I said it in the match thread after 15 mins. However, it doesn't need much discussing though, he is our best player and we are always going to miss him.

I think we very particularly miss him in games like these, which won't be every game.

[AGRIPPA]

Hi don’t post much but it’s entertaining to see the first few pages of posts when we lose …..them rationality comes into it and you can usually understand why we lost….10 men…🤷

[Aldridge Villa]

£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!

How amusing.

[Pat McMahon]

I thought we looked off even before the sending off and never really played fluidly.

The wide men never really beat their opponent and our shooting was poor. Felt we needed to have one of our good strikers of the ball like Rogers on the edge of the box and not Konsa and Pau. They defended brilliantly but I think they could do so as we weren’t really challenging their big defenders. Somebody above said maybe throw on Mings or Onana to contest the crosses and that could have helped shake them out of their comfortable positioning.

One of those days we were destined not to score and I felt the players ran out of belief. As did the crowd.

And that VAR decision is never ever going to be made at Manyoo or Liverpool

[Demitri_C]

Just a utterly shit weekend all round. Most results went against us. Someone  we managed to duck it up against ten men. It was painful on the eyes

Slow predictable  pedestrian  football.  This game could have gone on for another 10 hours and we wouldnt have scored. We were a shambles at times in this game.

I just cannot believe we have zero points against everton and 10 man brentford at home. That is absymal

[PaulWinch again]

We did look off before the sending off - for the first 20 mins we had no control of the game.

[Clampy]

Just a utterly shit weekend all round. Most results went against us. Someone  we managed to duck it up against ten men. It was painful on the eyes

Slow predictable  pedestrian  football.  This game could have gone on for another 10 hours and we wouldnt have scored. We were a shambles at times in this game.

I just cannot believe we have zero points against everton and 10 man brentford at home. That is absymal

We're third in the table.  Calm down and look at why we're there.

[aj2k77]

The midfield is going to be a massive problem now for the next couple of months. We haven't had a right sided attacker all season and in the centre were now cobbling together Bogarde, who isn't good enough with a football, Onana who is never fully fit and Luiz who hasn't played much football in 2 years. That midfield currently won't be good enough to finish top 5.  It's a shame but Kamara, McGinn and Tielemans all out at the same time is going to kill the season.

Throw in Watkins somehow getting injured when he's always fit in a meaningless group stage game.

[Demitri_C]

Just a utterly shit weekend all round. Most results went against us. Someone  we managed to duck it up against ten men. It was painful on the eyes

Slow predictable  pedestrian  football.  This game could have gone on for another 10 hours and we wouldnt have scored. We were a shambles at times in this game.

I just cannot believe we have zero points against everton and 10 man brentford at home. That is absymal

We're third in the table.  Calm down and look at why we're there.

Im very calm actually so abit strange  why you have said that when thwre has been worse posts for many pages before- i stand with all my post its not OTT or reactionary  that's how it is in my view

It is abysmal to have 0 points or goals 0 in last two home games. We were alsmo played off the park for long periods of the game vs salzburgs youngsters. Its not been good the last three home games overall

[PaulWinch again]

I don’t think anything he’s said is particularly untrue. He’s talking about this game and Everton - which have been pretty bloody dreadful. The other results were bad, now if he said the whole season had fallen apart I’d agree it was going too far, but I don’t think he is.

[PeterWithesShin]

We look a good bet to go down next season.

[Demitri_C]

I don’t think anything he’s said is particularly untrue. He’s talking about this game and Everton - which have been pretty bloody dreadful. The other results were bad, now if he said the whole season had fallen apart I’d agree it was going too far, but I don’t think he is.

Thanks paul and correct  im referring to the recent  games. I dont know if its fatigue or what but certainly wasnt expecting a performance  like that. It was the opposite  of the newcastle  one.

One thing  that was annoying today was all the long range shooting. This was just a waste instead of creating chances for tammy. We created virtually  nothing for him.

Unfortunately  i think rogers had  a poor game

[walsall villain]

Just read this on the premier league site…
It will not review the decision to award a corner instead of a goal-kick, even if the corner produces a goal.

This is because the VAR will only check the attacking possession phase that led to the goal, and the starting point is limited to the immediate phase, in this instance the corner being taken.

So what do they exactly mean by the attacking possession phase? When we got the ball away from near the corner flag surely that can’t be considered attacking possession?

[Demitri_C]

Just read this on the premier league site…
It will not review the decision to award a corner instead of a goal-kick, even if the corner produces a goal.

This is because the VAR will only check the attacking possession phase that led to the goal, and the starting point is limited to the immediate phase, in this instance the corner being taken.

So what do they exactly mean by the attacking possession phase? When we got the ball away from near the corner flag surely that can’t be considered attacking possession?

Dont expect a acceptable answer.  They will come up with some waffle  to cover their arses like rogers goal last season

[olaftab]

attacking the Holte end first half, then playing against 10 men
You knew we were fucked

We attacked the Holte end first half again Bournemouth. 10 men issue is valid.