Aston Villa v Brentford Post-Match Thread

[dorsetvillian]

I could see people walking from under the Trinity on 78 mins from my seat in L7. So with 10 mins of extra time that's over 20 mins missed. I'm sorry, but WTF are people thinking. Very poor...

[PaulWinch again]

Kept playing balls into the box from the wings against big lumps who eat that up for breakfast. Should have kept it central and threaded through the middle imo.

Didn't see it that way - the central channel was packed with all of their players, there was little space to thread through balls. We hardly played any crosses at head-height into the box probably for the very reason you state. But for the lack of any other plan, at least throwing Mings or Onana on would have evened-up the odds of winning a header in the box.

It was like a training exercise game, attack versus defence. To lose to these shysters 3 times in 6 months with their painfully limited tactics is both infuriating and embarassing.

It is both of those things - however, if we finish top 4, win the Europa League, and FA Cup I’ll take it as penance. We’ve got a rare week without a game in the middle of the week - hopefully a chance for Onana, Ollie, and Barkley to get fit and us to reset ourselves a bit.

[pauliewalnuts]

I could see people walking from under the Trinity on 78 mins from my seat in L7. So with 10 mins of extra time that's over 20 mins missed. I'm sorry, but WTF are people thinking. Very poor...

I dunno, there were plenty of people on here saying we wouldn't have scored if we'd played another three hours....

[ChicagoLion]

To keep ending up with the ball with Konsa on the edge of the penalty area was somewhat frustrating.
If it was someone who can actually shoot we might have caused them a few more problems.

[Crown Hill]

Kept playing balls into the box from the wings against big lumps who eat that up for breakfast. Should have kept it central and threaded through the middle imo.

If only that were true.

The way to beat packed defences is to go wide and get behind them and pull the ball back.

Instead we had Bailey and Sancho on the wrong flanks and continually playing the ball inside outside the box. Then a series of one twos until we lost posession.

[Charlie8182]

That’s the most gutted I’ve felt after a loss for quite some time, probably even after coming away from Wembley against Palace, and still feel shit after 6 hours of the final whistle. Even though it probably wasn’t realistic I wanted to keep within touching distance of Arsenal but as our home form has gone to pot recently it’s really not happening now. A combination of that VAR decision and not breaking down 10 men for an hour is hard to swallow. I just hope we can go all the way in the Europa league.

[ROBBO]

Their manager got it right, long ball over the top terrifies Pau and Konsa, struggled with the long throw ins too. They were on top for most of the first half and we were out muscled all over the pitch. We lack the guile to break down packed defences and moving Rogers out to the wing where he was easily isolated was wrong. Tammy was effective first half and was unlucky a couple of times, he was lost against a packed defence second half. Luiz did okay but he is no Tielemans.
Thats twice in a couple of weeks we have been found wanting against teams we should have beaten which i'm sorry to say is very Villa.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Kept playing balls into the box from the wings against big lumps who eat that up for breakfast. Should have kept it central and threaded through the middle imo.

If only that were true.

The way to beat packed defences is to go wide and get behind them and pull the ball back.

We did get behind them a couple of times on the left hand side and pulled the ball back but it was behind with no players coming onto the ball.

From memory the best chance of the second half was the ball to Bailey on the right, he had the defender back peddling and beat him but blasted the ball instead of going for accuracy.

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

It's not much fun watching us play against 10 men. Just let him stay on the pitch.

[VancouverLion]

To keep ending up with the ball with Konsa on the edge of the penalty area was somewhat frustrating.
If it was someone who can actually shoot we might have caused them a few more problems.

Agreed, it was so frustrating, every single attack fell to Konsa, central on the edge of the area. Taking Sancho off and moving Rogers to the left was a mistake imo.

[tony scott]

Disappointing result, when we found Tammy in the box, which wasn’t often, he had no one up there to lay it of too grrrr

[LukeJames]

Everton and Brentford winning at Villa Park, Villa winning at St James's. We might actually win at Molineux this season.

[ChicagoLion]

To keep ending up with the ball with Konsa on the edge of the penalty area was somewhat frustrating.
If it was someone who can actually shoot we might have caused them a few more problems.

Agreed, it was so frustrating, every single attack fell to Konsa, central on the edge of the area. Taking Sancho off and moving Rogers to the left was a mistake imo.

It was, our sole method became give it to Rogers and unfortunately Brentford worked this out.

[PhilVill]

Bad day at the office but still third, by 5 points, and Barkley/Onana/Watkins fit by Sat pm so onwards we go. Just one of those days - shit happens.

[Brend'Watkins]

If Konsa can’t or is no good at shooting why was he always ending up with the ball in a position that would allow him to do so? Surely in such instances it would have made sense to swap with someone who could, no?Pointless crossing the ball in because they have 6 foot 6 defenders so let’s just pass it around to each other, that should break them down I couldn’t for the life of me.

We were utterly clueless. This emphasised by the fact we kept doing the same thing over and over and expected a different outcome.