Aston Villa v Newcastle Post-Match Thread

[darren woolley]

Not our day there's always next year fingers crossed.

[cdward]

I don’t think Unai really believes the FA Cup is anything to be bothered about, and it shows.
From his team selection to the performances.
Just another season without an FA Cup win, we should be used to it.

[ROBBO]

Emery's right, todays football is all about Europe, the quality, the money the ability to attract top talent. Maybe City, Chelsea and Liverpool can lose key players and still be competative with their squads, we can't. Lose two more, say Rogers and Cash for a reasonable amount of time and we are in deep trouble.

[PeterWithesShin]

He takes the FA Cup seriously. The team v Stevenage was more than enough to beat them, that they didn't saw some of them finished at the club. Chelsea was a strong line up in 24. We reached the semi last year and this year we fielded pretty much as strong a pair of line ups as possible.

[eamonn]

Not our day there's always next year fingers crossed.

Next year never happens for us.

[Villafirst]

Perhaps UE should've gone for a proper low block formation by bringing on Konsa and Mings, with Lindelof moving to RB and substituted Torres? It needed Mings there in particular to organise and command the backline. Bogarde would've been better moving to the middle supporting Dougie and Onana.
That reckless action by Bizot was maddening!

[LeonW]

What I don’t get is playing a stronger team in the 3rd round and then a weaker team in the 4th. You either go in or don’t.

[Hillbilly]

Saving it for the 70th (!) anniversary next year.

[MillerBall]

Looks like two new goalkeepers will be needed in summer 2026.
Suspect Martinez will go and Monsieur Bizarreot is arguably not up to the task!!

[Baldy]

What I don’t get is playing a stronger team in the 3rd round and then a weaker team in the 4th. You either go in or don’t.

We lost our midfield in the interim through injury.

Unai's priorities clearly changed.

[eye digress]

Annoying outcome, less for the Cup (though that would have been nice) than for the habit of winning, which is so easy to lose.

An absolute disaster of a refereeing performance, but which mostly favoured us.

We looked over-hyped up - Digne should have gone for that brainless tackle on Murphy. Now that I've already used the adjective 'brainless', I'm struggling to describe Bizot's red card.

The Bailey cross field pass... who does he think he is, Matty Cash? He should be forced to watch that on a loop, eyes wedged open with matchsticks, for 36 or 48 hours consecutively.

Up the Villa.

[TheToffnar]

That one stings, but less so then if we'd lost with 11.

Thought we where very positive first half. Offside goal or not, we broke them down well and looked really composed which is a comfort considering how we've played the past two games.
 
However, 3 losses in 4 at home isn't good. Leeds will look at that and get all the confidence they need. Must win next weekend, in my opinion.

[Baldy]

I'd love to know the thinking behind what led to the red card. When Bailey slips as he tries to do his job and keep an attack going he's actually our outfield player that's furthest back. What the fuck is every other player doing so far forward? Why is every outfield player in the final third?

This confused me as well. Can only guess we were lacking leadership on the pitch (Digne was our captain) or the players thought it was the last play of the half and as soon as the ball was cleared/goal scored the whistle would blow. The one minute injury time had well expired. Crazy.

[Deano's Mullet]

The choice to pick this game as a 90s throwback was a terrible omen - in the 90s the  Geordies regularly wiped the floor with us so in that aspect the club got it right sadly.

[London Villan]

The first half injury time was the most un-Unai minute of the season, all out attack in injury time, no structure, mis-placed passes, goalkeeping ill-discipline…

The only silver lining us that it frees up a couple of weekends, which caught up with us last season.