Aston Villa v Leeds United Match Thread

[astonvilla82]

Mings. I love mings but he is killing us.
Dwelling on the ball, slowing things down to a point where Leeds have time to reset and get everyone back behind the ball and so it’s just cycle and repeat

It's generally all over the pitch

[ROBBO]

Pathetic across the park. This is down to team selection, Bailey a winger who only passes backwards and can't beat a man, Watkins try as he might is past it and Luiz just not enough. Their goal is down to Martinez and sloppy positioning. Here we are again chasing a bottom side who are creating better chances. Emery has got this team all wrong today.

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

Shocking half (apart from Matty!).

The Leeds players: they're all big units, aren't they? Glad Mings is playing.

Hope Tammy comes on ASAP!

[usav]

Tammy for Watkins
Barkley for Buendia
Sancho for Bailey

[eamonn]

Mings. I love mings but he is killing us.
Dwelling on the ball, slowing things down to a point where Leeds have time to reset and get everyone back behind the ball and so it’s just cycle and repeat

That incessant chewing-gum chewing bugs me more than it should. Thomas Frank does it too. Are slebs given access to gum that never loses its flavour like yer wan from Willy Wonka?

[PaulWinch again]

We don’t look remotely like scoring, it’s like the start of the season again.

[brontebilly]

According to stats Rogers had 6 passes that half, we'd probably have more chance if we got the ball to our main man.

Gives it away ever time he has got it

[PeterWithesShin]

We can question if people should be booing, but with so many paying £71-£82 for this it's hard to blame them.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Pretty much exactly what I feared, made worse by having next to zero threat up front. Lose Bailey and get either Barkley or Bogarde on. I'd be tempted to lose Onana and bring them both on.

[rob_bridge]

We’ve got to give Abrahams a full half here. Ollie is just not doing it.
It’s like his head is somewhere else.

I think we need to give him a half and see if he can do more with mo Tielemans tham Ollie

[Jon Crofts]

Why did we bother buying Abraham? Watkins is a waste of a shirt.

[PeterWithesShin]

According to stats Rogers had 6 passes that half, we'd probably have more chance if we got the ball to our main man.

Gives it away ever time he has got it

One unsuccessful pass.

[saint13]

Abysmal again, bar the last 5 mins.

I'm afraid this way of playing is not going to work with the personel currently available. The ball is being played too slowly out of the back, (Mings again) and we are taking too many touches in midfield and this results in Rogers barely getting a kick

We have no creativity because the central two only play back and square.

Buendia isnt good enough. Oh yeah, and we need to end the Bailey experiment now. He is dreadful, lighweight and clumsy in possession. He was crap first time round apart from a 3 month spell. He is even worse now.

I would get 2 up front and try and swamp them with the early ball to see if they can cope. Otherwise, we lose this match.

[tomd2103]

Thought we actually started well, but deteriorated as the half went.  Real lack of quality from the four attacking players.  Would have to see it again, but I'm not sure Martinez should have got beaten from that far out to be honest. 

[Proposition Joe]

Mings. I love mings but he is killing us.
Dwelling on the ball, slowing things down to a point where Leeds have time to reset and get everyone back behind the ball and so it’s just cycle and repeat

we all love ty, but it is a coincidence that our season took off when pau was brought in to partner konsa, and that it's tailed off again since ty came back in.  we're back to walking football again.