Wolves v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[aj2k77]

Monchi thought it was a good idea. Like the Elliot clause and paying Sancho a quarter of a million a week.

[astonvilla82]

The saving grace here is that the next two teams we play will come at us. I honestly believe that gives us a better chance of winning than playing someone shit who just sits back.

Truthfully we were shit anyway

[kippaxvilla2]

I’ve decided that as I’m 56 we are never winning anything again in my lifetime.  Once you square that thought the annoyance and dejection starts to dissipate.

[Rigadon]

The thing is, last night was pretty similar to all of the games we’ve straggled to win. We miss a couple of early chances, the pace of the game slows to a walk and before you know it there’s a few minutes left of game we’re losing or drawing when we should be winning.  We don’t currently have a goal scorer in the team.  It’s actually like we have an inured midfield and an injured attack.  He simply cannot keep playing Watkins anymore.  Bring him on as a sub.  But don’t start him. 

[PaulWinch again]

It’s really not as simple as swap Watkins out and all our ills are resolved. He’s struggling obviously, but we are producing hardly anything at all. Watkins might be done, he might come back to form, who knows - but we’re not addressing our attacking woes by swapping individual players. It’s the whole approach to the game, we’ve tried to cling on without McGinn and Tielemans and it’s not working. We need to be proactive and take risk.

[JUAN PABLO]

Last night was the perfect storm of how to get everything wrong. 
It was truly astonishing.
Let’s hope Emery can see this and pick the right team for Wednesday.
Watkins needs to be dropped and Tammy starts.
Maatsen for Digne.
Onana needs to be dropped.  His lack of effort and energy last night was disgraceful.
Buendia should be on the bench and used as a sub. 
Lindelof, Bogarde , Luiz should start with Rogers on the left. 
I would also be tempted to play Alysson on the right instead of Sancho.  The kid just looks like he can play both sides.  Him and Cash could rip teams apart on the right. 
Bailey should never be named in another Villa squad again. He killed us when he came on.
It wouldn’t be flowing football down the middle of the park but we currently don’t have the players to do this. 

My thoughts exactly Tony

that starting line up and subs was awful.

Buendia and Watkins staying on , why Bailey and not Alysson , Luca has been dire , so many questions.

[Brend'Watkins]

Any team that is defensively organised as Edward’s Wolves are will be capable of getting a result against this non performing lot. There are so many off it lately I’m just glad we have enough in the bank already. Emery can lose his shit all he likes but until he recognises that continuing with a slow build up and sticking to that system religiously will result in disaster if we don’t get in front early as it did last night, against Brentford, against Everton and against Leeds where we scraped a point. We don’t have the players to carry it out with the loss of our influential 3.

[Rigadon]

It’s really not as simple as swap Watkins out and all our ills are resolved. He’s struggling obviously, but we are producing hardly anything at all. Watkins might be done, he might come back to form, who knows - but we’re not addressing our attacking woes by swapping individual players. It’s the whole approach to the game, we’ve tried to cling on without McGinn and Tielemans and it’s not working. We need to be proactive and take risk.

It’s not that simple I agree but my point was that we keep missing chances early on or at key moments in games that had we scored, it would’ve a totally different game.  That Torres free header too.  Fuck sake, hit the target at least! If you don’t score relatively easy chances, it makes things much much harder. 

So no, it’s not simple.  But I’d start with a different CF (the one we just bought) and tell our remaining midfielders to be much more aggressive. 

[Demitri_C]

I’ve decided that as I’m 56 we are never winning anything again in my lifetime.  Once you square that thought the annoyance and dejection starts to dissipate.

I was actually thinking this myself funny enough.  I thought we would finish midtable when window closed in august so i do need to remember  that we are exceeding expectations  at the moment with this pretty average squad.

It would just feel like a massive kick in the balls if we missed out on CL now after being so clear in 3rd 🤕

[RamboandBruno]

It’s really not as simple as swap Watkins out and all our ills are resolved. He’s struggling obviously, but we are producing hardly anything at all. Watkins might be done, he might come back to form, who knows - but we’re not addressing our attacking woes by swapping individual players. It’s the whole approach to the game, we’ve tried to cling on without McGinn and Tielemans and it’s not working. We need to be proactive and take risk.

If we drop Watkins, which shouldn’t be out of the question, and Tammy is the main man, its going to change the way we have to play given Tammy is more a fox in the box, not necessarily, a bad thing but not easy to do at this stage of the season.
The other radical option, is to play both of them and sacrifice a wide player.

[Demitri_C]

It’s really not as simple as swap Watkins out and all our ills are resolved. He’s struggling obviously, but we are producing hardly anything at all. Watkins might be done, he might come back to form, who knows - but we’re not addressing our attacking woes by swapping individual players. It’s the whole approach to the game, we’ve tried to cling on without McGinn and Tielemans and it’s not working. We need to be proactive and take risk.

If we drop Watkins, which shouldn’t be out of the question, and Tammy is the main man, its going to change the way we have to play given Tammy is more a fox in the box, not necessarily, a bad thing but not easy to do at this stage of the season.
The other radical option, is to play both of them and sacrifice a wide player.

I would try them both personally

[Mellin]

I smell an argument for 352 brewing. No wingers. Plenty in central defence. Have to play a 6 and an 8 regardless. Two perfect full backs for it. This will go down well.

No back up centre forwards though. Alysson and Rogers?

[Sexual Ealing]

Please, no.

[AV82EC]

I agree with SE.