Wolves v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Demitri_C]

Dougie isn’t shit, he’s been thrown into a situation without hardly any matches, into a very disjointed side completely out of form and low on confidence. We had a slump at the start of the season with many players who looked shit, but then picked up and had a brilliant season.

Luiz was miles better last night than v Leeds. He was by far the best of the front 6. Still nowhere near his best but Emery's decision to hook him early was insane. Our midfield collapsed immediately. Bailey on other side somehow making Sancho look reasonable. That was a disastrous double sub.

Dougie must of been carrying a knock. There's no way Unai would of brought him off if it wasn't necessary.

Someone on the radio who is probably trying to stir the shit said there was booing at half time against Leeds and they were booed off last night. I was at the Leeds game and I didn't hear anything. I watched it in the pub last night and didn't hear any booing but I might be wrong. Does anyone know if it's true? If it is whoever was doing it needs to give their head a fucking good wobble.

I heard loud booing at half time on a podcast , not sure it was Villa or Wolves fans.

It was probably ours wolves played well in both games against us. We have been pretty dire in both if we are honest with ourselves. I thought at worst a draw but 2-0 to this hopeless team?

Im still shocked. God knows what chelsea and united will do to us if we perform anywhere close to this level of shitness against them.

Hopefully  and im sure we all are praying this that was the wake up call they needed because  ill tell you what if they perform like that again vs chelsea the fans are going to turn and its going to become very toxic

[Pete3206]

The best bit of the whole night was sacking off the first half after 30 minutes and grabbing a balti pie. If Wednesday is anything like that, we're going to get an absolute tonking.

[JUAN PABLO]

It doesnt matter If we actually play well against Manure , the red devil will be against us with a dodgy pen for them or an unbelievable VAR decision to chalk off our goal.

THe chavski game is the one we have to win. 

[Villa Lew]

A desperately disappointing and gutless performance, the only players I can give credit to are Maatsen and Alysson.

[TonyD]

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. 

[Hillbilly]

I had a dream that we lost pathetically to Wolves last night. So anyway, what time’s kickoff today? I’m sure we’ll do them.

[fredm]

When needs must, you just have to play 'ugly' football and grind out a result with sweat, blood and tears. We have seen the top teams do it many times in the past.

We havn't got that in our locker and it will cost us.

At the start of this season the players were not playing as they should. Ramsey had been sold, Martinez was looking to go out, nobody knew who might be in goal, teams seemed to have worked out how to play against us, and referees had taken a line of letting physical challenges go on much to Konsa etc. disgust. They seemed to take their bat home as shown by the results in the first five matches. Eventually something/somehow changed and we went on the run that we know they are capable of doing.  However along came a set of injuries, plus possible some decisions against us, and we showed we have no bottle, no guts to fight against this.  What we need is somehow to find the guts, spirit, call it what you like, but show that matches can be won by hard endeavour and spirit.  Perhaps this needs to be addressed in the next transfer window to find these types of players.

[Sexual Ealing]

When needs must, you just have to play 'ugly' football and grind out a result with sweat, blood and tears. We have seen the top teams do it many times in the past.

We havn't got that in our locker and it will cost us.

At the start of this season the players were not playing as they should. Ramsey had been sold, Martinez was looking to go out, nobody knew who might be in goal, teams seemed to have worked out how to play against us, and referees had taken a line of letting physical challenges go on much to Konsa etc. disgust. They seemed to take their bat home as shown by the results in the first five matches. Eventually something/somehow changed and we went on the run that we know they are capable of doing.  However along came a set of injuries, plus possible some decisions against us, and we showed we have no bottle, no guts to fight against this.  What we need is somehow to find the guts, spirit, call it what you like, but show that matches can be won by hard endeavour and spirit.  Perhaps this needs to be addressed in the next transfer window to find these types of players.

It does feel a bit like that.

[LeeS]

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.

[The Edge]

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.
[/quote
It definitely does when we're at full strength but I'm not sure we have the personnel to take advantage of the space we will have. I hope I'm wrong.

[Tony Daleys Shorts]

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.

Agree with all of this.

Alysson showed more daring and dash in 10 minutes than Sancho has all season. He should start for me.

[pauliewalnuts]

I do get a bit worried when we see Watkins looking so awful, constantly, but always starting.

Mind you, we were saying the same about Rogers earlier in the season.

[aj2k77]

Rogers was awful for 6 games or so. Watkins has been largely awful the entire season.

[KevinGage]

When needs must, you just have to play 'ugly' football and grind out a result with sweat, blood and tears. We have seen the top teams do it many times in the past.

We havn't got that in our locker and it will cost us.

We were pretty ugly against Bournemouth second-half, Leeds first-half and ground out a point each. I thought we were absolutely awful against Brighton, not much better than last night, and somehow we won.
Onana scores that chance last night and 1-1 is a poor but probably fair result.

It's a complete collapse in effective attacking play that is costing us most of all.

I dont think its a collapse, its not been there all season, hence the reliance on worldies

The injuries are unfortunate.

But agreeing to move on Malen (or playing him so little in his favoured position he requested a move) is a self inflicted blow.

It's not as if Ollie's form was so stellar in the early part of the campaign to warrant his guaranteed starter status.

Up to mid Jan we were a close knit squad who had just enough threat in the attacking third to cause sides problems. But we've messed with the delicate balance there and here we are.

FWIW I'd have kept Moore and Jimoh as options from the bench as well. They might have ended up running up blind allyways the way Bailey does and surrendering possession, true. But at a fraction of the cost.

And who knows, they might have been able to beat their marker occasionally.

[SamTheMouse]

Spunking 30 million quid on Guessand to play ON THE RIGHT WING was a fucking brainless decision. I'd love to know who thought that was a good idea.