Manchester Utd vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[kippaxvilla2]

Stop picking Watkins.  Stop playing Rogers out of position.  Stop playing the convalescence home bound Mings.  Play your best fcuking side.  You might have a chance then.

[eamonn]

For ten minutes we gave them a battle, just before our equaliser and just after it. Tammy misses a sitter, Bailey fucks-up a pass into their box, they break and Konsa ball-watches while Cunah - a player who routinely scores against us and who our coaches would have drilled into our players to monitor; gets free and has a simple chance.

Unlikely to come back again after that, they got a bit of luck for their third.

When things aren't going for you, you have to dig-deep and fight fire with fire. We played with the handbrake on in the first half which is more about structure than confidence. But I really wish we would show more intent in the first half of games, being reactive in this league will only get you so far. That's on Emery. We don't have the class of Tielemans and Kamara so expecting inferior players to thrive in a structure that is heavily dependent on those two players is seriously flawed.

[curiousorange]

Every time you expect it, every time you're still fucking appalled at the performance.

[brontebilly]

Can anybody see any positives from that performance?

Mings and Barkley were ok I thought. Was fuming they started but did well.

[Nev]

We looked the we are, a team on the decline through injuries, lack of confidence and of most of all lack of progression. Appalling recruitment, dragging rejected players back and no room for manoeuvre financially.

Emery will leave and we will revert to PL cannon fodder.

[Olof's Beard]

The second goal was so shite after we had responded to going behind well and getting the equaliser. Gave the ball away cheaply and then a pathetic lack of pressure on the ball, so so easy. Shipping goals and blunt up front with terrible decision making. Just massively disappointing.

[geolex]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Both Villa and Man United needed to buy about three attackers this summer. They went and spent, what, 200m+? We were left scraping the barrel. One club is in chronic debt, the other isn't. One has 50p negative net spend over the last five years. The other doesn't.

Alrighty then.

So we spent what little we had on Guessand £30m, Elliot and not play him  and give Sancho the best part of £180k a week, its not all down to FFP, a lot is down to absolute crap transfer dealings which we then compound by getting shot of Malen and paying £18m for a player we could've got for £11m.... maybe we might be better off if we didnt piss money away on players who arent good enough

[Rudy Can't Fail]

When things aren't going for you, you have to dig-deep and fight fire with fire. We played with the handbrake on in the first half which is more about structure than confidence. But I really wish we would show more intent in the first half of games, being reactive in this league will only get you so far. That's on Emery. We don't have the class of Tielemans and Kamara so expecting inferior players to thrive in a structure that is heavily dependent on those two players is seriously flawed.

Amen.

[Sexual Ealing]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Both Villa and Man United needed to buy about three attackers this summer. They went and spent, what, 200m+? We were left scraping the barrel. One club is in chronic debt, the other isn't. One has 50p negative net spend over the last five years. The other doesn't.

Alrighty then.

So we spent what little we had on Guessand £30m, Elliot and not play him  and give Sancho the best part of £180k a week, its not all down to FFP, a lot is down to absolute crap transfer dealings which we then compound by getting shot of Malen and paying £18m for a player we could've got for £11m.... maybe we might be better off if we didnt piss money away on players who arent good enough

Yep.

[AlexAlexCropley]

When things aren't going for you, you have to dig-deep and fight fire with fire. We played with the handbrake on in the first half which is more about structure than confidence. But I really wish we would show more intent in the first half of games, being reactive in this league will only get you so far. That's on Emery. We don't have the class of Tielemans and Kamara so expecting inferior players to thrive in a structure that is heavily dependent on those two players is seriously flawed.

Amen.

Eamonn

[BoVillan esq]

Just don't get it, what is wrong with Unai? the one team you would never contemplate bringing Bailey on against it has to be Manchester you freaking nighted, we went in at half time 0-0, fine, we went one goal down, live with that, you can always come back and we did with a wonderful goal from Barclay, what the hell has been going on with Elliot, how would you prefer Bailey to Elliot against this lot, even under the restrictions he has another game in him, ffs Unai use him when it would best count, have to say it we could easily taken a point from that, Manchester Utd are no great shake, and it not written in the stars that we have to lose to them.

I do hope Unai that their is some magic formula and reasoning to all this like we are going for the Europa tourney to get into the top level of Europe, some kind of thinking none of us are privvy to because otherwise this all  going to look pretty sick.   

Lets hope Spurs can dig something up at Anfield. 

[AV82EC]

We looked all nicey nicey with the ball up until half time but were hugely passive. Came out for the second half in sleep mode duly conceded and then fought our way back to equalise. We then decided to give Fernandez the freedom of OT for the rest of the match and that was that.

Special mention today for Watkins, Rogers and Buendia. Absolutely fucking useless from all three of them which will hopefully be reflected in brontebillys scores shortly.  Abraham and Bailey offered not much more when they came on. Luiz on far too late as Barkley was running in treacle from after his goal.

In addition I get the need to manage minutes but are we really saying our first choices in Maatsen, Torres can’t manage three big games in a week?

[taylorsworkrate]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Both Villa and Man United needed to buy about three attackers this summer. They went and spent, what, 200m+? We were left scraping the barrel. One club is in chronic debt, the other isn't. One has 50p negative net spend over the last five years. The other doesn't.

Alrighty then.

So we spent what little we had on Guessand £30m, Elliot and not play him  and give Sancho the best part of £180k a week, its not all down to FFP, a lot is down to absolute crap transfer dealings which we then compound by getting shot of Malen and paying £18m for a player we could've got for £11m.... maybe we might be better off if we didnt piss money away on players who arent good enough

Exactly this. We can moan all we like about the financial restrictions but no one forced us to buy a turd in Guessand and give an oxygen thief like Sancho that sort of wage.

[eamonn]

When things aren't going for you, you have to dig-deep and fight fire with fire. We played with the handbrake on in the first half which is more about structure than confidence. But I really wish we would show more intent in the first half of games, being reactive in this league will only get you so far. That's on Emery. We don't have the class of Tielemans and Kamara so expecting inferior players to thrive in a structure that is heavily dependent on those two players is seriously flawed.

Amen.

It's Eamonn but thanks

[Deano's Mullet]

Last 12 league games - 3 wins 3 draws 6 defeats.