Aston Villa v Spurs Post-Match Thread

[OzVilla]

I absolutely hate us right now.

[LeonW]

Team selection inexplicable. People may say we just need to win the Burnley game are not taking into account our atrocious away form in the premier league in 2026.

[Somniloquism]

So, so, so, utterly predictable. As is Thursday.

Come-on Woody, even you couldn't predict we would have put out a team who decided "Effort" was banned word at Villa Park now and a manager who thinks 83 mins is the amount of time you should give when following the Big Ron style of "you guys got us in this mess, it is up to you to get us out" to see that they are not actually listening to that and not bothered to get us out.

[Flamingo Lane]

Given the context of the game, and the supposed levels, that is easily one of the worst performances that I've seen from a Villa team in more than 60 years of supporting the club. Absolutely shameful.

[Deano's Mullet]

Last 15 league games W 4 D 4 L 7

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Can't remember a team (forget a shit team) that dominated us for 90 minutes at Villa Park.

Did they dominate us or did just none of our staff even care about today?

It depends if it was intentional we couldn't two passes together all game while did the opposite.

[kippaxvilla2]

Thinking back.  My suspicions were aroused by Emery’s post match interview on Thursday.  He mentioned the second leg then hesitatingly mentioned Tottenham almost like he didn’t care.

[BoVillan esq]

A view from the terraces as they used to say, this kind of game is a defining moment in spectator interest, in other words you could have to watch this shit, choke on it, sleep on it and then have this inspirational moment like, time to have a rest watching football, it just isn't worth the crap that you have to put up with and this was pure crap.

[Goldie.7]

Emery makes no sense. He claims the priority is the league, but then plays Bogarde over Luiz. I’ve never been the biggest Luiz fan, but even I know he’s light-years better than Bogarde.

He’s also completely burned out Rogers, which is borderline neglect.

[itbrvilla]

This will be forgotten when we win on Thursday

some VP games you can never erase from the memory, Stoke under MON still weighs on me and i don't think I'll ever fully recover from tonight's farrago

Agreed. This is definitely one of them.

Add Bradford to that.

[Billy Walker]

Last year we went on holiday to the Canadian Rockies. It was beautiful. Just incredible views everywhere.

At a certain pointpoint, I said to the Mrs, “ it’s weird. I feel like describing this as ‘beautiful’ or even ‘incredible’ is doing it a disservice, those words just do not even get near to describing it.

It is almost like superlatives had no place there, there isn’t a word strong enough to describe it.

Anyway, watching that tonight, I was thinking back to the above scenario as very similar to how I feel tonight, and it feels uncannily similar.

Except the words here are not “beautiful” and “incredible”, they are “embarrassing”, “pathetic” and “shameful”.

*If* the logic behind tonight's team selection gets us over the line on Thursday night, will those adjectives change? 

[Proposition Joe]

Go through on Thursday and personally I won’t give a fuck about today.

Indeed. No one will.

I will. A win today would have made CL all but certain, a win on Thursday just gets us into a final and does not guarantee we won't shit the bed in said final.

And we won't go through on Thursday anyway, will we. We'll concede an idiotic goal on about 14mins and spend the rest of the game huffing and puffing and never looking remotely like blowing the house down. Either that or Konsa and Pau will just pass the ball to each other for 85mins and we'll just realise we're behind in the tie for the last 5mins.

[TaxDodger]

If it wasn’t for the fact that Tottenham going down would have been hilarious, my only criticism with the starting line up would have been the fact that it contained Morgan Rogers and Youri Tielemans.

[LeonW]

Go through on Thursday and personally I won’t give a fuck about today.

Indeed. No one will.

I will. A win today would have made CL all but certain, a win on Thursday just gets us into a final and does not guarantee we won't shit the bed in said final.

And we won't go through on Thursday anyway, will we. We'll concede an idiotic goal on about 14mins and spend the rest of the game huffing and puffing and never looking remotely like blowing the house down. Either that or Konsa and Pau will just pass the ball to each other for 85mins and we'll just realise we're behind in the tie for the last 5mins.

Unfortunately, I think this will be the case.

[JUAN PABLO]

Might be lucky Bournemth have to play Man City cause playing liek that we aint winning another game.

Absolute dire tonight .  Emery what are you doing ?