Aston Villa v Spurs Post-Match Thread

[Somniloquism]

Cash - ok defensively but zero impact going forward

Apart from the last minute of course. All the others I totally agree with.

[KevinGage]

Ass

Hi Def. Low effort.

Standard end-of-the- season

End-of-the-pier

Performance from the Villa boys.

[mallo]

I do hope there’s a plan we don’t know about - and it involves a massive turnaround in attitude and commitment

[DB]

Emery wrote that game off with his team selection. He's gambles for Thursday, I bloody hope he was right. We don't have the depth in squad quality to make that many changes. After our first choice 11, we really are poor.

Whatever happens, the squad needs a overhaul based on that performance.

[brontebilly]

Cash - ok defensively but zero impact going forward

Apart from the last minute of course. All the others I totally agree with.

Lindelof was awful for the second goal I thought. Maatsen bullied by Muani with ease. Front 6 were useless. Bogarde at least ran.

[devilla]

I've just got back.

Worst performance I've seen in a very long time. Outplayed, outthought and most worrying, outfought. We made a terrible team look like Real Madrid. Absolutely no goal threat until the match was nearly over.

There was a moment in the second half which summed it up for me. We get our first corner, everyone's in the box waiting for a cross but what happens? They try a fancy ass short corner routine which ends when we go offside.

I understand about prioritising the Europa League but do we think we're going to get past Forest on the back of that result? Yes a few players will be changed but success isn't a tap that  can be just turned on at will. What happens if we don't win it and have to rely on our league position? Realistically, we have one winnable league game left and based on tonight's performance we may even lose that.

[Smithy]

Emery wrote that game off with his team selection. He's gambles for Thursday, I bloody hope he was right. We don't have the depth in squad quality to make that many changes. After our first choice 11, we really are poor.

Whatever happens, the squad needs a overhaul based on that performance.

I don't think it's THAT bad after the first 11, but I don't think it's good enough to make 7 changes and not see a drop off in standard.  2 or 3 changes, that's easy enough. 7 though? No, that's going to have a noticeable impact. And it did. And until we can stack our squad with International players, that's always going to be the case.

I think every Villa fan saw that line-up and thought "okay, he's prioritising Thursday".  And you know what, that's fair enough.  It's a risk, but he's paid to make those decisions.  However, I suspect Unai was expecting one or two of those players to really stand up and make him think about including them in this club's biggest game of the season.  And not one of them did that.

About 20 years ago, a mate of mine that I played with on a Saturday, was getting married on the Sunday - but he chose to play our league game the day before, because we were short.  He jumped out of every tackle. Avoided all aerial challenges, and barely broke a sweat all game. His kit didn't need washing. 

I hadn't thought about that game in years, until I watched our first half today.

[brontebilly]

Barkley & Tammy leading our press from the front tonight. Was like a bad dream. Tielemans pushing
up after them and getting ran over repeatedly. Bogarde left lost trying to cover a massive space.

Is Barkley back on the booze again? I’m not sure I saw him even break into a jog.

He can't run. Ok in midfield against likes of West Ham who stepped off us but against most PL teams he's a liability. Another Emery blindspot.

[PeterWithe]

There was a moment in the second half which summed it up for me. We get our first corner, everyone's in the box waiting for a cross but what happens? They try a fancy ass short corner routine which ends when we go offside.

Yup, I thought that was a pivotal moment, we were appalling first half but I was thinking,well we can’t get worse.

Then that happened, and it sucked any misplaced confidence out of the crowd. Really shit from that Fanny Sancho.

[aj2k77]

Huge week ahead. A genuinely pivotal week. The difference between 2 good and 2 bad results is massive.

[TonyD]

I don't think i've ever seen Villa ditch a game so blatantly as that.

Moscow?

[TonyD]

Throwing the game like that is a utter disgrace

Well that is exactly what happened

He did indeed threw the game. 

Hope it pays off if we beat Forest n Burnley.

[eamonn]

Most of our League Cup games under Emery.
Stevenage?
Man City away two seasons ago.
Brighton away two seasons ago.
Palace on the last day a couple of weeks later when we were on the piss.

Unai seems to be more at peace with this stuff, maybe it's more accepted in Spain where fans aren't fleeced by the cost of football so much.

[TonyD]

That was the most pathetic “performance” I’ve seen in years. They should all be utterly embarrassed. We’ve been rubbish since January, but that’s the first time I feel we’ve actually chucked it.

Dismal - all of them.

It wasn’t their fault

Emery obviously threw the game

[kippaxvilla2]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX5IJftMjqO/?igsh=MTZtZml6eHJtOWNzZQ==

Can’t disagree