City 1-1 Villa - Post Match

[Dr The Singh]

1 minute ago, sishades said:

Matty Piper criticising Chillwell for playing safe. 

If Matty says it, so it must be true

[Dahnsouff]

3 minutes ago, Kitchandro said:

First post I've read where someone has been honest instead of just saying Villa did well.

 

Villa didn't do well, they just dived all game. We should be taking responsibility for our poor performance and team selection.

That is not right for me. If you think Mings did not do well, then I barely know what too say. Come on, he did.

[holyfox]

16 minutes ago, Foxy_Bear said:

Some really poor performances tonight. 

 

Chilwell was poor.

Perez was non existent. 

Maddison was frustrated. 

Tielemans was dreadful.

 

All credit to villa though, they defended brilliantly and  got what they came for, the tie is still alive. 

 

 

Agree with the rest, but Perez had a good game  and seemed to be the biggest threat in the first half

[Cadno'r Cymoedd]

Genuinely perplexed by what formation we were trying to play. If you have three in the centre at the back then you'd expect Chilwell and Ricardo to motor down the flanks more as genuine wing backs. But they were often stayed out wide but were stationary.  When Chilwell did go forward, his inclination was to pass backwards. Rodgers got our tactics a tad wrong I felt. 

 

Tielemans was slow in thought and deed but in his (slight) defence there was little attacking movement ahead of him. 

 

All said though, I think we have enough to win the second leg outright in 90. 

[sishades]

1 minute ago, Dr The Singh said:

If Matty says it, so it must be true

It is. 

[Dahnsouff]

2 minutes ago, Dr The Singh said:

That means Brendon's failed?

Does it?

[Dr The Singh]

Just now, Dahnsouff said:

Does it?

Yes

[baldeagle]

I would have left Praet on and taken Tielemans off as I thought Praet was playing well. I also think this game highlighted the huge difference between our LWB. and our RWB we need a left sided  Ricky . Thought Pérez was good and I actually thought when they were bringing Nacho on he was going to score which is a nice feeling to have for a change . 

[Mark]

We’ve been struggling at home for a few months now but a back five, constantly passing inside and no pace out wide is not the answer.

[Marshall Cockney Fox]

I think tactically Brendan got it wrong tonight. However Villa proper parked the bus, so without a Mahrez it was hard to get through them. Let's re-group and be a lot better at their ground.

[sishades]

2 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

That means Brendon's failed?

No, he just did not win.

[Dr The Singh]

Positives are that we have 90 mins to make this right.  We have the fire power and personnel to make it happen.

 

The pressure will be on Villa as the home side to take the initiative, which against lesser teams, works to our favour

[sishades]

BR on Radio L. saying exactly what is being said on this forum. 

[Spudulike]

Sky pundits seem gutted about our goal. We would've been told that it was a masterclass in pressing had Liverpool done that. 

[ScouseFox]

3 minutes ago, ttfn said:

Enough with giving referees responsibility for managing the clock.

 

3 minutes of stoppage time at the end of the game is absolutely absurd. Whether we looked like scoring or not is irrelevant, we’re being short-changed.

glad someone else said it seen as i comment on it in most games. there was a good minute alone just for their fella having a cut lip. add to that that someone got booked for timewasting with 20 minutes to go, 6 subs, a goal, and just general stoppages in play i don't think 6 minutes would've been unrealistic. 

 

they could've scored in injury time, we could've scored in injury time, who knows. but we can't just keep adding 3 or 4 minutes onto games because it has been the norm for 25 years when the game has lost about 10 minutes of play in a half. 

[Dr The Singh]

1 minute ago, sishades said:

No, he just did not win.

So what was Brendan's game plan?  Not to win?

[Jonezy]

Kavanagh is really shit and incosistent isn't he....? How can Grealish get a freekick every single time he falls and Ricardo can't buy one for his life? 

 

Fair play Villa. That was a decent parked bus that one. We need more quality from our main guys to penetrate busses like that.  

[brucey]

We have an ‘easier’ run of fixtures in Jan, then a ‘tougher’ run in Feb. I worry that without Wilf we’ll drop a fair few points in the Jan fixtures and the gap to 5th will become uncomfortably narrower....

[lgfualol]

We needed this:

 

"Look lads, stop crossing the ball as Mings is ****ing massive and will clear any high cross into the box". Felt like Shakespeare was manager again.

[Legend_in_blue]

I blame the competition.  If it's a two legged tie where away goals count for double, the onus is on the away side to attack more.

 

Villa no strikers, park the bus, it was obvious what would happen.

 

Hopefully they do not adopt the same approach at home.  Once they come at us, we will do them over.

[southfox66]

You can't blame teams coming to us and parking the bus, we need to learn how to break teams that shut up shop, that's one of our biggest problems, we seem to have two modes exceptional or dire.   I'm just glad away goals don't count 😂

[sishades]

Villa training pics...

 

 

 

Here they are practising defending free kicks

 

 

 

Jack Grearlish on a slightly windy day

 

 

 

[CosbehFox]

3 minutes ago, Jonezy said:

Kavanagh is really shit and incosistent isn't he....? How can Grealish get a freekick every single time he falls and Ricardo can't buy one for his life? 

 

Fair play Villa. That was a decent parked bus that one. We need more quality from our main guys to penetrate busses like that.  

Before their goal Ricardo was taken out by their left wing back. He fairly waved play on but failed to even book the bloke. 

[l444ry]

Brendan has probably forgotten more than I know about football. But just wish he'd not forgotten that a proper defensive midfielder should be the first name on any team sheet regardless of any opposition or any system adopted. Hopefully Hamza’s second half showing will have reinforced this opinion.

[CosbehFox]

Remember by the way that’s Aston Villa, a club which loved to point that they are bigger, have bigger crowds, won the European Cup in 1982, pride of the Midlands celebrating a draw. 

 

Which is fair in their predicament. But times have changed