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Everyone slating  Cash..Digne hasn't been much better. Woeful. 

46 minutes ago, Derryvillan said:

Can anyone tell me the song the fans were singing,started with 'Thursday nights' I think.

Oh what a night

Watching Villa on a Thursday night

Blues are watching cos they're **** shite

What a feeling, what a night

(Something like that I think)

Poor performance, very similar to Newcastle. Lenglet and Alex Moreno can't play together. Definite weak link on our left. How the ref gave 4 minutes when Chelsea wasted 10+ is baffling. 

Not looking forward to Sunday now.

4 mins added time haha

Why the booing?

WTF must Coutinho be thinking.

Bet he can't wait for the summer already so he can go elsewhere 

So many poor performances tonight

1 minute ago, penguin said:

Why do Mings and sometimes Konsa keep bombing on? Reminds me of Micah Richards the season we went down, just stay back the benefit is nowhere near the risk

Trying to make amends is my guess on Mings' part. I'd rather he stayed back and not create holes. 

Tyrone Mings is the difference between this side challenging for Europe and not...

Love how we appear to be one of the only clubs that can operate a transfer in stealth mode!

4 minutes ago, KMitch said:

I'm dejected.  I haven't felt this badly about a Villa managerial appointment since McLeish. So much for all the interested & high profile candidates Percy alluded to.  We sacked a fan favorite manager who hasn't let us down in 3 years at the first sign of a bad patch in form, when he hasn't even had his strongest first 11 available for him to utilize once this season.  For his replacement, we went for a manager who has only managed a football team for as long as NSWE has owned Aston Villa.  His experience is purely at a club where they spent more money than any other team in the league, and managed to beat their only competing club because they lost their manager and made a poor appointment with his replacement.  Forget all the player history/Liverpool connections.  I don't care about any of that.  I think it's equivalent to promoting someone right out of grad school to being a C-Suite executive at a huge company, purely because he's famous for doing something else and friends with the CEO.  Do I think Gerrard is an upgrade at all on Dean Smith?  Absolutely not.  I think Smith would walk the SPL with Rangers, if given the opportunity.  Do I think this appointment is a massive mistake and will cost Purslow his job within the next two years?  Yes, I do.  I'll officially be changing my avatar once Gerrard is announced, because I think Purslow has lost the plot here.  

Will I back Gerrard?  Yes, just like every other Villa manager we've had, but I'm not happy at all.  I sincerely hope I'm wrong and Gerrard ends up turning the team around and leading us into Europe, but I just can't see that happening at this time.  Gutted.  

If I could be arsed the write up a decent response, it would be along these lines. Utterly underwhelmed.

I call bullshit. What do Talksport know really? They're The Sun of the radio. Not worried...yet.

So angry with him. What was he thinking? Cost us any chance of getting back into the game.

I know he's young and still learning at this level but he is such a liability at times. 

Genuinely hate Ross Barkely way more than I've ever hated an Aston Villa player. Struts around like the world owes him a favour. Dog shit.

What is the point of Ross Barkley. Clown.

4 minutes added time and to blow up on 4 minutes is a **** joke. VAR must've taken 3 or 4 minutes on the red card alone plus 6 subs or so at 30 seconds a piece?

Officials were abysmal tonight all round Inc. The red card. Useless.

Doesn't excuse the embarrassing performance. Complacency in this squad is a real issue. It's no coincidence we keep losing against the teams we should be beating.

Elmo and Targett were just shockingly bad tonight. Elmore especially at fault for the goal by trying to let it run. Inexcusable for a player with his experience. 

McGinn isn't good enough, sorry.

Just crap all around. So disappointed. 

This performance reeks of complacency. Trying flicks and showboating. Basics first ffs

We ain't scoring tonight chaps

2 minutes ago, AndyM3000 said:

Sanson and Luiz on ffs. Get a grip of this midfield.

Smith doesn't do changes. It will stay the same until the 70th minute at least

Haven't read the rest of this thread but N'golo Nakamba was simply superb. What a player, exactly what we've been missing. Sometimes fans get it wrong with their opinions but sometimes we get it right. Today was one of those times. Barkley just hasn't been up to it. Douglas Luiz possibly needs a rest or a reality check. Either way, Nakamba and Ramsey came in tonight and showed them both up. We have a player in Ramsey, its beautiful to see.

Great performance, Dean Smith tactically out smarted Bielsa ball. 

No wonder Bielsa wanted Grealish to play, he worked out how to stop us WITH Grealish, he didn't have a scooby without. 

UTV

Back in full training now

Anyone willing to predict when we will see him in action? A good 4-6 weeks would be my guess

If McGinn starts I will be fuming. Something is not right with him at the moment. I don't know if he needs a rest, a kick up the backside or a wake up call but he was awful against Brighton. I cant remember noticing a player give the ball away so many times.

That said however, you can make a decent case for any of that midfield being dropped and is noticeably our area of weakness.

We will probably turn up against Leicester, we tend to struggle against those we should be beating.

2-0 Villa win. 

Crap.

I'd love to see the pass completion stats for McGinn, he must have given the ball away about 8 times at least tonight, that's what it felt like anyway.

Douglas Luiz a passenger again along with Barkley (obviously). Nakamba must be scratching his head wondering how he hasn't got into that midfield 3.

Chelsea must have an if fit, Barkley plays clause in his loan deal.

So disappointed tonight, that was a point gained, if teams press us and put 2 players on jack, we can't cope. 

What a difference a few days makes. Villa back to the side we've loved this season. Hard working, difficult to beat, switched on. I thought the whole side were brilliant today. The whole back line were incredible, Mings is back to to player we know and love. He just needs to alleviate the cocky element of his game and focus like today and he's immense. 

McGinn had a good game today as well for the first time in a while and I'm so thankful for Dean for trusting his bench and making changes. We didn't miss Luiz at all, Nakamba came in and really staked his claim.

Early kick offs can go either way, so pleased it's set our weekend off to a good one.

UTV 

I've slept on it. Decided best not to come on here and vent. 

This was the worst performance of the season, we were tactically poor and simply bullied. Moyes showed his premier league experience which Dean doesn't have yet. That said however, that West Ham side is very good on paper, they could very well be getting a CL spot this season so trying not to be too disheartened. 

What I do find frustrating is the lack of changes, I don't care what anyone says, we look jaded. You can't play the same 11 week in week out in the PL and get away with it. I fully expected to see some rotation tonight. McGinn has been poor for some time now and the less said about Barkley's performance the better. £40m? No chance! 

I wouldn't expect a league 2 goalkeeper to get beat like that