Gave up watching at half time as I could guess the script. No way do we ever come back from two down. I simply cannot believe how much space we gave them nor the shocking performance from Mings who reminds me of Micah Richards at his worst, a lumbering HGV. Grealish is utter gash at the moment. He has for far too long got way with being ‘one of our own’. I can’t decide whether our attack is just plain awful or just gets poor service, probably both. To be honest I could count the players who deserved to wear the shirt tonight on one hand and have fingers spare.
Much as I like Deano the sad conclusion has to be he is out of his depth. I get the principle that the squad is not good enough, we simply could not buy enough talent with the money we could spend.There is some potential there but it’s not possible to allow it to develop sufficiently given the pressure of the PL. Having said that the players have no bottle, no fight and fail to even do the basics properly. That’s the responsibility of the manager. Just like Grealish Deano has traded for too long on being a Villa fan. Funnily enough he could probably get us back up but sadly we have to look to the longer term and make the change at the end of the season.