Ratings and Reactions: Villa 1-4 Stoke

[coda]

Not as bad as Fulham away. 

[Kingfisher]

We were a football team for 5 mins. We were a pub team once they scored. Bunch of kids, no experience, no consistency.

[NurembergVillan]

[Electric Avenue]

One more win and we should be safe . Ultimately that's all that matters now this season

[shaggy]

Everyone leaving before the final whistle at home should say it all.

[Ponky]

Bullied off the ball by a bigger, faster, stronger and more desperate team. Comedy defending.

 

Delph comes away with some credit from this game. The rest can GAGF.

[bradarmstrong_]

Typical Villa bottling a chance to pretty much confirm premier league status and cement our position in the top half of the table. Embarrassing being beaten at home to one of the worst away teams in the league, up there with the Sheff Utd game.  

[pacbuddies]

There are no 'overreactions'. This poor situation has been going on for far too long but some fans just accept their fate with the same pathetic attitude that the team has.

[lexicon]

Young team in being inconsistent shocker. Bad day at the office but no position my fretting about it. Next.

[Electric Avenue]

Glad I stayed home in the warm with a roast on

[Danwichmann]

 

Shocking. No composure, no plan, no clue. 

 

 

Um. Same plan as the one that beat Chelsea and Norwich. Looked great at 1-0 up, committed suicide with individual errors defending, then all the confidence was gone and we struggled.

Bad day at the office, get over it.

 

 

Ok, we started with a plan, but there was no plan B. I've been a big supporter of Lambert all the way through, but I'm starting to find some decisions incomprehensible. Why is Albrighton being played in the middle when we've got two up front and no service what so ever going in to them? We needed to change things and Lambert had no ideas. 

 

When we're good we're great, there's no denying that. But when we're up against it we struggle to change things. 

[Paul33]

MEN -v- BOYS #nuffsaid

[lexicon]

There are no 'overreactions'. This poor situation has been going on for far too long but some fans just accept their fate with the same pathetic attitude that the team has.

So what are you going to do about it then?

[Risso]

Dire.

[briny_ear]

Guzan-5

Bacuna-2

Baker- 2

Vlaar- 3

Bertrand- 3

Westwood- 3

Delph- 5

Kea- 4

Weimann- 3

Benteke- 5

Gabby- 2

Sylla- 2

Holt- 3

Marc- 4

much too generous. Get your claret and blue tinted specs off!

[Electric Avenue]

There are no 'overreactions'. This poor situation has been going on for far too long but some fans just accept their fate with the same pathetic attitude that the team has.

Yes after 13 home losses I don't think there can be an "over reaction"

Lambert needs to pack his suitcase and **** off

[roonst83]

Lol disgraceful. The atmosphere was shite today, it was like nobody could be bothered to be there

Much like most of our players then.

 

We are inept against teams around us. This was much like West Ham. Once we go behind we have absolutely no idea how to break a team down. I expect the same against Fulham who will no doubt come and roll us over in a fortnight. (Not to mention the annual Old Trafford rape we'll get next week) I'm now back to being worried and looking over our shoulder at the teams below us - just want to be safe. A win today would've more than likely done that. Typical of us to bottle it. Lambert spending all week saying how confident the team were after Chelsea - and then we turn out that utter shite. It happens all too often. 

[shaggy]

To be hammered by Stoke shouldn't be excepted with a shrug of the shoulder though.

[villarule123]

1-4 at home to Stoke, it happens.

[regular_john]

Guzan - nothing to do but pick the ball out from his own net

 

Bacuna - absolutely atrocious

Vlaar - uncharacteristically poor composure

Baker - rash, poor concentration, showed his inexperience

Bertrand - the best of the back four, not that that says much

 

Westwood - didn't really get a hold of the game, didn't do too badly though

Delph - our best player, the only one apart from Benteke who can walk off with his head held high

El Ahmadi - wasn't doing badly, unlucky with the injury

 

Weimann - ineffectual, unlucky with the injury

Benteke - did the best he could, poor service and support though

Agbonlahor - poor

 

Albrighton - uneven, some bright sparks and probably deserves a start soon

Sylla - doesn't belong at this level, useless

Holt - a pointless substitution, we were never going to outmuscle their centre halves or get anywhere with long balls