Ratings and Reactions: Man Utd 4-1 Villa

[HongKongVillan]

Not defending the second 4-1 defeats and the fact we are shite - but I would probably have accepted 6 pts from last 4 fixtures

[butler50]

Is nobody else worried about us slipping into another relegation batte??..................Oh no wait were in one.  2 good wins at home would normally spark a team into some kind of form, but not us, not sure who is to blame there the manager or the players!!

[Bunnski]

They took their chances we didn't.  Gabby has been a liability this last 5 or 6 games, woeful again today and he is one of the players that we need playing well for us to play well in attack.  Ref was a pleb.

 

Westwood MOTM

[Villain4Life]

That went exactly as I had feared and expected ... *sighs*

 

Whatever, we go again. Maybe somehow we get 3 points against Fulham.

 

I don't know how, but maybe they score a couple of own goals.

[Harry]

Absolutely gobsmacked at the defender-free-Rooney-only zone they had pegged out at the top of our box.

 

I agree that the result flattered United but our defenders simply cannot track opposition players running into the box and our "world class" striker has three ridiculously good chances served up on a platter and can't even make contact with the ball in two of them,

I have said so many times on different threads on this forum that the minimum I would have expected from Lambert was a well organised side who were difficult to beat. Week in week out we fail to do the basics properly. Thats where Lambert is a poor manager in my opinion. I accept he has severe financial constraints but the failure of players to do the basics properly is what costs us again and again.

[dakid007]

Too many shit players who don't even fight

[poitier]

 

 

 

Once again very poor defending, the second goal annoyed me in particular because it was both lucky and poor defending and changed the game.

 

How was the second one lucky?

 

Vlaar should have stopped Kagawa's pass but didn't quite stretch far enough.

 

Eh? That's nothing to do with luck. It's either poor defending and/or a great pass.

 

 

Either the pass wasn't meant for Mata or it was a poor pass because Vlaar should have cut it out.

 

[PaulC]

 

 

Pathetic

A word used to describe villa pretty much every week

I would only keep Guzan vlaar Delph and Benteke from this team

The rest can piss right off

Get your wallet out Lerner you stingy tosser so all these jokers can jog on to the Scottish leagues

 

Sorry but Benteke was the main culprit for this defeat today. 3 easy chances cost us the game.

 

The shit defending had nothing to do with it then.

 

 

Plenty but i was responding to the post about keeping Benteke who had a mare today

[squirdle]

Another pathetic couldn't-care-less display from Lambert's Losers.

[Isa]

You aren't 'unlucky' to lose when you concede four goals I'm afraid.

[Mantis]

I'm really perplexed by a lot of the reactions on here. Terrible result but aside from some bad defending that was a pretty decent performance. May have been the same scoreline as last week but a completely different performance.

 

No doubt I'll get slaughtered for not thinking in black and white.

Edited March 29, 2014 by Mantis

[villarule123]

We better get out of holiday mode, because we're not out of it yet.

[The Fun Factory]

My thoughts today

 

Started well and yet again lost. According to a book I have just read called the 'Numbers Game' if your side scores first you should almost be guaranteed at least a point. I guess Villa likes to be a bit different. We also seem to have a inverse relationship between the greater possession we have the more likely we drop or lose points. This is a strange side.

 

Vlaar had a poor game today- if he plays badly we play poorly. He is our most valuable player. Bacuna is good going forwards but can't really defend. Yewunited took their chances and we didn't. We had 10 shots but only 1 on target. Football is a simple game- if you are more efficient in taking your chances than your opponents you win the game- no matter what the football hipsters, sabermetrics geeks and wannabe peps may say.

 

United are nowhere near a top 4 side and we are nowhere near the top half. We both deserve to be where we are in the table. I would say if we play like this versus Fulham we should win but we all know we will play crap and draw 1-1. Now time to sit in the garden and cool off....

Edited March 29, 2014 by The Fun Factory

[butler50]

My thoughts today

 

Started well and yet again lost. According to a book I have just read called the 'Numbers Game' if your side scores first you should almost be guaranteed at least a point. I guess Villa likes to be a bit different. We also seem to have a inverse relationship between the greater possession we have the more likely we drop or lose points. This is a strange side.

 

Vlaar had a poor game today- if he plays badly we play poorly. He is our most valuable player. Bacuna is good going forwards but can't really defend. Yewunited took their chances and we didn't. We had 10 shots but only 1 on target. Football is a simple game- if you are more efficient in taking your chances than your opponents you win the game- no matter what the football hipsters, sabermetrics geeks and wannabe peps may say.

 

United are nowhere near a top 4 side and we are nowhere near the top half. We both deserve to be where we are in the table. I would say if we play like this versus Fulham we should win but we all know we will play crap and draw 1-1. Now time to sit in the garden and cool off....

Totally agree here.  We do not show enough consitency in games for defending, scoring and form.  We will prob draw with fulham then rack in 4 goals versus someone we dont expect.  One more win should be enough.

[Rugeley Villa]

60% of the season we are utter shit. 20% we a very good and the other 20 not to bad

[ismail-villa]

Joe Bennett starts. We get a clean sheet against the league leaders and win. He gets dropped for the next two games. We lose both conceding 8 times.

Bennet is the key to success.

[The_Steve]

I'm really perplexed by a lot of the reactions on here. Terrible result but aside from some bad defending that was a pretty decent performance. May have been the same scoreline as last week but a completely different performance.

 

No doubt I'll get slaughtered for not thinking in black and white.

 

 

But...But... Lambert out. Worst Villa team ever....

Edited March 29, 2014 by The_Steve

[Davkaus]

A lot of people seem to think Rooney is massively overhyped, but you give him as much room as we did in the penalty area and only one thing is going to happen.

 

I'm not surprised by the result, they're still a good team and we can't expect to get consistent results against a team in 7th when we're in the bottom half, but that's as easy a game as they've had all season, and Stoke had the same last week.

 

How quickly we unravel.

Edited March 29, 2014 by Davkaus

[Electric Avenue]

We played that game like it was some **** exhibition game in a kuala Lumpa for Asian Yanited fans. Drive me nuts these so called Aston villa players who give up week after week

Are we In a R battle ? Yes .

[heid3ster]

Our defenders will catch a lot of flak for this result (rightly so), but I think our forwards lost this one. Benteke missed chance after gilt-edged chance. Agbonlahor constantly gave the ball away, at least twice leading directly to opposition goals. Weimann, I barely remembered he was playing except when he was throwing himself to the ground and then wasting time remonstrating with the ref while United went on the break (OK, to be fair to him, Fellaini did foul him that one time). And sadly, if you take one of these guys off, who's on the bench to come on in their place? Tonev. Holt. Not really going to throw the fear of God into anyone.

 

Delph and Westwood did well. Westwood's free kick was a cracker. Fairly disappointed in everyone else.