Ratings & Reactions: Villa v Brentford

[kiltorken]

Villa were dominant tonight with some truly excellent football against one of the best teams in the league, tired in the last 20 minutes but showed great character (again) to get something from the game which we deserved. 

Get a good centre back in for Jedinak and and we'll be serious challengers. 

[villatillidie1980]

Thought we deserved to take all three points to be honest, possibly slightly claret and blue specs on there, but still....

Some big positives for me, particularly first half and our pressing and general forward play. Definitely questions to be answered at the back, but I honestly think Axel can do a perfectly good job there - quick and strong. Can’t understand where RDL is?

The two new wingers will improve us massively but some additions to the back line will go further to helping us gain promotion. 

Big shoutout to Kodja and McGinn

Onwards and upwards

UTV

[NeilS]

3 minutes ago, stevenavfc1874 said:

You make it sound as if Bruce is sat there with an on/off switch. 2 teams are playing and it isn't possible to dominate for the entire match which is what you seem to expect.

I now have an image of Bruce on the sidelines holding a PS4 controller.

[blunther]

Best attacking football I’ve seen since wolves last season. But Tuanzebe is not a right back, Jedinak is certainly not a centre half. This is a back four you put out when you have five or six injuries, not your first choice back four. That’s on Bruce. Defensive signings or our season is gonna be a dud. 

 

Love the John and Jack show mind. 

[Lerner's Driver]

13 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

The Jekyll and Hyde nature of the match thread was ridiculous.  Somebody even called the keeper Gollini mk 2

It's standard. One bloke in the match thread last year said something like, "No, I won't give it a rest, it's all I've got left..." Which just about sums up the attitude of some people. No purpose unless they're expressing how angry and disappointed they are. 

[Villaphan04]

We played superbly for the first hour then it went south. Thought Whelan had an outstanding game 

[alreadyexists]

I thought people’s main critique of Bruce was that he was too defensive and played long balls. But tonight we weren’t defensive and we didn’t play long balls, so why are people still saying ‘Bruce out’?

When we win apparently it’s just the performance that matters, and when we don’t; it’s the result. Starting to sound like the bloke can’t win with some people.

[This Could Be Rotterdam]

2 points dropped. Needed fresh legs in the middle from 65 minutes. Mcginn looked tired but udnerstamdable considering. 

The ref was a disgrace! 

[Paul33]

Best 70 minutes of the entire Bruce era by a million miles and regardless of the result, I will take that as VERY encouraging.

I think we ran out of gas at 70 mins as we simply aren't used to playing a hi-line, hi-tempo game but that's the way we need to play from now on.

My only concern was the defence. Jedi is NOT NOT NOT a reliable CH and Tuanzebe is a poor right back ..... he'd do better in midfield. We may have to win games 4-3 throughout this season !!!

 

Edited August 22, 2018 by Paul33

[kiltorken]

1 minute ago, Paul33 said:

Best 70 minutes of the entire Bruce era by a million miles and regardless of the result, I will take that as VERY encouraging.

I think we ran out of gas at 70 mins as we simply aren't used to playing a hi-line, hi-tempo game but that's the way we need to play from now on.

My only concern was the defence. Jedi is NOT NOT NOT a reliable CH and Tuanzebe is a poor right back ..... he'd do better in midfield. we may have to win games 4-3 throughout this season !!!

 

Agree with everything although I thought tuanzebe was reasonably good

[briny_ear]

I suppose there is no chance Maupay will be retrospectively punished for the stamp?

Good performance for about 70 minutes but then we wobbled a bit. Well, a lot really. 

We obviously have a problem in front of goal.  Should have turned that early dominance into 2 or 3 goals but we didn’t have anyone tonight who looked like scoring except Jimmy. In our first two games midfielders and defenders filled the gap but that didn’t happen today. 

Need to sort this. We’re signing 2 new wingers but who they gonna cross it to?

Off now for a few days away from Villatalk since it will all be anti Bruce snd I really don’t see how he can be blamed for that draw.

It’s the forwards wot let us down.

 

Edited August 22, 2018 by briny_ear

[MackHaakon]

Much MUCH better from us, for most of that game we dominated completely. I think there is a point in the possesion-debate in the fact that in our best one hour of that game Brentford was completely out of tune in their passing game, and made simple errors giving the ball straight back. The point being that although a possesion based style might not always produce more chances it can really reduce the effectiveness of the other team having to start cold after a long spell in defense mode. 

McGinn is a fantastic player and my motm tonight. Maupay wins the a**hole of the evening award.

[sheepyvillian]

There really is something special about a last minute equaliser. The joy of seeing the opposition crumble, just as the fat lady takes the Mike.

Football at it's finest.

Edited August 22, 2018 by sheepyvillian

[villabromsgrove]

I enjoyed that.

Did we see players playing for their places tonight?

Did we see a manager told to take the shackles off and bugger the consequences?

I looked at the clock at 63 minutes and realised that the youngest team in the Championship were fitter than one of the oldest teams, but we showed some character!

We actually dominated Brentford, but they were sharper than us in key areas.

I will say it again .... I really enjoyed that match, and for the first time in living memory I gave Bruce a "Good" !!!!!!

[holteend1982]

Give kodjia motm for his goals but i thought whelan was outstanding doing his role. Its clear with 2 new wingers we will be a lot more of a threat going forward, that game should have been put to bed by the first half, fantastic performance just a shame about the result. 

[BleedClaretAndBlue]

1 minute ago, MackHaakon said:

Maupay wins the a**hole of the evening award.

Yep. Closely followed by Jon Moss who looks like the bloody penguin, on crack

[BigJim]

Generally good stuff but I thought Jack had an indifferent game (this from one of his biggest fans). Also, it seems to me that he and McGinn seem to want to take up the same space left of centre.  They both seem to prefer playing there, and Jack doesn't look so threatening coming in from the right. This is something that needs sorting: do we have the coaches to do it?

[terrytini]

If you didn’t enjoy our performance today, you never will, in my view.

[VillanousOne]

Nyland has made too many errors so far, but he did redeem himself in this game with some superb saves.

[One For The Road]

Villa fouls: 9

Villa bookings: 3

Brentford fouls: 17

Brentford bookings: 2

 

Moss is bloody awful.

 

 

Edited August 22, 2018 by One For The Road