Ratings & Reactions: Villa v Leeds

[Demitri_C]

Oh and on another note keep your stupid mouth shut gabby when your bloody critising a team we are playing next.

Imbecile

[The Fun Factory]

Does anyone really care about what Gabby says? Most Villa fans don't and I doubt anybody else would either.

[GingerCollins29]

Looking forward to wesley getting back in the team

[nepal_villan]

Credit to Leeds, they were outstanding.  Could have been a different game if one of Grealish's chances went in.  Thought we were very naïve and not prepared to counter Leeds' tactics. 

Maybe the reality check we needed. Now let's focus on bettering last years standing.

[stewiek2]

The talk of Jack holding onto the ball too much is gonna come to light again. He had that greedy shot when Watkins was free then they went up the other end and scored. Darnit Jack that's why Gareth won't pick you, you gotta know when to  hold and when but do it at the right time

[MattVillaPortsmouth]

Wasnt at our best, but fair play to them (as much as I hate saying it) there game plan worked - we just need to cut out the moaning/feeling hard down by approach if it doesn’t go our way and keep in the fight.

jack or Konsa score and it’s a different outcome.
 

Barkley doesn’t look totally fit to me, we need all 3 to tick in the middle

[est1874]

Better say something positive about that 3-0 home drubbing, or be labelled a Worse Fan.

There will be highs and lows this season. This is a low. But it is a significant one for me, because Leeds clearly wanted it more and worked a lot harder than us. It'll be interesting to see how we pick ourselves up against Southampton, Smith needs a reaction.

Hard work please. That's the minimum requirement at this level.

[VillanousOne]

Playing Sunday then Friday did us no favours half our team looked completely knackered in the second half, no intensity, poor positioning.

We stopped defending as a team in the last 45 mins.

[mottaloo]

@leemond2008you please arrange a jaw volleying to a P Bamford ?

Thanks 

[The_Steve]

1 minute ago, OutByEaster? said:

I don't think Davis, Hourhane and Nakamba were the answer to tonight's questions.

Depth is going to be our biggest problem this season though.

 

That's the issue. The central midfield when it lacks energy and dynamism we are a different side and tonight those gaps were exploited to the max.

We lost the mind games. Bamford wound Mings up a treat.

[Xela]

It is disappointing, but i'll take 4 wins out of 5 and be second in the league. Haven't we still got the best defence?! 

We were never going to win the league so this season is about improving on last season and growing as a team. 

Just rather we hadn't lost to Leeds but credit to them, they deserved it and Bamford took his goals well

[osmark86]

Gabby was just having a laff and bantering a bit. It's not like he caused us to lose ffs

[Wainy316]

We basically lost a game of first goal wins.  Blown away after the first but if either of those Grealish or Konsa chances had gone in, we’d have won.

I wonder what Gabby’s twitter is like right now  

[VillaCas]

Bad day at the office for more than a few of our players tonight

Leeds relentless style is a bad match for our more controlled approach especially as things just weren’t coming off for us - a similar performance against a different type of side would not have been exposed in the same way

We’ve now got a decent first XI but not much depth and little change that can alter the game

Perversely, I’d prefer a bad loss like this to a narrow one - I hope for a real reaction next time out

Im keeping in mind that 12th is my target for the year and so the excitement of the early weeks was always going to be a short-lived affair. We’re going to have plenty more half arsed performances like this

They had their tails up at the end but we could easily have been a couple up by then - saying that they deserved the win

I thought Bamford should have gone for his stamp on Mings - VAR is crap

[markc]

Should have been down to 10 men ref bottled it even there manager knew it and subbed him straight off

[KenjiOgiwara]

1 minute ago, chappy said:

We were awful between their first goal and their third. Aside from that it wasn’t a bad performance

I see a few saying this and I could not disagree more. 

We didn't create a whole lot.

Struggled wide.

Struggled between defence and midfield.

Some poor defending. 

Had some poor finishing.

It was a straight up poor performance. Hugely disappointing. 

[Vancvillan]

They were the better team on the night - they moved the ball quicker, midfielders smarter better runs, and were more compact at the back.

We seemed to lose the midfield battle in the second half, and there was always a lot more space in our box than theirs.

Accept it, learn from it, move on.

[smg]

10 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

Did anyone watching that think keeping McGinn on for 90 minutes was a sensible decision? 

No

[VillanousOne]

I would have literally preferred to lose any of the other games this season rather than against this bunch of utter pricks.

[Aston_Villan4]

We were poor but losses and even hard to swallow losses are inevitable. I care more about how we rebound. My main take away from today really told us we need to not let a goal smash us in the face and demoralize us like that. I still think if we had scored first it would've been a completely different game but Bamfords first goal just destroyed our confidence and we didn't fight back. Gotta keep fighting!

 

Edit to add: That was absolutely simulation from Bamford and it was criminal not to get carded for that.

Edited October 23, 2020 by Aston_Villan4