Ratings & Reactions: Newcastle v Villa

[poitier]

Football was the loser.

[jackbauer24]

Didn't deserve anything anyway. Two awful teams playing error strewn horrific antifootball with an absolute dirth of any quality. Newcastle arrive awful and still shaded it, least theirs was a intentional goal!

Watkins, worst game in a Villa shirt, couldn't hold a thing. ALL of the midfield horrific. Barkley just gets worse and worse, it's farscial. Defence, Konsa onky one any good. Mings made Newcastle look threatening from nothing. Elmo and Targett can't beat a man. Elmo can't defend either.

Wrong team too. Just awful, awful, awful.

Glad it was a Friday, can forget this and have a football free weekend. The drop off in form has been horrendous and statistically im sure we must be a relegation tea since the turn of the year. Season done, delighted we have the points we do so relegation off cards but surprised if another win this season. We have nothing about us.

[Talldarkandransome]

Lots of over reaction as per usual 

[Demitri_C]

[Ouchmefoot]

Season over really now. Our only realistic target is to remain in the top 10. Really disappointing.

[It's Your Round]

That was a waste of a Friday night. I stopped watching around 65 mins as I had a nice piece of monkfish to eat for my tea. I’d rate Villa’s performance as 1 out of 10. The monkfish, scallops, sand fire and spinach, a definite 9 out of 10. 
 

That’s me done with football for this weekend. Have a good one all (sorry for the pun), don’t let this ruin your weekend. 

[tonyh29]

Did I miss something and the government opened up the airways for tourism as the players are already on the beach 

Mings got humiliated by Joelinton tonight , Watkins put in possibly the worst performance of a Villa player this season , MgGinn ,Luiz . Ramsey. El Ghazi  just strolling about.

the defeat to Sheff U was embarrassing, this draw was probably equals it in the  embarrassing stakes .

That Burnley defeat seems to have destroyed moral in the players , it can’t all be down to Jack being injured , can it ?

all about what we do in the summer now 

 

should add I thought the ref was very good tonight , don’t think he got a thing wrong and he didn’t make the game all about him 

 

[MaVilla]

i think i can openly say we have been really poor for half of the season now, our last 14 games is 15th to 17th level form......terrible.

Draw at Newcastle, loss to sheffield......

the last 14 games we have averaged 1.14 points a game........that over a season is 43/44 points...........we have been terrible for literally the entire last half of the season!

We are bloody lucky we had such an amazing start to the season.

A number of our players are just not good enough, regardless of the rose tinted glasses.

[PaulC]

Just now, gwi1890 said:

True and Elghazi took way to many touches all he needed to do was side foot it

so dreadful. 

[trekka]

Oh well.  At least it gave me an excuse to get out of the zoom work "social". 

[imavillan]

What a dire dog shit performance that was...

A dreadful game of football 

 

[romavillan]

Lots of bed wetting going on. We weren't great, they were shit, poor game and should have got the 3 points. Poor game management to top off a poor performance. No need for the over reactions though, Barkley looked ok when he came on. Great pass to Watkins right side of the box, some nice passes and good vision. Some calm heads in the last 5 mins and we win that regardless of being off the boil. We knew we didn't have much of a squad and we're dealing with some injuries to key men. Let's not start saying we're shit when we've massively over achieved so far (again). 

[bannedfromHandV]

3 minutes ago, regular_john said:

Fuming at the result. 15 seconds from a well deserved three points

 

But...decent performance. We dominated the game start to finish. Just need a bit more quality going forwards and that could have been a cricket score.

 

We go again...

This is either fantastic satire or we just watched two different games.

[MackHaakon]

I probably have my expectations completely out of sync with reality but that 'performance' was just jaw-droppingly horrendous.

Do we have any offensively minded coaches? 

Happy for old pal Bruce for his deserved point, that is how I sleep tonight.

[AvfcRigo82]

1 minute ago, Talldarkandransome said:

Lots of over reaction as per usual 

Did you not watch the game?

[thunderball]

Every podcast had this as a win, just like Sheffield it was never a banker, nothing is, in fact the bottom half is where you get the shocks.

We are not in a good place and without our bright start we are right down there. We will be lucky to finish in the top half. 
Jack’s agent must be able to secure him a £200k+ per week deal with Purslow easily in the summer.

Edited March 12, 2021 by thunderball

[OutByEaster?]

Goals.

We don't concede many and we don't score any at all.

It's a huge problem for us, you can see the confidence drop out of them the longer they don't score and the less confidence they have, the less likely scoring becomes.

Having Jack back will help with both of those things, but for me, going forward, none of our other three wingers are good enough for where we want to go.

Watkins looks tired, physically and mentally and he needs a break, but we don't have a replacement at anything like the same level.

in midfield, Luiz was decent, McGinn mostly okay but should have closed down the man at the end and the other position is a mess - Ramsey is useful having around the squad, but he's not able to carry the team, Barkley did as much for Newcastle as he did for us and looks hopelessly out of form - he's never coming back to the player people once hoped he'd be - get rid. Sanson looks bright and for me the three of McGinn, Luiz and Sanson are as good as we have - I'd put Chukwuemaka on the bench with Nakamba and Ramsey and lock Barkley in a cupboard.

At the back, we've allowed a last minute goal, but we're solid and we'll be even more so once Cash comes back, Elmo has done okay, but the triangle of Konsa, Mings and Martinez are brilliant, good enough to be playing for anyone - Mings still wants to get into a one-on-one battle with anyone who can out-physical him, but the three are superb and really well supported by Targett.

We need Jack back, for what he can do and for the effect he has on others, we need to find a way to get Watkins freshened up and we need to find a pattern that lets us score goals.

We're currently predictable, lightweight and really dull to watch, we're anti-goals.

In fifteen games we've scored more than once on only one occasion -that needs to get a lot, lot better.

 

[VillanousOne]

1 minute ago, It's Your Round said:

That was a waste of a Friday night. I stopped watching around 65 mins as I had a nice piece of monkfish to eat for my tea. I’d rate Villa’s performance as 1 out of 10. The monkfish, scallops, sand fire and spinach, a definite 9 out of 10. 
 

That’s me done with football for this weekend. Have a good one all (sorry for the pun), don’t let this ruin your weekend. 

I don't think your message will ruin my weekend, although Monkfish isn't usually very nice, unless you mean the Detective?

[Stratvillan]

1 minute ago, tonyh29 said:

Watkins put in possibly the worst performance of a Villa player this season 

 

Nothing like a considered response.

[jjaacckk91]

My review of the match.

El ghazi shot blocked.

Ramsey, sadly anonymous

Ollie not his best game but asking so much of him, so isolated at times.

Barkley, actually cost us the win(not including the misplaced passes , taking too long and getting tackled  and just lazily running back and pointing), 2 overloaded chances at breaks he was too slow or chose completely the wrong ball. 

Ref, shite, classic no one gets booked til the second half then everyone gets booked for one foul , how krafts or whatever his name is wasn't booked in the first half for totally blocking el ghazi I don't know.

Overall we were just very sloppy, nicked the winner and then gave the game away with some shocking play.