Ratings & Reactions: Villa v Man United

[Okonokos]

Can we start adding a 6th option in the poll for the referee's performance please? Very poor doesn't feel good enough. We need a Corrupt option.

[Jas10]

Cheating scum.

[Giro]

Villas women look like there staying up

every cloud and all that 

[Sulberto21]

1 minute ago, sharkyvilla said:

I swear we are the only team where it can be considered a dive even if you're kicked by a player.  VAR barely even looked at it, no doubt.  You need everything to go for you but Utd were excellent second half, we made mistakes and the ref was shit.

This is where our players need to become shitbags. Hound the referee make snide comments. There's a docu film about Zidane where he tells the ref during a game he should be ashamed of himself. 

[hippo]

Man U penalty imo was a penalty.

The handball by a united player - was debatable (imo we should have put the ball out and challenged the ref)

The sending off Watkins was totally bizzare - he run through at speed - jumped out the way of a challenge and went down. Unless you're a professional hurdlerer you are going to fall over -!!!! - players often fall over when momentum takes them over the hoardings FFS !!

[PaulC]

1-0 up at HT, what you don't do is gift them a needless penalty. Yes some decisions didnt go our way but the result looked inevitable after that pen. 

[stewiek2]

The officianating was a disgrace. Manures players a disgrace. However, Smith was out of his depth against a manager with about 20 years plus less management experience as him. F*** off this premier League experience. It's one team against another. He got it totally wrong. We gave them far too much respect. Lethargic, unergergetic. No agenda, sense of play, the simples of what you do. That second half was a car crash. A Manure goal was just a matter of time cos of the naive sense of it being like the first half and. Just do what we did before. Is he **** stupid? Does he think his team talk of carry on lads is what the opposition manager says as well!?! F***s sake Deano grow some balls and get them out there snapping at heels and biting like hungry animals.when up at half time!?!

Gutless second half. Piss off massive as these aren't that good as 3-1. Down to manager on that yet again

[a m ole]

Hahahahah Sky not even mentioning the red card. Absolute words removed.

[OutByEaster?]

Same old same old.

I thought in the first half we defended really well, looked balanced and that McGinn and Luiz were superb - Luiz was our best player in the first half.

Two stupid mistakes later and it gets tough, the penalty for them is a penalty and a silly challenge by Luiz, Mings naively overcommits and gets turned and then Cavani's run is just brilliant for their third.

I thought we looked really threatening when we threw the big lads on and that things might have been different if we'd been (correctly) awarded the handball penalty, the ref made a few poor small decisions in the second half and wasn't great, but I think it's fair to say the better side won.

I'm hopeful that the Watkins one gets looked at, there is contact and he is diving, so it's one of those where the ref can make either decision and be right, hopefully we can get another ref to look at it and he can be right the other way.

We played some good stuff, both in the first half and for a period in the second half when Davis and Wesley first came on, there were lots of positives although it's hard to focus on them after having to watch this game play out the same way it always does, over and over again.

I don't think we're as far off as it probably feels right now.

[tomav84]

Just glad we don't have to play these horrible words removed again this season 

[Sulberto21]

Just now, a m ole said:

Hahahahah Sky not even mentioning the red card. Absolute words removed.

 You're surprised because? Sky need to be removed and finished.

[Davkaus]

Ref decisions aside, the mental capitulation was just horrendous to watch, but entirely predictable. I'm absolutely fuming with Luiz and Mings.

Some people thought I was mental for whacking £100 on united to win as soon as we went 1-0 up, but the result was never in doubt in my mind.

[hippo]

Not quite sure of the need to throw Wesley on.

Davis has done well off the bench in the last couple of games..

[VillaFaninLondon]

Season's gone down the drain really. We'll finish bottom half, Leeds and Arse have easier run ins than us and it's clear we still have a p*ss poor mentality against bigger clubs. 11th is best we can hope for. This whole saga with Jack is ridiculous, no idea what game he'll be back for even now and it's been 3 months.

 

Last few games we've gone 1-0 up against Plop, Cit£h and Man Ure and lost all of them. Simply ain't good enough and shows a weak mentality.

 

We can blame corrupt officials all we want, we still defended absolutely appallingly today. Martinez is no longer performing at the level he was and our whole back 4 have not been good enough for some time, that's why we can't keep a clean sheet or defend properly when we go in front. I'll be hacked off if we don't buy at least one starting defender in the summer.

 

Going on that performance we need 4-5 first team players close to Jack's quality in the summer if we want to be anywhere near top 6 next season. 

[Delphouneso]

3 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said:

But they weren't against Man Utd were they, so what is your point?

You called us 'perennial losers', but now you're arguing you were only referring specifically to this game? Okay

[Mantis]

Just now, Davkaus said:

Ref decisions aside, the mental capitulation was just horrendous to watch, but entirely predictable. I'm absolutely fuming with Luiz and Mings.

Some people thought I was mental for whacking £100 on united to win as soon as we went 1-0 up, but the result was never in doubt in my mind.

The only question before kick-off was whether it'd be a draw or a loss. Glad we can now move on to games where we have an actual chance of winning.

[GingerCollins29]

15 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said:

The most predictable collapse ever. We all knew it. Hell, go back to the half time chat and most of us said what would happen. The only thing that annoys me is what bottle jobs we come across as. There are teams in the league you'd expect to hold that lead, but we aren't one of them. It's like this loser mentality is still at the  club. Fair enough it's tough without our best player, but I don't think the players had any belief they would win going out that second half. We simply gave away two goals to make sure we'd lose. AGAIN. Perennial losers. Really hoped Deano had changed that, but not yet it seems.

 

Not today mate

[jimmygreaves]

Just not a fair fight is it....

[villa4europe]

3 minutes ago, hippo said:

Man U penalty imo was a penalty.

The handball by a united player - was debatable (imo we should have put the ball out and challenged the ref)

The sending off Watkins was totally bizzare - he run through at speed - jumped out the way of a challenge and went down. Unless you're a professional hurdlerer you are going to fall over -!!!! - players often fall over when momentum takes them over the hoardings FFS !!

Nope he should run in to Henderson at full speed, injuring himself and Henderson in the process, then after a VAR review maybe we'd get a pen 

[Okonokos]

2 minutes ago, Sulberto21 said:

 You're surprised because? Sky need to be removed and finished.

The sooner Sky go bust the better. Only like them for their golf coverage.