Ratings & Reactions: Watford v Villa

[limpid]

Your ratings and reactions please. Keep it respectful even if you know everyone else is wrong.

A mod will add the players to the MoTM poll later.

[birdman]

Our lack of match fitness showing. Passing is so sluggish it's painful to watch! We'll get there, just maybe not for this game.

[PaddytheVillan]

Relegation scrap coming. 

We looked utterly terrible in every department. 3-1 flatters us, well played Watford. 

[holteend1982]

1st half was pre covid villa, absolute shambles but there's still positives to take from the game. 

[calcifer]

Just now, PaddytheVillan said:

Relegation scrap coming. 

We looked utterly terrible in every department. 3-1 flatters us, well played Watford. 

After one game? Seriously? Our pre season was a mess with the whole Greedlish saga, games getting postponed etc. Arsenal got beat by Brentford 2-0, Leeds got thrashed 5-1, I bet their fans are not as wet as some of our 'fans' 

[tonyh29]

No MOTM , a familiar pattern from last season

even allowing for a keeper error , fluked deflected goal and a decent strike , that was as embarrassing as our last defeat at Watford when they humiliated us.

but it’s one game and players are clearly under prepared at the moment , so no need to panic just yet 

but if we haven’t spent the Jack money , we’d better bloody well start thinking about it 

[Rodders]

Disgusting performance, disgusting result. All hope for the season has drained from me. Contemptibly bad performance.

**** you Dean.

[est1874]

Overall: Poor - very poor.

Pros: Ramsey and Bailey.

Cons: Full-backs woeful, especially Targett; El Ghazi hopeless; Ings anonymous up top, had no service but didn't work hard for the team either; Nakamba's passing; McGinn's ability to keep possession. 

Most worried about: A team shape and game plan that made no sense at all and got torn apart by a team with far more pace than us, which - if appropriate homework and preparation had been done - would have been addressed with different tactics.

[MotoMkali]

Wtf is Smith doing. No Guilbert on the bench. Cash and Targett were disasters. Our midfield is dreadful once more. And we play like like a group of individuals not a team. That's been the case for the last decade but you've been manager for 2.5 seasons now, surely it isn't that hard to get players to pass and move and press together. 

[jim]

Embarrassing! Barely laid a glove on the mighty Watford.

Top 6, my arse!

[jacketspuds]

3-2 flatters us after the 1st half. But some positives in the 2nd.

Needs to be much better next weekend.

[CosmicVillan]

7 minutes ago, PaddytheVillan said:

We looked utterly terrible in every department. 3-1 flatters us, well played Watford. 

Good because it's 3-2

[Herman22]

I thought Cash was going down for pen no 2 right at the death. 

[PaddytheVillan]

3 minutes ago, calcifer said:

After one game? Seriously? Our pre season was a mess with the whole Greedlish saga, games getting postponed etc. Arsenal got beat by Brentford 2-0, Leeds got thrashed 5-1, I bet their fans are not as wet as some of our 'fans' 

Leeds got thrashed by Man Utd not Watford? And Arsenal should be panicking they looked awful. 

The Grealish saga was known about behind the scenes for months, Purslow made it clear we had been planning for it. For the past 5 seasons we've struggled with answers without Jack when he's been injured, and it should have been solved by now. 

I'm sorry but there were no positives from that utter garbage. Bailey looked decent I guess when he came on. 

[rbcuk]

3-2 covers what was an embarrassing performance, we desperately need a central midfielder who, Bailey looked decent when he come on has to start against Newcastle, Young is not a winger no more if he plays has to be at left or right back 

[hippo]

9 minutes ago, PaddytheVillan said:

Relegation scrap coming. 

We looked utterly terrible in every department. 3-1 flatters us, well played Watford. 

Jumped the gun there

[Herman22]

No doubt Bailey and Traore have done enough to start the next game. And Young at LB. 

[PieFacE]

Cash was terrible
Nakamba is powder puff 
Buendia looked a million miles off it
Bailey looks ace
Traore looked bright.

Smith got it completely wrong today. 

[ChicagoVillan1983]

We messed up the first half. Underestimated Sarr, Targett wasn't fast enough.

Much better second half - "we won the second half" is a comment I hate, but we did (technically). Looked much better after all the changes. 

Sucks, but not going to get too upset. We looked weak against counterattacking football.

No need to dwell on this for hours. Onwards and upwards!

[sne]