Ratings & Reactions: Spurs v Villa

[PaulC]

Dissapointing performance. After getting back into the game, conceding the goal the way we did was awful. We were playing against a team low on confidence and it I felt theres was no fluidity in our play at all. 

[StefanAVFC]

Weakminded team performance today.

Hojberg is a complete and utter hardman wannabe melt and he had us on strings.

[Jono62]

Oh well. Onto Wolves next game. 

[HanoiVillan]

Slightly annoyed at having to pick a Villa player for MOTM in the poll, when I can't make an honest case for any of them. The actual answer is that Son looked like he was playing at a completely different level. 

I felt we should have changed things earlier, and I'm ready to drop the 5-3-2 now our fixtures are getting easier. Hause shouldn't be being picked for many games ahead of Traore or Bailey. 

A bad result, a bad performance, a shame we have to wait two weeks to put it right. 

Oh well, onwards and surely upwards. 

[BleedClaretAndBlue]

Poor performance not expected after what had gone before. Lots of draws this weekend so not lost too much ground. Need to beat Wolves, be good to get Bailey and Sanson back. At least Ollie off the mark and Kane still cant score.

[nick76]

Poor performance

result I’m less concerned about because it happens but that was poor from start to finish

Edited October 3, 2021 by nick76

[est1874]

Just now, stewiek2 said:

Dogturd. Hoof down the channels, hoof down the channels, hoof down the channels. Though Smith liked to play football!?

Agree, really weird game plan.

[TheMightyVillans]

Awful game. Some of the worst passing i've seen us do in a long time. 

We somehow manage to get back into game and then instantly throw it away.

Hopefully Bailey will be back after international break and we can move back to 4-3-3.

[Vive_La_Villa]

Just now, Spoony said:

 

Repeating this here. There is way too much overreaction here. We’ve been fine. They are a better team that’s just a fact and the likes of Son make a difference. He’s a £100m+ player.

Pretty happy with this but we need creativity and I’m really worried that Buendia is absolutely not the answer…

Standard mate. Always worth taking a day off from VT when we lose a game.  Agree about Son. If Grealish is worth 100m god knows what this lad is worth. 

[Bizzzle]

I don't think we were as bad as some were making out in the match thread but still pretty sloppy. I think fans may have just been over confident after last week's win it was always going to be a difficult game

[Zhan_Zhuang]

I thought we'd gift them a win, typical Villa.

Two good games, one bad game, typical Villa.

Son MOTM, I couldn't vote for any Villa player as none of them were worthy of a vote.

Change formation, change personnel as some of them didn't deserve to play today. I'm angry at that lame performance, really angry having just wasted ninety minutes of my life watching that c***

[Rightdm00]

Our match winner was injured, theirs won it. Those are the breaks sometimes. 

[May-Z]

Right formation, players didn't have their usual levels.

Can't remember the last time our passing forward was so inaccurate. 

Meh, onto the next one.

[gilbertoAVFC]

We were absolute dross, no excuses, and we wouldn't have scored anyway.

However, I do not understand how the ref can blow on 94:57 when the ball was in-play for about 20 seconds of stoppage time?

[thunderball]

3 minutes ago, TheAuthority said:

Wrong formation. Midfield 3 all had awful games.

Never seen McGinn play as badly as that.

we knew this season would be up and down just disappointing after last week.

Did you miss last season?

[hong0311]

We look like we’re lacking of energy. 

[Ponky]

Will be very hard for us to play worse but manager has to take plenty of responsibility for the loss. It wad obvious about 15 minutes in Spurs had figured us out but no changes until 65 minutes. 

Midfield was out manned and afraid to try and hold possession, while Mings et al just hoofed it back to Spurs defence. 

[ozvillafan]

Had a good early 10 minutes.

The next 20 set the scene. We did not scrape 3 passes together. Zero composure, poor quality with touches and simple passing and low percentage plays. Effort was there, but all we did was kick and run.

If I hadn't known better, I'd call that bruce-ball. Unsurprisingly, spurs scored at the end of that period. And that 20 minutes set the tempo for the rest of the game.

[Mr_Dogg]

Formation didn't work. 

The problem with 3 at the back is they end up having too much influence on the game in terms of the amount of passing they do, which leads to mistakes. 

When Bailey is fit and Buendia settled I don't think we will play with the 3-5-2

[BleedClaretAndBlue]

Brentford just nicked it at WH