His Name Is Death Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 (edited) 17 minutes ago, villalad21 said: There's a fine middle ground between Gung ho and park the bus. Yes, there is, but it's between Wing Yip and Perry Barr bus station. Never heard of Gung Ho. Edited December 11, 2021 by His Name Is Death 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samjp26 Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 6 minutes ago, Mantis said: Even when we get "battered" we looked much more solid and capable of creating chances. 9 points from Gerrard's first 5 fixtures, with the two defeats being narrow defeats to City and Liverpool, is at the very upper end of what I thought was within the realms of possibility. 100%. We get battered but we don’t look like we’re going to concede constantly, we actually have resilience. I can see us getting a fair few 0-0s under Stevie G. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NoelVilla Posted December 11, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 11, 2021 Not accepting any loss even if it's against Liverpool. I was dreading his appearance in this game but he's been very good in his comments and behaviour. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 3 games to save his job. Spoiler 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted December 11, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 11, 2021 1 minute ago, a m ole said: 3 games to save his job. Hide contents Your attempt at satire, are Villalads actual thoughts. Lol 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 3 minutes ago, NoelVilla said: Not accepting any loss even if it's against Liverpool. I was dreading his appearance in this game but he's been very good in his comments and behaviour. Gerrard can't complain about anything. Deserved nothing out of the game. Lucky to not have conceded by more. Legit scary how far we are off Liverpool. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tom_avfc Posted December 11, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 11, 2021 Just now, villalad21 said: Gerrard can't complain about anything. Deserved nothing out of the game. Lucky to not have conceded by more. Legit scary how far we are off Liverpool. Who would have thought we’d be miles off the team that won the league two seasons ago, are regular champions league contenders and have just won all 6 group games in that competition? What a strange thing to find scary that they’re a better team than us. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steero113 Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 (edited) 6 minutes ago, villalad21 said: Gerrard can't complain about anything. Deserved nothing out of the game. Lucky to not have conceded by more. Legit scary how far we are off Liverpool. Yeah, nothing like being inferior to the team who have the best forward and best CB in world football and have been utterly devastating of late at home. The way you go on you would think we were CL finalists last season and have Haaland etc in our side. Edited December 11, 2021 by Steero113 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Vive_La_Villa Posted December 11, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 11, 2021 15 minutes ago, villalad21 said: Gerrard can't complain about anything. Deserved nothing out of the game. Lucky to not have conceded by more. Legit scary how far we are off Liverpool. What’s scary is you have to see us play them to realise that. 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lainux Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 1 hour ago, avfc1982am said: I think for the first time I question his tactics. The starting line up was too compact. Back line far too deep and lack of forward line cost us putting liverpool under any real pressure until too late. Props to Smith because he understood to get at Liverpool, a high press and pace wide was your best chance, keeping their FBs honest. Today we gave their FBs the freedom to bomb on and overload the wings pinning us back. Agree with this. We looked so much better and put Liverpool on the back foot towards the end when we actually were more positive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 2 minutes ago, lainux said: Agree with this. We looked so much better and put Liverpool on the back foot towards the end when we actually were more positive It’s because Liverpool started to protect a lead so dropped a bit. Tactics were fine. They are just much better than us. Sometimes you have to just accept that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 He played for 90 mins of containment and it was just attack vs defence for long periods. I think that he gave Liverpool too much respect. When he was forced to make a change and start to attack we finally started giving them some problems. The writing was on the wall in that second half and we needed to do something proactive sooner. Hopefully it’s just the occasion getting the better of him on the return to Anfield and we give them a better game at Villa Park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciggiesnbeer Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 He played to frustrate the better opposition at home. It didn't work but it was hardly a disaster. I am totally fine with the manager and staff performance today. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 8 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said: It’s because Liverpool started to protect a lead so dropped a bit. Tactics were fine. They are just much better than us. Sometimes you have to just accept that. This for me, same as city, they dropped off from their pretty incredible press and we started to play a bit more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 7 minutes ago, villa4europe said: This for me, same as city, they dropped off from their pretty incredible press and we started to play a bit more The substitutions had nothing to do with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishVilla10 Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 When Gerrard took over and we had these first 5 games ahead of us things were beginning to look very bleak. We should have some breathing space now with Norwich, Burnley and even Chelsea who look beatable coming up next. The tables looking fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 (edited) 4 minutes ago, LondonLax said: The substitutions had nothing to do with it? Said in the match thread the interesting thing for me would be do we make those subs at 0-0 and change our game plan? We'll never know I do think Liverpool played for the counter after they scored - but to be fair after the pen I didn't watch it all I was in and out (free Kenneth) Edited December 11, 2021 by villa4europe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mantis Posted December 11, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 11, 2021 46 minutes ago, villalad21 said: Gerrard can't complain about anything. Deserved nothing out of the game. Lucky to not have conceded by more. Legit scary how far we are off Liverpool. Poor quality bait. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Tbh I blame Gerrard for this and can understand the frustration with him. He should have pressed the move the attack further forward button much sooner. Smith would have controlled that joypad a lot better than Gerrard did today. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 1 minute ago, Mantis said: Poor quality bait. I thought it was one of his better attempts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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