Ratings & Reactions: Man City v Villa

[Sulberto21]

1 minute ago, rjw63 said:

What, wearing them?

Sky interviewing Gundagon but had split screen up.

[rjw63]

had to get the wife to turn Final Score off.

The bloke the BBC had reporting sounding like a cum-junkie in the middle of getting a 50-man bukkake.

[Vive_La_Villa]

Worth it to break plastic scouse hearts

[GingerCollins29]

Glad to see gerrard has instilled that winning mentality in them.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Good job up till the collapse. Hopefully the team can take something from today. UTV!

[stewiek2]

Well, at least we're £15m richer for Gresford getting his title. Obviously a badge made from wood full of splinteers

[penguin]

4 minutes ago, smg said:

Some comments on here are totally embarrassing, it wasn’t a collapse the players  worked hard and went 2 up against the top team in the league who needed to win to become champions so why wouldn’t they step up in the last 20minutes, for fu**s sake most so called fans on here were predicting a massive defeat before kick off anyway. Love being a Villa supporter but not so keen on Villa ‘fans’ .

Yes, yes it was.

If conceding 3 goals in 5 minutes doesn’t constitute a collapse, what does?

[TomC]

5 minutes ago, PaulC said:

We put in a good show. Gerrard got his tactics spot on.

One thing that really impressed me today was how well we switched off on players...City thrives on creating overloads, but we stuck to our shape and picked them up when they tried to cross our zones. You rarely saw a City player unmarked.

[CLARETANDBLUEFOXY]

Only thing I can really say is Nakamba needs to get the **** out of this club. He is joint with Samatta for the worst player we have signed in recent times. Gerrard is a terrible manager if he thinks putting him on against a team like City will help us AT ALL. 

[Talldarkandransome]

3 minutes ago, smg said:

Some comments on here are totally embarrassing, it wasn’t a collapse the players  worked hard and went 2 up against the top team in the league who needed to win to become champions so why wouldn’t they step up in the last 20minutes, for fu**s sake most so called fans on here were predicting a massive defeat before kick off anyway. Love being a Villa supporter but not so keen on Villa ‘fans’ .

I predicted 1-0 Villa, it could have been even better than that. 5 mins of madness ruined it. Plenty of positives for me though and we appear to have bought a DM 

[Wainy316]

We genuinely must have thrown away the most 2 goal leads in world football over the last 20 years.  And I include Sunday league in that.

[Villa_Vids]

Just now, Kuwabatake Sanjuro said:

If fitness levels don't dramatically improve next season then it will be difficult to make any progress. I hope they can.

Yeah. I think the Burnley game didn't help us in that respect.

[Strog]

I said to my wife we would bottle it at 2-0. These gutless collapses need to be cut out, it’s been a problem for far too long.

Edited May 22, 2022 by Strog

[OutByEaster?]

1 minute ago, Icarium said:

What other word would you use to describe going from 2-0 to 2-3 in the space of 6 minutes?

Momentum.

Emotion.

Belief.

It was all about that first goal - with it I think went our belief and the best club side in the world were suddenly filled with belief, momentum, emotion and motivation.

This wasn't a confusing shocking collapse like the Wolves game, as soon as they scored it was very likely they'd win the game - that's the way football is - it would have been the same if it had been just about anyone - I'd have fancied City to beat just about any team in the world from 1-2 down in this game - I really don't think you can understate the importance of that first goal for them.

`tis what it is - meaningless end of the season game for us is over and we can look forward.

[shrugs and moves on]

[Condimentalist]

No blame for Gerrard. We set up and played well. Nakamba in hindsight wasn't a good change but when it happened at 2-0 I thought it was probably fair enough. 

[Mark Albrighton]

2 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said:

I can't wait to relive this incredible memory on "The Premier League Years"™!!

 

fml

The only benefit (and it’s a minor, minor one) is that despite the comeback there was literally no back and forth between who was top of the table that would have added extra drama to the occasion. No swapping of places.

City have literally been top all day, Liverpool second all day.

[lexicon]

I think that game was a case in Gerrard's favour, more than anything. We looked organised defensively for a change and played well for the most part. 

We conceded three world class goals tbf.

[picicata]

They're a team that can bring on top quality talent where as we bring on Nakamba. 

We all know that our midfield is not good enough and it certainly follows that the mid subs are even less so. 

On to next season, hopefully we will improve and get closer to the top half.

[AndyM3000]

Cant take off our best possession player and bring on the worst possession player. Just inviting pressure, we had them worried and needed to keep a threat up top.

[MCU]

1 minute ago, Rustibrooks said:

The Nakamba sub cost us, but I understood why he thought to do it. It’s not really a good idea to sit back against City… Watkins not finishing his dinner didn’t help(I feel like I’m repeating myself with our strikers)

 

Some of the comments though are a bit OTT, I’m sure a lot of you were silent when we were 2-0 up. 
 

Anyway we finally got our DM early so here’s hoping to a great summer.

Yeh this, makes perfect sense on paper but we went to pieces when he came on.