Ratings & Reactions: Bournemouth 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.

[Spoony]

I may actually already be done with Gerrard. This is IDENTICAL to last season. No obvious game plan and absolutely zero cutting edge. I genuinely can’t figure out what we are trying to do. We get the ball, pass it about until the other team get back and regroup, then kick it at an attacking player under pressure and no loses the ball.

Every.

Single.

Time. 

[BG_Villa_Fan]

Surely the game plan against Bournemouth is to get it out wide and keep crossing the ball. They’ve been doing it over and over again and it’s not like they’re under a ton of pressure so it must be deliberate. 

How they’ve looked at the players and consciously decided to do it is beyond me. They must have stolen the opposition game plan and tried to apply it.

[Zatman]

McGinn still on 85 minutes. **** off

[TheAuthority]

I just don't understand how we are always out thought - They just defended with a low block and hit long hopeful balls.

We tried all game to hoof it into the box while playing with tiny supposedly skillful players. Baffling how obvious it seems.

[rbcuk]

1 minute ago, AshVilla said:

The experiment has failed.

Pochettino is available.

Can guarantee it wouldn’t be 2-0 if Pochettino was in charge, at least he has a style of play, I couldn’t even tell you what gerrard tries to play 

[Dale]

Just now, Pissflaps said:

The question is could someone like Pochettino say get more out of this team.

The answer is yes. Dean Smith could. Pretty sure Lambert could. 

[Lerner's Driver]

We deserved to lose.

Well played Bournemouth, they played with pace, courage and conviction despite their limited ability, which shows it's all about attitude.

Aston Villa played in the opposite way, which tells you the manager is living a Liverpool fantasy that doesn't apply to Aston Villa. 

W.A.N.K.

[ferguson1]

LOL

[Guest av1]

I’ve finally lost faith. 
 

1) We have no style of play. 

2) Mings is better than Konsa.

3) Beundia is better than Coutinho 

4) Our worst midfielder has been made captain. 
 

This Bournemouth result is awful. Though Watford went down last season I thought they were very good on the first game last season and deserved the win. I don’t see the same thing today, I just see one poor team beating another. 
 

This is shit. 

 

Edited August 6, 2022 by av1

[LondonLax]

We are already a lightweight team so we drop our captain and biggest presence in the defence for two small central defenders. 

We pack the midfield with small attacking players and leave us unable to take control of the play. 

We have some pretty obvious weaknesses but instead of trying to mitigate them we seem to expose them further. 

[bielesibub]

same shit. different season.

[sne]

Utterly predictable.  But maybe it will work next time...

[jim]

[VillaChris]

2 minutes ago, DCJonah said:

I'll give him time. I liked the starting 11. I liked the sub he made but today was utterly woeful. 

The worry for me is we are 10 months in and I've not seen a single thing that's made me think it was worth throwing Smith away for. 

We're very much  good on paper team rather than grass though.

Coutinho-Ings-Bailey looks incredibly dangerous on paper but they hardly linked up at all and barely created a serious chance.

We know how flawed the midfield generally is when pressed and put under pressure and reality is one injury to Kamara and we're back to same options we've had last three seasons.

I don't think majority of us are asking for anything amazing, probably 9th-10th with a decent cup run but we look miles off even that when yet again we can't get basics right.

[MrSmirch]

The standards have gone up and players definitely know what the plan is.

[NoelVilla]

Still waiting to see that gameplan. Kamara MOTM.

[Hank Scorpio]

Play like this the majority of the next few months it's new manager time. Problem is I don't trust the people in charge to make a good appointment. After all they appointed Gerrard. 

What happens to all the players that signed to play under him? Potentially huge problems coming.

[jim]

Very poor, need to be much better next week. 

[SuperTed]

I’m beginning to think Brisbane Roar and Stade Renais were not the brilliant sides we thought they were . . . 

Edited August 6, 2022 by SuperTed