Ratings & Reactions: Man Utd v Villa

[6065_Villa]

Pathetic second half with some of our players going missing when we needed all 11 to stand up.

The last two games and probably the next go back to that stupid red card by Kamara.

 

[tinker]

Need to vary our play abit  playing it slowly through a high press when the opposition are man marking everyone is a recipe for issues. If we played a long ball up in certain situations it would cut out the mistakes we make in very dangerous areas. 

Can't complain though, disappointing but manure have some quality up front and they hit form midway through the game . UTV 

[WHY]

4 minutes ago, AndyM3000 said:

We have a bench, use it. 

He did mate but there isn’t a lot on there. He had to bring Moreno on, Zaniolo is nowhere near the level needed, Duran is still very raw and Diaby has been poor for months now. 

[StefanAVFC]

6 minutes ago, imavillan said:

Get over the Kamara red card ffs 

 

Not easy considering we’ve got 1 point from 6 down to it 

[mjmooney]

[TomC]

3 minutes ago, meregreen said:

Bottlers. Watkins totally anonymous and he wasn’t alone.

Can't blame it Ollie. He had no service. We were in our own half almost the entire last 60 minutes.

 

[mottaloo]

Shot ourselves in the foot, losing possession at times and were punished -annoying against these words removed. Ten Hag can't believe his luck 

Ah well, need to put in a good performance remembering the lessons if our last home game 

Edited December 26, 2023 by mottaloo

[Paul33]

5 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said:

I thought McGinn played pretty well today 

I thought he was totally garbage in every respect and failed to rally his side like any captain should. Did absolutely nothing right at any point in the game !

[romavillan]

Wheels fell off second half, but I'm certainly not going to start knocking either the manager or the players for it. Giving Emery a Very Poor is a bit knee jerk to say the least. The players didn't handle Old Trafford very well and whilst it's historically been our kryptonite this group of players gave it a good go first half. 

It's obviously no fun to watch that but come on, halfway through the season we're third with 39 points from 19 games. Any single one of us would have taken that in a millisecond if offered at the start of the season. Hopefully the players will be hurting and Emery if the past evidence is anything to go by will have plenty to learn from that, he was going mental at the players during the game so it looked like he'd already got a good idea of where they weren't doing what he wanted.

I'll mention Konsa though as a big plus though, he's top drawer.

[PieFacE]

Luiz doesn't look the same player without Kamara next to him. 

[May-Z]

Too many problems keeping the ball in the second half. Two/three passes and it was given back to United. We never checked their momentum.

Carlos gave the ball to Fernandes who helped set up the first.

The second was a free shot that was a bit unlucky to deflect past Martinez. Probably wouldn't have deflected if someone was tighter. 

Lenglet gave a needless corner away to set up the third. Then it has a lucky bounce off McGinn's knee to fall perfectly for Hojland. 

United were literally at the bottom of the well at the end of the first half and just came out with nothing to lose. We let them get a goal in the first few seconds and it teed them up for the half.

At no point could we kill the momentum.

after each goal we had glorious chances to score when Onana save and Evans cleared off the line. I think they'd have cracked if they'd have conceded either of those...but they were the only shots we had all half. 

[PaulC]

Second best after our 2nd goal. They deserved to win. Our midfield was weak. Watkins never kept hold of the ball. Got to beat Burnley now to get things a little bit back on track 

[sharkyvilla]

Where were McGinn and Doug today?  Too many spuds or something yesterday?  So annoying and really unlike Unai to not spot the problems and change early enough.

[Lerner's Driver]

The worst thing about this result is that it breathes life into those clowns and allows the press to start sucking their cocks again. Really unnecessary. Booooo!

[bose]

It’s tough too see now but I’m hanging in the hope that we’ll look back at this match in a few months time as a sort of reset.

Unai will be fuming, though he’s not blameless. The past three matches have been really poor and that is a lot of games if you want challenge for the top four in a tight league.

Things change very quickly. Look at Spurs, they’re right back in it after a poor run. I’m confident Unai will see what’s going wrong, would help if we could get 1-2 new bodies in in January

[Humanoid]

Hopefully it will force a buy for a left sided midfielder who can create play on the left wing, because nearly every RB who plays against villa is having an easy time.  Can't rely on Digne alone, all he ever does is pass backwards.

Luiz poor without out best midfielder playing alongside him.  

Ramsey makes us look like we're playing with 10 men

Watkins giving the ball away persistantly for the 3rd or 4th game in a row.

Laboured build up play yet again, inviting pressure.

All on Emery this one.  His away record is still mediocre.  Why he didnt change things earlier when everyone but him could see it going wrong is bizarre.

[AndyM3000]

Just now, WHY said:

He did mate but there isn’t a lot on there. He had to bring Moreno on, Zaniolo is nowhere near the level needed, Duran is still very raw and Diaby has been poor for months now. 

Way too late, needed changes earlier, everyone could see where that game was going you might as well try and throw some fresh legs on. 

[HKP90]

7 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

The alarm bells really should have been ringing at half time. We took our goals well and were patting ourselves on the back about the offside trap, but they'd already beaten it a few times and just had extremely poor finishing. I was absolutely astonished we just kept doing the same thing and didn't change it up, it was absolutely inevitable.

The problem in the second half wasn't the offside trap. The problem was that we were constantly trying to play out from the back, but they'd cut off all our out balls. We hardly had chance to set an offside trap cos we kept losing the ball in our own half. 

Plus we hardly won an aerial battle in midfield. 

[GingerCollins29]

2 minutes ago, stewiek2 said:

Sod off, you know full well the media will ask if Emery has what it takes to get top four if we don't beat Burnley. They'll bring up Arsenal etc. so you get a grip

You're there insinuating that while we sit third in the league, questions will be asked about the mental strength of Unai Emery. Put the beer down, you've had enough for tonight

[OutByEaster?]

2 minutes ago, meregreen said:

Weakness of our squad was exposed tonight.

Exactly this - we need the options we have when everyone is fit, beyond the first line there really isn't very much.