villaglint Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Was very poor but I'd have have spent several minutes swearing at either Sylla or Gabby (whoevers job it should have been) if I was him.Left him out to dry and not for the first time this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 He doesn't make as many howlers as Bennett but he's not really any better as a defender. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papillon Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 He's really, really poor. Another one of Lambert's buys that isn't Premier League calibre. What do you expect when you have £1m to buy a player? We need a bigger transfer budget to chase the better players. I expect him to be up to standards, no matter the fee. If he is not good enough, you don't buy him. Sure, one can never know how a transfer pans out, and the odds are higher when you buy cheap reserves nobody else wants, but the due diligence should be more careful as Lambert has brought in a lot of dross the last few seasons. Luna, Bennett, Tonev, El Ahmadi, Sylla, Bowery, Kozak and Helenius are all either very limited or very poor footballers. Maybe a bit unfair towards Kozak, but his mobility and reading of the game is just very, very poor. A classic tall player that will score 6-8 goals each season and never really do anything to make the team better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROTTERDAM1982 Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Bennett played well against Valencia in both games last year, Luna was absolutely woeful today.Bennett would have been slaughtered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Was bad as anything Bennett served up last season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isa Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 He's really, really poor. Another one of Lambert's buys that isn't Premier League calibre. What do you expect when you have £1m to buy a player? We need a bigger transfer budget to chase the better players. He could've prioritised the LB spot in the summer perhaps? We could've got Pieters for £3m for example! Also, Lambert claiming he cost less then £1m doesn't mean that was actually the case as has already been established. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Con Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 How could Luna handle Welbeck and Valencia all on his own? Why didn't Gabby get back to support, and why wasn't Baker covering effectively? Cannot judge Luna on today's performance. He was hung out to dry with an impossible job, for which he got absolutely no help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROTTERDAM1982 Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 He got beat every time by whoever was attacking him, and gave the ball away, and failed to get into position for their 3rd, so how was it Bakers ault over Lunas? Gabby was shit again yet again today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icouldtelltheworld Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Luna offers very little going forward and isn't really much of an improvement on Bennett defensively. The crowd have made a villain of Bennett though so Luna gets cut a lot more slack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WooJung Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 How could Luna handle Welbeck and Valencia all on his own? Why didn't Gabby get back to support, and why wasn't Baker covering effectively? Cannot judge Luna on today's performance. He was hung out to dry with an impossible job, for which he got absolutely no help. I never hesitate to be harsh on Gabby (I like him, but I think he is slightly overappreciated), but he was playing up front with Benteke, as a striker. Scylla was in the position to help Luna, but he was playing in the wrong position, he is to slow to help a fullback on the flank, he shold play in the middle of the pitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Con Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 He got beat every time by whoever was attacking him, and gave the ball away, and failed to get into position for their 3rd, so how was it Bakers ault over Lunas? Gabby was shit again yet again today. Baker missed an interception on the 3rd. The ball seemed to go through his legs. Luna could get beat easily because he was on his own and Valencia had so much space to play with. With an outball to an unshacked Welbeck close by what could Luna actually do? Not much. Lambert takes some of the blame for not bringing Gabby back to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROTTERDAM1982 Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 My point is Con, Valencia did'nt beat Bennett last season, one on one, as easily as he beat Luna today.Maybe , just maybe, we should have cut Bennett a bit more slack. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Luna was poor and not at his best but he was also horribly exposed today - no cover from either Gabby or Sylla . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Con Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 My point is Con, Valencia did'nt beat Bennett last season, one on one, as easily as he beat Luna today.Maybe , just maybe, we should have cut Bennett a bit more slack. In last year's fixture Bennett had Bannan who tracked back to double up on him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Knew it wouldn't take long for Bannan to appear in another thread 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bose Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 I didn't watch the second half today but the Icelandic commentator said that "if Antonio Luna was a horse they would have shot him by now". I gather that he had a poor game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Had a shocker, Rafael and Valencia ripped him to shreds. Antionio Valencia seems to be a bogey player against us. He ripped Warnock to shreds in the carling cup final which signalled the start of his decline as a villa player and I'm pretty sure in his wigan days he came to VP at the end of the season and scored twice against Bouma who'd had an excellent 18 months. Hope it's not a case of another villa left back falling by the wayside as I do think there are good qualities in Luna that we saw at the start of the season and the alternatives aren't much better, Bennett who was giving these performances on a regular basis last season and a centre half having to play there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Con Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 On MOTD tonight they'll probably do some analysis on Valencia-Luna-Baker. I expect them to say that Luna didn't get any help, which is partly Lambert's fault and partly fault of other players. Mitigating circumstances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 On MOTD tonight they'll probably do some analysis on Valencia-Luna-Baker. I expect them to say that Luna didn't get any help, which is partly Lambert's fault and partly fault of other players. Mitigating circumstances. Can't fault what you say there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 We switched it after the first two goals as towards the end of the half Gabby was getting back on a more regular basis. When I saw the team I assumed Sylla would be playing on the left of midfield as he did v Man. City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts