It went all wrong for Aston Villa who have now suffered a third straight defeat in the Premier League. Aston Villa performed very poorly in the first half with Newcastle having almost all the chances. Newcastle controlled the game well and the pace of Remy and Ben Arfa tore Villa’s defence. Ben Arfa scored the first goal for Newcastle after Remy’s skill got passed Lowton out wide, he managed to pick out the Frenchman. Aston Villa lost defender Okore to injury after he chased on a long ball towards Remy, Clark was his replacement. The closest Villa came to scoring was when Clark volleyed a lose ball from Lowtons cross from a tight angle on the right.
In the second half Aston Villa massively improved, the team played higher up the pitch and controlled the majority of the game. However, Villa found it difficult to break down the Newcastle defence. It wasn’t until the 70th minute when Kozak’s substitute appearance may have interrupted Newcastle’s defence as Benteke headed in from a corner. Ben Arfa caused Luna problems all game and if there were to be a winning goal, it would come from Ben Arfa. Surely enough, one of his shots was parried by Guzan which went towards the way of Gouffran who made no mistake.
I was bitterly disappointed by Villa’s performance, Villa struggle to win games at home and it’s no wonder why. Villa can’t string together two good halves. The team is also one dimensional, with the attack focused on a counter or getting it to Benteke. It’s getting to predictable and if Lambert want’s the team to beat Norwich, we’re going to have to see changes to the starting 11.
First of all, Bennett deserves a chance back into the starting 11. Luna wasn’t pressing Ben Arfa, and Luna was clearly the weak link in the defence. I think Luna has played well over the last few games, but it appears as though he has taken his starting 11 spot for guarantee. Bennett played well in the League Cup a few weeks back and I think he should get a chance back into the starting 11.
The Weimann-Benteke-Agbonlahor combination also needs a change. The issue with Aston Villa is that the team is only playing in the centre. Lambert has brought in another forward Kozak, is there a similarity between him and Benteke? Yes, it’s height and strength. The best way to utilise this is by width, we haven’t got any. I think Weimann and Agbonlahor can play well away, but at home we’ve got to see some width. I want Lambert to play a 4-2-3-1 formation and play Tonev and Albrighton out wide, yes Albrighton. He hasn’t played for a while, but he offers valuable width.
Villa are missing an attacking midfielder at home, this would’ve been a good game to play either Tonev or Helenius behind Benteke. Someone to get those loose balls from Benteke and create an opening for either Weimann or Agbonlahor.
Until these things are addressed, I don’t think Aston Villa will see another home win anytime soon.
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172 responses to “Aston Villa 1-2 Newcastle – Review”
Is relying on Benteke to keep us up much different to relying on Bent to keep us up?!
Yep can’t argue with that just hope we have a 20 goal striker when he goes. Who can blame him
i said before the game that anything less than 3 pts would be piss poor and as we all know the performance was piss poor and most surprisingly was a seeming lack of effort, there was a lot of walking about going on yesterday and the passing…..OMG the passing, players winning balls only to then go pass a 3 yard pass under no pressure straight to the opposition.
i wont go over everything as im sure we’ve covered it all but for me we were just way, way too narrow, they were using the whole pitch while we seemed intent on fighting through a crowed centre while luna and lowton were often in acres of space out wide.
once more ive got to question lamberts tatics in bringing on kozack when for me tonev or helleius would have been a better opiontion, what were we playing then? 4-2-4?
very poor all round, once more no plan b and poor effort, as i said piss poor.
I can understand what PL is trying to do.. he has a very small budget and he can’t pay anyone on average more then 20K it seems.. so it is very hard for him to get quality in.. hi hands are tied and that is down to RL and the purse strings..
Having said that a few things baffle me.. why is Sylla nowhere to be seen.. he has hardly played in pre season and in the first four games of the season.. i thought he would grow as a player but the fact he hasn’t been played must mean PL hasn’t seen improvement..
Also 4-2-4 with four strikers uptop and two in the middle who can’t create in the loacal 5 a side league.. that CANNOT be plan B..
Tonev.. Helenuis.. Bacuna where brought in the summer and they need to be used more otherwise why buy them..
Plus it seems like Okore and Vlaar are looking solid but with no cover in front and full backs all over the place there work is being made a lot more difficult..
I think Sylla was injured in pre-season
Oohah my very good compatriot at arms have you seen the last two submissions i have made for discussion.Anyway apart from that does any true Villa fan really think that things are going to change under this regime is The City of Birmingham going to have a football club to be proud of.Answer is no not whilst we have a owner whom as less of a brain than a Orangutan and a manager whom is so rapped up in his own ego he thinks that the fans are still going to hang onto every word and excuse he spews out of his mouth.Enough is Enough either he Lamberk and Lerner change direction or we will not have a club to support and that is fact not fiction.
It makes me sick to see the likes of Southampton and Norwich spending big money on good quality players while we buy second rate unknowns for peanuts. We are competing with the dregs of the EPL. Everything we do.is cheap and nasty with not one ounce.of ambiton. How in the name of McGrath have so many fans fallen for all this american bullsh*t is beyond are they on drugs ? Lerner has been and continues to be a total disaster
Talking to a fella in the curry house last night that hires a box and does it for corporate (entertaining clients and so on) and he said there is something very dark going on at VP and all is not kosher.
Im still seething about us finishing by playing 4-2-4 yesterday. You dont even see that in Sunday league. Ridiculous and just when I was starting to think Lambert knew what he was doing.
BENNO mate he is as clueless as Mc clueless.
If lambert was mcleish we would be hanging him from the rafters of the holte end by now. Mcleish is no worse than lambert in terms of getting results for us just that he played negative football. Though watching game yesterday we was completely clueless 424 ffs
Being linked with Popov again. Some Russian paper said that Kuban told us it’d take 8m pounds to sign him. Definitely a player we need.
I wish Lerner and lambert would popov! 🙂
So who is happy Lambert hasn’t signed a new contract yet? I say he has the next 6 games to turn this round,10 at the most. We shouldn’t have to suffer a 4th relegation battle. The majority of our expectations have been lowered to a mid table finish this season. I do believe we have some quality players who could deliver a good season and with as little as 1 solid signing in January we could just push a top six. Part of being a good manager is being dynamic and Paul Lambert is almost being bashful and certainly naive if he believes a counter attacking 4 3 3, home and away will see us comfortable this season. I believe Lambert has the qualities to get back to a good start but lets just not leave it to let again please.I spotted a grey hair on my head at the end of last season and ill hold Aston villa football club responsible for the second if this season replicates the last 3!
Tom I hear and see where your coming from, but don’t you think that this problem has been going on far to long, enough is enough Tom I have been on the side of change at Villa for far to long , normally I would say give it 6 to 10 games but if you see crap ideas of who plays where in wrong places you begin to wonder if they know what to do. We all don’t trust the yank, might have got a manager to do his begging, ie , save money just keep us solvent and not to worry about league places. Tom born under them lights mate but ready to throw the towel in ,can you blame me at pensional age, this is not the Villa I knew from 1940s no guts mate. Sorry.
Bill mate nice to see some are beginning to see the light.Thought at the time Mon went we were going to see the last of Villa ever making any sort of challenge to the top four.Now after four years of on the slid can;t see how people can still come on here and defend Lambert or Lerner and say in Lambert we trust.Bloody hell mate would not trust him to take a dog for a walk.You know the stick Oohah and myself have took for our views.
My biggest gripe apart from our American twat is that Lambert has failed to cure any of the problems from last season. Sh*te defence and no creativity in midfield. as usual the Villa manager has been given a ‘limited budget’ but what has neen spent has not improved the team. The whole club is rotten to the core because of poor management. Lerner’s fall out with MON the appointment of a manager with health problems the appointment of a manager with 2 relegations on his CV the appointment of Faulkner the selling off of our best players and buying crap cheap replacements. And some fans wonder why we are shit ! You dont have to be Einstein.to work it out.
And yet we still have posters on here with their heads up their arses thinking everything is great ffs!
Transition, transition, transition! The only idiots talkin about transition this year are the negative pricks, Lambert learner op players have not mentioned it once! Talk about over fuckin reactions, you can do no right with retarded fans who hav no clue about football, if we had changed the starting line up and formation all the negs would be sayin why did we change a team that’s playing well! If we pass it short all the fans start booing and want us to play it long or quick, ye have no patience and bearly a brain cell! One second ye want Lambert to get a new contract next ye expect us to beat Liverpool who i said would be much harder to beat than any idiots here expected and the same with newcastle who by far have a better midfield than us and way more creativity! I thought a draw would have been good enough and we could hav had it if gabby didn’t miss da sitter! Im not sayin Lambert is brilliant i don’t like the signings he has made, sure we hav a better squad but he has in no way improved our starting 11, and all this talk about relagation already its been 4 games ye dumb fuckin shitheads 3 of those games against to 5 teams, logic and common sense seems to not matter to people on this site but i tell u 1 thing Lambert has far more of a clue than any idiot here including me! Patience is needed not this up down over reaction bi-polar bullshit ye keep goin on about, i suggest drinking less to keep what little brains ye have left!
Fuck me didn’t u post exactly the same last year. Lets not judge them over 4 games we will be ok bollocks. Your boring the team is in serious trouble our best centre half is injured our right bk has gone to pieces our left back is no better than Bennett our midfield is clueless in a report they said kae performance was the worst ever seen in the prem Westwood us a shadow of the player last year weiman no where near what he was last year and gone backwards gabby missing sitters the normally reliable Guzan flapping for their second lamberk reverting to a 424 formation Ffs no clean sheet for 26 games marginally avoided relegation by the skin of our teeth the last 2 seasons outspent by teams like Swansea and Southampton the worst goal diff ever last year but hey ho you think everything is rosy and we are all being negative for the sake of it. You need to take your rosé tinted bullshit glasses off and get into the real world!
Did i saw everything is rosey? No don’t believe i did! In fact i said i wasn’t happy with the signings made but u said yourself i said the same last year that we’ll be safe guess what…i was right! And your were wrong like always full of shit with no facts or figures and any facts used in a debate u just blindly pass them by so you can spread more negative bullshit, i agree westwood has become invisible, sylla who was a revelation since January can’t get a game who knows y? Lowton is starting to struggle all true but after 4 games noting matters when 30 games are played and we’re in trouble then for once in your miserable depressing life you will be right but until them everything that comes out of your 1track mind is hearsay and bullshit, even this shit with clean sheets! Clean sheet Will never win a cup or a league i know how much u loved the negative crap u and mcClueless want us to play but sorry i prefer watching football and thinkin we can win a couple games! U will see who is right at da end of this season! AGAIN!!
I’m not saying we will def go down but we are certainly bottom 5/6 yet again. You have bought into Lerners vision that staying up is now the holy grail. It’s because of fans like u he has been allowed to get away with it.
Yes sorry i forgot logic wouldn’t work with somebody with 1 brain cell! Again never once did i say i was happy or that i believe lerner just wants us to finish bottom 5 every time! What i have said (use that 1 cell to pay attention now)was that i expect a mid table finish this year an IMPROVEMENT on last year, just because i don’t go from extacy to depression every 5 mins doesn’t mean i am happy with a relagation battle every year! It just means i have enough brains to realise 4 games does not make a season! And its because of fans like you that players, managers and owners get disillusioned with the villa because ye don’t support ye just moan and boo and say things like im so happy i don’t go to games anymore so the club gets less money but still they should spend 40 mill a season just so that brainless idiots like u will still moan and not go 2 matches! If the fans can’t be bothered why should the players or the owner?