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Brentford 1 – 0 Villa; So poor I don’t know where to start.

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Badger123
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Wow. I find myself stunned after watching that utter, utter load of rubbish.

It was that bad that I honestly can’t find a single redeeming feature.
Looking at that, combined with last week’s non-showing, we have serious problems.

I’ll start at the back. Pau. He is never a defender as long as he has a hole in his proverbial. I reckon I’m probably faster than him and I’m old enough to be his grandad.
We pushed up far too much against a side that has oodles of pace, where we have none.
It was all quite simple and incredibly basic. Sit back, wait for us to give the ball away again and then batter us with pace. I’m sorry, but how Emery allowed this is totally beyond me.

Then Komara gets injured so we put Buendia on. Again, I’m sorry, but I don’t see that as the right move at all. I’d agree that we needed creativity, but it was more on the wings. He can go for me. He’s just not productive enough and never has been for the Villa. Don’t agree? Look at his stats.

Watkins never had a look in, Rogers didn’t look anything like getting into the game and McGinn did nothing.
It was so obvious there was something seriously wrong and Emery did nothing to change it until it was far too late.

So what was going on? I believe Emery likes to give players every chance to hit form. It’s how it works. Players just cannot be at the top of their game all the time. I get that.
But we have too many who look frankly awful and need changing out.

But then, you have to question the tactics too. We played the first half so slowly I nearly fell asleep. Yet we upped the pace in the second half, which is something I’ve noticed is a regular thing. Why is that? Why do we let teams get in first, then have to try to haul things back?
It’s poor, in my opinion.

And even though we picked up the pace, it still looked to me like we wouldn’t score in a month of Sundays.

We look totally toothless and I find that seriously concerning.
We had how many corners? And didn’t get close to scoring.

Brentford must have thought all their birthdays had come at once, while I thought it was that bad, I didn’t even watch the last 10 minutes.
I don’t remember the last time I finished watching a game on the telly early.
I can see it happening more and more too, because what was on show today was nothing like entertaining.

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7 responses to “Brentford 1 – 0 Villa; So poor I don’t know where to start.”

  1. Badger123 avatar
    Badger123

    Stunned.
    It was that poor.

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  2. Roy bracy avatar
    Roy bracy

    I agree badger i nearly fell asleep too in fact watched utupe a bloke cutting and splitting firewood, it was definitely more entertaining than watching villa.
    What’s happened they slow in build up play last season but this is unbelievable 😳
    I think if carried on playing till next month they wouldn’t score.
    Keeping Rogers on when he plays like this is madness what does malen have to do to play..
    They say doing the same thing everytime with same results is a sign of madness well emery is driving me mad 😠
    This type of football has gone its all about pace and direct attacking play nowadays
    We’re to late again and playing a style that’s in the passed, maybe if had emery 5 or more years ago.
    But who can we get to replace him that’s the problem 🤔
    The premier league and uefa have succeeded in putting us back in our place mid table obscurity.
    Very sad days ahead I think.

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  3. Badger123 avatar
    Badger123

    I’m not calling to replace him Roy.
    Yet.

    I do wonder if there was a bit of trying to prove a point though???
    To what aim? is how I would reply to that one though. I don’t think it’s like the hierarchy are holding funds back, is it?

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  4. Bill Pearson avatar
    Bill Pearson

    Badger, The word is Complacent, it’s in the manager and the team and needs to be addressed. BFR might be right in saying players that’s been sold and loans out might and could be a factor. That game had us all guessing in the substitutes he brought on, you yourself commented Beundia ? What , Unai has to stop pointing to his head indicating think !! because he obviously gave his defence problems. No I’m not saying he must go because he’s the best in twenty years at Villa, that game was the worse I’ve witnessed for a long time it must have shortened the waiting list with people saying no thank you. He’s got to listen to us fans and players when looking back to what was wrong.

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  5. John Read avatar
    John Read

    I’ve been complaining about Emery’s tactics for 18 months. His results flatter him. You could read a book waiting for Villa to do something exciting. Football is supposed to be entertaining not just grinding out results by wearing opponents down. (And fans.) As another comment on here says, this style of football has had its day. Keep ball – tippy tippy – playing out from the back – endless backwards/sideways passing = boring. Today we had 77% possession. What’s the point if you do nothing with it ? I want a return to blood & thunder, devil may care football. If we are going to lose, at least give us some excitement.

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    1. BFR avatar
      BFR

      Correct, John. But Unai likes control; blood and thunder = chaos. Unai doesn’t fo chaos. But Lambert also used to claim we controlled the game after every defeat, pointing to the possession stats. Glasner has already said: “we let them have possession and wait for the mistake.” Then the pace kills you. So who’s actually in control? Clue: “we let them…”
      Yes, keep possession by all means, but there has to be a happy medium. For me, that happy medium is the transition. When we win the ball we should be looking to get a shot off within 20 seconds. But we dilly and dally, the opposition organise and no chance is created, never mind getting a shot off.
      We need younger, faster players. Jackson for Watkins makes sense age wise but I worry about his injury record as opposed to Ollie’s flawless appearance record for 4 years, which is remarkably. Ramsey is what we need; he’d run at players like Gascoigne. But we were forced to sell. Where’s this all going? Are we f***** and all wasting our time? Have the powers that be pummelled the Villa into submission? Big balls are needed in the coming days (not footballs), from the board down to the players…

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      1. Hitchens60 avatar
        Hitchens60

        ‘Big balls are needed in the coming days’ – spot on BFR.

        Emery and Monchi have to take some really brave decisions in the light of the financial sanctions imposed on the club which compared to other clubs under EUFA sanctions (such as Chelsea and Barcelona) are brutal and designed to ‘keep us in our place’.

        So the challenge is on – be brave – sell Rogers who at £100m is well overpriced (but some ‘big club’ will pay it) and Watkins (around £50m) and wave two fingers at the bean counters.

        I trust NSWE to reinvest sensibly – we need a high class right sided CB and a quality understudy to Cash plus a good quality forward and I’d add Asensio to that list – quality and an ability to play through a low block. With Asensio we could also sell Buendia.

        Let’s see some brave forward thinking.

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