Post-Match Reaction: Aston Villa 1-1 SAINTS

Yep, totally agree. Reality check.

Agree. Might mean they up their game on Sunday.

Meh. Can't win them all. Frustrating, given Villa's poor form of late, but their game plan worked. They defended in great numbers, crowded out Pelle every time the ball got played up to him, and got lucky on the break with a poor defensive error, which have thankfully been very rare this season.

Was always going to be a tricky game against a side who were obviously going to be fighting hard. I'm just thankful that we came through it unbeaten and with no new injury concerns. We badly missed S Davis in the middle tonight.

worst performance of the season and we got a point

We will be. Rocket up their arses in training this week, plus we're still underdogs against Man City - it never suits us being compelling favourites. Worst strike force vs best defence as a case in point ... it was inevitable.

Well, city will not sit with the whole team behind the ball for 70 mins

Sloppy all around but happy with a point. Everyone was off the pace tonight, it was a bad night at the office.

But we managed to salvage a point from one moment of class. Just couldn't believe how bad the crossing was.

That'll do. Pelle was anonymous' date=' Tadic and Mane poor. Not a decent cross in sight today, and I wish we could actually threaten from a corner.[/quote']

 

What was up with Morgan taking the corners by the way? He was horrendous at it.

Credit to Hutton, Okore and the Villa defence. That is the template on how to play against us.

That's been the way to play against Saints for a few seasons now and sadly we still struggle with it.

That was the biggest pile of **** I've seen for a while. Villa are woeful, a really bad team, a depleted one low on confidence...and we get a draw with what...65% possession?

should be winning that game, no excuses.

I can pre empt all the...point away from home, happy with that boll ox...but really we were poor today. Our final 3rd play is very wasteful time and again and has been frequently this season. There have been games where we've pulled through and got the win after banging the door 150 a game.. But today wasn't one of those.

Koeman' poor selection and game plan lost it for us tonight. I can't face listening to his feeble excuses. Why oh why leave Cork on the bench till the 89th minutes? Pelle and Tadic have been found out. Long was found out ages ago Gutted, when we should have won.

Can someone sum up what carra n gary have to say, im watching Walking dead

And if thats as crap as last week then itll have been a really crappy monday

We can now forget the title for sure, but top 4 still on.

I suppose the question we need to ask ourselves is this: would a Saints of last season or indeed many seasons past have gained a point against a home team who parked the bus and showed no ambition, whilst playing so poorly? No? Then it's a good point earned tonight.

We were awful. But got a deserved point. Very sloppy and slow on the ball. Poor final passes and a bit predictable

 

Still, battled for a point. We were due a draw I guess

 

We need to be miles better on Sunday. F'sure

Oh behave Jamie, we weren't awful, we weren't great but we were still far better than Villa who defended very well and caught us on the break, their goal was an error, they played like the away side. Our final ball was poor at times and it was too slow getting forward but we were far from awful you lemon.

So, where are the people who said Hutton is ****e? Had Mane in his back pocket the entire game.

We were poor, as were Villa. I fear for them if that's how they play at home, they were relying on us to make mistakes and hoping to get us on the break which is exactly what happened for their goal.

That was the second game I've been able to watch this season, Spurs being the other. I'll be at work on Sunday though, so back to winning ways!

Thought the referee was awful. Wanted to play with his Whistle all the time. Part of the reason we lacked tempo tonight

Koeman' poor selection and game plan lost it for us tonight. I can't face listening to his feeble excuses. Why oh why leave Cork on the bench till the 89th minutes? Pelle and Tadic have been found out. Long was found out ages ago Gutted, when we should have won.

He went for it, but it didn't quite work. Not sure you can have a go at him for going for it.

And, tell me oh wise one, what would Cork have provided us when we were chasing the game?

Cheers.

Worst we've played all season and we get a point .... that's a good sign

2 points dropped. Villa really aren't up to much and we should have figured a way to get the win TBH. Let's hope they've got the lethargy out of their system.

Bigger picture though is 2 points clear on 2nd place and a very tasty set of fixtures to come.

Citeh on Sunday - bring it on.

We will play better and lose this season.

Can you imagine paying to watch that Villa side each week?

I'll take a point, frustrating and some poor performances, but if you would have offered me a point earlier I would have taken it.

We didn't create enough with the possession we had.

Koeman' poor selection and game plan lost it for us tonight. I can't face listening to his feeble excuses. Why oh why leave Cork on the bench till the 89th minutes? Pelle and Tadic have been found out. Long was found out ages ago Gutted, when we should have won.

:lol:

sign of a good team....not playing at their best yet still get a point away from home against a team that is the most boring side I have ever had the misfortune to watch. How Villa fans can stomach that week in week out I do not know.

We are not going to win every game but the run keeps going. The NBC panel were impressed with Saints: not because they played well but the fact they stuck at it and got the point. This is a game we would have lost in years gone by.

City won't come and shut up shop so should be a more open, entertaining affair.

Everyone is smashing Villa home and away, so this in the cold light if day is two point dropped in the tile race...yeah I know.

Koeman' poor selection and game plan lost it for us tonight. I can't face listening to his feeble excuses. Why oh why leave Cork on the bench till the 89th minutes? Pelle and Tadic have been found out. Long was found out ages ago Gutted, when we should have won.

Strange strange man

Villa seem to be our new bogie team. Toby was great, Bertrand great, Clyne good, Vic was ok but the rest were below average tonight though I thought. MOM Bertrand for me for Saints. Pelle did not seem interested tonight, Forster shaky.

I can't go on MOTM as Bertrand, based on his first half performance. Clyne for me.

liverpool, WBA, SPURS, Villa were all bad, but it was frustrating opposition... We missed Steven Davies..... as we had no control of the mid field, and was just a game of hoof ball. Dragged down possibly.

Have played better and lost so the point is a bonus. So bloody wound up I need to do some deep-breathing exercises...and reeelaaax.

Disappointed with the performance, satisfied with the point at the end, lots of players below par, missed Davis, Clyne my motm.

What was up with Morgan taking the corners by the way? He was horrendous at it.

Not only that, he's specifically taking them from he right side of the pitch (i.e. outswinging). And vice-verse for Tadic :S

Villa seem to be our new bogie team. Toby was great, Bertrand great, Clyne good, Vic was ok but the rest were below average tonight though I thought. MOM Bertrand for me for Saints. Pelle did not seem interested tonight, Forster shaky.

Agreed. The moment Villa got the goal it was always going to be difficult. To get a draw was a bloody good result !

Oh behave Jamie, we weren't awful, we weren't great but we were still far better than Villa who defended very well and caught us on the break, their goal was an error, they played like the away side. Our final ball was poor at times and it was too slow getting forward but we were far from awful you lemon.

Just my opinion Richard, we struggled to break down a shyte team with half of their shyte defence out

Point gained looking back

We are miles better than that

With hindsight I think we should have maintained the structure and shape that has worked so well for us - putting Cork in for Davis and keeping either Long or Mané on the bench. It was almost as though we had too much width today.

Mané didn't get much out of (Goatboy's) Hutton but I think the commentators made a good point - sometimes we should leave the wide man to take on the full back in space, rather than close that space up with another overlap.

He's a decent enough keeper I'm still not convinced by Forster.

Koeman' poor selection and game plan lost it for us tonight. I can't face listening to his feeble excuses. Why oh why leave Cork on the bench till the 89th minutes? Pelle and Tadic have been found out. Long was found out ages ago Gutted, when we should have won.

Hopefully just one of those days. Dont want to see another one like that for a while. I am struggling to find any positives from that apart from the fact that we didn't lose.

It's a point we wouldn't have got last season

Hope Fraser Forster is called in for a stern interview Dave Watson at the earliest opportunity. Words of advice needed.

Probably just me, but did I detect a Villa bias in the Sky commentary and noticed that it was Villa players called in for the first post-match interviews.

It seems pretty inevitable for Villa's 5th choice CB, and according to their fans, an ''atrocious player of L1 standard'' to be MOTM.

This game was never going to be a win with all the contrasting stats, football is never that cut and dry.

We're 8 points above 5th place FFS. An away draw in the premier league is never a terrible result.

Hope Fraser Forster is called in for a stern interview Dave Watson at the earliest opportunity. Words of advice needed.

 

Probably just me, but did I detect a Villa bias in the Sky commentary and noticed that it was Villa players called in for the first post-match interviews.

Probably because they gained a very unlikely point.

Everyone is smashing Villa home and away, .

Villa won at Anfield, we didn't.

Hope Fraser Forster is called in for a stern interview Dave Watson at the earliest opportunity. Words of advice needed.

 

Probably just me, but did I detect a Villa bias in the Sky commentary and noticed that it was Villa players called in for the first post-match interviews.

Yeah I did, the way they kept reminding everyone how much confidence they'll take from a point against southampton sealed it for me.

We will play better and lose this season.

 

Can you imagine paying to watch that Villa side each week?

Good point. When you think manure won and had a similar set of stats as Villa tonight it was ok. Need to watch the howlers all week though.

Saints got 64% possession but a Villa player is given the MoM award (puke)

Frustrating game. Forster very shaky. Pelle was as quiet as I've seen him. Quality of delivery very poor from set pieces and in general play. Build up play from midfield was often too slow and would have been nice to see Cork given more than a few minutes. But we remained patient and scored another stunner in a game we probably would have lost last season. Hope Davis gets fit for City game as we really missed his guile tonight.

We're 8 points above 5th place FFS. An away draw in the premier league is never a terrible result.

16 points above 18th !!!!!

poor performance tonight....looks like we lost the momentum built up on the run.....international break not done us any favours......what is Mayuka all about????? huge game against City on Sunday......

So bloody wound up I need to do some deep-breathing exercises...and reeelaaax.

That's how I feel. 90 minutes of frustration. Absolutely nothing went for Pelle. Long and Tadic did absolutely nothing. What was our game plan? Long does my head in. There is so much more in there if he just forced things a bit. Grrrrrrrr...calm down chez.

Stupid goal to give away, I think if we did not give that goal away, we would have won this game.

Koeman' poor selection and game plan lost it for us tonight. I can't face listening to his feeble excuses. Why oh why leave Cork on the bench till the 89th minutes? Pelle and Tadic have been found out. Long was found out ages ago Gutted, when we should have won.

Jesus Christ.

Go to bed!