Silhillvilla
Vital Football Legend
It's a lot more than just the defence, that's the issue.
It's a lot more than just the defence, that's the issue.
Also Hutton leaves way too much space behind him which he doesn't bust a gut back into .... always been that wayI did put the defence mainly in my post. A decent DM would make a massive difference as well. Without Axel our lack of pace at CB is terrible. Its why we keep getting caught out by long balls over them. To keep shuffling the CB,s around is like moving the deck chairs on the Titanic. We need at least 1 CB brought in who has pace.
You're saying that having a Chelsea player on loan isn't doing anything for the long term but the team that beat Bristol had snodgrass, also on loan and Terry who was on a 1 year contract.
The entire structure of the club was built around a short term promotion or bust mentality that we are now paying for. Smith is having to clean up the mess left by others.
On this day last season we thrashed Bristol city 5-0 to go 4th on 44 points just 5 points off 2nd.
Fair to say we are regressing backwards at a rate of knots. This season looks lost already as it's not as if we will suddenly learn to defend overnight. JT is a massive miss at the back, Chester is now exposed for what he is. Midfield without Snodgrass and jack lacks creativity and any balance.
We've got a Chelsea player up top having a good time , but long term that does nothing whatsoever for the Aston Villa football club.
Their keeper went down injured for a while and other than that there was just extreme general time wasting from their lotI could only keep up with the latest score today and missed most of it, just seen the goals now.
Why was there 14 mins of injury time added?
Disappointing result, but still a long way to go.
Agree I thought bringing Whelan on made sense as we weren’t playing well, especially in midfield Bjarnasson was woeful and McGinn looked out of energy by the end, so I don’t think weakening the midfield further would have been a wise move especially considering some of the late goals we’ve given away recently so I will give Smith a pass on that particular substitution this timeI said to bring hurry up off for whelan. With 10 mins to go playing 2 in midfield and one more striker would have been suicide, the midfield struggled all game with three. Hutton and hurry up are piss poor, one can't defend and the other one can't and won't tackle.
The ref still has to blow his whistle to restart the game which he hadn’t done. I don’t know what the rules or guidelines are about how quickly the ref should restart play, I imagine he could have allowed the kick off sooner but bottled it.Also two things about the ref, one plus for us, one minus.
The laws of the game is once the last player from their team is in their half, you are allowed to kick off, it is their fault if they are stupidly celebrating. Abraham clearly knows the law, I know the law - why doesnt the bloofy ref !!!.
However, I do think Kodjia should have gone. The ball was in the goalies arms long before he kicked him in the head, very dangerous challenge, hence a 10 minute delay, and was a red - so we got lucky.