Jesus ****ing Christ. This is appalling, what the hell have they been practising all week? Lampard will be lucky to keep his job with this sort of performance.
1-0, well that's over then!!!
Jesus ****ing Christ. This is appalling, what the hell have they been practising all week? Lampard will be lucky to keep his job with this sort of performance.
It makes us all feel like DCFCA!
They think its all over..It is now!
yes we have injuries but we are gutless clueless and have no discernible tactics, ah well saves us having a play off waste of time I guess and Frank can prepare for next season early - funny to think some media were saying he'd be a good choice for Chelsea! Just shows how clueless pundits get all hyped up over a big name!!
Not a single shot on target. Not good enough Frank.
We can still do it, only 16 points off auto's
KTF!
Poor, poor performance. In two words – extremely disappointing. My views in no particular order.
When we have Wilson not fit to start, Mount and Lawrence not fit, period, we don’t have the personnel available for that free flowing 1-4-3-3 FL wants to play. The solution is to do something else which FL did 2nd half. Still not good enough but miles better than the 1st half.
Their first was quite possibly offside and my first thought was that Carson wasn’t quick enough to intercept but Roos probably would have. Even if it was, having it discounted was only postponing the almost inevitable. We could have been 6 or 7 down by half time.
Their 2nd and 3rd were down to, IMO, our love for marking space and not tracking back with runners. This was the reason for our downfall and it has been coming for a few games now. We mark zones and zones never score so it must work..... right? Wrong, as it is players who aren’t put under pressure that are killing us at the moment. Right through the first half, every time they got the ball, if you froze the picture, they had 5 or 6 men in attacking positions in a good 5 yards of space. That was why they were so easily able to pass through us. When we got the ball there was no outlet as most of our forward players were either man marked or there was a Villa player between our man and the ball.
Our passing was atrocious. Too soft. Too hard. Wrong direction. Either going out of play or straight to a Villa Player.
Their 4th? Partially down to us. You should always have a man on the edge of the box at corners to stop an opponent having a free shot either direct from the corner or from the ball being headed out from the corner. Grealish stole in, Bennett tried and failed to get his head on it and Jackie boy hit a worldy. Great strike but he should never have been given the freedom of the D to take the shot.
3 minutes into the 2nd half should we have had a penalty when Marriott was “pushed over”? Quite possibly at 1st sight but I haven’ seen a decent replay to be 100% sure yet.
86th minute, should we have been awarded another penalty for the 2 handed push in Wilson’s back? Abserbloominlootly but it wasn’t given.
Even if we had been given the 2 penalties and scored both we wouldn’t have got anything out of the game and quite right too. That performance didn’t deserve anything other than a beating. We got one.
Carson – possibly partially guilty for the first but not a chance with the other 3.
Back 4 – Played to orders and made life easy for Villa.
DM2 – Played to order and made life easy for Villa. Evans was, IMO, lucky to stay on. A yellow and made a string of fouls thereafter. FL was right to sub him at HT. Bird tried hard but a lack of outlets saw him, like his teammates, play too many poor passes.
MF 3 – Like the rest, poor 1st contact, poor control, poor decision making, poor passes
Marriott – Poor ball saw him do little apart from running about and harrying the opposition
The 3 subs were slightly better than those they replaced and that helped us perform better 2nd half.
On Tuesday Wigan will come and park the bus and we will struggle again – Prove me wrong lads. That is your task if you choose to accept it.
MA agree with most of that except second half we were no better Atrocious team selection couldn't believe it I had just parked up when somebody I know came told me the team I could have cried Bird I've watch him all his career so far he can pass a ball well but he can't win one can't run and disappears for ten minutes at a time He's only 18 his time will come but not yet Bennett perhaps you will agree now He's a bloody awful footballer Evans i said the other week a half fit Thorne is better than him The only midfield control we had at Forest was when Johson came on and he drops him Wigan a must win now but a
you wouldn't put any money on it Sam Morsey usually runs midfield when we play them They now have Leon Clarke U up front and he always scores against us We really need some pace back in the team maybe time to give Mitchel -Lawson a start got to give us more than Zoon does he is ok of the bench