v Sheffield United

[VillaRosie]

Mings out with a hamstring injury Hause in.



Lineup:-



1Heaton
24Guilbert
22Engels
30Hause
18Targett
7McGinn
11Nakamba
8Lansbury
21El Ghazi
9Wesley
10Grealish



Substitutes
3Taylor
6Douglas Luiz
15Konsa
17Trézéguet
25Nyland
26Kodjia
27El Mohamady

[dazzyowen]

Shocking first half, McGinn has been dreadful n can’t even make a pass.. what’s gone wrong with him ? Most of them been awful tbh apart from cbs, if we don’t improve we’ve lost this

[mondaze]

Knew when I watched the training you tube that Grealish would be struggling, must be carrying an injury. he wasnt training. Not sure what the hell the formation and team was supposed to be doing. Hourihane has to play, he gives Jack the second option wide left, Lansbury gives nothing. Off the pace. Sad to think this team is going to struggle, but its looking that way now.

[dazzyowen]

Grealish looked ok playing but was pretty poor overall imo.. not gonna get stupid n get all knee jerk but smith messed up today with tactics n formation..

Wesley played well again but yet again got no service, rather than take him off why not try kodja up there with him, ffs we was losing anyway so no gamble imo.

Today was the angriest I’ve been in ages watching us.

Gonna be a long season at this rate

[TrianonDave]

Still 20 pts by E.O.Y the target and 2 home games coming up v Norwich & Southampton must be a min 4 pts. Im not panicking yet, wasnt expecting anything from the game but when we got the pen by VAR i thought, hang on here but then I hear Grealish is taking it even when we had Koj on the pitch. He will miss this i thought.......oh well

[Wardy]

Sorry lads and lasses but Villa were awful today. I said to my mates at half time you were the worst team to come to come to the Lane all season. No quality in the team whatsoever and grealish looks good because he is playing with a load of dross.

You were so bad it was shocking. God knows what Smith spent all that money on. You were overhyped by the media and your own fans.

It stands out at the back because there is no quality or composure at all. This presumably has to go down to Smith and Terry

[westcountryvillain]

Yep we were awful, no cohesion or fluidity in our play and pass completion of 66% puts our back 4 under too much pressure. We have played some great football this season but the honeymoon is over and confidence has evaporated. I fear for us - the next two games are massive.

Was Hourihane suspended or injured?

[freer]

Look, I know we were sh1te today

Credit to Sheffield United who were resolute

In all honesty they weren't much better than today's dysfunctional Villa we were devoid of spirit that's the depressing thing

As a spectacle it was a dire watch between 2 ho-hum teams

[Wardy]

Look, I know we were sh1te today

Credit to Sheffield United who were resolute

In all honesty they weren't much better than today's dysfunctional Villa we were devoid of spirit that's the depressing thing

As a spectacle it was a dire watch between 2 ho-hum teams

Well one of those "ho-hum" teams is 5th in the table, has only been beaten by more than one goal since August 10th 2018, and that was 0-2, and lost only one away game this year ( January).

[TrianonDave]

Lets leave the bragging to the end of the marathon eh Wardy. Weve come through a tough set of fixtures and we look shot. We know that but 1 game does not meam were a bad team. As long as there are 3 worst teams this season i will be happy!
Over to the league cup v Liverpool, who you lot got?