Positives:

Erm....this is gonna be hard...

First half showed some good atta......nah, can't put that...a football team attacking as a positive, ffs

Honestly, not taking the piss, what are the positives from the game? Our stream (or, rather, our wifi) was shocking so it was canny hard to tell but it looked like we were having a go in the first half?(I know I said I can't put that but I honestly can't see anything else and, given how defensively Bruce has set us up in the past, I'm trying to give him some credit).

Negatives:

VAR...no Villa players or fans thought it was a pen and, more importantly, neither did the ref so was it a clear and obvious error? Not when you consider how close the player was to Lascelles when he headed the ball. Plus, for the 'offside', when the lines are that close, there needs to be a margin of error in favour of the attacking team because, much as the attacker/defender part is a matter of mathematics, the judgement about when the ball is considered to have left the players foot for the pass is still a subjective one.

The ref...not sour grapes because we deserved to lose...was a homer. And how he didn't consider their 'keeper's neck-high assault on Wilson wasn't worthy of a red is beyond me. He was massively out of control and clattered Wilson in the head-hugely dangerous.

Our lack of defensive shape...gaps all over the place, conceded again to an unmarked player, Schar turning away from the shot...poor all round.

Our midfield's lack of bite or creativity.

Our forwards-as we knew, when Wilson or ASM aren't on their game, we've got nowt.

Bruce's subs....sigh.

Sorry for the balance of positivity vs negativity...maybe someone can help me out?