[Albion] Aston Villa vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[HangletonGull]

Brave effort from the lads. There are some positives there for sure. Onwards and upwards

What was the positives?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Should of taken Webster off after half an hour!

 

[birthofanorange]

Thank the stars for our great start, as it's likely that we'll see zero points from nine. We looked shocking in the first half, and although far better in the second, we still looked so easy to score against.
Watkins is damn good, to give him his due, but defensively we are woeful.
I would have taken where we are at the start of this season, and the poor results (West Ham and today), but I am concerned about the next few matches and a very likely slide down the table.
We simply don't look 'strong' enough.

 

[Bodian]

We only lost the second half 3-1 - so we improved!

 

[worthingseagull123]

Go and support Man Citeh then!!

Well no.

But lets not call the League Cup tinpot when in our entire history we’ve never won an actual cup.

We have zero domestic honours.

People forget that.

 

[DJ NOBO]

Hinshelwood out

 

[fruitnveg]

Thankful that its over. Now we forget and move on to Marseille.

 

[banjo]

Hopefully that’s put us back under the radar now.

 

[Jackthelad]

What was the positives?

f*** knows, maybe the weather or something.

 

[portslade seagull]

Absolute shocker. Dunk looked massively out of sorts. Lamptey an improvement on Estupinan but that’s about as positive as I can be. We will continue to ship goals with that defence.

Think the defence being constantly left exposed by our non existent midfield didn't help

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Brave effort from the lads. There are some positives there for sure. Onwards and upwards

Such as?

 

[birthofanorange]

What was the positives?

It could have been 7?

 

[Arthritic Toe]

Stuart Pearce makes some very good points on Talksport. While Brighton aren't playing well, ir's refereeing decisions that are making the difference in games - two goals disallowed on another day, a penalty for Brighton for that handball, and a red card for Konsa - and it all would look very different. And as Pearce also pointed out, every deflection has gome Villa's way too.

Good old Stuart. It wouldnt look that much different - we'd have lost about 4-2 if everything had gone our way.

 

[Bridcutt]

I’m speechless..... Radio just said it could have been more

not really. Every attack they did was a goal

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

We simply don’t have the strength in depth. If I were Bloom and RDZ I’d start focusing on the PL and play the kids in Europe. We’re not going to win the Europa so we want to play our strongest team week in week out in the PL.

It's a problem, we seem to be getting caught in the middle here, playing a ' nearly' team each game and coming up short. It might be a case of going all in for one.

 

[Chicken Run]

Well no.

But lets not call the League Cup tinpot when in our entire history we’ve never won an actual cup.

We have zero domestic honours.

People forget that.

Charity Sheild? ( I know)

 

[BadFish]

Hold steady people, try to keep things in perspective.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

What was the positives?

No more threads about us winning the league. That is a f***ing huge positive.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Be interesting to see what RDZ says. Hope it not all excuses about injuries, being tired too many games etc

Ive not seen him use those as EXCUSES before

 

[perth seagull]

Charity Sheild? ( I know)

At least we beat Villa then.