Unai Emery

[SoccerHQ]

He needs to be braver on these big games away from home against the big teams. We very rarely hold on for draws and the shame is that we had such good momentum going into tonight.

He's got it right twice at Arsenal.

Liverpool and Chelsea I think were just bad times in the season for us to play them away. We were very weak in November and both were at their peak. I'd back us to get results at one of them if we were playing them in the run in.

This was probably his worst tactical call since Spurs away. 1-1 and think Romero gets injured and he got excited and put Duran on alongside Ollie and Spurs just stroll through our midfield at will.

Comical if on the last day we go to Man. United and just stand off them. Away days in Manchester are a total Bermuda triangle for us in we seem to lose all sense of mentality in terms of believing we'll get a result.

[Brazilian Villain]

Rage sack him Nas!

I'll be surprised if he doesn't sack him on the coach, again.

Maybe a cheeky approach for Chris Davies. But would he take the step down to manage us?

On second thoughts, I've just remembered his record at Wembley.

[Somniloquism]

He needs to be braver on these big games away from home against the big teams. We very rarely hold on for draws and the shame is that we had such good momentum going into tonight.

He's got it right twice at Arsenal.

Liverpool and Chelsea I think were just bad times in the season for us to play them away. We were very weak in November and both were at their peak. I'd back us to get results at one of them if we were playing them in the run in.

This was probably his worst tactical call since Spurs away. 1-1 and think Romero gets injured and he got excited and put Duran on alongside Ollie and Spurs just stroll through our midfield at will.

Comical if on the last day we go to Man. United and just stand off them. Away days in Manchester are a total Bermuda triangle for us in we seem to lose all sense of mentality in terms of believing we'll get a result.

Palace away was a bad selection, five at the back wasn't needed as we had to proper CB and instead he decided Bogarde should go there instead of shielding them just in front.

[SoccerHQ]

He needs to be braver on these big games away from home against the big teams. We very rarely hold on for draws and the shame is that we had such good momentum going into tonight.

He's got it right twice at Arsenal.

Liverpool and Chelsea I think were just bad times in the season for us to play them away. We were very weak in November and both were at their peak. I'd back us to get results at one of them if we were playing them in the run in.

This was probably his worst tactical call since Spurs away. 1-1 and think Romero gets injured and he got excited and put Duran on alongside Ollie and Spurs just stroll through our midfield at will.

Comical if on the last day we go to Man. United and just stand off them. Away days in Manchester are a total Bermuda triangle for us in we seem to lose all sense of mentality in terms of believing we'll get a result.

Palace away was a bad selection, five at the back wasn't needed as we had to proper CB and instead he decided Bogarde should go there instead of shielding them just in front.

Palace away isn't really a "big" away game though. Just like Wolves we're chronically terrible there whatever the respective form and happily donate them one of their 5-6 home wins for the season.

He overthought that night a fair bit so I very much doubt we're just going to change our formation again to match Palace.

[brontebilly]

He needs to be braver on these big games away from home against the big teams. We very rarely hold on for draws and the shame is that we had such good momentum going into tonight.

He's got it right twice at Arsenal.

Liverpool and Chelsea I think were just bad times in the season for us to play them away. We were very weak in November and both were at their peak. I'd back us to get results at one of them if we were playing them in the run in.

This was probably his worst tactical call since Spurs away. 1-1 and think Romero gets injured and he got excited and put Duran on alongside Ollie and Spurs just stroll through our midfield at will.

Comical if on the last day we go to Man. United and just stand off them. Away days in Manchester are a total Bermuda triangle for us in we seem to lose all sense of mentality in terms of believing we'll get a result.

Spurs away - Cash went off. He brought on a (shite) centre back, switched Konsa to RB and we collapsed. I found the effort at Monaco was really bad when he tried Duran and Watkins up top with predictable consequences and talked about it afterwards how it didn't work. Palace was just a nightmare from the first minute that got increasingly worse.

But Emery is a top manager. He does learn from his mistakes. He is not afraid to make big decisions either, Carlos and Duran were let go pretty quickly for example. Watkins might well heed that as a warning too. Football can be funny, a few days ago he literally could do no wrong with maybe his best day at the club - with a much changed team from PSG too. Tonight when the game was there to be won, I thought key players like Kamara froze and arguably Emery did too on the sideline with daft decisions. 

Think his approach v Palace is going to be very interesting. Mings will come back in Id be fairly sure but after that it's hard to know. Rogers should come out but that's unlikely.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Some really good points there bronte....I absolutely love Kamara but I thought he was caught out numerous times tonight and v PSG and actually made things worse for us than better. And SUE's decisions....agreed.
And with everything surrounding Saturday...selection, structure, formation, intent...
I thought ci£y were there for the taking tonight and we fu**ed it up....I think exactly the same about Palace but they've done us over more than a few times recently...respect yes, fear NO!
We need to go out to control the game eg Newcastle...simple tactics, higher tempo and we are outstanding!

[Percy McCarthy]

He needs to be braver on these big games away from home against the big teams. We very rarely hold on for draws and the shame is that we had such good momentum going into tonight.

He's got it right twice at Arsenal.

Liverpool and Chelsea I think were just bad times in the season for us to play them away. We were very weak in November and both were at their peak. I'd back us to get results at one of them if we were playing them in the run in.

This was probably his worst tactical call since Spurs away. 1-1 and think Romero gets injured and he got excited and put Duran on alongside Ollie and Spurs just stroll through our midfield at will.

Comical if on the last day we go to Man. United and just stand off them. Away days in Manchester are a total Bermuda triangle for us in we seem to lose all sense of mentality in terms of believing we'll get a result.

Spurs away - Cash went off. He brought on a (shite) centre back, switched Konsa to RB and we collapsed.

Funny how you obsess over that one, but not the many times it worked. Mind you, you’ve posted about Spurs away so often it’s ingrained in the membrane I suppose, especially when it’s all you’ve got. I’ll note your Spurs away and raise you:

Arsenal 1-0
Man City 1-0
Arsenal 2-0
Wolves 2-0 (Diaby, Konsa)
Bayern 1-0
Juve 0-0
Young Boys 3-0
Bologna 2-0.

Has the bloke who’s a “massive upgrade” on England’s Ezri Konsa managed to play his way back into the *checks notes* Poland squad yet?

To be fair, he had a decent six minutes until he fucked up last night. 5.6 on BBC Ratings but they’re not comedy ones like the laughable garbage you post. Hopefully the Poland manager left early.

[ChicagoLion]

Cash or Desasi at RB, not sure which is worse when up against a decent winger.
Konsa never seems to get skinned at RB as easily as these 2.

[PaulWinch again]

Cash or Desasi at RB, not sure which is worse when up against a decent winger.
Konsa never seems to get skinned at RB as easily as these 2.

Really? It’s pretty evident which is worse.

[RamboandBruno]

Cash got skinned for the goal, but the goal was ultimately down to Emi. Im not sure that Cash did an awful lot wrong after that.

[eamonn]

Konsa has this habit of crouching down and sticking out his foot to block a cross or shot. It's ended-up deflecting in the opposition's favour twice in three games now - Baboushka's pass last night for the opener and Forest's goal last Saturday week.

[OCD]

Once Disasi got skinned by Doku, Konsa needed to come across and reduce Doku's options. If he had of done, he wouldn't have been able to play the ball that he did. The Forest away game had a similar ending and both have given Champions League rivals valuable points.

[brontebilly]

Cash or Desasi at RB, not sure which is worse when up against a decent winger.
Konsa never seems to get skinned at RB as easily as these 2.

No...who was that mini messi at Ipswich that made a complete mug of him? that was the worst individual performance from a Villa player this season that I recall. Liverpool, RBL, Spurs, Forest, Brugge early in CL - Konsa was awful at RB in all those games. Have a read through a couple of those post game threads to jog your memory. He thankfully hasn't played there in a while so people have forgotten.

Sure Konsa has had some decent games there, apparently did very well in some friendly against Vinicus Jr too, but eventually he got found out. It's the same with Disasi, didn't he even get motm v Brentford at right back? Sitting in a low block like Konsa v Bayern, it's a different game. They can tuck in near their centre back, they can have someone like McGinn or even Bailey pushing out in front of them to engage the winger. But ask them to step out with the ball or if the opponent switches the play quickly to drag them out to the sideline then they are in big trouble.

It's harsh to have a go at Matty Cash after the week he had with his performances v PSG and Newcastle and by far his best season with us generally. Sure he made that same getting caught narrow mistake for the first goal but he recovered reasonably well, thought he seemed a bit tired in truth last night. But Disasi was a disaster of a sub, Guardiola sensed it nearly immediately, most supporters did likewise. Swap Cash for Garcia or leave him on.