Aston Villa 2-1 Man City Post match chat

[MalcolmP]

Why did Martinez get booked at halftime?

He pushed Joe in the chest.

There were a few verbals going on, but Emi was the only one who got handsy.
Not the best thing to do because it cut down his leeway for his standard late game antics

And Haaland pushed Emi but no card. Akanji committed about 5 fouls and at least 3 on Rogers but no card. Inconsistent refereeing.

[The Edge]

Kind of surprised Rogers is on 4, he shouldn’t be playing where he does.

Why not?

[usav]

Kind of surprised Rogers is on 4, he shouldn’t be playing where he does.

Why not?

My sentence was a grammatical disaster.  I'm just saying that I'm surprised he's on 4 yellows already.

[Somniloquism]

Not really. We try to press from the front. He might be overenthusiastic in his challenges when pressing and / or being sold a dummy and getting frustrated. Once the player is passed him, any foul could be seen as deliberate to stop play from forming. Also I think at least one of them was moaning about a decision.

[Dave]

Popped over to Blue Moon to see what was being said, this is totally delusional;

"The problem with playing “high risk, high reward football” is that when it isn’t ultra precise we’re open to basic grunt tactics, The number of matches where the other teams just sit and wait for us to make a mistake is like watching us play lower league teams in a cup game. At the moment we are beating ourselves"

They had one tactic all afternoon and that was a long diagonal to Grealish, who then failed to deliver a telling ball all afternoon except for the cross to Gvardiol. Yesterday like last season they were out thought and out fought.

They're the opinions of an entitled oaf who probably never went anywhere near Maine road and thinks they're a big club - one of the first to disappear when they get relegated to league 2 for the 115.

I dunno, getting our good, strong, fast players to run at, and pass the ball around their slow, lazy, mediocre players and kick the ball hard past their goalkeeper is pretty basic, page-one-of-the-manual  stuff.

Pity for them that their manager didn't pick up on it quicker.

[Rory]

Popped over to Blue Moon to see what was being said, this is totally delusional;

"The problem with playing “high risk, high reward football” is that when it isn’t ultra precise we’re open to basic grunt tactics, The number of matches where the other teams just sit and wait for us to make a mistake is like watching us play lower league teams in a cup game. At the moment we are beating ourselves"

They had one tactic all afternoon and that was a long diagonal to Grealish, who then failed to deliver a telling ball all afternoon except for the cross to Gvardiol. Yesterday like last season they were out thought and out fought.

They're the opinions of an entitled oaf who probably never went anywhere near Maine road and thinks they're a big club - one of the first to disappear when they get relegated to league 2 for the 115.

I dunno, getting our good, strong, fast players to run at, and pass the ball around their slow, lazy, mediocre players and kick the ball hard past their goalkeeper is pretty basic, page-one-of-the-manual  stuff.

Pity for them that their manager didn't pick up on it quicker.

Quite. It also doesn't make any sense.

'Sitting back and waiting for us to make mistakes' (if that's what they think we did) is not the same as adopting a 'grunt tactic'.

Lambert's Villa were the best team of the PL era - the only issue was opposition sides adopting 'grunt tactics' and exploiting our mistakes, the bastards. Just think how good we could've been if the opposition had kicked the ball into touch every time we made a mistake.

Just sounds like every West Brom fan when they were managed by Mowbray.