Ratings & Reactions: Villa v Arsenal

[It's Your Round]

Our security should kick those cockney mugs out of the ground now. Horrible clearings in the woods that they are. 

[est1874]

How the **** did Bailey make it through 90 mins playing like that? So, so poor.

[Aston_Villan4]

This is clearly a top 4 side. Nothing wrong with having bad days at the office. Especially when arguably our best player is well out of form. As good as Kosta was against Martinelli, we definitely need Geertruida. Cash’s hammy is going to give him problems all season.

[sheepyvillian]

Look at the celebrations from them. That's how far we have come.

[UpTheVilla26]

We take our chances, we win that. 

We didn't and they did and won.

On balance, I'd say we looked the more dangerous side but unfortunately Ollie and Bailey look very rusty. 

I wouldn't have taken McGinn off, he was playing well and it did seem to affect us.

We are a bloody good side though, they will see that as a massive scalp and the season is still early.

UTV 🩵

[It's Your Round]

I reckon we wallop Everton in our next home game. 

[Dale]

Did everything you need for a result. But missed two gilt edged chances. A result on Ollie, which is horrible. But he'll be feeling that too. 

[Lerner's Driver]

First thing to say is well done Arsenal. You deserve to win if you take your chances even if you are not the better side and that is exactly what happened.

Villa competed well in this match and are set up for another good season, but some of the decision making and finishing was **** dreadful.

Watkins poor again. Yes, we all know he hasn't had a preseason, but playing him at the moment is costing us and yes I know he needs minutes.

Very very disappointing match because it could and should have been completely different. Oh well.

[Aston_Villan4]

Just now, sheepyvillian said:

Look at the celebrations from them. That's how far we have come.

They know this was a huge win for them against a high quality squad.

[AndyM3000]

1 minute ago, bobzy said:

I thought Arsenal were decent to be honest. We setup well - as they did - and the game was, for the most part, a bit of a chess match.

We missed our chances, they scored theirs. I’d say Arsenal were the better side but also that 2-0 flattered them.

We saw two sides who will be fighting at the very top end of the table this evening. 

They were okay, I thought we edged it overall but goals win games. They didn't really create much before they scored and thats when it opened up, they are a very good side but they need to go up a few levels to challenge Man City.

[KillieVillain]

Disappointed by the result but not the performance, Watkins normally scores those chances & Martinez normally saves that 2nd goal, still only 3 points off top !

[sheepyvillian]

The facts are, once you go a goal down in a game like that, there's no coming back. It knocked the proverbial stuffing out of us.

[villa4europe]

Between mcginn, JJ, youri, Andre and Rogers our ability to turn on the ball in the middle of the pitch is looking insane 

[srsmithusa]

Ned did great.  Not perfect.  He'll be perfect after his next birthday.  (15th?)  

[Sgl]

No shame on that. Evenly matched teams. Last year, we took our chances and they didn’t. This year we created chances and didn’t take them but they did. I thought Rogers was exceptional - looked every inch the champions league player. Small margins against the top teams in the premier league, we weren’t ruthless in front of goal and Raya made a few great saves. 
 

Weirdly, after a loss - I’m optimistic for the season. 

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[osmark86]

Very good game of football.

One of those games where the result goes the way of the team that didn't blow their chances. Sorry Ollie, but I think you might have to spend a little extra time at Bodymoor Heath...

I'm not discouraged at all from that. We look like a solid team. We grew into the game a little too late and wasted momentum in the majority of the first half, but second half we were well on top for the majority of the half.

Good thing is that we have an easy run on paper coming up to crank the machine and clear away the rust.

[romavillan]

2 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

Poor after the goal, really poor at the start, Rogers took us by the scruff of the neck, fine margins Vs a very good team, going to be lots of disappointment and Ollie's getting a lot of stick 

The two Ollie misses, the JJ chance with his bad touch, the Konsa across the goal volley

Decent game overall though, 2nd best team in the league, I thought we actually did more over 90 mins than we did in both games last year yet we won both those games, funny old game 

Don't think we were especially poor at the start but after the goal, we'd made the changes and it took the wind out of our sails. 

For the most part we were really good today, bodes well for the season. Ollie hasn't got the minutes in his legs yet like he rest of them, and you could argue the same for Emi. We did enough to win that and that should be enough to be satisfied with that performance today. It means we can compete with the very best teams in this league and I reckon we will only get better.

Never fun to lose but very positive signs and I for one am keeping the faith and am pleased with how good we are already, the best is yet to come.

[DeadlyDirk]

Just not our day, and to be fair we cost Arsenal the title last season (in their eyes at least), they would always want revenge for that.

We looked really good and Rogers was unplayable at times. It's going to be a big season.

UTV

[VillanousOne]

Just now, srsmithusa said:

Ned did great.  Not perfect.  He'll be perfect after his next birthday.  (15th?)  

he did well, but if Cash has his text book 3 months out with injury this season, i don't really think Kosta or Konsa at right back is the best outlook, especially if that latter means Carlos at CB.

still want us to get, Geertruda

[sheepyvillian]

I gave Tiellmans motm. I thought Rodgers faded after 60 minutes, whereas, Tiellmans kept trying till the end.