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Aston Villa vs Arsenal, Villa Park Saturday 9 December 17:30 GMT

Coombs

Clrnc no way in hell. They're shit.

GooneriC

Shit performance. We need a fckin attack all over again. Our strikers are shit .

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

GooneriC there's no all over again when we've barely touched the attack in years and years. It's pathetic actually.

Saka and Martinelli are not yet elite if they ever even will be. Jesus doesn't score and can be a time wasting little bitch.

We need to get a worldie of a wide forward in January as well as a full back. Or season over, again.

Gazza M

rice waits too long before taking over games offensively. he makes a huge difference by driving with the ball, but he only starts doing it in the last 10-15 minutes of the game. must be operating under some bullshit constraints by captain horseshoe

villa aren't no contenders for anything more than top 4 imo. and they carry unais spirit of bag fumbling

Coombs

Done with Jesus. Martinelli needs to sit.

Mirth

Coombs thought we looked so much worse once Jesus went off

HomeSteak

Clrnc for sure. But...it will be one of Liverpool and City. Nobody has a chance really from the rest of us. We are 3 players away from the title. Maybe next year

swider

HomeSteak
That is how I see it too, pool and city will fight for a title and we should finish in the top four.

Panda

Nah they aren't contenders just ona good run at home.

Meatwad

their captain made a half chance into a great goal and ours fluffed multiple great opportunities. and jesus being jesus. trossard being shit. those are the problems. not a ref calling handball because he sees it bounce off havertz multiple times.

Coombs

Meatwad these are not mutually exclusive issues.

Big Willie

Mirth thought we looked so much worse once Jesus went off

That was to be expected. Jesus may miss chances but he creates so much. Nketiah, if he isn't scoring, is useless.

Coombs

Mirth I don't really care, honestly. He's an annoying cheat and isn't a real striker by his own admission, what does looking good do for us?

Panda

We did have our chances today but did not make them count.

awooga83

Ultimately a very ineffective attacking game has cost us something we have seen for a long time. They're was lots of talk about your wait when city give it's that space but we are nowhere near good enough from an attacking perspective. That will cost you winning any title and Arteta and the team need to recognise that fast.

Don Pacifico

Actually one of better games in many ways, I thought. Sadly, just no cutting edge in the final third.

Meatwad

Coombs
that's the only issue. the ref was not an issue.

DiabyKungFu

For what it's worth, I think the rule right now is that if the ball accidentally hits the hand of the goalscorer then the goal is disallowed. Otherwise, normal handball rules apply. An interesting upshot of this is that I think the goal would have counted if Kai had let Eddie score it. That's basically what happened for the goal against Newcastle. I definitely don't blame Kai in any sense. It's hard to have that level of awareness in the moment, but it's just an interesting consequence of how the rules work.

KingslandBarge

Traumatised by those lame attempts on goal, and Mcginn sticking his ass out all night to hog the ball. Fuck this

Rohit

In some games there is something very mechanical and rehearsed about how we go forward. Almost like we reset when we shouldn't just so that we attack like we have practiced.

We had our chances and got fucked over by the referee but we didn't look great.

Gazza M

Rohit so many times there was a simple pass on between the lines, and the players were too scared or too drilled to pick it out. and on the occasion they did pick the pass, the receiver- ode being the main offender - was super passive, took a poor touch or picked the wrong ball. just a god awful display of attacking football, which felt like a few chickens coming to roost after we've gotten away with it for so long this season

Clrnc

awooga83 which angle showed it hits his hand?! The ball doesn't even spin or move when it came to Havertz.

I'm not convinced. We were robbed.

Havertz reaction says it all. He was absolutely livid it got disallowed immediately. Normally instant reactions doesn't lie

KingslandBarge

Clrnc I am livid at the referee for his initial onfield decision, but VAR also needed to run that in realtime to get a better sense of how the ball was moving, and inactive hands in that context

Don Pacifico

Coombs I mean, we had leaden footed Laca leading the line two years ago, so I don't think we can say it's been neglected. There's only so much we can do in any given summer. I'm sure a more clinical CF is on the list for either next summer or the one after.

Coombs

Don Pacifico the one after?! Fuck, man. Life is too short.

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