Aston Villa vs Manchester United [13/Nov/2010]

dear lord united have been shit to watch this season haven't they (liverpool game aside)
 
Trying not to just concentrate on Berbs, the whole team have been very poor. Passing awful and no real ambition at all.

But feck it we need Berbs to stand up and do something today and he has failed miserably.

Possibly the most frustrating player I can recall plaing for Utd. He has bags of talent why cant he show it?
 
Yet another rubbish away performance. Not even surprising. Will be shocked if we win this.

Positives:
Old carrick is back

Negatives:
So is old berba.

Anyway I know he's public enemy number 1 but when the hell does Wayne Rooney return?
 
Villa the better team at HT.

Thank God they look toothless upfront. I'd say Nani has been particularly dire so far, poor 1st touch 5-6 times in the half. Let's hope we get a little more tempo going in the 2nd half, and attack young Bannan. he's already got a yellow card, and committed another foul or two...so he might be walking a tightrope, we should exploit that.
 
Berbatov and Hernandez have been pathetic.

Poor half from Nani as well, but Brown doesnt support him well enough when going forward.


The performances of our forwards is a bit worrying.
 
Yet again, 45 minutes of away football and we look painfully average.

Where's the cutting edge against an injury ravaged Villa? Pointless being unbeaten when you drop all sorts of points against mid table sides. Frustrating to watch this...
villa are being relentless. not letting us complete two passes in a row. they're playing a high pressure defensive style. we on the other hand are playing our usual back away and give space style. makes for one sided looking match.
 
To be fair, we've looked like this almost everytime this season Scholesy/Giggsy haven't played.
<sigh>

Anyway. Ugly 1-0 will do. Pray for.
 
Trying not to just concentrate on Berbs, they whole team have been very poor. Passing awful and no real ambition at all.

But feck it we need Berbs to stand up and do something today and he has failed miserably.

Possibly the most frustrating player I can recall plaing for Utd. He has bags of talent why cant he show it?

He has to stay up? Why? Nani, Chicharito and Park have all contributed matchwinning efforts in the past month so we should be looking at it as a positive that we don't have to rely on any one player?

Nani and Chicharito have both been a lot worse than him anyway, strangely, so why not single out them?

Agendas...
 
Our tempo is terrible and the lack of thrust through the center is making life comfortable for Villa's young duo.
 
What's with the poor first touches this game? Park's and Hernandez' have been woeful.
 
How many pushes in the box is Dean going to miss today though? Absolutely rubbish.
 
villa are being relentless. not letting us complete two passes in a row. they're playing a high pressure defensive style. we on the other hand are playing our usual back away and give space style. makes for one sided looking match.

It's hard to maintain that level of performance (I hope)
 
Villa the better team at HT.

Thank God they look toothless upfront. I'd say Nani has been particularly dire so far, poor 1st touch 5-6 times in the half. Let's hope we get a little more tempo going in the 2nd half, and attack young Bannan. he's already got a yellow card, and committed another foul or two...so he might be walking a tightrope, we should exploit that.

Easily. They passed it better and although it sounds funny played the more attractive football.
 
Very average performance from us there in the 1st half. Allbrighton is causing problems on Evra's side sent in a total of 6 crosses with 2 of them resulting in corner kicks.

Park is having a good game, made a few good runs from midfield hopefully something will become of one of them in the 2nd half.

Villa's defence are playing well too.
 
And oh, I'd give credit to Villa too, throwing everything at us and stifling us at the moment. We haven't really got a decent build up going, not much creativity, not enough composure.
 
Berba has been shocking to be honest.

Just when you thought Berba would step up with Rooney gone off the bend and instead he's been in one of his usual 10 game without a game slumps. Nani looks a bit off as well.

You worry where the quality is going to come from when these types of big players look so average.
 
So have all of our players had their balls removed at some point since the Wolves game then?

Our tempo in this and the City game has been genuinely pathetic.
 
Easily. They passed it better and although it sounds funny played the more attractive football.

Not too hard to play the more attractive football than United today or in general at away games is it though?

We'll improve second half though. Can't really get any worse. Can see this being yet another boring 0-0 at Villa Park this year.
 
We are a second half team, so no need to panic. But I think Fergie will give them a rocket because we were poor at times in that half.
 
Too busy being annoyed with my satellite and my stream to be annoyed with United. The bits I saw left me unamused - still, second half to come.