The Emirates FA Cup 3rd Round Proper ** Spoilers ** [7th - 10th January 2022]

[adam cool dude]

Villa the better side tbh.

 

[chroniclard]

Villa playing some decent footy.

 

[Robbo]

Lucky we've not conceded at least 2.

 

[chroniclard]

Utd time wasting.....

 

[ozzaman]

Dalot looks good under Ralf, hopefully stays on.

 

[JamesH85]

Dalot looks good under Ralf, hopefully stays on.

Doesn't look good, get a chance to bring on a great attacking threat in AWB now though.

 

[fez]

We are still junk. Our shape is still junk and we can't pass the ball still.

 

[Maundie]

The ref does know he can book Utd players doesn't he?

 

[fez]

We are so bad at utilising space and players. We will have no one in attack and then somehow we have no one in midfield and suddenly there are 5 defenders marking 2 attackers with loads of other attackers free.

 

[The Running Man]

Do you think after the games we do any analytics on why we concede loads of glaring chances every game while creating very few ourselves?

 

[omnomnom]

The ref does know he can book Utd players doesn't he?

Who wants yellow when you can have red?

Seriously tho thought Bruno was fortunate firstly for not letting Martinez play the ball then for the foul and gobbing off.

 

[bingham67]

Gashford doing what he does best

 

[Robbo]

Bit of a mixed bag, but not great really. All to play for...

 

[omnomnom]

Thats a good clearance but bloody hell Rashford. The ball was for Greenwood surely.



Ahh maybe he tried to actually.

 

[Calpol]

We are so bad at utilising space and players. We will have no one in attack and then somehow we have no one in midfield and suddenly there are 5 defenders marking 2 attackers with loads of other attackers free.

Do you think after the games we do any analytics on why we concede loads of glaring chances every game while creating very few ourselves?

Well you are basically seeing a team that was told just to go out and express themselves now being asked to play with some structure and they don't know how. Fernandes and Rashford are by far our poorest players tonight and you can't carry players. Positional ill discipline means that we get played through too easily and then you get the basics of first touch letting players down - Lindelof, Fred, Rashford. Dalot, Mc Sauce and Greenwood have been ok but that's about it.

 

[fez]

Thats a good clearance but bloody hell Rashford. The ball was for Greenwood surely.

Ahh maybe he tried to actually.

Yeah, far too late. Rashford does this so often. Doesn't think "what is the best time to pass", he thinks "when I run myself into a dead end I will look for a pass". If he passed earlier Greenwood would probably have been in.

 

[The Running Man]

Well you are basically seeing a team that was told just to go out and express themselves now being asked to play with some structure and they don't know how. Fernandes and Rashford are by far our poorest players tonight and you can't carry players. Positional ill discipline means that we get played through too easily and then you get the basics of first touch letting players down - Lindelof, Fred, Rashford. Dalot, Mc Sauce and Greenwood have been ok but that's about it.

Before the players said they had no instructions and no clue what they were doing.

We've had like 6 weeks and been awful every game since the change maybe longer.

 

[CliffyG]

What has that been disallowed for?

 

[omnomnom]

You cannot possibly say Watkins has definitely touched that.

 

[adam cool dude]

I hate this because if we do end up winning this it will not be from a good performance.

Villa getting robbed tonight.