So yesterday was one of the 3 games that was a must win to me versus the Saints. Did we turn up ?!!!! Oh god no we didn't. I thought things could not get much worse performance wise but yesterday was truly abysmal. Ant the most worrying things was the lack of fight in the players. Southampton came and played like they were fighting for their lives in the league, whereas we were terrible. I really am starting to believe now we will go down this year, the players bought in don't seem good enough whatsoever and I don't blame Smith for this. Pitarch the so called sporting director sourced many of these players but Wesley especially and Luiz and Trezeguet don't seem cut out for Premiership football. The defence too is a shambles, yes we miss Mings but many of the goals we concede are basic stupid errors. Smith is on borrowed time, really think we should go all out for Benitez and to install some organisation into the team because as much I love Smith I do think hes just a good championship manager .. UTV !!!
posted on 22/12/19
Get Benitez, further investment, sky's the limit for a club like Villa.
All sounds so simple doesn't it. 😂
posted on 22/12/19
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posted on 23/12/19
Smith isn't the man to turn this around because he doesn't change, he only knows one style of play and when it's not working he's too stuck in his ways to fix it. Oddly we all as fans wanted Villa to play attacking football, but we're not good enough to pull it off in this league because our players aren't good enough.
Even Wolves, who have better players than us, are much more disciplined than we are with as much emphasis on defence and attack. It's almost as if Smith doesn't spend any time during the week in training working on the defence. He's been like this throughout his career, from Walsall to Brentford and now with us. No surprise that under Brentford's new manager they're actually a lot better defensively.
Now McGinn out for 3 months because of Smith's constant refusal to rest him. We're the worst team in the league in current form and both Watford and Norwich are showing more fight. Southampton lost 9-0 at home a couple of months ago, yet they played with confidence and swagger at VP unlike us, it's an absolute disgrace.
I've seen nothing to suggest Smith has learnt from his mistakes this season and therefore I don't see anything changing, he doesn't change the formation, tactics or style of play. Now is the time to bring in Rafa or even Fat Sam, the football won't be great but we will at least fight every week and our defence will be a lot tighter. I'm sorry but I've lost faith in Smtih now.