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WHACKED BY WIGAN
Article By AnneMc34 Comments »Dec 29, 2012
The Latics ended their own winless run, in the process adding to Villa’s festive fiasco: Lambert’s Lions have now conceded 15 goals without reply over the course of their three Christmas fixtures.
The afternoon started badly: after only two minutes, Villa almost gave away a penalty when Lowton put his hand to a long ball intended for Di Santo and an unmarked Ramis calmly headed in from the ensuing corner.
The concession seemed to shake Villa and Maloney could have won a penalty for the visitors six minutes later when Ireland seemed to commit a foul on the edge of the box in his attempt to win the ball back.
Wigan dominated the first thirty minutes as Villa’s inexperience showed, with gaps appearing all across the defence and midfield. An unmarked Maloney had a great chance to put the visitors 0-2 ahead after 21 minutes but drove the ball over the ball. Kone then wasted two good chances to score.
At this point, the boys in claret and blue woke up and Benteke had a goal disallowed (showing once again the need for the offside rule to be revised at Bodymoor). Holman, working with a nodded ball from Benteke, then struck a left-footed volley from a tight angle off the bar.
After the break, Villa continued to chase the game and Benteke had an opportunity to equalise with a header from close range.
Boyce and Kone exchanged passes on the edge of the area, fooling Villa, and Boyce shot right-footed into the bottom corner of Guzan’s net.
Shell-shocked once more, the Villa midfield allowed Di Santo to pick the ball up and slide it through to Kone, who rounded Guzan and shot side-footed into the American’s empty net.
Villa battled on but in truth created little more than half chances and the inexperienced, deflated, injury-ravaged side never looked capable of staging a comeback.
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Lerner needs to invest as soon as the window opens. Kids might come good but this team isn’t going to stay up especially when injuries hit as they have recently. Not calling for Lambert to go but he has to be given money in January first of all and then spend it wisely to better the team’s chances of survival, not be stubborn and spend on another heap of lower league players with potential. O and he needs to get his money back for Bennett. Mugged!
lets face facts 15 goals in last 3 games ,guzan man of match in recent games,no leader,no fighters,no passion (bar the fans),a stay away chairman,oh yeah happy new year
Goodnight god bless I fear now for both Lambert and Villa. Shocking result and the nail in the coffin as i said would happen last week.
The Senior players were sent packing by PL and i fear he will be gone either tonight or by the morning. Young players need experience around them to guide them through which he has not thought of when sending them packing.
I think it should be the chairman walking but fear it will be PL tonight.
…. DESCRACEFULL!!! (yes i cant spell) … anyway, i hope Lambert doesnt get the chop, i still have faith in him and i think almost all villa faithfull do. Injurys are what is killing us atm. However, after the 3rd goal went in today he looked completly stunned, i think its time to realise that these youngsters cannot be consistant week in week out (besides the consistancy of conceding sloppy goals). I have lost count of how many goals we have let in from corners and set peices this year, its realy rather ridiculas, we look like a championchip side out there! Ireland today let me down big time sloppy challanges all over the park, he needs to keep his arms down. Pray we can turn it around during january!
Not a chance, start planning for the championship, got to be the worst villa team in a generation!! Any villa fan hand on heart must see we are just not good enough, sad day for all villa fans but this has been coming for the last few years!! Villa till I die!!
Apart from the spell when Villa ‘woke up’ as your writer says & the few mins at start of 2nd half we were crap. Yes,injuries have hit us hard & morale obviously low after last 2 games but to take a hammering like that against fellow strugglers like Wigan Athletic leaves me seriously worried for the Villa unless mad money’s spent in Jan.
Jesus you lot are shite
Hello to all the villa faithful,I know how your feeling right now(gutted,where is the next points coming from,definitely not from Swansea.apart from benteke and weimann we have no striking power,no goals coming from any other area of the field.we are have got sloppy,lazy,ballwatching no one is stepping up to fight the cause,Collins o no sorry he was sold,cuellar o no sorry he was sold(they gave there all in a villa shirt leadership experience and would never say die.o well enough of my ranting haven’t even scratch the surface.villa till I die ;(
its like when you finally realise the missus is leaving we are going down
Can we have N’Zogbia back too please to go with the points ?
Hallow to all the LABERTS LEMMINGS now reaping what you have sown a manage rworse than the last one.Bet Randy is laughing at you lot as much as i am he gave you the man you wanted.Now look what as happened our worst goal difference in the history of the club and Premiership.Could go down in history of the only club to be relegated on goal difference.
Who would you have suggested then Terry when MCleish was sacked!! Years of neglect have got us here, randy will need to spend in January but I think it may be all to late!!!
15 goals in 3 games. Change needs to happen now. I don’t think PL going is the answer. We need investment quality and experience. Why o why have we snubbed our senior players. I love that we are brining through youth but at what cost? What has went wrong from our glory days and what do we need to do to get them back. Imagine what it would be like if we had the like of Frank Lampard in our midfield. Someone who can lead and supply the likes of Weiman and Benteke
big gamble by pl youth over experience.
gambling with our premier league status.
need to spend on experience now.
but who will want to come ?
hazbeens on silly wages again ?
deja vue for me .
love this club but they are an embarrassment from the top down.
Worst Villa team seen in years, total embarrassment to think WBA above us that shows how bad we are.
Good to hear that Randy Lerner is over in the UK for crisis talks. As before they will lead no where cus Randy ain`t going to spend one cent. Sell Bent – at a loss – and try to buy some experinced defenders with the little cash Darren will generate, this will no doubt be the outcome. I said it at the time – Randy and Villa never was going to be the answer to the years of neglect.
Randy Lerner is a joke, if he has any honour (which would be rare for a Yank) he would do the right thing by the supporters and GET OUT whilst we still have some Premiership value.
Yes we are a great club, wonderful tradition and knowledgable supporters. However, history is only made during the next game. What we did in the 70`s and 80`s is totally irrelavant.
LERNER OUT……………………….
I feel for you guys. Paul Lambert sounds more like Steve Kean every day.
Good luck in your battle to stay up, Villa are a proper football club and deserve to be in the Premiership
the worst villa team i have ever seen in my 50 years of watching them ‘the players are not good enough tactics are non existant no leadership from owner manager or players i would like the top people at villa to make a statement and explain what is going on why 4 years ago we were a good decent side and since then it has just got worse there must be a reason villa fans deserve to hear the truth. and idont know if it is just me but paul lambert talks the biggest load of crap ive ever heard time for change from top to bottom of club need people who are going to make a difference for aston villa?
What a crappy claret and blue Christmas! Horrible for everyone & will affect the club badly – poor attendance yesterday & tickets reduced for next week’s cup clash. Know Gabby’s set to be out another couple of weeks but anyone able to cheer us up with news of Bent or Vlaar getting back into the fray any sooner? Desperately need their experience – dreading Swansea game with our non-existent defence & midfield.
i think lambert is out of his depth poor signings and especially poor man management of senior players lerner doesnt pick the team and he seems to get all the stick never wanted lambert from the start even norwich fans werent that bothered with him leaving surely that speaks for itself
In Lambert i trust! Randy will be giving a pot of money to PL in January!
Trust me!!!! VTID
No good giving LAMBERK money to waste on yet more lower league or player from abroad that can;t even make for the teams they play for.Randy spend money yes getting rid of the LAMBERK and save the club from disaster.
Wigan fan not here to gloat. My old man is a lifelong Villa supporter, so I’ve always had a soft spot for you.
In principle, Lambert’s idea of bringing in youth is good. All the best teams in recent history, like United’s late 90s & early 2000s side, current Barca team, Liverpool in the 80s have been stacked with products of their own youth systems, complimented by a few imported stars. Sadly, he’s done too much too soon, and there simply isn’t the quality there for you to push all the senior players aside in one go.
Bringing in a young manager meant this season was always going to be a transition for you, and a mid-table finish will do you just fine; it’s a good foundation for the young players to develop from. My old man’s worry is that you won’t survive, and judging by the limited amount of Villa I’ve seen this year, he has a point. If you go down all the development will be wasted and you’ll be miles behind where you were even under O’Leary.
From watching the game yesterday, aside from experience, which only comes with time, and quality (some of those young lads will come good), you looked like there were no leaders on the pitch. When we scored, you looked like you had no idea what to do and no one to shout the rallying call and fire you up again.
Lambert needs to spend in this window to bring in a couple of older heads, especially in defence. Your problems will go away with time if you can just stay up this season; I fear ours won’t… We’re not a big enough club to keep our best players, where Villa are.
All the best for the rest of the season; hopefully we can both stay up.
Fair play to Wigan, Bob. Won fair & square. You’re right about the lack of leadership. For all his faults, I’d give my right arm to have Dunne back rallying the team & of course we’d all love to see Stan pull on his no. 19 shirt again. Think Given would offer some brand of leadership & god knows we need it for the Swansea match.
Saw Boyce interviewed & he was delighted.
Not easy following Wigan or Villa sometimes these days so all the best to you too.
Good luck to Wigan Bob, I also think you made some very astute points, though I would just point out that it was clearly not Lambert’s intention to go this far this quickly in playing the youth, he has been forced to do it to this extent because of the injuries and illness to a number of experienced players. There was no obvious omissions from his starting line up or bench against Wigan, there was no one else available. Don’t get me wrong everyone, I’m also very disappointed in how Villa have played these last 3 games, but I still think Lambert is the best man for the job by some way. I actually don’t remember hearing many dissenting voices at all when he was appointed, but those of you who now claim they didn’t want him to come, who did you want? Who do you think was better than Lambert AND who would have come to Villa? I mean let’s not kid ourselves, there is a limit to our budget, we would all love to see Mourinio or someone like that but it’s clearly not going to happen. We needed someone who had the reputation of getting the best out of players on a mediocre budget. I’m more worried than I was, but I still think we’ll be ok, and I think it is also just possible we might yet win the league cup, I know it sounds crazy after these last 3 games, but stranger things have happened in football!
Hey, we could always start Hutton and Warnock LMAO! are they not still on the pay role? :p
Leaner out!! No direction and no hope, we will go down this season then god help us in the championship because I feel this could get worse just look at Leeds!! Let all villa fans make there thoughts known at the next home game, this is our club, villa till I die!!
This is Text book Dirty Doug.
Villa have a few years of doing well spending money, then some very bad years and getting near the drop zone.
What is dougs role in the club now?
Who is adviceing the yanks how to run the club?
were did all the money go for the players villa sold?
What payments and expensives are board members directors and there hangers on getting?
I think Villa are going down unless money is spent on big name defenders.
How are stoke, Swansea, WBA doing better and playing better than Villa?
Villa still a top club in the premership big surport, villa is being run bad and managed in a dreadful way.
The Villa manager needs to grow some balls and say that he needs big money and not be a yes man just to get his big pay cheque.
PL has my respect. He took one hell of a risk coming to Villa Park especially when you consider what he had to work with from day one. It was natural that a number of players were needed to replace the hangers on.
His only mistake as I see things is that he has made to many changes to soon the result of which have been seen over the last three games. Experienced, cool heads are much needed now, and somehow we have to import a natural leader on the field.
I still believe Randy Lerner will fail to back PL with hard cash, and if he proves me wrong, who the hell is going to be willing to join us.
Sadly we are going down, this is the worst team we have had in 60 years of supporting the club. Plenty of prospects (you cannot blame PL for not buying potential) but lacking the old heads to key things together.
Three seasons of neglect have been overseen by Randy and I cannot see this leopard changing his spots now.
I am sure that when Randy brought the club he had all the right intentions. But for me, he has run his term and should sell up and get out. We sold our “family silver” their is nothing left in the larder Randy, you have bled us dry, you have systamatically insured the destruction of a once great club, but Aston Villa F.C. will be there long after you go, and followed and supported by us, the Villa faithful.
LERNER OUT.
Well said Larry, couldn’t agree more brakes my heart to see our club in this state, but we older fans have been here before and will be here a long time after Learner has gone, learner out, learner out!! Up the villa
I am very saddened to read the comments here and hope the worse doesn’t happen.
As a NCFC fan it’s not nice, but you can get back, even when things look bleak and AV are definitely needed in the Premier League.
I was worried when PL left NCFC in June to join AV, whether it would be chips for the Canaries. Now on reflection I am wondering if PL realised the game would be up this season and his tactics sussed?
So as ever, PL moves on. A different club, a different approach, it’s what’s he’s always done. Albeit, it isn’t working yet.
Unfortunately Cozmik you haven`t had to bear the heartbreak of the Villa faithful. Your expectations for NC are probably “on song”. Villa fans are realists in the sense that we do not expect to get into the top four for years to come, but we expect to see some fight and determination from those in the Villa shirt. We expect the same loyalty to the club that 30000 plus faithful have shown for the past twenty years.
I have watched some great villa teams over the years, my first game was in the 70s watching Little and Gray, then league champions then European cup, happy days!! We are a big club but Randy Lerner will take us down, a lot of us were there when we last went down, Paul Lambert is not to blame, Randy is!!’. Lerner out!! Up the villa
Like Ron, Ive had the privlege of seeing some great teams, some great players over the years. I go back to the mid fifties. We weren`t winning the league title then either, but at least we always gave it a go. Pride in the shirt is paramount at Villa Park.This is where we, the supporters, judge the current performances from. That is history.
Villa 11 Charlton 1 – Gerry Hitchens scores 5 – my biggest memory. A day when everything went right. It can happen again but the support from the board has to be right.
To our young crop of current players I would simply say this – you have a wonderful opportunity to write Villa history and perhaps, just perhaps, you may have some old geezer like me remembering your efforts in 50 years time. I recon thats better than anything. GET OUT THERE AND MAKE A NAME FOR YOURSELVES. Leave the likes of the owner to the Villa faithful. We will make it as uncomfortable as possible for him. LERNER OUT.
Pride in the club, belief in our team and manager. Come on Villa – YES WE CAN.