Match Thread: Odense BK V Aston Villa (Intertoto "competition")

artanevilla

On Setanta Ireland, 37 mins late.

Helix

if we go into the league season with gardner at right back, we dont have a hope of anything

DSB

artanevilla wrote: »

On Setanta Ireland, 37 mins late.

Yeah, so I saw. Zat Knight has been his usual ****e.

artanevilla

Helix wrote: »

if we go into the league season with gardner at right back, we dont have a hope of anything

I'd say some of our signings might hinge on qualifying for the UEFA cup.

Helix

we might not get into the uefa without a right back tbh

DSB

artanevilla wrote: »

I'd say some of our signings might hinge on qualifying for the UEFA cup.

I don't believe that at all. Any player with the sort of attitude we want at the club, would have the belief that we'd make it through a team like Odense with him in the side.

homah_7ft

Every Odense attack coming down our right. We did well in the end to go in level. Reo-Coker brought back to cover Gardiner now. We are blunted going forward now. Need Petrov to get on the ball and control this game.

Helix

time to feed the hare?

homah_7ft

Definate possibility especially with the card happy ref. Will be interesting to see how MON lines them up this half.

DSB

I don't think I'm as much disappointed by the performance here, as I was when I read the starting lineup and realised just how bad our situation was.

Helix

our ash is running a big risk

can see him getting sent off if hes not substituted

but shock horror, we've nobody to replace him with apart from maybe albrighton

DSB

This is terrible stuff.

Helix

back to our mindboggling worst

DSB

VILLA: Taylor(not upto it), Gardner(only good enough for backup), Bouma(first team quality), Laursen(first team quality), Knight(not upto it), Reo-Coker(first team quality), Sidwell(first team quality), Young(first team quality), Petrov(only good enough for backup), Agbonlahor(first team quality), Carew(first team quality). Subs: Parish(not upto it), Harewood(only good enough for backup), Salifou(not upto it), Routledge(not upto it), Osbourne(not upto it), Maloney(only good enough for backup), Baker(not upto it).

By my count thats only 7 players good enough to be part of our first team, with 4 good enough for backup. We actually need about 9 new players, 5 or 6 of which need to be big enough name signings. I'm shellshocked reading that. Didn't realise our situation would just this bad.

Helix

we need a better forward than gabby tbh

DSB

Helix wrote: »

we need a better forward than gabby tbh

Probably but its far down on our list of priorities. I can see us being relatively disappointed again at the end of the transfer window. We've finished the season 2 months ago and have made 1 signing. How the hell are we gonna make another 9 or so in the space of less than a month?

Helix

see what i mean?

Helix

gabby needs to be off the pitch NOW

awful

Bounty Hunter

Helix wrote: »

we need a better forward than gabby tbh

I remember saying that he needed competition or to be replaced and everyone went mad, he's good, he's still developing but for a club Villa's size youd almost expect better. Gabby would be brilliant as an impact sub when teams are tired.

however we desperatley need a RB first while hopefully the american duo come in for GK and someone like the cannibal comes in from Chelsea to sure up the defence (though i like Davies).

Helix

gabby is great for some games, but some dont suit him, such as this

marlon needed to be on 15 minutes ago

Bounty Hunter

wooo go Laursen

2-1

Helix

2-1

laursen... from a set piece... lol

wholly undeserved

andrewie

Martin Laursen... 2-1

DSB

Good cross, good header. GET IN.

Helix

here comes the rout

Helix

gabby makes a balls of it again

the bloke has no touch or skill whatsoever

DSB

Helix wrote: »

gabby makes a balls of it again

the bloke has no touch or skill whatsoever

Ah here. Thats just not true.

Helix

course it is

i rate gabby, but when hes bad, hes very very very bad

unless he can run onto balls he has nothing. this game just doesnt suit him

Helix

free just outside the box

here comes number 3...

Helix

or not

lol

DSB

Helix wrote: »

course it is

i rate gabby, but when hes bad, hes very very very bad

unless he can run onto balls he has nothing. this game just doesnt suit him

Agreed on the fact that he can be hot and cold, but he has got touch and skill when hes not playing ****e.

Helix

DSB wrote: »

Agreed on the fact that he can be hot and cold, but he has got touch and skill when hes not playing ****e.

nah his touch has always been absolutely diabolical, always

Helix

jesus h christ

2-2

Bounty Hunter

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

FECK FECK FECK

2-2

DSB

Ugh, get out of this club Knight.

Bounty Hunter

hopefully this will the the huge boot up the arse MON needs to sign more bloody players, primarily defenders

Helix

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

hopefully this will the the huge boot up the arse MON needs to sign more bloody players

or not

DSB

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

hopefully this will the the huge boot up the arse MON needs to sign more bloody players, primarily defenders

If nothing else has done it, this surely won't.

Helix

full time

what a load of rubbish

DSB

Helix wrote: »

full time

what a load of rubbish

Agreed. And you just know O'Neill is going to come out with a whole load of rubbish after this.

Bounty Hunter

double whiskey it is for me.

atleast Villa plus Freidel should have enough at home with 2 away goals already.

poor poor performance today though

Töpher

Very poor from Villa, lucky to get something out of the game (if being marginally ahead thanks to away goals counts as something) to be quite honest. A bit more of a killer instict up front and Odense could have inflicted some real embarassment.

homah_7ft

On the positive side we definately lacked fitness there so we should improve even if we do have the same personnel on the pitch. Praying we have Friedel in for the next one. I would be optimistic that we'll take them at home and that's all that counts for now. Longer term let's hope the cavalry arrive soon.

Bounty Hunter

with this new weird rule, how long till we can talk about / mention this match in the main thread?

Töpher

homah_7ft wrote: »

On the positive side we definately lacked fitness there so we should improve even if we do have the same personnel on the pitch. Praying we have Friedel in for the next one. I would be optimistic that we'll take them at home and that's all that counts for now. Longer term let's hope the cavalry arrive soon.

Don't think Friedel would have saved either of those goals to be honest. May have commanded his area better, meaning there was no chance for the second I suppose though.

Helix

homah_7ft wrote: »

On the positive side we definately lacked fitness there so we should improve even if we do have the same personnel on the pitch. Praying we have Friedel in for the next one. I would be optimistic that we'll take them at home and that's all that counts for now. Longer term let's hope the cavalry arrive soon.

i dont think fitness has anything to do with it

we fell apart after the first 15 minutes, theyre not THAT bloody unfit

homah_7ft

Einstürzende wrote: »

Don't think Friedel would have saved either of those goals to be honest. May have commanded his area better, meaning there was no chance for the second I suppose though.

No he wasn't at fault. I was more commenting on what is to come. A bit of confidence in the goalkeeper goes a long way.

On the fitness front we are bound to suffer from a lack of sharpness and to a degree physical conditioning. Bouma showed that extra bit of match readiness I thought.

shoutman

It wasn't nice looking at the line up and the subs bench and seeing just how short we are, realistically we need a minimum of 7 signings to look like a competitive squad.

Poor performance but I'm still happy enough it will be very hard to lose at home against that bunch. I thought Taylor did well in goal and Bouma looked good at left back, also Reo-coker did well in the first half but seemed to fizzle out towards the second half, Sidwell looked non existant.

Esse85

I taught Petrov was missing all game.

DSB

Esse85 wrote: »

I taught Petrov was missing all game.

He almost always is.