Is time running out at Villa park Stadium for unai Emery?
Social media can be a cesspit at times and it is no worse for football fans than when your team has lost. Badly.
But there are voices on there that deserve to be heard, as long as they are not abusive and unnecessarily expletive. And there are plenty of calls for the Villa head coach to be sacked.
Aston Villa are a club with a vocal fanbase – positive or negative. Although the negative normally outweighs the positive.
Take a look on social media for supporters of a Villa persuasion on Saturday night and you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone with anything good to say. And who can blame them?
Villa have just lost 2:0 at away to Liverpool . Two weeks after losing to Spurs turned in an insipid display against club Brugge , to hand the Eagles their first win of the season,Villa did exactly the same for the Tractor Boys.
Yes they had a difficult night in the premier league and did not arrive home until early on Thursday morning, leaving them little preparation time. But unai Emery made seven changes from the team that started in Liverpool stadium .
And without being arrogant about it, Aston Villa should have enough to beat a team like Liverpool , no matter the preparation. Particularly at home. Villa were genuinely poor on Saturday , it was a lifeless performance from start to finish.
Another international break is now upon us and Villa have once again sent us into it with a dismal defeat.
They sit nine in the Premier League with 18 points from those matches. There have been three defeats in 11 games.The former coach was sacked with 15 points on the board from 10 matches. The football back then was undoubtedly far harder to stomach, but how often this season have Aston Villa been genuinely good for a full 90 minutes?
Good for the most part against bologna but losing; good in spells against spur,crystal palace and Liverpool ; good in a half against Liverpool and crystal palace.
Villa have kept just two clean sheets in all league this season – one against a young boys side and one against 10-man Bayern Munich- possibly the only occasions this season really where Aston Villa have been legitimately outstanding from start to finish.
Unai Emery team have been good in spells, without finding any consistency. And the poor defensive performances should be cause for concern, even with an attack-minded manager. You simply cannot focus on the attack and expect to score more than the teams you come up against. The lot down the road are pretty adept at going forward and being defensive when they need to be.
Villa are regularly too narrow at the back, leaving wide open spaces for opposition wide men and offer up too many chances to opposition teams.
Unai Emery has money in the bank with plenty of Spurs supporters, myself included, but this season, after the joy of last year and the excitement that his brand of football brought, is running thin. Now is not the time to be pulling the trigger – who else is readily available to do a betgter job – but things have certainly got to improve, and fast.
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