'It would be a stretch to say that there is a ‘crisis’ at Aston Villa. That feels like over-egging the pudding. But it does feel as though there is a growing list of problems that need to be resolved.' twoht
The result was bad and there can be no sugar-coating that. But for Aston Villa supporters catching up on their team’s, the nature of the performance might have been even more troubling than the result it produced.
This was bad enough for Villa, but there was little over the remaining 88 minutes to suggest this early goal was just an unfortunate accident. Instead, there seemed to be something like a halfway house going on, neither flesh nor fowl, and a formation which offered their opponents all the advantages of playing against a high press with none of the pressures that such a tactic is supposed to bring.
Villa’s last match before the first international break of the season – which is likely to be the first point at which those triggers start to be pulled – is against Southampton on September 16, just seven games away.
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