Quite a few people after the Chelsea game commented things like all we needed was a draw, BR yywas naive and BR got his tactics wrong. I made the point that it is not that easy to get a draw and last night really proved my point. Villa managed to stop City from scoring for about 55 minutes and admittedly during that time they limited City's chances. Villa played with a 5 4 1 formation for virtually the entire game and lost 4-0 that kind of supports my theory that it isn't that easy to get a draw.
I would also seriously question just what Villa were trying to achieve last night. A draw wouldn't have helped them move up the table but a win could have. In fact if Villa had won their last two games they could have potentially moved several places up the table which would have been worth several million pounds. So why did they only have 3 attempts and no shots on target during the entire game. During the second half when the game was lost they still had no attempts on City's goal. VILLA DID NOT HAVE ONE ATTEMPT ON CITY'S GOAL DURING THE SECOND HALF? Were City really that good and Villa just incredibly poor or was something else going on? I just hope that West Ham put up a much greater fight than Villa or I really will be smelling a very large rat. Just a thought..................