If the message is not in panic, this is a message that must be communicated and acted from above.
Aston Villa is in historically poor form. With three points from a possible 15, no victories in the Premier League and an early exit of the League Cup, it is inevitable and it is completely justified that Unai Emery and his players have to confront a certain amount of the music.
Sunday’s draw in Sunderland was again a terrible performance of a team that struggles fairly clearly. They need their manager to find solutions. They need him to get some of them out of the shooting line, to give some of the Fringe players the chance to prove that they can shake things up, to acknowledge that his plan is not working.
More relevant, they need him to understand that his plan is not to go To work, not without fundamental adjustments that just don’t seem to be.
Villa is five games in the new season and they have to promote their shortcomings. The players must show a character, to be brave, to have the professional to be better.
They need the same from Emery. The villa boss should be the man who is responsible for leveling the mood and to ensure that his players are affected as little as possible by the negativity around the club. They are not insensitive to it – nobody would be – but part of the manager’s task is to take the lead and to send the team to believe they can win.
His reaction to more falling points, this time a lead thrown away against a newly promoted team with a player in the first half, was the last thing Villa needed at the end of another terrible day.
Emery dived at the moment after another gloomy draw
With a few seconds added time in the stadium light, Emery shook the hand of Sunderland manager Régis Le Bris and left the stage. He was already in the tunnel when the last whistle was blown up.
It may not seem that much, but it was a recognition that the shape of the team comes to him in a way that he does not know how to correct, and that panic is not only the domain of those among us on the outside.
There are many reasons to call Emery for his action at the end of the game. His players leave to face the last whistle without him is symbolically distributed. It draws a line between the manager and his team, whether or not it was meant, and it reveals a lack of calmness that Villa supporters could have really done without seeing.
In my opinion it is also an unnecessary show of lack of respect for Le Bris and Sunderland, but I am not concerned with not feeling respected on behalf of other people.
I am a Villa fan. I want to feel that Villa has this terrible situation under control. In the space of about five minutes before the end of another version that would have been looked in the championship, Emery convinced me that they don’t.
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