Aston Villa (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[citymad]

get rabiot in the winter.

That old chestnut, thought he retired years ago.

 

[carlosthejackal]

We won’t beat Luton.

That’s the spirit !!!!!

 

[red 2 hats]

We were well beaten on the night, they were better than us all over the park, too many square pegs into round holes, 1 - 0 flattered us.

 

[stonerblue]

Bad week to be a Blue considering all the other results as well.
A distinct lack of creativity in midfield and a bewildering lack of direct balls to Haaland.

 

[eyalluvitt]

We were well beaten on the night, they were better than us all over the park, too many square pegs into round holes, 1 - 0 flattered us.

Yes, the Wolves and Arsenal defeats were met with disappointment, this one was almost relief it wasn’t a shoeing

 

[eyalluvitt]

get rabiot in the winter.

Run Rabiot run Rabiot, run run run

 

[Chi-town blues]

Never seen such disjointed team performance under pep before but with kdb and rodri absent is too obvious where the real problem lies.
At one point some players looked pissed and frustrated with each other and ignored open pass. We couldn’t play long ball to haaland coz there was no one to pick up the second ball.
I still don’t understand why bernie was wasted on right wing majority of the game .
Shit happens but it’s a long way to the top of you wanna rock and roll.
come on city

 

[JTFactsPlz]

No complaints here , thought Villa were superb an just hope you do it to the rest of em On a side note I have £20 on you for a top 6 finish at 20/1 Do it

Odds of that are now 1.40 so you got a great bet.

 

[citytill1die84]

Odds of that are now 1.40 so you got a great bet.

Not a chance Villa we're 20/1 for top 6 I'd say 10s at the absolute maximum.

 

[Chi-town blues]

Just from the other side of the glass, I agree with a lot of this. I believe football is often about timing & everything was in place for us last night. City without Rodri is a different proposition and him alone would have probably changed the dynamics of the game last night - he is that good.

But we were brilliant, it sounds a bit extreme but I'm genuinely not sure the last time I have seen a Villa team play that well. Maybe even in my lifetime. I know watching City you've seen some ridiculous heights of late (and it's often been a pleasure to watch as a neutral), but I couldn't have envisaged seeing a Villa team play at that sort of level. There is no point getting too giddy, we will inevitably drop off and there is a long way to go, but I'm not sure there is a more difficult away game right at this minute.

I don't see any great panic at city, I'm convinced they'll still be title contenders (if not winners) once the squad settles again and Pep finds a way again (he always does). Let's be honest, you should have been 5 up v half time against Spurs & Liverpool hung on 2nd half. Last night was different, but like I said a few things fell into place for that to happen.

You got a fantastic top class manager mate and villa looked like a well drilled team . Some times we just have to hold our hand and say the other team wanted more .