Aston Villa (H) | PL | Post Match Thread

What a surprise Pep knows something about football.
Great control last night, he has diagnosed the issues, treated them, even if the remedy lasts until the end of the Season. A sticking plaster team maybe, but Dr Pep has turned it around.
Maybe he is cupping his hands at the Dad's Army fraternity.
 
Well happy with that last night, they showed a desire and fight to get it over the line which was missing for most of the Winter. Sky Sports pleasuring themselves over Rashford, they can’t help themselves can they? If Haaland did what he did in the first moments of the game they would be analysing why he should have done better. We proper pissed on their chips.

Anyways it’s the first time City have won three league games in a row since August/September. Let’s hope they can keep it going and get it over the line for Champions league football next season.
 
inchy14 said:
He touches the ball first and then the 2 players ‘come together’.

It’s not a pen imo but I’m still not having it that Neville and all the “Ooh” isn’t having a significant impact on VAR. Him and Carragher and ensuring games are refereed differently.
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I don't like how they can hear the VAR Comms and we can't.

We hear the commentators telling us the VAR decisions all the time on coming togethers etc...

I do wonder if they can hear the live commentary at Stockley park as well.
 
HarrytheBlue said:
Rashford - social conscience - I'm not arguing with that - it's good. But as a player, an attacker - 28 next birthday - 89 Prem goals in his entire career - ten years in the first team - is truly pathetic. But he plays with the attitude of someone who thinks he's way better than he actually is.
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Wonder why that is. Could it be something do with the media freak show blowing smoke up his arse just because he played for the rags?
 
willipp said:
Its mentality. Its why PSG knocked them out, its why they came to us as the inform team in the prem and played tactics like a league 1 side, its why whenever a big game comes around they will revert to what they are. Villa have just smashed Newcastle and everyone raving about how well they are playing and turned up at the champions and decided to try and cheat their way to a point.
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Exactly. Big teams try and win games like that - see Arsenal when they came for a point when they were going for the league.
 
Great result!

Not the best performance, but I thought we did enough to win.

Penalty decision was an absolute disgrace and Pawson was Villa's best player.
 
Horrible bunch the Villa fans are. The arrogance of a trophy-winning team without the trophies.

We all know what a fickle fanbase they had throughout the 70’s and 80’s. And never forget that FA Cup game at Villa Park when they had large areas of the ground closed!

Expect more nasty behaviour in the final, like the last time, if we both get through.
 
By far the most satisfying result of the season. It wasn't the greatest performance but the effort was definitely there and you can't ask for anymore than that. On another note who chooses the boots for the team? as by fuck we had a lot of players lose their footing last night.
 
bluemullet said:
Was the on decision a clear and obvious error? Would that have been given at certain other PL grounds in a similar scenario? I don’t think so. Maybe there’s arguments both ways on a pen or not but once ref hasn’t given it VAR should be nowhere near this IMO.
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Only this ^
 
Zenmanc said:
Any referee who doesn't have the bollocks to stand up to VAR urging for a video review when the play was clearly not a penalty, clearly a player hurling themselves to ground to minimal contact should quit their job.
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It was minimal contact and he definitely left his leg there - but without Diaz sticking his knee on him (even if it was powder-puff) the ref wouldn't have had any decision to even consider.

Naive defending.
 
crublue1 said:
Rashford looks like he's just put his finger through the paper and licked it.
Moody wanker
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He'll disappear back into anonymity soon, he thinks he's too 'big' for Villa.

He'll push for a move again and if he gets one his attitude issues will re-emerge and he'll be back in obscurity where he belongs...

And... regardless of whether the penalty was harsh... at what point did the rule change to allow the player to stop during the run up? That should have been retaken.

The rule actually out to be that if the attacker stops in the run up the goal should be disallowed with no retake.

It basically cheating. The keeper has no chance. That's why it's a rule, but it's never enforced.
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
No idea where those 5 minutes came from, but fuck me we profited. Get the fuck in!!!!

We’ll finish 2nd and win the Cup.
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5 mins was the very least that officials thought they could get away with,after villa goalkeeper stood around for at least that length of time when he had the ball ,and pissing about wasting time at every opportunity
 
Delighted for Nunes, works his socks off and never hides.
Very soft penalty which was never a "clear and obvious" mistake, God knows why that VAR clown felt it worthy of review....should be investigated that.
Please explain why Pep starts McAtee (a distinctly average footballer) over a match winner like Doku, that's two home starts for the lad in recent weeks and he has missed 3 sitters, the guy has no presence on the pitch. Made no impact in the PL last season at Sheffield Utd.
Should be able to get enough points now to cement our top 5 place.
GK coach - please teach our two GK's when to charge out and when to stay in the box, every bloody week one of them makes the wrong decision.
 
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