Villa (H) Post Match Thread

cleavers said:
I thought that was hillarious, his hatred of City showed live in the game, and I suspect someone has phoned him and pointed out that he was incorrect, and then ferdinand saying I bet not one player on the pitch knew the rules, I don't think many players know many of the rules, and the more obscure/convoluted they make them the worse it will get.
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The bit about not being offside if the ball was last touched by a member of the opposition has, to my knoweldge, never been tampered with. It still stands, literally, in black and white, in any edition of the LotG. How anyone, particularly someone who has played professionally, can come out and suggest no one on the pitch knew is just absolutely hilarious, but there again, it was CamelGob and he does bring a bit of slapstick to the studio.
 
Tough old game, credit to Villa - but their manager crying about an onside/offside to the point he gets a red is embarrassing. All the muppets on BBC HYS decrying us as cheats need to remember we won 2-0 and check McGinn's ridiculous stunt in the 70th-odd minute when he bought a non-free kick in a very good area from Gundo - blatant cheating that.
 
The xG was 3.34 - 0.80 in our favour. That means we're creating chances at our best level, which is great news going forwards.
 
Homar said:
Absolutely brilliant game! Few times have I felt so many conflicting emotions in such a short period of time. Not sure why that first goal wasn't given offside. We might have been lucky in the end, but we definitely deserved to win the game. We played extremely well, except for finishing our chances. We were as wasteful today as we were clinical against Palace.

Villa are such a strong side. Much like Leicester, they don't have any weaknesses. They're strong all over the pitch and pose constant danger in possession and on the counter. They came here to play, not to defend for their lives and wait for defensive errors. Have to give them credit. It was the best game I've seen all season by some margin. There could have been 10 goals in this game.

We need to bring a striker before the window closes, even if it is someone on loan. That could literally be the difference between winning the league and finishing 5th. We'd be monumentally stupid not to.
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Danny Ings, do me.
 
paulchapo said:
Aston Villa manager Dean Smith to BT Sport: "In terms of effort, it was heroic. We only had three days' training and played a very good team. They had lots of chances but they've missed them and they've been given two goals at the end.

"Are we just going to leave players behind the line then? It's farcical. He was 10 yards offside and come back and tackled our player, it's a pathetic law and a pathetic decision.

"I said to the fourth official David Coote 'did you get juggling balls for Christmas?' I don't think any other manager would get sent off for that.

"Matty Cash is a yard away for the handball, he can't jump without his arms up. He didn't even look at it, it flabbergasts me. It was a poor performance from the officials and that's cost us."

So he's not happy. Three days training is okay after two weeks rest. How many of their players actually had covid? Anyway we had to cope with a similar situation so fuck them.
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Dean Smith is a liar because the TV replay shows him twice calling the ref a ****. I am not a lipreader but it was bloody obvious. Unless he called him a cook!
 
west didsblue said:
He was onside by the time he took the ball off the Villa player. Not sure what the fuss was about.
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Did you miss the part where I clearly said my issue is with the law and not the decision?

I don’t think that players should be allowed to benefit from being in an offside position. Rodri closes 20 yards on Mings before he plays the ball. That puts him in the very position to be able to make the tackle.

Like I said, I was pissed off when decisions like that have gone against us because I disagree with the law.
 
The only reason Mahrez should play instead of Foden or Bernardo or Torres is if they are all injured or on holiday. I have never witnessed a more lazy wage stealing waste of space since seeing Berbatov. I have seen lava move faster, his defending is poor and the predictable step over cut in shoot into the stands is becoming really tedious to watch. He seems to be playing for himself, not for the team. He has such potential, but just doesn’t deliver all the time.
 
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