Rapid Vienna 1 - 1 Aston Villa - Post Match Thread

[Monty]

Worst. Referee. Ever.

I'm not usually one to go for referees, but my God I've never seen anything to rival this. He literally always gave the opposite of the correct decision, whatever was wrong, he did it. Astonishingly poor. That handball near the end was the last straw for me.

As for the team, inexperience told. They started off really brightly, held the ball so well, but faded around 25 minutes and never really recovered. NRC was good though, I hope he keeps proving me wrong, and Bannan was sprightly and very close to really good on several occasions, so I hope he keeps proving me right. As for the others, Albrighton started well but seemed to be trying too hard, Beye did some good things and some mysterious things, Lichaj kept getting dragged out of position, which was unfortunate, Heskey started ok but it was downhill from there, Downing was generally good but one-footed and should perhaps have played centrally more to give himself more opportunity to do something, Hogg was decent in defence although his positioning was occasionally suspect, Curtis was solid if jumpy and Guzan did nothing wrong and some things very well.

The real worries, though, were Weimann's injury and of course the shocker had by Warnock. I don't know what came over him, but he's been off-form recently and that was the worst of the lot.

[stevenjos]

Hope we have a new manager in by next week!!

[Chris Smith]

Well done to them all tonight.

Great experience for a few, did the job to put us in a strong position next week. It's very difficult to blood youngsters these days in league games so MacDonald did the right thing by giving them the chance any they took it.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

If Beye, Davies and Heskey were in the shop window tonight, we're buggered, or rather Randy is.
Agree on NRC, he put himself about. Good to see him going over to the fans at the end too.
The young un's did enough to get a result. Albrighton still looks like he's ready to step up a level. We'll destroy them at Villa Park.

[not3bad]

Hope we have a new manager in by next week!!

What, you think a new manager wouldn't use the squad like this?  I wouldn't get your hopes up.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Hope we have a new manager in by next week!!

What if kev wanted it?

[Olneythelonely]

Hope we have a new manager in by next week!!

Must.not.feed.sad.troll

[Phil from the upper holte]

There really are some muppets who post on here

[Toronto Villa]

stevenjos, genuine question. Are you ever going to post anything positive related to Villa? You make it sound like everything's shit.

[Edvard Remberg]

I could question the subs from Kmac...But after the result, i accept his decisions. Heskey was poor (in a way that he was one of the seniors, that didn't perform at his expected level). Albrighton was brilliant in my book. But hoeg? (nr. 50) didnt do much on my feed.

Lichaj was good. The defense was very dis-organized. But a top european side only getting 1-1 against our reserves/youth team is a good result.

At Villa park, he can use much more players as travel etc is not a part of the issue.

Our full team would have murdered them.

[not3bad]

There really are some muppets who post on here

What are you talking about?  After two matches any manager is fair game.  Mind you he'll probably be calling for the next guy to be fired 5 minutes after he's come in.

[Olneythelonely]

Good result tonight, wish he'd taken a couple of big guns to come from the bench but it's worked out well enough.

[manic-road]

Considering the mainly Young team out, that is a decent result. A few of the fringe senior players didn't do themselves any favours to try and get in the first team.
The rapid fans and the ref were a disgrace.

Now for sunday, can't wait to see how the first team perform, and whether Ireland plays.

[damon loves JT]

KM got a better result than Martin did in the same fixture last year. And, arguably, with a weaker team.

He is going to get the job you know

[not3bad]

KM got a better result than Martin did in the same fixture last year. And, arguably, with a weaker team.

He is going to get the job you know

I did think to myself if he gets any kind of result with this line up he must be a certainty.