Aston Villa v Burnley Post-Match Thread

[Legion]

Available Wednesday night.

[Dave]

Could have been much easier. But still, quarter finals here we come.

Shame we're missing Albrighton on Sunday.

[TimTheVillain]

Sounded like VERY hard work.

Was looking forward to watching Albrighton take the Blose defence apart.

[D.boy]

Made hard work of it but got there in the end.
I'm off for a stiff drink.

[Reality]

I thought it was a terrible performance. First half we started very brightly but missed a proper goal striker. Fell apart from the second half and turned into an absolute comedy act.

Steve Sidwell should never wear an Aston Villa shirt again - 3 absolute sitters he missed, put the freekick out wide. Is he actually a wind up merchant? Can't pass a ball or anything. It still shocks me that people on here still jump to his defence. Wake up for crying out loud. You'd see better performances down the park watching the Sunday under 16 league.

[JUAN PABLO]

Feel like Ive just run a marathon ..   knackered..... 
G-HOU needs to sort alot out before Sunday...
COME ON VILLA....

[richard moore]

I guess the result is everything but that sounded very unprofesssional from us, completely lacking in composure, control or nous...

[Lambert and Payne]

Was never gunna be an easy game and im glad my 2-1 prediction come through. 34k is a good crowd for a game like this (no disrespect to Burnley)
As if they havent shown the Villa highlights on ssn, they put Arseholes on and they were on tv anyway!!

[JUAN PABLO]

Arsenal
blose
Tesco BAgs
West HAM
Manure
Ipswich
Wigan
ASTON VILLA

[Colhint]

when's the draw?

[Lambert and Payne]

when's the draw?

Saturday at 12 30, so by the time their through taking about 1
Im slightly nervous bout this cup run in all honesty

[KevinGage]

I wouldn't particularly be nervous.

If we draw Man U or Arsenal we'll be expected to go out so in all honesty we'll have nothing to lose.

I'd be a bit more concerned if we draw Ipswich or the like, odd as it may sound. We'd be expected to go through and as we've seen tonight it's not always that easy.

I did say Burnley would be a tough draw as there isn't a huge gap between us and them- particularly when we played a fair few reserves. The theme on here was "No, we'll win easily/ it will be a piece of piss" and so on.

I'd still hope for the easiest draw on paper possible but a draw against one of the bigger sides might hope to focus minds a bit more, plus it clears the path for the latter rounds.

[Shrek]

We lacked everything tonight, Bannon was way too lightweight, Ireland was truely arwful, Sidwell can't pass, ash gave his usual  hundred percent and Downing was again superb when he came on.

The referee was a joke

[Breezeblock]

Well, that was bloody hard work.  Friedel was immense. Defence were solid. Sidwell was shite. Reo-coker forgot how to pass again. Youngsters on the wings were OK. Young was wasteful. Ireland was awful. Downing was liveley and scored a boster and I cant believe i'm saying this but Heskey had a stormer.  Gods help us sunday if we turn ion a performance like that. Sidwell should not even be on the bench.

[pauliewalnuts]

Made hard work of it.

Ireland threw a strop when coming off, don't know how many people spotted that. Houllier held out a bottle of Lucozade, he barged past him without making eye contact, then did the same to someone else in the dug out.

Bannan looks very lightweight.

Albrighton needs to learn when to give the ball and when to keep it.

Heskey looked good when he came on.

Downing did very well, our best player this season, I reckon.

Friedel was excellent.

Clark looks more and more promising every time I see him, he looks extremely comfortable on the ball, but I do wonder if he takes a few too many risks sometimes.

NRC did ok.

Sidwell is utter rubbish.