Chelsea v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[TimTheVillain]

Well played lads, more like it.

UTV

[Sarunyu]

Clark deserved to play regularly. His finishing is good.

[aldridgeboy]

Thought we so improved. Dunne solid again Freidel was excellent. But the spirit was the most impressive thing

[ozzjim]

Fair play to them as a team, some big performances from a lot of them, and fitting that 2 kids combined to get the draw. Anyone offered that before kick off we would have bitten their hands off.


We are desperate for more forward options off the bench and central midfield options that we can really trust, but all in all it is a very positive day.

Well done villa, and for a night Gerard, enjoy a glass of red and feel pleased with yourself. Great result.

[Apyadg]

I knew we'd bottle it and throw the win away, the writing was on the wall from 65 minutes onwards. What I really didn't expect was for them to keep pushing, incredible. Haven't seem them fight like that since that goal against Everton. Fantastic stuff.

[Quiet Lion]

Finally saw a little bit of fight today.

We are still all too brittle, but a massive improvement on Man City.

I liked the look of the back 4 today (well up until 80 mins at least), we just looked a lot more solid.

[Shrek]

still shaking

And me, Chelsea were very lucky today!

[TheSandman]

A great battling performance and I hope we draw confidence from the late goal.

That late strike from Clacker is the happiest I've felt RE the Villa in ages. Between Stan on the radio and me screaming at it god knows what the neighbours were thinking.

Never a PEN for their first.

The defence were all excellent. I think we should stick with that four as we continue to plug away. A point we didn't expect can only be a bonus and a fillip for our players and management.

[Toronto Villa]

as much a I want a result, I want to see green shoots of progress. That is evidence of team unity, cohesiveness and fight. We might lose against Chelsea. I can take that. As long as we go down giving it everything we have.

I posted this before the game. I get everything I asked for. Yes, 3 points would have been great but that was quite brilliant. If we play like that between now and the end of the season, we'll be just fine.

[villa_cads]

Great performance. Deserved all three points, but its the kickstart to the season we needed so badly! Reo-Coker was great today, realy composed on the ball and distribution was quality. A few substitions (and less yellow cards - stupid ref) and I think we'd have had that one. Hard to battle them in the last ten minutes with so many on yellow cards. Did Essien get booked in the end?

[alanclare]

I really enjoyed that. Where are the cries of "Houllier out" now?

[glasses]

Fantastic. Cant knock them at all. Thats what I want from my team, work hard and never give up. Dunne was absolutely immense today, as was Gabby. Everyone played well though.

[Risso]

Bit disappointed not to have all three points like after the Man U game.  Much better performance though, just wish we'd changed it round when they were well on top.  Ah well, it'll do.

[D.boy]

Only saw the second half, when they went 3-2 up it was like here we go again, conceding goals in the dying minutes We looked tired at that stage but fair do to em for pulling it back to 3-3.

[Percy McCarthy]

Brilliant. Fair play to GH and Dunne, looked like they patched up their differences and we looked like a team again today.