Andreas Weimann

[pestria]

He'd be first on the team sheet for me.

(Bent aside) he's the only player who's a 'natural' goalscorer.

He'll be priceless if (when?) we go down.

[ozzjim]

It is very rare a ref gives a pen (or anything) when a shot is made at goal and the player is caught late. As mentioned elsewhere, other places in the park and it is called back. I don't know if this is because the ball is normally out of play at that point and they can't do much from there for standard tackles but as I said, it is rare.

I think we both thought it was a pen on the match thread didn't we? Why are they not given, it was a quite horrible tackle, and had he made a pass in midfield and been caught that late the card would have been out immediately. Really pisses me off.

[SoccerHQ]

Top game today and MOTD analysis reflected that.

Seems to have saved his best form for the bigger games...Man. United, Liverpool, Arsenal, league cup semi finals.

Need to sort out this new contract otherwise he's another excellent young striker we'll lose. I do feel he'd stay even if the worst happens.

[PaulWinch again]

He needs to be a bit smarter sometimes, he lost the ball on a couple of occasions that could have cost us but a great finisher and will be a top player.

[Dave]

As (I think) Chris is a big fan of pointing out, I expect he is the player who is likely to score 25 goals next season to give us a chance of coming straight back up.

You'd hope that he would destroy the Championship.

[PaulWinch again]

Contract is essential and needs to be sorted.

[Clampy]

As (I think) Chris is a big fan of pointing out, I expect he is the player who is likely to score 25 goals next season to give us a chance of coming straight back up.

You'd hope that he would destroy the Championship.

We're not down yet mate. 

[Ron Manager]

Not by any means!!

[eastie]

As (I think) Chris is a big fan of pointing out, I expect he is the player who is likely to score 25 goals next season to give us a chance of coming straight back up.

You'd hope that he would destroy the Championship.

He would be in the last year of his contract and attract interest from other clubs i fear , we need to sign him on a new deal asap but he may well decide to keep his options open - if we go down i expect our better players to be cherry picked sadly.

[PeterWithesShin]

Andreas Weimann issued a rallying call in the wake of the loss to Arsenal, insisting: "We will fight for each other, for the fans, for the club and do everything we can to stay up."

Weimann said the dressing room was down following the defeat at The Emirates but also heartened by the manner of the performance overall.

Villa's No.26 is confident the team can move swiftly away from the drop zone with eleven 'cup finals' remaining if they play like they did against the Gunners.

Weimann was delighted with the forward threat Villa posed as well as their general defensive solidarity.

He said: "Everyone is down but we're going to pick ourselves up.

"We will fight for each other, for the fans and for the club and do everything we can to stay up.

"We have eleven games to go and we will do everything to get out of this.

"We're confident of turning it around. We'll go into the Man City game trying to win it. The place will be rocking.

"The fans have been brilliant. They've stuck with us all season and I'm sure they'll be behind us.

"We've got eleven games to get out of it. We're confident that by the end of the season we won't be in there.

"We will keep working hard. We have to keep going. But if we play like that, we will win more than we lose."

Weimann registered a range of emotions in the capital contest, bagging a brilliant equaliser before blaming himself for the home side's winner in the closing stages.

He added: "It was brilliant to score the equaliser and we tried to see it through. But it was my fault for the second goal because I let the full-back cross it in. I was very disappointed.

"I thought we played brilliantly overall. The whole team worked hard and every time we broke forward we looked like scoring. The defence was brilliant.

"But in the end, we switched off for one second and they scored. It shows you that you can't switch off, even for one second. These sorts of teams are good at using that and scoring against you.

"Arsenal are a brilliant team, even though they haven't performed brilliantly for the last couple of weeks. The players they have are outstanding.

"But I thought we played really well. It was just that one moment where we switched. But now we need to move on."

[Dave Cooper please]

First person to post "Don't tell me, show me" is a twat.

[Drummond]

First person to post "Don't tell me, show me" is a twat.

Looks like it was you Dave.....

[LeeB]

First person to post "Don't tell me, show me" is a twat.

Looks like it was you Dave.....

Ha!

[Risso]

Weimann has been showing to be fair, his form has been one of the few highlights of the season.

[Dave Cooper please]

First person to post "Don't tell me, show me" is a twat.

Looks like it was you Dave.....

Well I am a massive twat so I suppose in was inevitable.