Wolverhampton Wanderers v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[PeterWithe]

I'm looking forward to the day he's interviewed and doesn't mention frigging Liverpool.

[Legion]

I think he needs to drop the Liverpool references.

[Nev]

From the BBC:

Aston Villa boss Gerard Houllier on his side's late winner at Wolves: "It was a very good Liverpool goal. Stephen Warnock crossed and Emile Heskey scored it."

Are Liverpool going to be to Houllier what Leeds were to DOL? I don't care if we keep winning!

Thing is, comments such as this will be thrown back at him when we have a bad run. Best not to mention Liverpool at all really. Still, early days we'll let him off this one.

[not3bad]

We had Ireland, Bannan and Agbonlahor on the bench today.  Those are players that could come on and make a difference.

[eastie]

Great result - not many will win at wolves and we defended well, great to see luke nige and heskey playing in the team and delivering and things look so much better now o neill and his one way style has gone.

GED will improve us and I'm sure when he's assessed the squad he will bring in the right signings in jan or the summer- I see exciting times ahead for our club , so let's enjoy the journey and see where GED takes us.

[KevinGage]

He'd be well advised to keep schtum if that's his immediate thoughts after a narrow derby win in his first game in charge.

Maybe he's a decent manager, but should let Gary Mac do the talking.

He does seem to have a tendency to say too much with a mic stuck in front of him. I hope that's where the comparison with Pigface begins and ends.

[Gazza1982]

Collins and Cuellar very solid, Young led from the front and always looked lively and creative. Heskey....what can you say, seems to enjoy playing right now,great goal. Backs and forwards were good today, Albrighton very good first half.
Midfield...this is where it gets tricky, Petrov, for a captain,simply not good enough,needs replacing or give Delph/Bannon a run
NRC, got his foot in here and there but always looks so sluggish and predictable, again, not good enough.
Downing, took goal well but that was it really...Sidwell, little time to impress ..and he didn't!
To win and play below average has to be a good sign...2 out of 2 for GH...COME ON !!!!!!!

[KevinGage]

Compare and contrast.

Uforia?

Sounds like one of their Nigerian reserves.

[The Situation]

I prefer the Cuellar-Collins partnership to the Dunne-Collins partnership... I just think Collins and Cuellar work better together.

[ChrissyPrice]

I just worry that we are going to get swamped with both Downing and Albrighton playing. Although it might not be so bad if somebody replaced the invisible Petrov.

[CJ]

Good first half but once Mcarthy changed their shape to tie up Ash more we struggled in the second. 10 minutes from the end I'd have settled for a point as we were under the cosh and could see them getting another, but that header from Heskey - he seemed to hang in the air for ages and I thought he'd got underneath it. Great to shut the yam yams up, especially as Warnock was lucky to still be on the pitch!

Just to put Houllier's 'Liverpool goal' comments in context - in the interview I heard on the way back it was the commentator who pointed out that Warnock and Heskey were with Houllier at Liverpool, and Houllier replied half jokingly that it was a Liverpool goal.  He didn't volunteer the information.

As an aside - before the match just as I arrived Robert Plant got out of his car.  He was happy to sign autographs and then strolled round the ground just like any other fan - seemed like a regular kind of guy.  He didn't recognise me though.

[darren woolley]

It was a battle but we overcome them cuellar and reo coker were great today warnock was treading a fine line though but i am pleased with the result.

[Somniloquism]

Just to put Houllier's 'Liverpool goal' comments in context - in the interview I heard on the way back it was the commentator who pointed out that Warnock and Heskey were with Houllier at Liverpool, and Houllier replied half jokingly that it was a Liverpool goal.  He didn't volunteer the information.

I was just going to post that we didn't know the context and it sounded like a joke as both players played for Liverpool. The Media in Comments out of Context shocker happens again.

[luke25]

Got no real hatred towards Wolves but having lived here 20 odd years its a game  I just could'nt bare to lose as i'd never hear the end of it, that result will shut the locals up for 6 months, Cuellar absolutely immense, Reo-Coker fantastic, Albrighton in the first half was very good until that thing came on, can't wait to see Heskeys header later on, he seemed to hang in the air for ages

[Phil from the upper holte]

Happy with the result, Not to blown away with the performance, We do not seem to pass the ball with ease but I'm hoping we'll get better.

Collins & Cuellar superb, impressed with NRC & Young again, This isnt a critisism of Albrighton but sometimes he needs to be more aware, I've mentioned it before, he seems to get ball and if he gets a glimpse of goal he'll shoot or he'll get the ball and he'll try and take everyone on, (not just today) somethimes I think he needs to look up like he did against Rapid Vienna

Warnock was lucky to stay on pitch and petrov was tired again, but overall i'll take it.

Some positives to take, Love the amount of late goals we score in local derbies