Wolverhampton Wanderers v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[cb]

Always nice to beat a Mick McCarthy team. Loved how utterly stumped and clueless he looked after Heskey had struck...

[olaftab]

I was lucky enough to be at the match today (prawn sandwich invite). Posted earler straight after in short from my phone.
Both of our goals were proper football  goals.  We beat them by playing  better quality football all through the match.  Don't worry about Wolves  so called come back in the second half. They got lucky with their goal. If I could fault our defence I would say Collins should have headed that cross into row Z.

Don't know too much about the Warnock tackle debate. I didn't think at the time  it required any harsher  penalty.   
Two players stood out for me for giving us attacking vibrancy. Heskey and Ash Young.

Two players who could have let us down today. Luke Young and Petrov.  We need to "manage" Petrov till Delph is ready and than I hope he is on way to France or Belgium.

[Legion]

I thought Luke Young had a good game and it was Warnock who was off the boil somewhat?

[Toronto Villa]

A hard place to go, and we came away with a win. So much for the crisis. We have a lot of work to do and a lot of improving, but it's a work in progress. Heskey's header is as good as you'll see this season. Perfect in every way.

[olaftab]

I thought Luke Young had a good game and it was Warnock who was off the boil somewhat?

They  had too much play on their left  where Luke 's positioning was at fault  in the second half. He wasted possession too often when we  needed to keep the ball. Maybe  becuase this part of the pitch was right front of me and  I saw too much! First half  he was too far for me to see <contact lens renewal due)

[Somniloquism]

I thought Luke Young had a good game and it was Warnock who was off the boil somewhat?

They  had too much play on their left  where Luke 's positioning was at fault  in the second half. He wasted possession too often when we  needed to keep the ball. Maybe  becuase this part of the pitch was right front of me and  I saw too much! First half  he was too far for me to see <contact lens renewal due)

I would expect part of that was their best winger was that side and also Albrighton started to tire. Luke was being over run again.

You said you missed the Warnock incident but an already booked Warnock mis-controling and then bringing down the player bursting through was lucky to stay on. I would have expected him to be off if it was against us.

[Rob Gee]

I heard the Liverpool comments.

For me it was more "Thanks for the players Liverpool (if not directly) pity you're struggling this season etc etc".

Maybe that's just what I want it to mean.

[richard moore]

Something of a lucky win but we deserve a bit of luck after Stoke
 
However, we need to watch these 'boxer on the ropes' post half-time cameos or sooner or later someone is going to thump us again, as Newcastle did. Albrighton and Petrov suddenly went missing and we just can't get hold of the ball. I am slightly fearing Spurs away next week as they could carve us up in similar circumstances...

[richard moore]

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

Cuellar was good but I do wish he would stop knocking it into touch at every opportunity. Reo-Coker fantastic? Mmmm....

[Chris Smith]

Very similar to the Stoke game in that we went from being in control to struggling against a direct approach. Difference was that we defended far better and obviously managed to score again. The belance of the side still isn't quite right but it's going to take a few weeks for the manager to get it sorted.

[Somniloquism]

Something of a lucky win but we deserve a bit of luck after Stoke
 
However, we need to watch these 'boxer on the ropes' post half-time cameos or sooner or later someone is going to thump us again, as Newcastle did. Albrighton and Petrov suddenly went missing and we just can't get hold of the ball. I am slightly fearing Spurs away next week as they could carve us up in similar circumstances...

Recently Spurs have been dodgy after midweek games. Lets hope we can take advantage of this.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Excellent result, good use of substitutes by GH, well taken goal by Heskey. Cuellar immense.
We're 5th!

Shame I had to listen to some of the commentary on WM by Tom 'It's a ding dong derby, i've spunked in my pants' Ross.
His cretinous co-commentator, Pat somebody, was highly irritating too.

[garyfouroaks]

Just back. A good result. I always knew Heskey was good.............................

Overall a good team performance with Allbrighton strong. After the decent result when Petrov was dropped against Balckburn mid week I was surprised to se him back again, what I was not surprised at was his ability to make zero contribution to the game, the stats have told us that for a long time.

Two games, two wins though can't be bad and it was good to see NRC and Sidwell briefly appear. 5th place too.

[dave.woodhall]

Excellent result, good use of substitutes by GH, well taken goal by Heskey. Cuellar immense.
We're 5th!

Shame I had to listen to some of the commentary on WM by Tom 'It's a ding dong derby, i've spunked in my pants' Ross.
His cretinous co-commentator, Pat somebody, was highly irritating too.

That'll be European Cup winner Pat Heard.

[Holtenderinthesky]

I don't think I have ever read such a negative post match thread after a win.  Well done Villa, you have made me proud today.