FA Youth Cup Semi-Final

[VillaAlways]

Slew and Devine sent off.Happy days

[bones.]

finished 0-1

[VillaAlways]

0-1 FT

[bones.]

2nd leg april 6th ,7pm. thanks for the link.

[VillaAlways]

2nd leg april 6th ,7pm. thanks for the link.

Pleasure

[itbrvilla]

Daniel johnson looks a very goon player. Devine looks like a great boxer as he demonstrated to slew. They were the much better team and could head away all our high balls all week long.

[mozza]

Don't think any of our lads played to their potential tonight and will be disappointed
they let themselves down -

Tie not over yet, Blades didn't look anything special despite Tony McAndrew giving them
loads of praise pre-match -

Hoepfully the return leg will open up a bit more - could have been the occasion but
both sets of players looked nervous and frightened to make a telling pass or take
a chance-

Hopefully United will miss their boxer more then ours, Slew was arguably their best
player, whatever was Daniel Devine thinking, he completely lost it -

Villa finished with four wingers on the pitch but no natural goal scorer......... we will
play better in two weeks time but will it be enough to get us to the final ?

   

[villajk]

It was damn cold there tonight.

Thought we played ok in the first half but once United scored they had the upper hand.

Left a few minutes early and missed the sending offs.  grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[olaftab]

Very cold night at VP tonight.
The better side won tonight. I thought Sheff boys were lot cuter on the ball  than ours. The CB McGuire just lapped everything up at the back. Danny Johnson looks a very good prospect however his long distance shots are worse than Ash's.
Not seen this crop of youngsters play before but I guess they can play better. Tonight they were not good but there is still the 2nd leg.

[achilles]

Freezing cold and I thought the game was terrible!

Only player to show any ability or passion was our captain Daniel Johnson who looks like he could be useful, at least he was trying to do something positive, the rest, purely on one viewing, were pretty mediocre! I am afraid we could still be playing that game at Christmas and still not score, it was that desperate!

[cdbearsfan]

Just starting to thaw out.

[Mike Jeffries]

Was indeed very, very cold (More grist to the coldest/dampest season of home games ever argument)

We started well and then Sheffield Utd grew in confidence, got their goal just before end of first half and we never really looked like getting level.

Johnson and the centre backs (Well till one of them joined fight club anyway) looked most promising for us.

Think Sheffield Utd's No. 10 will make a career for himself (He was their bod that got sent off) if only for his wanker gesture as he headed into the tunnel -  that is the mark of a premier leauge player, is it not? (To be fair I thought his movement during the game, was loads better than any of our players - maybe other than Johnson). 

[Mazrim]

Very disappointing and not typical of this team. Still some of our better players missing for some reason and a couple have only just come into the team.
I think we'll win the tie though although now it's looking a bit trickier.

[London Villan]

Think Sheffield Utd's No. 10 will make a career for himself (He was their bod that got sent off) if only for his wanker gesture as he headed into the tunnel -  that is the mark of a premier leauge player, is it not? (To be fair I thought his movement during the game, was loads better than any of our players - maybe other than Johnson). 

Sad isn't it. Even youth team kids now think this is the norm when it comes to behaving. I remember the Chelsea kid doing the same when he was sent off at Villa Park a couple of years ago.

He'll be an England regular before too long.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Now with added punch-up