Aston Villa v Wigan Athletic Post-Match Thread

[Chris Smith]

Their keeper was their best player, saves from Bent, Bannan and Petrov is all that kept the result respectable. We're sold at the back, have two top class strikers and the midfield is starting to find a bit of rhythm. Still some way to go but the signs are very encouraging.

[Dante Lavelli]

So was our formation roughly this?

------------------Given-------------------
hutton---Collins----Dunne---Warnock
Ireland---Bannan---Petrov---Delph---
-------------------Gabby------------------
--------------------Bent------------------

[AV82EC]

So was our formation roughly this?

------------------Given-------------------
hutton---Collins----Dunne---Warnock
Ireland---Bannan---Petrov---Delph---
-------------------Gabby------------------
--------------------Bent------------------

Personally I thought the Midfield 4 played more of a diamond with bent and gabby playing up top.

[supertom]

Gabby flitted between the centre and wide positions brilliantly. We played without a natural wide man but Gab offered us enough width and was always an outlet.

[Mike Jeffries]

I was sat behind the Oompah Loompahs and Willy Wonka

I saw them wandering down Trinity Road before the game. I'm betting they were really happy that the day they chose to dress up like that was so hot.

I thought that after a very encouraging performance in the first half from Willy Wonka, it was a bit poor that he didn't turn up for the second half.

P.S. One of the blokes in front of us, suggested he was "doing" an Ooompah Lumpa in the toilets, a haunting and perhaps truly terrifying image, which no amount of Alcohol post game was able to shift from my head.

[olaftab]

So was our formation roughly this?

------------------Given-------------------
hutton---Collins----Dunne---Warnock
Bannan--Ireland------Petrov---Delph
----------------------- Gabby----------
------------Bent------------------

[richard moore]

How will Man City tell us a lot? They are almost certainly going to finish 1st or 2nd, so unless we take an absolute trouncing it will just show that they are currently better than us having spent a few hundred million quid. Which I figure everyone in football already knows.

The Man City game won't tell me anything I don't already know....and that is that football is completely ruled by money and money alone and that you don't win the Premier League anymore, you just buy it. I am just grateful to have been around in the days when excellent managers could win trophies for less fashionable and less well off clubs without the all eroding cancer within the game that money is these days

[olaftab]

I think it will tell us something about Mancity, can they decimate the team with the best defensive record so far this sean, and it will tell us  whilst we can not beat them can we stand up and be counted?

[berneboy]

How will Man City tell us a lot? They are almost certainly going to finish 1st or 2nd, so unless we take an absolute trouncing it will just show that they are currently better than us having spent a few hundred million quid. Which I figure everyone in football already knows.

The Man City game won't tell me anything I don't already know....and that is that football is completely ruled by money and money alone and that you don't win the Premier League anymore, you just buy it. I am just grateful to have been around in the days when excellent managers could win trophies for less fashionable and less well off clubs without the all eroding cancer within the game that money is these days

Agreed.
Probably those days are gone forever and so it is likely Villa will never win the league again.

[john e]

The games against Stoke will be more telling than the ones against city and Utd

[Ads]

All this bollocks about Man City telling us something.

They beat us up there whether they're shite or top class.

[Somniloquism]

All this bollocks about Man City telling us something.

They beat us up there whether they're shite or top class.

I'm just hoping we only lose by 3 at most and have no injuries/sendings off. But I have hoped that for the last 5 years.

[darren woolley]

What a game from start to finish we were awesome it could have 4 or 5 nil Gabby and Banann played brilliant and the rest were very good more performances like that please Villa.

[TimTheVillain]

Plus, apart from Gabby being back to his best, what a delight to see Benty score at the Holte End.

Bannanman, excellent.

Delph, he'll be a good player over the next few seasons

Hutton, not sure, he can tackle but I wouldn't allow him to go forward very often - his passing is dreadful as a right 'winger'

Decent management by AM to drop N'Zog, shows him he has to earn a place

Petrov was actually shooting on goal yesterday, more of that too please Stan

It was Wigan, but we showed some great passing and fast attacking - bring on the Baggies !

[DrGonzo]

All this bollocks about Man City telling us something.

They beat us up there whether they're shite or top class.

And Wigan always beat us at home, whether we are flying or failing.