Aston Villa v Arsenal Post-Match Thread

[bob]

Hutton in being a complete ****** shocker.

[Irish villain]

Play like that every week & we'll have no problems.

This.

I am so gutted we lost that. It's typical of us. It's just so hard to take. We played really well and still lost.

[SamTheMouse]

Much, much better. Good tempo, good pressing higher up the pitch, better passing and movement. Personally I'd drop Gabby for Bent and play the same team against Stoke (Herd for Hutton if fit). That style of play is what Bent thrives on, whereas Gabby struggles to find space.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Well, I would have said "great game, unlucky" but Fucking Hutton has really screwed things up for the rest of the Xmas / NY games!!
What a total arsehole

Exactly - it now means Cuellar will have to play right-back and James "Playmaker" Collins will start - great!

[Summers]

Great performance by almost everyone. We didn't deserve to lose. I always feel sick after games like this.

Sadly though, another loss.  They were there for the taking at 1 - 1 and we didn't do enough. It's a shame. The penalty was soft, Walcott shoulda got on with it. The second goal should never have happened. We're terrible at set pieces, and that's a huge ussie at this level.

[glasses]

Play like that and learn to defend a bit better for the rest of the season, and we will have nothing to worry about. Dunne was immense tonight by the way. Silly mistakes from Gabby and Clark cost us at least a point, which is at least what we deserved.

[Matt C]

How did Ireland play?

[PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt]

Played well on the whole, but two complete and utter moments of stupidity and lack of professionalism cost.

Hutton is a complete and utter arsehole and isn't fit to wear our famous colours.

[citizenDJ]

I thought that was a very good performance which shows that with the right set up, and with the right players in form, we actually CAN look like a decent team. Unlucky to lose tonight, but if McLeish can take the performance and build on it (and not do something utterly absurd like reverting back to a team with Heskey and Collins in it) then it might be worth it.

I thought Bannan was very good this evening, well worth a starting spot next time out, while Dunne was excellent. An overall very good team performance which was only let down by a lapse of concentratiom/effort at the eleventh corner of the half and a really daft sending off which means that the team will be different again, rather than able to build on a strong performance.

A really enjoyable game, and full of promise. Well done, lads.

[dean saunders left boot]

Best performance of the season, regardless of result. Hutton should be hung drawn and quartered for that, aresehole

[paulcomben]

Herd for right back, anyone?

[PaulWinch again]

How did Ireland play?

Very well until he got injured.

[mattjpa]

Can i be the first to say, hutton did let the frustration get to him but at least he was pissed off at losing rather than not caring. he was really good today

[Mister E]

The penalty was soft, Walcott shoulda got on with it.

The penalty was a penalty and we could have conceded one or two others in the second half.
But if you look at the number of chances created, Villa were way ahead of the Arse.

[Summers]

Hutton was unlucky and wound up. It wasn't thuggish, it was just late. He played well today, really well. We just lost a match we deserved something from, and I feel people are letting out their frustration on him because of a silly mistake.