Aston Villa v Chelsea Post-Match Thread

[Legion]

Available Saturday evening.

[Dave]

Said before the game that the result wasn't the important thing today and that doesn't change just because we lost.

Really good fight by the youth. 19th minute was impeccable. Lichaj looks like he's be a very useful player.

[Ger Regan]

At least we gave it a go. Massively inexperienced team against a team in the QF of the champions league.

[Rigadon]

Genuine emotion at the 19th minute clap.  Something I'll remember a long time even watching on the internet. 

Difficult to comment past that, but as for the game, it might be petty, but the Villa need to complain about the referee this afternoon.  We don't deserve much from today, but a MASSIVE turning point in the second half was that decision he called about 10 minutes ago when Terry purposely ran into Gabby.  He bottled it completely. 

Villa look a relegation team to me, for the first time this season I'm a bit worried we might go down.  We aren't just a poor side, we have rotten luck too and that's the thing that *could* do for us. 

[Toronto Villa]

Said before the game that the result wasn't the important thing today and that doesn't change just because we lost.

Really good fight by the youth. 19th minute was impeccable. Lichaj looks like he's be a very useful player.

Agree with all of that. Couple the news of Petrov with the enormous injury list and it was always going to be really hard. Add to that, the other results have made this a very tough weekend indeed.

[ozzjim]

Said before the game that the result wasn't the important thing today and that doesn't change just because we lost.

Really good fight by the youth. 19th minute was impeccable. Lichaj looks like he's be a very useful player.

The result was important in the season though. Chelsea looked vulnerable at the back and when back to 2-2 we got screwed by the ref and our defending.

We are going down this season. I am more sure by the week. As I predicted 2 weeks back, the bottom clubs will start fighting and win games you would not expect. We just keep losing. We are totally rudderless, and the manager has not got a clue of how to motivate the side.

[dean saunders left boot]

The team we had out did well to get back to 2 -2, I didn't see that coming, and kudos to them for managing that. Looks like we are getting drawn properly into the fight down the bottom, looking at other results QPR Bolton, Wigan all got wins.

[Fergal]

Said before the game that the result wasn't the important thing today and that doesn't change just because we lost.

Really good fight by the youth. 19th minute was impeccable. Lichaj looks like he's be a very useful player.

The result was important in the season though. Chelsea looked vulnerable at the back and when back to 2-2 we got screwed by the ref and our defending.

We are going down this season. I am more sure by the week. As I predicted 2 weeks back, the bottom clubs will start fighting and win games you would not expect. We just keep losing. We are totally rudderless, and the manager has not got a clue of how to motivate the side.

Agree, we are in deep trouble.  Why oh why oh why did he bring on Heskey?

[paul_e]

Said before the game that the result wasn't the important thing today and that doesn't change just because we lost.

Really good fight by the youth. 19th minute was impeccable. Lichaj looks like he's be a very useful player.

Agree with all of that. Couple the news of Petrov with the enormous injury list and it was always going to be really hard. Add to that, the other results have made this a very tough weekend indeed.

The 19th minute was the important thing but 3 of the 5 below us winning has made this a really really bad result for us.

[Toronto Villa]

Our remaining fixtures look fucking rock. Liverpool and Man U with Stoke in between as our next three. This is going to be a rough ride.

[PaulWinch again]

The result was important regardless of the emotional situation(the 19th minute was brilliantly observed). However we are 5 points off the drop zone, Mcleish absolutely has to go. If our dope of a Chairman hasn't realised yet, we can very very much go down. Great to see Stan looking so positive though.

[ian c.]

We are going to need to find 6 points from somewhere, the results below us went the wrong way today.

With a little bit of luck we would have got a point today, but luck seems to have deserted us.

[Toronto Villa]

Said before the game that the result wasn't the important thing today and that doesn't change just because we lost.

Really good fight by the youth. 19th minute was impeccable. Lichaj looks like he's be a very useful player.

The result was important in the season though. Chelsea looked vulnerable at the back and when back to 2-2 we got screwed by the ref and our defending.

We are going down this season. I am more sure by the week. As I predicted 2 weeks back, the bottom clubs will start fighting and win games you would not expect. We just keep losing. We are totally rudderless, and the manager has not got a clue of how to motivate the side.

Agree, we are in deep trouble.  Why oh why oh why did he bring on Heskey?

Bringing on Heskey shoudn't even be part of the conversation tonight. It has nothing to do with the result. He came on because Weimann was bagged and had picked up a knock.

[VillaAlways]

We need to get rid of Mcleish and put KMac and Sid in charge til the end of the season They know the kids, who we are now relying and this will at least give us a chance of staying up and it will give the team a boost

Well done to those kids today They did us proud

[ez]

We're in the brown stuff. Not sacking Mcleish after the Wigan game was a big mistake.