Manchester City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Irish villain]

Great stuff, thank you for posting.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Gabby is back but Gabby now needs to do it every week or he'll be out, Great night although there weren't many of us it was a good night, city were annoying forcing us into a small section of seating when there was a whole block free, some people were really squashed

[PaulWinch again]

I couldn't believe when I flicked on the news last night and saw we won. Brilliant lads, really brilliant and erases most of my horror from the game the other day. Great for Gabby and N'Zog to be in the goals.

[oldham_villa]

Apols for the essay

Nick

The opposite, thank you for the detailed analysis.  Enlightening reading for those who were not there.

Yeah I would say so pal. The first half appeared to be a strange formation. Weimann really struggled to get in the game. Benteke was always available tho and asking for it a lot. Cnz buzzed around in the hole. Gabby was wide left and he clearly diesnt know what to do there/ does not like playing there.  2nd half, Weimann was deffo right side of midfield but still didn't get much out of Kolorov. Gabby was the right hand side of the front two and even looked as tho he might have had a bollocking at half time. This will give PL a headache on what to do up front. It was good to see Gabby go on the right as I had become tired of seeing him on the left and cut outside on his bad foot.

Plenty to take out of this, really proud of them

[N'ZMAV]

I'm delighted for Gabby (and CNZ)
I've given him plenty of stick, he deserved it most of the time, hope he's turned the corner and pushes on to be the player he looked like he was going to be 3 years ago.

[somec]

Great result, very pleased for Gabby.

Let's keep it up and smash the baggies on Sunday!

[Chris_Jephcott]

Manchini blows his lid:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19724787

Really does stink of being a very sore loser actually!

[Phil from the upper holte]

Fuck Mancini, sore loser and I'm sure Lambert would do it at old Trafford, You have to earn respect you mouthy bastard

[lennythekad]

Struggling with a sore throat this morning after last nights exertions!.
Thought it was our best away display for several seasons, especially as we matched/exceeded them all over the pitch, and didnt need a "backs to the wall" display to get through.
Didn't hear any negative stuff from City fans in 19th minute myself.
Did a quick count up of rows and seats in our section and reckon we probably just reached a thousand of us there.
Driving up there in there in the hideous rain, spray and rush hour traffic, I was thinking wtf am I doing?, then at the end thinking fookin hell, I wouldn't have missed this for the world!!.
UTV!

[oldham_villa]

Good decision Lenny! The last two days have seen an extreme level of rainfall, even for our normal standards.

As u say, there was never a backs to the wall attitude deployed by Villa. How refreshing to see eh

[DrGonzo]

Yes I very much enjoyed Mancini's rant, the highlights:

"I am tired with these managers,"

"I didn't say nothing to him (Lambert). There are some managers it is better to shut up.

"I asked only if there was a yellow card with the fourth official and he comes over to me.

"I didn't speak with him. I asked the fourth official if it was a yellow card because I thought the referee had forgotten his yellow cards in the dressing room.

"I don't know what is the reason. I can understand if I was talking to him but I didn't say nothing."

"I am very tired with their behaviour. Sometimes these managers go to the big stadiums and the other manager says everything and they say nothing.

"When they go to  Trafford, they say nothing. When other managers talk about the referee they always sit on the bench.

"I don't like this type of behaviour."

  And lambert's take?

""If that's what he said then fine.  I respect him as a manager and an ex-player.  It wasn't really a spat. It was nothing."

Very, very good.

[Risso]

Fell asleep on the settee when it was 2-2.  Checked SSN before going to bed, and had to double check on the BBC website that they'd go the scores the right way round!  Absolutely brilliant result, I think this season really is going to be a roller coaster ride.

[CJ]

So he tried to get one of our players booked and didn't like PL reacting to that - and as for the ref leaving his cards in the dressing room how the fcuk did Dowd book 8 players then? As others have said - sore loser.  Absolutely brilliant that we've got a manager that can get under the skin of the likes of Mancini

[CheeriOneill]

Great result - Balotelli 1st goal at 4-1 and Villa to score next (at 2-3) at 6-1 - Cheers Skybet.

Not a bad game either!!

[Holte132]

OK, so I know that yahoo sports page isn't some sort of oracle, but it's nice that at least one journalist understands us. This quote from today: The result was only Villa's second win of the season against Premier League opposition as Paul Lambert struggles to undo all the impressive amount of damage his predecessor Alex McLeish managed to do in such a short space of time.