Swindon Town v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[PaulWinch again]

Well I'm relieved we won, but our defence and midfield is still a major concern.

[rob_bridge]

I've always been quite fond of Di Canio and his effusive Italian ways but that little thing at the end was just childish and disrespectful. Cheeky prick.

Very good footballer

That said he's a horrible nasty little fascist and as such deserves the Mussolini treatment

[Lambert and Payne]

I don't really care that they fucked up that 2 goal lead. The celebrations for the 3rd was mad.
Oh, Di Canio is a nasty childish little cockend

[PaulTheVillan]

What has Di Canio done?

[Rigadon]

I've missed the last two games and it seems we're still the mixed bag we've been all season.  All that matters in a cup game is winning it, so good to see we did and the goals looked good. 

[Brend'Watkins]

I was dreading another 30 minutes of that, we were so poor.  Thankfully Benteke did his job, one of the few who did on the night. 

You can expect a team a few divisions below to pull off a result against a top side now and then but what is not expected is the top club to be outplayed in the way we were. 

Lambert has his work cut out.  Tactics is part of the problem, but the real problem is that a lot of the players we have just aren't good enough.  To emphasis that, I think the side would be marginally improved with the return of Warnock and Hutton.

[onje_villa]

I've always been quite fond of Di Canio and his effusive Italian ways but that little thing at the end was just childish and disrespectful. Cheeky prick.

Oh yeah, that and him being a fascist scumbag...

[brian green]

Nine am Wednesday, just home from the game.   I shall recall three things from that brain shredder of a game.   

The total urban sterility of Swindon.   I would truly sooner be dead than live there.

The manager of Aldis not knowing whether to call in Securicor to empty his overflowing tills or to try to push a few hundred Villa fans off the pavement outside his store.

Our now normal mental weakness and the inability of the Villa defence and midfiled to play with any kind of swagger or composure when two goals up.   And Stephen Ireland was on an awayday again.   That's four things.   Put it down to lack of sleep.

[curiousorange]

I would certainly welcome Warnock back asap, because the defence is so thin on replacements right now as to be virtually non-existent. Stevens was a rabbit caught in the headlights last night and if he's Bennett's fallback option then we're shagged, quite frankly.

Positively, Benteke's renaissance is extremely pleasing. He has a taste for scoring all of a sudden and basically, if you have a player that's scoring and has confidence it makes it so much harder to lose games. A player in form lifts the whole team and he could swing it in our favour on Saturday. And if Bent wants a bit of the action, he needs to learn to play with Benteke and be as prolific.

Here's hoping Lambert saw the lightweight midfield, puts Holman and Delph/Westwood either side of Ireland and sticks with Gabby as we looked more incisive last night than we have done since Swansea.

[JUAN PABLO]

Job done.

Good to see Benteke score.  Ireland having a good one , we do miss him in the team.

Defenders have got to stop giving the ball away , are you listening Ron.

10 goals in the cup so far , It could be our year .

[onje_villa]

Is 33% possession from the BBC a reliable stat? If so, result aside, that is truly worrying. Chuffed we won but that sort of performance doesn't bode terribly well for the games to come.

Think our strikers are doing well, our midfield's still all at sea and our defence which was improving is being decimated by injury. Still we beat that DiCanio knobhead...

[pedro25]

When and where is the draw?  Hope we avoid Arsenal.

[Damo70]

If we are going to score goals we need Ireland, Gabby and Benteke all given a run of games from the start. If we are going to tighten up at the back we need Baker and Dunne back to give us options alongside Vlaar. When do we find out who we are away to in the quarters? Is it tomorrow night or Saturday lunchtime?

[Jimbo]

What was wrong with Benteke's performance, other than his two goals?

[paul_e]

Good result which is the important thing.

Good to see 2 more for Benteke, hopefully the people who've been slating him as 'not up to prem standard' will look at the 4 in 7 record and give him a bit of a chance.

I also think the game going as it did, with us stealing a late winner when we'd looked poor for the 2nd half will help with confidence, late winners are usually good for morale (fans and players) so hopefully we can take some extra confidence into the sunderland match.