Sunderland v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[barrysleftfoot]

 

 Good point KG, about Ireland.I'm a big Ireland fan, but would admit that i expected more goals/assists from him.

 Having said that Weimann should have scored, as should he himself, and he is probably the only player we have on our books who can play in that position, and in this system that PL seems to like to play.Would like to see N'Zog get a go with Benteke as he seems like a real team player.

 Thats a great stat about Weimann, and even more reason to play him.

[SoccerHQ]

Not been this happy for a Villa result in a long, long time!!!


Great performance for much of it..


Benteke, Lowton, Vlaar, Westwood and Guzan were all bloody brilliant signings by Lambert. Needs time and backing, but beating Martin O Fucking Neill was lovely. The little knob.

Don't think I could've put it any better, a very sweet and much needed victory. Still in for a difficult next three weeks but at least there's now a buffer between ourseleves and the bottom 3.

Vlaar is the key I think. He's improved a lot in the last few games and it's not even like defensively we've been that bad except for that second half at Southampton. Not too bad when there's mostly kids in there.

Pleased Westwood did well. A friend who watches Crewe a bit reassures me he's a very competant ball playing midfield, just needs time.

Few interesting selction situations for next week, think I'd still bring KEA back as I think it would be naive to just assume WestWood can hold against United on his own. Probably bring Holman in for his energy but keep Weimann and Ireland in please.

[robbo1874]

Mark Lawrenson!....Oliver Holt!...Henry Winter!...Paul Franks!...Him from the Guardian!...Villadawg!...can you hear me Villadawg?...etc.

There, fixed.

[Mortimer's Bear]

Not been this happy for a Villa result in a long, long time!!!


Great performance for much of it..


Benteke, Lowton, Vlaar, Westwood and Guzan were all bloody brilliant signings by Lambert. Needs time and backing, but beating Martin O Fucking Neill was lovely. The little knob.

Don't think I could've put it any better, a very sweet and much needed victory. Still in for a difficult next three weeks but at least there's now a buffer between ourseleves and the bottom 3.

Vlaar is the key I think. He's improved a lot in the last few games and it's not even like defensively we've been that bad except for that second half at Southampton. Not too bad when there's mostly kids in there.

Pleased Westwood did well. A friend who watches Crewe a bit reassures me he's a very competant ball playing midfield, just needs time.

Few interesting selction situations for next week, think I'd still bring KEA back as I think it would be naive to just assume WestWood can hold against United on his own. Probably bring Holman in for his energy but keep Weimann and Ireland in please.

Whilst I agree Ron played well today, Sunderland as an attacking force were shite. I'll reserve judgement until we've played our next three games which will show us what he's really made of.

[The Left Side]

I never used to mind Sunderland, I always preferred them to Newcastle and spoke to many fans when they come down and they were level headed honest and easy to get along with.
Since pubehead took over I've looked for their result straight after Villa and Cheltenhams, I'm delighted they're struggling and love seeing him squirm, since the day he walked out I've regarded him as nothing but a judas, I bought into the O'neill vision and loved having him here, media was positive about us, we were fearless and in cup finals. Looking back shown me he was purely a short term manager, it was shit or bust and he failed, walked out and blamed it on Lerner for not shoving a load of cash for him to buy the next Emile Heskey.

Todays result was sweet, it showed that tides are turning, were becoming a team again slowly, while he enters the final stages of his career and the few idea's he had have been found out.
I'll quite happily forget about him now until we next play them, as soon as he's sacked I'll get back to not minding Sunderland.

Despite all that though, 3 points is the most important part of the day, lets hope results go our way tomorrow and maybe we can dream of beating Manure?

UTV

I think a lot of us would agree with that, great win and the confidence went through the roof after we scored and well done to the defence for holding on, what a difference a win makes.

[Chipsticks]

I had no idea until today how much I hate O'Neil.

[hilts_coolerking]

I can wear a player like Ireland being hit and miss.

Comes with the territory, creative but mercurial talents are often like that.  Except for the very best.
It's when your centre halves and other defenders are hit and miss, ike Dunne the last two years and like Vlaar this season that you can have problems (In fairness to Concrete, he has looked better these last few games).

I would have expected a few more assists off Ireland though, if I'm honest. 

Maybe in some games he's trying to do too much or- like last season- he's been played too deep. 

Would be good if our midfield was solid enough to say 'don't worry about anything else, just operate in the final third.'  At the moment we can't really do that though.

Ireland's too consistently mediocre to deserve the term 'mercurial'.  Even when he's having one of his better games  he rarely makes a decisive contribution.  Yes, he improved in the second half today but as a big money signing and, in the context of this squad, as one of the senior players he simply has to contribute more.

[steffo]

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[olaftab]

Fortune favours the brave and Lambo is braver than ****
Needed that win and we got it

[Chipsticks]

Fortune favours the brave and Lambo is braver than ****

Considering making this my signature on here.

[rutski]

very good performance, we stood up and was counted after the break when sunderland came heavily at us, and have the bravery to try and pass the ball out instead of just clearing. westwood and bannon were strong in their positional play and used ireland well as an out ball. i never really panicked at all during the match and was confident wit our play. This result has been earned by the learning of a new system and an added belief in each other!

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

Suited having a right footed LB (lichaj) against Adam Johnson as he can only use his left peg. What a waste of £13m that could of been !!!! Ireland looked poor in parts but worked hard to get back in the game. Said pre match i fancied a Villa win. Well Happy .......

[Chipsticks]

Apparently our fans sung 'We're winning away, we're winning awaaaay, how shit must you be, we're winning away.' Class!

[saunders_heroes]

Nice goal to win it as well. Great move and a smart finish from Gabby. Good to see him hitting a bit of form what with Man Utd etc coming up. He's got an eye for a goal against the big boys.

[Risso]

As some of us said early on, there will be a lot of ups and downs this season.

Despite the welcome win and good performance, I'm not sure why this "ups and downs" bollocks keeps coming up every week.  Has there have been a team that's gone a whole season without a single win?