Aston Villa v Reading Post-Match Thread

[silhillvilla]

3 points phew
Performance was a bit of a shocker, Ireland improved us. Westwood and Baker did well. Clark battled Roberts all night. Hope we can kick on now.

[paulcomben]

Keeping going is all that interests Lambo. We prefer creativity and goals.

[onje_villa]

Actually atmosphere sounded best it's been in ages tonight which is strange considering there were only 28k there (not including me sadly) and that the game was a load of tosh. Credit to the fans, they were in good voice.

[silhillvilla]

North Lower were brilliant (sit down Banana man lol)
Holte got going in 2nd half, well done lads.

[onje_villa]

I actually though Ireland looked half-arsed when he came on.
I know we need his quality on the pitch and he was screaming for him to come on but you can see why he doesn't start him, he doesn't put in much of a shift.
Mind you we have plenty of players who do but have little actual ability on the ball.

[not3bad]

Nervous, scrappy game but hardly surprising considering both teams were aware this was a 6 pointer. 3 points lovely jubbly!

[frank black]

Two very poor teams. Three vital points

[Matt Collins]

Much as it was often poor, we do need to take the circumstances into account. I still worry that Gabby and Weimann don't have the real quality needed in their positions. Some fairly basic breaking today and we'd have had a couple of one on ones. Weimann in particular looks poor in terms of his awarness. Dare I say I think N'Zogbia would be ideal in one of those wide positions, potentially with Holman or Gabby the other side and Ireland in the no 10 role? When is CNZ back?

[tomd2103]

Just got back in from the game and while it was a massive relief to get a win, we were very poor for large periods of that game, especially in the 2nd half.  I personally would have brought Ireland on a lot earlier for Weimann and would have pushed Holman out wide.  Not sure why Albrighton was brought on, as it is clear he has no form or confidence at the moment.

It might have been the pressure of the game, but I thought some of the old faults came out again tonight.  Clark got bullied all night long by Roberts, Bannan gave the ball away too much and both Baker and Lichaj distributed the ball poorly.  On the plus side, Guzan was solid, Westwood did well again (one or two stray passes aside), and Benteke was handful and got his goal.   

[MarkM]

Just got back, for the most part it was terrible.

The result was massive, had we been playing a slightly better team it might have been a defeat.

Reading are awful.

I would struggle to name a Man of the match nobody really shone.

[ROBBO]

Terrible performance, Weiman,Bannon just not good enough. Thought Gabby tried hard all game but Benteke is our main man. I hope we have got players lined up for January or we are in real trouble.

[Fin Feds Dad]

Guzan , Westwood and Benteke did well . The rest were woeful - good job Reading were bloody awful.

If Bent can't get in that 16 then there has to be another agenda .

Ditto Ireland - surely has to be a better option than Holman.

Gabby - Captain  - never . He was still trying to work out what the referee meant by heads and tails 30 mins into the second half !  Westwood a better option next time.

[hawkeye]

we just beat Reading, a charecterless town full of Vauxhaull drivers. Thier team full of journeymen, play to stay in the game as long as they can and hope some freak happns like they score and then even more freaky they win. So they wait until the other team score before trying to score. We won a hollow victory.

[Clampy]

It was one of those games where the 3 points were the most important thing. That said, I thought we were awful. We won't win many games with Gabby and Weimann as our wide men.

[myf]

win was all that matters with that team. thought Bannan and holman were in wrong positions with B deep and defensively weak and H strong but ineffective behind christian. looked much better with Ireland.

desperate for some older heads