Chelsea v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[mrfuse]

Anyone else had this sent to them? It is quite funny but strangely it seems to be coming from armchair liverpool fans

[SoccerHQ]

Fack me, we battered them last week!

[Chipsticks]

I don't feel as embarrassed as I should, it's weird but I probably felt worse after the Norwich draw than I did about today. I think when the score is this bad it just becomes comical, and it's hard not to laugh at yourselves.

We need to learn from this, and I'm sure the players, and Paul himself, will take all they can from it and move on. In Lambert We Trust.

[PeterWithesShin]

Paul Lambert admitted his side were "beaten up" by Chelsea - but backed his players to come roaring back to their best against Tottenham.

Lambert accepted his team were "second best" to the Champions League winners in all departments and could even have lost by more than the eight goals scored.

But the boss stressed that there was no point mulling over the heavy loss at Stamford Bridge with a big game against Andre Villas-Boas's men coming up thick and fast on Boxing Day.

He said: "Everything that could go wrong went wrong.

"We have been on a really good run but we got beaten up today by a really good side. We were second best.

"We never turned up. We have been beaten pretty heavily. But we were second best all over.

"Their first goal went in early. But even so you've still got 80-odd minutes to go.

"Then the second goes in and then the third and then you think 'get to half-time to give yourself some kind of respite.'

"In the second half it could have been more to be perfectly honest. All credit to Chelsea, they beat us up today.

"You always learn when you win, lose or draw. That will be a wake-up call for us, that.

"Things have been going really fine for us. It was only Man Utd, Man City and Chelsea now who have turned us over. We will bounce back!

"We only have two days to mull over it but we have to go again against Tottenham on Wednesday.

"I am sure whoever plays on Wednesday will atone for that."

Lambert said there was no point throwing teacups in the dressing room because the players were more than aware of their deficiencies on the day.

He added: "They know. You can go in there and rant and rave all you want but it won't really do you much good. They know my feelings on it.

"But they know themselves that they have let everybody down.

"Now we focus on Tottenham. It's never easy to turn up and win a game.

"But you can't let one game blight what has happened of late. We will certainly try to bounce back as quickly as we can."

[BC54 VFC]

Why is is that everyone connected with Chelsea has no class?

1) Their announcer stated just before the players came out: 'Welcome to the Villa fans and congratulations on winning the European Championship in 1981'. Wrong title and wrong year, twat.

2) The bespectacled bint of a steward who refused to let two Villa fans, both of whom have had knee operations in 2012, move to the empty seats on the left hand side as they could not see from their allocated seats because fans in front were standing up. Miserable bitch.

As to the match, I thought Matt Lowton had a decent game but, hey, Mark Fletcher was obviously watching a different match. 

I agree with posters who have made the point that 5 of the goals were conceded after Ireland came on. At that stage of the match it should really have turned to damage limitation but Ireland and Holman simply cannot play in the same midfield against a team like Chelsea. Yet again, I was unimpressed by Bennett.

Disappointed with the fact that only two or three players clapped the fans at the end, but even more disappointed with one or two fans around me who chose to hurl abuse at the players.

[jembob]

Anyone else had this sent to them? It is quite funny but strangely it seems to be coming from armchair liverpool fans

Same here. The only taunt I got today was from a Liverpool fan. Even the local noses have kept their distance.

[BC54 VFC]

Perhaps you saw a different game from me Mal?

The one I saw, they got at us every which way, but with a definite plan to target us down the left. It worked inside two minutes.

The ball was played into the left channel, 15 yards inside the touchline and our half and crossed from there. Bannan was the closest Villa player. When you make a statement like ' definite plan to target us down the left' you are saying a wide man takes the fullback at every opportunity and plays effective balls into the box. That did not happen.
I say again how many assists did Moses contribute?

How many times did he part our defence?

None. That's the point I'm making. Mata however and Hazard took Clark and Herd apart time after time and it resulted in goals. Moses did nothing to any effect.

I think you're taking Lee too literally, mal. I think he's referring to Exodus Chapter 14, Verse 21.

[BC54 VFC]

Not posted for awhile as things seemed to be going along nicely ! I must admit I was shocked at the scale and comprehension of our defeat, but I did wonder on Wednesday night when they scored 5 against Leeds carving their way easily through them, if it may be a "bridge too far " Obviously hindsight is a great thing and I would be lying if I said I didn't sit there at 4pm hoping for a win.
It does appear though that in some games it is literally men against boys, Chelski's side have been assembled for ridiculous money and they are used to winning easily if things go their way in a game. THey also have history of doing this to us (the older of us may remember Bobby Tambling scoring 4 goals in a 6-2 win at Villa Park in the sixties. Conversely we also have a habit of beating them more often than the other Champions League sides we face.This won't stop me going to Villa Park full of hope against Spurs ( my birthday ) and indeed nothing ever will however we are doing in whatever league.
All we and the players and Lambert (who's in only his second Premier league season) can do is take this on the chin, Learn from it a double our resolve to give everything for our club, not easy but has it ever been easy ?

Make that five goals.

[BC54 VFC]

Anyone still fancy us then in a one off cup final against them?

No? Thought not....

Yes, why?

There's still the little matter of them having to play Swansea.

...and us having to play Bradford.

[SW9-VILLA]

As far as I'm concerned, the club owe me money.

An utter disgrace. £55 please.

As far as I'm concerned you sound like a cock!

Did the club make you buy a ticket and go to the game?

The club should refund every away supporters ticket price or give them a free ticket or Every single player should donate their weeks wage to Acorns. All of them are *******

That's not how real life works.

[cdbearsfan]

For all my attempted positivity and attempts to pretend I don't care really I now feel a bit like Edward Woodward at the end of "The Wicker Man".

Oh Jesus Christ! Oh God no! Oh Jesus Jesus Christ! The Lord is my shepherd. Oh Jesus Christ! Aaaaagh!

[Somniloquism]

So is that 3 times in 6 years that a match between Villa and Chelsea at Stamford Bridge has had 8 goals in it?

[Stu]

As far as I'm concerned, the club owe me money.

An utter disgrace. £55 please.

As far as I'm concerned you sound like a cock!

Did the club make you buy a ticket and go to the game?

Cheers. My opinion though - today was a total disgrace.

[cdbearsfan]

I don't really agree. I thought chelsea played fantastically, and they were lucky as Hell and got two soft penalties. I've seen us play far worse than that and get away with a 2-0 loss.

[JD]

Bollocks, just bollocks.
I shall erase this from my mind now and just hope it doesn't affect the players on Boxing Day.