Chelsea v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Steve R]

This doesn't feel as bad as the 7-1 to me either. 8 goals came from our insistence on keeping the game open. Chelsea scored from roughly one third of their goal attempts. The count today was 26-7. To put that in context, Spurs got 0-0 out of Stoke with a count of 22-4.

We've looked a really good team at times this season, but when the dam is breached things really can go nipples up.

We desperately need to improve the midfield. They were distinctly second best today just as they were last week.

The big difference was that against Liverpool the back three were resolute and the front two electric.

Several players looked surprisingly lethargic. None more so than Benteke, who probably needs to stop reading his own publicity.

[Goldie.7]

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.

Nowadays if you work in the hospitality industry and you break any equipment or damage the companies property it gets deducted from your wages. The integrity of the club has been compromised plus it's the least they can do. If Wigan can do it so can we.

[adrenachrome]

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.
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Nowadays if you work in the hospitality industry and you break any equipment or damage the companies property it gets deducted from your wages. The integrity of the club has been compromised plus it's the least they can do. If Wigan can do it so can we.

The hospital industry is being closed down by the banksters because it is a waste of their money. Wigan only have twelvety fans so they can afford to give them quality pies because and random refunds.   

[eamonn]

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

5 years. Dec '07, Mar 10 and today.
+6 goals in Jan '11 and 4 last Dec.

[eamonn]

We let 5 in after Ireland came on

Ireland offers nothing the sooner he leaves the better. Him and his wings can fly off.

No one else in our squad can spot the two key passes he made in the move that set-up Weimann's chance.

[Goldie.7]

We let 5 in after Ireland came on

Ireland offers nothing the sooner he leaves the better. Him and his wings can fly off.

No one else in our squad can spot the two key passes he made in the move that set-up Weimann's chance.

Only a complete tool would do that to themselves. He might have really bad Eczema and he's covering it up i doubt it's that though. He's getting paid £80,000 a week or £320,000 a month for a couple of 'key passes' and no goals wow.

We all know he's only playing for Villa because no other club would be stupid enough to pay him that sort of money.

[Ad@m]

Oh well. We all know that kids are going to be inconsistent but the bigger worry for me is Lambert's apparent tactical naivety. 

Maybe I was expecting too much but I thought Lambert was coming to the club with real tactical nouse built up with his continental training. But too many times already this season he's got his tactics completely wrong with catastrophic consequences.

I don't think we've seen the last tonking we'll get under Lambert unfortunately.

[dl9]

Can anyone post PL's comments on here post MoTD pls, I can't bear to see it again but am keen to hear if he says anything else about matters in the post match interview.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20831851

Ta

[brian green]

My thoughts exactly Ad@m.   I thought he would be very shrewd and canny but in fact he seems to me to be impulsive and making it up as he goes along.   I hate to think what the state of of H and V would be if we had got a battering like that under the previous manager.   Bodymoor Heath would be bedsheet central.

As for Stephen Ireland he only shows what he is capable of in flashes, in fits and starts.  He is a classic case of a player living in the very well paid comfort zone on the strength of a reputation earned elsewhere.   We keep trying with him because we think we can rehabilitate him.   While we are attempting his rehabilitation without success we are languishing at the bottom of the table and Ireland is draining away a lot of money for very little return.   He has been a failure in a Villa shirt and it is time to face up to that fact.

[dl9]

My thoughts exactly Ad@m.   I thought he would be very shrewd and canny but in fact he seems to me to be impulsive and making it up as he goes along.   I hate to think what the state of of H and V would be if we had got a battering like that under the previous manager.   Bodymoor Heath would be bedsheet central.

As for Stephen Ireland he only shows what he is capable of in flashes, in fits and starts.  He is a classic case of a player living in the very well paid comfort zone on the strength of a reputation earned elsewhere.   We keep trying with him because we think we can rehabilitate him.   While we are attempting his rehabilitation without success we are languishing at the bottom of the table and Ireland is draining away a lot of money for very little return.   He has been a failure in a Villa shirt and it is time to face up to that fact.

Agreed, yet he remains our current 'player of the year' from last season. How ironic...

I've just woken up to realise it wasn't a bad dream after all.....it really did happen!

[brian green]

Fans can be fickle d19, even in their choice of player of the year.

On the subject of bad dreams I woke at 3.45 awash with sweat and the damp duvet wrapped around my throat like a boa constrictor.   My first reaction was that it must have been something I ate before I went to bed but it was only a bowl of muesli and some skimmed milk (I was off my food) then a big black number 8 floated into my feverishness and the true horror of the heaviest defeat in our history hit me.

I got up at 4, came on here and foolishly sought solace from fellow sufferers then went out in the pissing rain in the dark and cleaned six months mud and road grime off my farm van as some sort of catharsis.   It did not work.

That defeat yesterday will either make or break our young side and it will either make or break Lambert.

I personally want the young team to be given the whole season and beyond to prove itself and I want Lambert to be given the same scope.

However, I do not see it happening.   I think the voices calling for "proven" players and old sweats to be drafted in in January will become too strident.   The cheque book will come out and we will scrape Premiership survival with a team playing percentage football.   Take as many points as you can off other strugglers and put ten men behind the ball against everybody else.   I hope I am wrong and this is just the muesli talking.

[russon]

Haven't seen any of the game as I was at The NY Jets v San Diego Chargers.  A few beers in the stadium, with great food and brilliant facilities, Premier League take note.  I recorded the Villa match on Fox Sports to watch later, but don't think I'll bother.  Having a brilliant time and just can't be arsed with football.

On a day of records you've set another Risso. Appearing on an H&V post match thread to announce you didn't go to the game, watch the game online or listen on the radio, have no intention of watching the recording and are on the verge of retiring from spectating entirely. Get your CV into MOTD as a summariser, you'd be perfect!

[brian green]

Seconded.   You could win the Savage Scholarship awarded to the rookie pundit who comes up with the biggest generalizations based on the least information.

[VinnieChase84]

Sky were just willing Chelsea to score and the Torres and luiz love fest was sickening.
They talk utter shite and just made the 8-0 worse in my opinion. At one point they actually made reference to Steven Gerard playing with frank lampard, like Stevie g was actually out on the pitch against us.
Ps Phil dowd is a useless fat troll too and I still have not forgiven him for wembley

[silhillvilla]

Ireland is a complete douche bag and I don't want to see him in a villa shirt again.
Thankyou.