Aston Villa vs Sunderland Post-Match Thread

[paulcomben]

The first time Villa have scored 6 at home in 18 years. (We won 6-0 at Derby in April 2008.) First league hat trick since Gabby v Man City in August 2008.

[ktvillan]

Difficult to see how that could have gone better really.

We even scored from a corner and didn't concede from one, and got one of the Mackem's best players suspended

Maybe should have been pushing for even more goals against 10 men instead of keeping possession but that would be harsh I guess.

Some outstanding individual performances but aside from the obvious,  Lowton really surprised me at how bloody good he looked tonight,and I was also impressed with Bennett and Sylla.

And I realised that Guzan is a dead spit for mini-me.

[supertom]

Tekkers is different class. I'd absolutely love one more season from him. I hope he sticks around with the World cup in mind. Play 50 games here or 25 for a club like Man City and risk his place in the WC.

3 games left. I'd fancy us to take another 6 points. Who knows we might even finish closer to mid-table than the drop zone.

[supertom]

The first time Villa have scored 6 at home in 18 years. (We won 6-0 at Derby in April 2008.) First league hat trick since Gabby v Man City in August 2008.

Tekkers has score more Prem goals in a season than even Dwight managed. His best was 17.

[citizenDJ]

96% pass accuracy from Lowton, it says here. Excellent performance.

[berneboy]

Just done the BBC Predictor - we finish champions

[Greg N'Ash]

5 points ahead is the main thing. 2 games to get some more and hope wigan don't do much before we meet them. I'd have taken that a week ago.

[PaulWinch again]

96% pass accuracy from Lowton, it says here. Excellent performance.

Lowton, Bennett and Westwood were brilliant. It also shouldn't be overlooked that Sylla's pressing of the ball helped massively.

[Smirker]

A long, long way to go yet.

Yep. We're not clear yet, but tonight was a big win and will have done wonders for the team.

[NeilH]

Agreed on the Sylla comments. He really does like a no-nonsense tidy player. He keeps thing simple but does it well. Looks like Lambert may well have found another gem there.
I'm convinced that Benteke will stay. This team can only improve and he will have looked at Lukaku and realised the benefit to getting lots of game time. If Lukaku stay at the Boggies and Benteke stays at us, Belgium will be an extremely formidable team come Brazil 2014.

[RossLeach]

Villa Park is easy to go to - Paolo di Canio.

Don't see what's wrong with that. M6, A38M. Very easy.

[Nastylee]

Get the fuck in, barring injury that team plays all the remaining games. Excellent throughout, apart from the goal I don't remember a shot on target from Sunderland.  Let's finish it at Norwich.

[charleeco7]

Would also like to give credit to Sylla. Thought his changing down of everything was brilliant, gave the back four breathing space at times. Something we missed last Monday.

Excellent all around really.

[gervilla]

Lowton was immense tonight.
Fantastic performance.
Thank you Aston Villa, that was beautiful.

[PaulWinch again]

A long, long way to go yet.

Yep. We're not clear yet, but tonight was a big win and will have done wonders for the team.

There is a long way to go, but the confidence for us and damage to Sunderland's confidence and the goal difference is huge.