Aston Villa vs Chelsea Post-Match Thread

[SoccerHQ]

Let's see how the results go tomorrow before we all get in a panic about Tuesday.

Yes we still won't be mathematically safe but you could be looking at a scenario where Sunderland have to go to Spurs and win to overtake us for example.

[eastie]

Let's see how the results go tomorrow before we all get in a panic about Tuesday.

Yes we still won't be mathematically safe but you could be looking at a scenario where Sunderland have to go to Spurs and win to overtake us for example.

A spurs win at stoke keeps the pressure on arsenal and spurs to keep winning.
Qpr may well owe their fans a performance and Norwich will be jittery against the Albion - plenty of drama tomorrow.

[ktvillan]

Let's see how the results go tomorrow before we all get in a panic about Tuesday.

Yes we still won't be mathematically safe but you could be looking at a scenario where Sunderland have to go to Spurs and win to overtake us for example.

Not if Sunderland beat Southampton.

[eastie]

Let's see how the results go tomorrow before we all get in a panic about Tuesday.

Yes we still won't be mathematically safe but you could be looking at a scenario where Sunderland have to go to Spurs and win to overtake us for example.

Not if Sunderland beat Southampton.

Well sunderland or southampton will enter the last game below us for sure.

[ktvillan]

  So we have to rely on Arsenal.  Fucking pathetic.

FFS get a grip. Not fucking pathetic and we don't HAVE to rely on Arsenal. We are well ahead of Wigan and they have to WIN at Arsenal and even if they do we will not lose at Wigan.

We do have to rely on Arsenal if we don't want to go into the final day without needing to get something.  That was my concern, especially without Benteke,  which you selectively ignored in your quote. 

[RossLeach]

Why no subs to get some sort of grip or give us a focal point. Both gabby and Weimann looked crocked as Benteke went off. Surprised they ended the match. And then no changes when we went 2-1 down with 7mins stoppage time to play? A penalty box finisher when we're at that point of just getting balls into the box?
And why, oh why, why lump corners onto the penalty spot when they have twice as many tall players as we do (again after Benteke went off)?


(On the last point, I accept that you could just as easily ask the question as to why Wigan would do the same in the last minute of the cup final when the opposition has Toure, Kompany et al in it, but we did it 4-5 times).

[eastie]

@MatKendrick: As well as Christian Benteke's sending off, Rafa Benitez's decision to send on David Luiz changed the game in Chelsea's favour today #avfc

[fredm]

Thought the timing of their sending off was at the wrong time for us. Just before half time so we didn't have much time to take advantage of their disarray and then it gave Benitez all half time to reorganise.

[Somniloquism]

@MatKendrick: As well as Christian Benteke's sending off, Rafa Benitez's decision to send on David Luiz changed the game in Chelsea's favour today #avfc

Really, why? Luiz did barely anything, had no hand in the goals and didn't really stop us attacking. The only decision that affected the game with that sub was he replaced Moses and not changed Lampard who was ineffective until the goals.

[SoccerHQ]

Yes for anyone recorded the match then at least watch the first 10 minutes of the second half (before it all goes wrong) and in that time Luiz must have passed the ball straight to us 5 or 6 times in a row.

[taylorsworkrate]

The first 15 mins of the 2nd half until Benteke went off, we looked like scoring every time we went forward. Luiz came on at half time and was getting completely overrun by our midfield.

Benteke stays on, we would definitely have won the match.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Yes for anyone recorded the match then at least watch the first 10 minutes of the second half (before it all goes wrong) and in that time Luiz must have passed the ball straight to us 5 or 6 times in a row.

And this is part of the frustrating way we play at times.
We are given possession (or win it through scrapping hard) and then seem not to take advantage of being given it. Gabby, and Weimann in particular, wasted ball in good positions far too many times today.
Bugger!

[danlanza]

The first 15 mins of the 2nd half until Benteke went off, we looked like scoring every time we went forward. Luiz came on at half time and was getting completely overrun by our midfield.

Benteke stays on, we would definitely have won the match.

This for me. And there is no way that Arsenal will give Wigan 3 points on Tuesday, no fucking way. I hate this shite end of the season shite, again.

[Villafirst]

Still boils down to a lack of experience for me. What is it with the 60 minute mark? We've seen this against Man Utd, L'pool and now Chelsea - from winning to losing in the last half-an-hour. Defence is still the Achilles heel. Just gutted after today. Lambert: address the defence!

[fredm]

Still boils down to a lack of experience for me. What is it with the 60 minute mark? We've seen this against Man Utd, L'pool and now Chelsea - from winning to losing in the last half-an-hour. Defence is still the Achilles heel. Just gutted after today. Lambert: address the defence!

Composure has a lot to do with it. How many times did we try to whack the ball away in our box and hit it straight to a Chelsea player when, with a little composure, we could have brought it down and played it out to a Villa player.