Aston Villa v Manchester City Post-Match Thread

[Michel Sibble]

When Sylla starts, we win.

[PeterWithesShin]

I love being shit and winning two league games in a row without one of the best strikers in Europe. on the pitch I hope we are this shit forever.

[caster troy]

Great win!

With our injuries and their quality we were never going to batter them. Our only chance was to work hard and take any chances that came our way. I'm really proud of the lads and all of them can hold their heads up high tonight.

Special mention for Sylla who got abused all game by the misery-arse sat behind me but worked unbelievably hard.

[Somniloquism]

we looked liked a championship team at times and not a top one , yet we beat a team who could win this league easy

Completely agree with. A lot of people on here, twitter and facebook obviously didnt watch the game and just see the result. We were very poor and any other day Man. City would of taken us to the cleaners. Im really pleased we won and took all the points but some of us are papering over the cracks.

What cracks are they then? Winning two in a row with one of the best players in the league out injured? Without Okore, Westwood and Gabby as well? Or the cracks of 9 points from 6 games which have made up the hardest opening 6 games I can remember the Villa ever having?

They all played against Liverpool and Newcastle and we were absolute junk. Today we were bollocks...you think we can keep playing like that and pick up 3pts every week!??? Don't get me wrong I'm as chuffed as everyone else on winning today but I see some major flaws in our style or lack of it.

I didn't think we were totally junk against Pool and was two world class saves from getting a result. That was compounded with playing after a tough midweek Match against Chelsea in which we should have got a point and was unlucky not to have all three. Newcastle I will give you though.

But with our current injury jinx, I'm sure any imaginative players bought would be out for 12 months by now

[Lastfootstamper]

@RobbieSavage8: Terrible decision for the villa goal , linesman has to give offside !

If he'd been offside, then I'm sure he would've. But he wasn't. So ner-ner-ne-ner-ner

[E I Adio]

I really haven't stopped grinning since Andi's goal went in. What a feeling.

I don't think we were lucky, but you could say that we were a little fortunate to score three times out of four chances.

Oh, and whoever said Francis is a prick was spot on. He was salivating when it was 1 - 2.

[ez]

The goals

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[Matt Collins]

We all know we're not the greatest side in the league and that there are still lots of problems

But we had our two best attackers and arguably best midfielder out today plus Lowton and Westwood missing who we're crucial to our more pleasing passing football last season

Lets just enjoy the win, know that if gabby is back next week we'll have a great chance of a third straight win and that benteke looks like being back reasonably soon

 We need more quality in midfield. Of course we do. But we have seen the current side play good passing football on quite a few occasions. It's not really happened much this season and I'm not entirely sure why, but I'd expect it to come back at some point

Well need 10 games to be safe from relegation. We've got three already despite the hardest start to the season I've ever seen villa have. And we're six points up on the same games last season

I plan to enjoy motd but not start thinking we can get top 8.

[Weedy]

Typical of Villa to summon up a win against a side everyone had us losing by a hatful to.

Here's what Komapny says:
"Stunned Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany, pictured above applauding his side's travelling fans at the final whistle, tries to explain how they lost against Aston Villa after taking the lead twice.
"If we played that game 10 times, we would win nine of them," Kompany said. "It was a very unlucky result and a very unlucky day. Villa had three chances and scored three goals and that was it. The first goal was offside and we did not get the decision - but every time we made a mistake, we conceded."

So, they were unlucky.

[eastie]

The moment Weimann stabbed the ball past hart and time seemed to stand still reminded me of dalians scoring at Wembley when Bruce chased it back but it beat him into the net - truly special moments

[enigma]

When Sylla starts, we win.

Yep. I don't think it's a coincidence that results take an upswing when he's in the team.

[Villafirst]

I love being shit and winning two league games in a row without one of the best strikers in Europe. on the pitch I hope we are this shit forever.

You're wrong........Benteke is one of thee best strikers in the WORLD. I went to game today and really enjoyed it! Disappointing crowd of only 34,000

[berneboy]

The goals

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Thank you.

[PaulWinch again]

Typical of Villa to summon up a win against a side everyone had us losing by a hatful to.

Here's what Komapny says:
"Stunned Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany, pictured above applauding his side's travelling fans at the final whistle, tries to explain how they lost against Aston Villa after taking the lead twice.
"If we played that game 10 times, we would win nine of them," Kompany said. "It was a very unlucky result and a very unlucky day. Villa had three chances and scored three goals and that was it. The first goal was offside and we did not get the decision - but every time we made a mistake, we conceded."

So, they were unlucky.

To flip that over they had about 15 chances and only scored two, so they're just not very clinical.

[SashasGrandad]

The goals

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Hadn't a clue what commentator was saying but I think he knew it was a great Villa win.

Bacuna ma tata!