Aston Villa v Manchester City Post-Match Thread

[Rudy65]

City have no class.

 They will win nowt because if you get at em, they dont like, moan at the ref and are worse as a result.

Great result today

[Ads]

The picture of Andi is surely the next front cover of H&V?! A fantastic image.

Joe Hart; he isn't very good is he?

[Fin Feds Dad]

That was a day and a victory well deserved - for all of us who left the ground on Tuesday evening and then returned , as we always do ,  5 days later to support OUR team.

Yep - that's us - we're the villa.

[Pat McMahon]

Mind you I did post this was the eleventh premier game with this referee and amazingly we haven't lost.

Is that true? If so we need together the Committee  on the phone to his agent now and book him for every game till the end of the season. You can't let talent like this slip through your hands.

[Phil from the upper holte]

The picture of Andi is surely the next front cover of H&V?! A fantastic image.

Joe Hart; he isn't very good is he?

England's number one apparently

[Legion]

I'd prefer Scott Carson.

[Irish villain]

Really looking forward to a night in front of the TV for MOTD!

[rob_bridge]

The picture of Andi is surely the next front cover of H&V?! A fantastic image.

Joe Hart; he isn't very good is he?

England's number one apparently

And like England's number one in all other positions - hideously overrated.

[walsall villain]

Mind you I did post this was the eleventh premier game with this referee and amazingly we haven't lost.

Is that true? If so we need together the Committee  on the phone to his agent now and book him for every game till the end of the season. You can't let talent like this slip through your hands.

Yes, according to Graham poll in his online daily mail column yesterday.....
Jones steps out for just his second top flight game of the season and has Aston Villa, who he has refereed in 10 Premier League games since he got onto the select group referees list. They are yet to lose.
That’s quite a sequence for a team who lose their fair share of games, and Jones was in charge when they lost narrowly at Arsenal in an FA Cup tie two years ago. Given that Jones also sent off City’s Samir Nasri and Gareth Barry in 2012 and you might fancy an unexpected home win – but not if City play like they did last weekend.


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Amazing eh? Sign him up for the baggies games at least

[adrenachrome]

I think Lambert saw how Cardiff beat them, by sitting deep and keeping discipline and replicated it. Man City struggled to play through us because of how organised we were. Time and again they tried to draw Vlaar out to feed a midfield runner into the space and we denied them.

It wasn't always pretty, but it proved effective.

Exactly. We maintained our shape and restricted their efforts to long range pings

[Ian.]

Their two goals were simply due to shit defending from corners. Our 3 were class.

Although Weimann's goal was a result of some of the worst defending of the day.

I loved Andi's celebration.

Love it.

We have players now who really want to play for us, each other and the manager. There is a great team spirit here, if we can just keep up the momentum to build confidence because this team definitely thrives off it, which in turn works the other way. They can play really good football at times.

[olaftab]

I really thought Andi started celebrating too early and should have followed the ball into net....

[olaftab]

I'm  going to annoy a few people with this but I don't think the first half was too bad.  Yes we offered nothing but they only scored with a corner and the only other shot on target was the dzeko one that any professional keeper would expect to save.  On top of that we did it in a very efficient way, we weren't running around pressing them and chasing shadows, we just sat in and let them have the ball in front of us.  What we didn't do well was get them chasing to win the ball back but other than that we were doing what I think Lambert wanted, which was get them to do the running and frustrate them.

In the second half we opened up a bit more (we had no choice as it was but I think we'd have done the same anyway) and looked like we had the legs on them.  Certainly towards the end we looked a lot fitter, which was largely down to the approach in the 1st half and meant that they struggled to push for an equaliser.

I think it was a very professional performance against a side that came expecting, and requiring, to win.  I don't buy the argument that Man City got complacent either, they've had a bad time away this season so I don't think they'd have looked a 1 goal lead and decided it was won, certainly not at the times we scored, I think we made it difficult for them to break us down, that they only scored from 2 corners tells 2 stories, we still do't defend them well enough and we do defend better than many people give us credit for in open play.

An excellent post.

[Witton Warrior]

Right - calmed down now.

Thought we had a more composed air first half even if we did not create much and City scored.
Has Lambert realised we are a second-half team at home and holds them on a leash 'til then? ;-)

City never seemed to step up the gears - they seemed happy to raid down the flanks and ping balls in - with no immediate effect.
They played at one pace, it was good passing and movement but they just kept doing the same thing.
Can we sign Yaya Toure (sp?) please - loved watching him take the ball over and over again, make the simple pass and then move to receive. Did we take the ball off him?

Lastly - the image of the ball rolling toward the goal is etched forever on my retina - it led to one of the great moments as it finally rolled over the line to unleash pandemonium all over the ground) laughing hysterically in jubilation.

Thanks for that Villa - you owed us ;-)

[Pat McMahon]

Exactly. I'll see anyone's KEA was offside and raise them a John Terry handball and Jan Vertonghen pulling down Helenius's shorts.

Well said. I want you on my legal team for the murder trial......