Aston Villa v Cardiff City Post-Match Thread

[Nelly]

Well done Villa! I'm jubilated to say I was wrong in the pre-match predictions. Everything's grand when Villa win!

[Irish villain]

We are five points better off than we were at the same time last year.

[Rotterdam]

Three points and a clean sheet. Fuck all else matters. 

Ditto

[Neil Hawkes]

75 minutes of slowly increasing tedium.  Then a moment of genius from Bacuna and we suddenly looked full of confidence and threat.

Precious win for us and Lambert.  But... we just about had enough to see off a poor Cardiff side.  The squad needs several quality players as soon as possible.

Or our good players returning from injury

That won't alter the overall quality of our squad.  We need more quality precisely because our back up players (and it must be said some of our first teamers) are so ordinary.

Time will tell, we now have a squad, (for so long we had no alternatives), maybe our next buys will be upgrades in quality.

[richard moore]

We are five points better off than we were at the same time last year.

And if you wanted to be very negative or optimistic, whichever way you want to look at it, I think the quality of some of the teams around us is much inferior to last season

[Deano's Mullet]

We are five points better off than we were at the same time last year.

And if you wanted to be very negative or optimistic, whichever way you want to look at it, I think the quality of some of the teams around us is much inferior to last season

you can come back in out the garden now, Richard, just make sure you back out there in a fortnight!

[Matt Collins]

Sounds pretty much like the performance I expected, though I predicted 1-0 not 2-0.

When we get people back fit, I think Delph alongside Westwood, bacuna right, looks decent. Not entirely sure how the rest should line up but think it should probably be Andi behind benteke and gabby left.

[PaulWinch again]

Three points and a clean sheet. Fuck all else matters. 

Sadly, I agree.

I'm not sure it is all that matters, obviously the result is vital but we have to learn from our mistakes and start playing a lot better.

[PeterWithesShin]

And the biggest police presence I've seen in a long time. Needed as well as just before kick off a sizeable Villa mob suddenly appeared by witton lane and needed a lot of police around them. Been a while since I've seen a mob of Villa like that at a home game.

[paul_e]

I knew I'd find a few 'we won but we're still shit' comments on here, it's all sadly predictable.  People moan about a lack of clean sheets but we're seeing them now, they switch to moaning about about us not scoring then we get 2 in 8 minutes and it switches to we wouldn't beat a good side, forgetting that our last win was agianst the most expensive side in history.  Why can you not be happy about a win and clean sheet at home in a game where we should've been expecting a win and a clean sheet.

[timeoutbigbar]

Great result.  I have now seen enough of Tonev.  The lad is useless.  The chance at the end of the first half when he could of played Benteke in for a 1 on 1 and decided to shoot from 25 yards says enough for me.

[Jimbo]

Great result.  I have now seen enough of Tonev.  The lad is useless.  The chance at the end of the first half when he could of played Benteke in for a 1 on 1 and decided to shoot from 25 yards says enough for me.

He's a very naive lad who's a bit too eager to please. I'm hoping there's a good footballer in there somewhere, but it's too early to tell for sure.

[barrysleftfoot]

 Could'nt see it happening, but our best player scored the 1st, and we looked better after that.Bacuna made a difference to our midfield, Sylla improved, Tonev is hot and cold, but i think he will come good.

 Vlaar very good again, but Cardiff were very unambitious,That'll do anyway, with a good midfielder purchased in Jan, a comfortable mid table position, maybe with 2 good signings, slightly higher.

[Gerrin]

Great result.  I have now seen enough of Tonev.  The lad is useless.  The chance at the end of the first half when he could of played Benteke in for a 1 on 1 and decided to shoot from 25 yards says enough for me.

Totally agree, he needs telling, every time he gets the ball centrally the only thing on his mind is shooting, wouldn't be so bad if he actually got them on target and worked the goalie but more often than not they go 30 ft wide or high.

[jeowje]

Great result, not great performance, plenty of positives, players to come back, bend it like bacuna, watching Match of the Day tonight