Southampton v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Toronto Villa]

Albion five points off the drop zone radio wm.

surely according to Radio WM, we are 9 points from being relegated and Albion are 12 points off a CL spot?

[spangley1812]

Match of the Day running order has been released. BBC One/online at 2235 GMT.

Sunderland v Chelsea; Man Utd v Eve, Liverpool v Norwich; Southampton v Aston Villa, WBA v Man City; Arsenal v Hull; Crystal Palace v West Ham; Fulham v Spurs; Swansea v Newcastle; Stoke v Cardiff

[PaulWinch again]

Benteke looked a bit more like his old self when he came on, he showed better physicality.

[walsall villain]

Really pleased we have built up a gap between us and the bottom as nine of us can face another relegation battle. Just hope we can start dominating the play in the games to come as well as win!
Still we are only 3 points behind Man U and 4 clear of the 'pride of the midlands' who couldn't even get 23000 tonight.
4th on MOTD apparently

[Ian.]

Which one is you?

[saunders_heroes]

What a beauty from Gabby!

[john2710]

As lucky as we were tonight, our away form with only one defeat in seven games is not down to luck. Nobody can be that lucky.  Ironically that defeat was probably our best performance.

There's a lot to improve on but there's also a lot that's right.

[Brian Taylor]

Better but could do better and we can..Delph a surprise. C'mon da Villa!

[aj2k77]

Benteke looked a bit more like his old self when he came on, he showed better physicality.

Should have had a penalty for me, they sandwiched him with no attempt to play the ball.

[taylorsworkrate]

Match of the Day running order has been released. BBC One/online at 2235 GMT.

Sunderland v Chelsea; Man Utd v Eve, Liverpool v Norwich; Southampton v Aston Villa, WBA v Man City; Arsenal v Hull; Crystal Palace v West Ham; Fulham v Spurs; Swansea v Newcastle; Stoke v Cardiff

Why is a routine home win for Liverpool on before our genuinely interesting game?

I get that Suarez is a great player, but surely the Linekar/Shearer wankfest could have waited a few minutes

[Morten]

Tweet from EPL Index ‏@EPLIndex

#SFC 2 #AVFC 3 FT
Possession%: 77-23 |
Passes: 715-209 |
Accuracy%: 85-50 |
Final 3rd: 227-54 |
Accuracy%: 73-30 |
Shots: 21(9)-6(3)

First bold bit = important bit

However, those other stats, fucking hell.

Amazin stats, just amazing, and yet we won. I am really pleased with the victory, but in a sense of us moving away from the buttom rather than looking up the table. We were lucky, but also scored 2 great goals. I really think the passing and movement is awful. Only Delph looks comfortable on the ball.

Kozak was bad when in posession and nearly cost a goal, where there were claims for a penalty. But he only got one cross in and he scored from it. The service to him has been bad all season, 23% posession does not make a striker like him look good. You could also see what the goal meant to him, he really wanted to share it with the fans. Great. When KEA lost the ball seconds before the goal, I really cursed him, because he had just been outmuscled yet again, but then he won it back and crossed it for a goal.

As Proposition Joe said, Luna is the worst throw-in taker I have ever seen. He really is terrible, he also gave them lots of time to cross for their two goals. I wanted Lowton to start, but his marking for the first goal was bad, at least you have to push and press if you can not win the header. Great goal by Delph, hard to believe this was his first (of many) Premier League goals. I hope Tonev was watching :-)

[lovejoy]

Bit of payback for Lambert's dive & penalty in front of the Holte End last season.

It was Jay Rodriguez, never forget.

[BC54 VFC]

On an even more positive note I'm at home with 2 angry UTD fans arguing with each other...good night all around.

I didn't think we allowed them in Shropshire??

[danlanza]

Here is one for you.
32 goals in 9 prem games tonight. Is that some sort of record ?

[berneboy]

Delph's goal was stunning - as good as any strike all season.