Aston Villa v Manchester City post match thread

[Pete3206]

I hope Man City and Arsenal win the Champions league soon. I'm fed up with that European Cup song.

[kippaxvilla2]

Oh yes and another thing I shall not forget is Foy looking at his watch at half time, putting his whistle to his lips but not blowing because City were in a very dangerous attacking position which once we cleared the ball he decided THEN it could be half time.   Cheating bastard.

Brian I wondered if I was the only one to see that.  It was quite extraordinary behaviour really.  He literally had the whistle in his mouth then took it out and started running with the attack.  It was as if he wanted them to score.

[saunders_heroes]

Oh yes and another thing I shall not forget is Foy looking at his watch at half time, putting his whistle to his lips but not blowing because City were in a very dangerous attacking position which once we cleared the ball he decided THEN it could be half time.   Cheating bastard.

Brian I wondered if I was the only one to see that.  It was quite extraordinary behaviour really.  He literally had the whistle in his mouth then took it out and started running with the attack.  It was as if he wanted them to score.

I think a lot of us spotted that. I bet he would have found time for a corner to be taken if it had gone off one of our players.

[BoskoDjembaSalifou]

I would never accuse Albrighton of being pacy. How is he getting on at Leicester anyway? I haven't heard much of him.

I heard Pearson doesn't rate him. Pretty sure he doesn't handle transfers there now, so he probably didn't want him in the first place?

By the way, why was Westwood captain and not Delph?

Not sure. Westwood has been captain of Crewe before though hasn't he?
I'd have thought Delphy though as he obviously leads by example and is quite vocal too. I'm sure Westy had the armband in pre-season for a game or two as well. He's certainly skilled at pointing. Maybe that's a key aspect of being a captain.

Lambert loves Westwood too. It's disappointing as Delph is perfect for the role of captain. When Weimann went off, Delph went over to give him a pat on the back, it was a nice touch.

Oh well, it's just an armband

[Risso]

Oh yes and another thing I shall not forget is Foy looking at his watch at half time, putting his whistle to his lips but not blowing because City were in a very dangerous attacking position which once we cleared the ball he decided THEN it could be half time.   Cheating bastard.

Brian I wondered if I was the only one to see that.  It was quite extraordinary behaviour really.  He literally had the whistle in his mouth then took it out and started running with the attack.  It was as if he wanted them to score.

I used to think there was a rule (even if it was unwritten) that refs should allow teams on an attack to finish that attack.  However, it seems that this is definitely not the case.

[PeterWithesShin]

I used to think there was a rule (even if it was unwritten) that refs should allow teams on an attack to finish that attack.  However, it seems that this is definitely not the case.

I've always assumed it's an unofficial rule. We'll benefit from it at some stage*

*Assuming we ever have an attack

/baddumtish

[UK Redsox]

I was hoping for a Clive Thomas moment

[Rudy65]

I would never accuse Albrighton of being pacy. How is he getting on at Leicester anyway? I haven't heard much of him.

Albrighton was average and out of his depth. He was no loss. That doesn't mean we shouldn't have any width in the team though. This is the most narrow Villa team I've ever seen. One striker up front feeding off long diagonal balls. No wonder we struggle to find the back of the net.

He was our most creative player when he played last season.

He isnt a top player but decent enough for where we are now.

We let him go and give gabby a 4 year deal. Bonkers

Would rather the have him than zog or bacuna or richardson

[PaulWinch again]

For 15 minutes of the second half we played in the right way. It probably wouldn't have made much difference in this game, but we desperately need to get more creativity in the team.

[saunders_heroes]

I would never accuse Albrighton of being pacy. How is he getting on at Leicester anyway? I haven't heard much of him.

Albrighton was average and out of his depth. He was no loss. That doesn't mean we shouldn't have any width in the team though. This is the most narrow Villa team I've ever seen. One striker up front feeding off long diagonal balls. No wonder we struggle to find the back of the net.

He was our most creative player when he played last season.

He isnt a top player but decent enough for where we are now.

We let him go and give gabby a 4 year deal. Bonkers

Would rather the have him than zog or bacuna or richardson

Gabby's a better player than Albrighton that's why he got another contract. I wasn't too fussed when he left and I don't remember many protests when he was shipped out loan last season either.
We need width in the team, but better than Albrighton.

[Matt Collins]

I would never accuse Albrighton of being pacy. How is he getting on at Leicester anyway? I haven't heard much of him.

Albrighton was average and out of his depth. He was no loss. That doesn't mean we shouldn't have any width in the team though. This is the most narrow Villa team I've ever seen. One striker up front feeding off long diagonal balls. No wonder we struggle to find the back of the net.

He was our most creative player when he played last season.

He isnt a top player but decent enough for where we are now.

We let him go and give gabby a 4 year deal. Bonkers

Would rather the have him than zog or bacuna or richardson

Not on Ł30k a week I wouldn't. Fair play to him getting that deal but he's never worth it. He's had five good games in three years.

[Matt Collins]

Finally the horrible run of games are over.

Yes, thank God we've got Everton and Spurs next. Piece of piss.

Everton have won one game this season. I reckon we can get a result  there if we  have a proper forward line.

[tomd2103]

Bringing Benteke on for Weimann was right. Bringing off Zog who was having a fine game and our only attacking threat and then Richardson being replaced by Grealish just screwed up our shape. There was no need for that change. We were poorer for it.

We certainly did miss Richardons although in all honesty he looked absolutely shattered by the time he came off. Zogbia possibly was too and he's never generally been a player who can run his arse off for 90 minutes.
But yes, our shape was buggered after that and we lost all will to try and get forward.

To be honest, I'm not sure he is going to be too effective as a wide player and is more suited to being one of the midfield three. 

[Chris Jameson]

To be honest where we were sat in the Family stand I didn't hear the Holte End much at all in the first half but could hear the City fans, second half especially when Benteke came on the volume went up but hearing 'You only sing when you're winning' was strange as the City fans did make a noise! There were thousands of empty seats clearly visible including a few in the City end.

[silhillvilla]

Just checked and we only got 34,063 for CiŁy last season and that was a non televised Saturday 3pm game .
Just shows the nouvea rich classless wankers aren't the draw they think they are.