Crystal Palace vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Hopadop]

That's a perfect night results wise.

Painful listening though. If I was a Palace supporter I'd be really pissed off with that. Haha

[kippaxvilla2]

I think the chairman should make a statement involving shunamites and the great sacrifices he has asked Paul to make.

[Dr Butler]

Happy with that....dont care about the quality of the game as stopping the rot from the Wet Sham game onwards has been not pretty....time for us to start believing that we can actually get something from games.

Enjoy tonight my fellow Villa fans.....

UTV
The Doc.

[Villan For Life]

Yes!

[Witton Warrior]

I actually feel deflated - couldn't look at the match thread - checked at half-time and left it until FT.
This is no way to enjoy yourself

[mattjpa]

I'm relieved and deflated at the same time. I will always want villa to win no matter what, but Benteke has kept Lambert in a job there. Can anyone tell me, what is our game plan? I'm not after hyperbole or lambert bashing I just want to know how are we supposed to be playing. Because for aprox 85mins of that match it was either boot it as far away as you can or keep passing the ball backwards till Guzan gets it and boots it as far as he can. We get deeper and deeper till around the 80th minute when we are camped on the edge of our own box and its backs to the wall, Alamo defending. Palace should have won that but we got lucky.

[Axl Rose]

We are still awful. Defence played well, Guzan had a bit of a mare unusually for him. Benteke magic for his goal. Gabby, Weimann, cleverly and Lowton gave the ball away too much.
It reminded me of a cup game where we were the plucky underdogs, who came and defended the whole game, and got a goal against the run of play.
We play too narrow, and give the ball away too much.
Hutton MOTM for me.

Did Lowton play? Or was he that bad that I didn't notice him?
It's Westwood who gets to me. A woeful set piece taker and all round general footballer.

[old man villa fan]

Hope we don't play that uber-narrow 442 against Leicester

No Weimann, so we'll be changing something.

Thank f*** for that.  What was the point of having Weimann and Gabby on the pitch second half.  They offer nothing when you are trying to play tight and hold onto the ball.

[PeterWithesShin]

We are still awful. Defence played well, Guzan had a bit of a mare unusually for him. Benteke magic for his goal. Gabby, Weimann, cleverly and Lowton gave the ball away too much.
It reminded me of a cup game where we were the plucky underdogs, who came and defended the whole game, and got a goal against the run of play.
We play too narrow, and give the ball away too much.
Hutton MOTM for me.

Did Lowton play? Or was he that bad that I didn't notice him?
It's Westwood who gets to me. A woeful set piece taker and all round general footballer.

Lowton didn't play.

[Tuscans]

Again for me, Westwood, Cleverley are not premiership players....I don't care what anyone says, they offer nothing going forward or defensively.

One moment of class from the big guy, enjoy people, he won;t be here next season.

The back four and Brad....superb, just superb.

Now lets do Leicester.

Here here. I am in complete agreement.

My dad, a huge Leicester (and Villa, due to me) fan said they were unlucky tonight, but their captain and best defender was sent off.

We'll beat them!

I can't comprehend 2 wins on the trot...dreams!

But big bonus Morgan being sent off....that game will be crying out for a Benteke bullet header.

Roll on Sunday, we can't lose with this back four

[olaftab]

Again for me, Westwood, Cleverley are not premiership players....I don't care what anyone says, they offer nothing going forward or defensively.

One moment of class from the big guy, enjoy people, he won;t be here next season.

The back four and Brad....superb, just superb.

Now lets do Leicester.

Here here. I am in complete agreement.

My dad, a huge Leicester (and Villa, due to me) fan said they were unlucky tonight, but their captain and best defender was sent off.

We'll beat them!

Bloody hell AR you are doing well. Must be time to go to work?

[cdward]

We are still awful. Defence played well, Guzan had a bit of a mare unusually for him. Benteke magic for his goal. Gabby, Weimann, cleverly and Lowton gave the ball away too much.
It reminded me of a cup game where we were the plucky underdogs, who came and defended the whole game, and got a goal against the run of play.
We play too narrow, and give the ball away too much.
Hutton MOTM for me.

Did Lowton play? Or was he that bad that I didn't notice him?
It's Westwood who gets to me. A woeful set piece taker and all round general footballer.

You're right I meant Westwood. I am all light headed after looking at the table.

[The Left Side]

12th, how are we 12th... we were very fortunate tonight. Great to get a win and move up the table but it is just papering over the cracks. Positives were the clean sheet, Benteke, Hutton & Sanchez still running at the end and the fans but we hardly had a sniff in the second half and TSM2 continues providing us with this dross.

[rob_bridge]

We are still awful. Defence played well, Guzan had a bit of a mare unusually for him. Benteke magic for his goal. Gabby, Weimann, cleverly and Lowton gave the ball away too much.
It reminded me of a cup game where we were the plucky underdogs, who came and defended the whole game, and got a goal against the run of play.
We play too narrow, and give the ball away too much.
Hutton MOTM for me.

Did Lowton play? Or was he that bad that I didn't notice him?
It's Westwood who gets to me. A woeful set piece taker and all round general footballer.

Lowton didn't play.

Neither did Gabby or Westwood.

[Deano's Mullet]

12th, how are we 12th... we were very fortunate tonight. Great to get a win and move up the table but it is just papering over the cracks. Positives were the clean sheet, Benteke, Hutton & Sanchez still running at the end and the fans but we hardly had a sniff in the second half and TSM2 continues providing us with this dross.

I cant believe there are eight sides below us, I really cant.