Crystal Palace vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[silhillvilla]

Happiest I've felt in a while. Come on villa ! Let's kick on now !

[paul_e]

The last time we won at Palace (also 1-0) we went on to win the league.

Chesea only 17 pts ahead.

cant believe we only 4 pts off Arsenal and Liverpool

Liverpool are a very poor side that massively over performed last season purely because of Suarez.  It's interesting that at the kick off both Villa and Palace had last won away at Anfield, when you see how awful a game it was that says everything you need to know about Liverpool right now.

[Nastylee]

I think some people on this site write their self serving ´reviews ´..if you can call them that, before the game . Me ?  I,ll trust the pro,s to give me a  fair assessment ...........UTV & glass half full .................Godzvilla !
Taken from from tomorrows Telegraph :
 “ Nothing ever seems to happen very quickly at Villa these days, but Paul Lambert’s team are showing gradual signs of improvement. They are now unbeaten in four games, and even in Ron Vlaar’s absence, they defended with real guts and precision. There remain question marks over who will get their goals when Benteke does not, but put it this way: it is a dilemma Crystal Palace would love to have right now.
Benteke’s goal after half an hour was just reward for Villa’s dominance of the ball, although it came from the most opportunistic of openings. Scott Dann tried to dribble the ball past Benteke in the right-back position, got his pocket picked, and thereafter all he saw of Benteke was the number on the back of his shirt “

Dominance of the ball, this bloke obviously did not watch the game. A Pro you say-meh

Because he doesn't agree with your view that it must have been shit because it was Villa, not only is he wrong but he wasn't even at the game he was paid to report on. 

Villa 54% of possession tonight despite all of Palace's huff and puff. Still maintain Villa's fewer chances were far more threatening than their aimless whacks over the bar.

[Toronto Villa]

A bit more discipline vs Tottenham, Southampton and Burnley, all games we led for a while and let go quite late and the season is massively different. Take the win and maybe, just maybe with the big man back we can start to rebuild a bit of confidence. Crazy how jammed up the league is through the middle. Despite this horrific run we are still in touching distance of teams that have spent so much more and who haven't had the results we have. Bizarre. The football is utterly abysmal, but tonight is about the points.

[kippaxvilla2]

Can't believe we're actually above 8 clubs.

Or,to put it another way, there's 8 clubs thinking 'how the fcuk are we below Villa'

Because they're worse than us maybe?

Remember the start of SGT's great run in 1989.  I'm sure it started with a really scrappy win.

[dave.woodhall]

Can't believe we're actually above 8 clubs.

Or,to put it another way, there's 8 clubs thinking 'how the fcuk are we below Villa'

Because they're worse than us maybe?

Remember the start of SGT's great run in 1989.  I'm sure it started with a really scrappy win.

1-0 at home to Derby. Dean Saunders' best performance for us.

[Jockey Randall]

I think some people on this site write their self serving ´reviews ´..if you can call them that, before the game . Me ?  I,ll trust the pro,s to give me a  fair assessment ...........UTV & glass half full .................Godzvilla !
Taken from from tomorrows Telegraph :
 “ Nothing ever seems to happen very quickly at Villa these days, but Paul Lambert’s team are showing gradual signs of improvement. They are now unbeaten in four games, and even in Ron Vlaar’s absence, they defended with real guts and precision. There remain question marks over who will get their goals when Benteke does not, but put it this way: it is a dilemma Crystal Palace would love to have right now.
Benteke’s goal after half an hour was just reward for Villa’s dominance of the ball, although it came from the most opportunistic of openings. Scott Dann tried to dribble the ball past Benteke in the right-back position, got his pocket picked, and thereafter all he saw of Benteke was the number on the back of his shirt “

Dominance of the ball, this bloke obviously did not watch the game. A Pro you say-meh

Because he doesn't agree with your view that it must have been shit because it was Villa, not only is he wrong but he wasn't even at the game he was paid to report on. 

Villa 54% of possession tonight despite all of Palace's huff and puff. Still maintain Villa's fewer chances were far more threatening than their aimless whacks over the bar.

I find that pretty shocking. After some of the comments on here tonight I was expecting about 40%. I can't believe we've had 2 games in a row where we've had more possession than the opposition.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Watching the game again it is pretty outrageous how much pressure our defence was put under. Outside of Sanchez no other midfield player did much of anything to try and actually get and keep the ball.

It makes the performance of the defenders even more impressive that they kept a clean sheet under fairly constant pressure.

We absolutely need to sort our midfield. I don't care if we end up with just tekkers up front and flood it with Richardson and Grealish using Gabby and Andi's spots. We need a change though thats for sure. Its too much to ask the defenders to endure that every game.

[mrastonvilla]

I think some people on this site write their self serving ´reviews ´..if you can call them that, before the game . Me ?  I,ll trust the pro,s to give me a  fair assessment ...........UTV & glass half full .................Godzvilla !
Taken from from tomorrows Telegraph :
 “ Nothing ever seems to happen very quickly at Villa these days, but Paul Lambert’s team are showing gradual signs of improvement. They are now unbeaten in four games, and even in Ron Vlaar’s absence, they defended with real guts and precision. There remain question marks over who will get their goals when Benteke does not, but put it this way: it is a dilemma Crystal Palace would love to have right now.
Benteke’s goal after half an hour was just reward for Villa’s dominance of the ball, although it came from the most opportunistic of openings. Scott Dann tried to dribble the ball past Benteke in the right-back position, got his pocket picked, and thereafter all he saw of Benteke was the number on the back of his shirt “

Dominance of the ball, this bloke obviously did not watch the game. A Pro you say-meh

Because he doesn't agree with your view that it must have been shit because it was Villa, not only is he wrong but he wasn't even at the game he was paid to report on. 

Villa 54% of possession tonight despite all of Palace's huff and puff. Still maintain Villa's fewer chances were far more threatening than their aimless whacks over the bar.

I find that pretty shocking. After some of the comments on here tonight I was expecting about 40%. I can't believe we've had 2 games in a row where we've had more possession than the opposition.

It was near 70% at half time, but most of it was in our own half

[brontebilly]

A bit more discipline vs Tottenham, Southampton and Burnley, all games we led for a while and let go quite late and the season is massively different. Take the win and maybe, just maybe with the big man back we can start to rebuild a bit of confidence. Crazy how jammed up the league is through the middle. Despite this horrific run we are still in touching distance of teams that have spent so much more and who haven't had the results we have. Bizarre. The football is utterly abysmal, but tonight is about the points.

To be fair we never looked like getting a second goal against Spurs, Forster handed us the goal against Southampton, Burnley for all our dominance we didn't create too many genuine chances.

We are reasonably solid at the back this year but we are depending on clean sheets to help us win games at the moment. That isn't sustainable with the likes of Cissokho back there.

[kippaxvilla2]

Can't believe we're actually above 8 clubs.

Or,to put it another way, there's 8 clubs thinking 'how the fcuk are we below Villa'

Because they're worse than us maybe?

Remember the start of SGT's great run in 1989.  I'm sure it started with a really scrappy win.

1-0 at home to Derby. Dean Saunders' best performance for us.

That was where he missed loads of chances for them.  Platt beat the keeper to it I think just before half time (Shilton)?

[Toronto Villa]

A bit more discipline vs Tottenham, Southampton and Burnley, all games we led for a while and let go quite late and the season is massively different. Take the win and maybe, just maybe with the big man back we can start to rebuild a bit of confidence. Crazy how jammed up the league is through the middle. Despite this horrific run we are still in touching distance of teams that have spent so much more and who haven't had the results we have. Bizarre. The football is utterly abysmal, but tonight is about the points.

To be fair we never looked like getting a second goal against Spurs, Forster handed us the goal against Southampton, Burnley for all our dominance we didn't create too many genuine chances.

We are reasonably solid at the back this year but we are depending on clean sheets to help us win games at the moment. That isn't sustainable with the likes of Cissokho back there.

We barely went forward in any of those games outside of 20-25 minute first half spells vs Tottenham and Burnley. That said, we took the lead in all three games and for one reason or another threw them away. Even 5 points instead of 2 in those games would put us 2 points ahead of Everton tonight in 11th. And most would say they are a very decent side.

[IAmTheOneIanOlney]

Can't believe we're actually above 8 clubs.

Or,to put it another way, there's 8 clubs thinking 'how the fcuk are we below Villa'

Because they're worse than us maybe?

Remember the start of SGT's great run in 1989.  I'm sure it started with a really scrappy win.

1-0 at home to Derby. Dean Saunders' best performance for us.

Derek Mountfield shooting himself in the head. And the girl screaming as Platt went round Shilton.

[olaftab]

"Dominance of the ball" is a fact. We had 67% possession in the first half and 54% overall.

[john2710]

Good enough for what we need. Hopefully we can put a it of space between ourselves and the bottom on Sunday. But we never do.