Aston Villa vs Leicester City Post-Match Thread

[Dave]

Incidentally, I can't see any reason why Konchesky deserved a straight red card for either his challenge, or what followed it.

Vardy's was far worse.

[PeterWithesShin]

I wonder if it was classed as 2 yellows but the ref just showed the red? A yellow for the foul and afters was fair. Same as for Hutton. Benteke must be wondering everyone else gets a yellow for similar reactions that got him a red.

[Dave]

I'd agree that two yellows would have been perfectly fair - and if the referee wants to do that then he can show two yellows. But he didn't. So he must have seen something that Konchesky did as worthy of a straight red. And I can't figure out which bit of that event it was.

[PeterWithesShin]

I wonder if he thought he spat at Hutton? I agree that nothing he actually did warranted a straight red, although he did deserve a red for 2 yellow card offences.

[Dave]

I wonder if he thought he spat at Hutton?

On the replays I thought that it looked a bit like that - but I imagine had he done that then a bigger deal would have been made about it, both at the time and afterwards. But then it's a pretty big jump to make to send somebody off for it without asking anybody.

[Toronto Villa]

In the world where two wrongs don't make a right, we got one back there for Benteke's sending off. Both could have been handled differently by the respective refs. I suppose the Konchesky one was wreckless and he came right through on Hutton's foot. I wonder how much his reputation for enjoying walks down the tunnel played against him?

And on the trying something different, Lambert visits Pep and our possession rockets to the mid 60% mark. You hope it didn't take that to notice what has been blindingly obvious to just about everyone else. Still, whatever it was they did for the first time yesterday I hope they keep at it.

[SoccerHQ]

Incidentally, I can't see any reason why Konchesky deserved a straight red card for either his challenge, or what followed it.

Vardy's was far worse.

On watching the TV I thought it was correct Vardy got a yellow. He didn't lung in, do scissors or jump into the tackle, he was just a bit late from behind and even then got the ball I think.

Shame Westwood got injured but I wouldn't just send him off for a tackle that caused a bad injury, I think some of the tackles from Spurs players a few weeks ago were far worse.

No idea what Konchesky did but it's about time we had an opposition player needlessly get himself sent off against us. It makes winning just that little bit easier.

[Matt C]

By the letter of the law Hutton should have gone. Can't raise your hands.

[OzVilla]

That was a very encouraging performance.  I know Leicester aren't the greatest but the style was much better, similar to Burnley.

Is a win next week to much to expect though? Okore and Sanchez played well but what a lift we get from Benteke just being on the pitch.

Well done lads.

[Toronto Villa]

In the Kingdom of the Ifs, if we held on and didn't concede late goals to Southampton and Bolton we would be sitting in 8th tonight. Crazy considering how bad things were looking.

[dave.woodhall]

In the Kingdom of the Ifs, if we held on and didn't concede late goals to Southampton and Bolton we would be sitting in 8th tonight. Crazy considering how bad things were looking.

Put it another way - if Benteke hadn't been sent off against Spurs we'd have won. It's not beyond the realms of possibility that he would have then scored in two of the three games he missed. And now we'd be fourth.

[OzVilla]

In the Kingdom of the Ifs, if we held on and didn't concede late goals to Southampton and Bolton we would be sitting in 8th tonight. Crazy considering how bad things were looking.

Put it another way - if Benteke hadn't been sent off against Spurs we'd have won. It's not beyond the realms of possibility that he would have then scored in two of the three games he missed. And now we'd be fourth.

Yes that's right, but many teams could say that.

I'm always doing the imaginary table thing too but I only seem to put points on to the total, never take points off.

[richl]

The actual fireworks were a nice touch.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Don't think this has been posted. The bold bit is interesting.

Paul Lambert was delighted with the three points against Leicester City, insisting it was thoroughly deserved.


"I thought we played really well tonight. We worked on something yesterday for the first time, a different way of playing, we only worked on it one time. And fair play to the lads for taking to it.

"We just worked on things yesterday and asked the lads if they felt comfortable with it. They did. So I said we'd go with it. " said let's try it. I thought we were excellent at it.
."

That bloody scares me. Lambert may be many things but qualified to be be manager of Aston Villa isn't one of them.

[pbavfckuwait]

Not sure if it was only me, but there was some excitement in that performance yesterday, something that has sadly been missing for a very long time.
We need to be quicker to process the ball, possession is good but not just for the sake of it, if we have pace in Gabby and Benteke we need to use it and I don't mean just by humping it.
Alan Hutton take a bow, not many players deserve a goal more than you son, and that to go with a good performance as well.
Back to back wins after a certain guy does one, there's a coincidence.