Aston Villa v Manchester United Post-Match Thread

[peter w]

The problem with 3 centre-halves is that we don't have 2 full-backs good enough for the wing-back role although Cissokho at times wants to get forward and can get the odd decent cross in.

[kippaxvilla2]

Did bacuna miss a simple pass at the end? I just saw Benteke having a pop?

[Toronto Villa]

Cissokho is no Chrissy Price that's for sure

[Gregorys Boy]

Think we more than matched them today.  Manager deserves credit for his tactics and the players put in another brilliant shift and did really well to hold on following the sending off. Think there were far more postives than negatives, with the likes of Delph and Vlaar really making an impact on their full returns.  Guess it was a no brainer playing Vlaar against his former International boss.

Have always liked Bucana and giving his impact upon coming on and the lack of better options out wide it would be worth giving him a few games even if only at full back.  Good point, but of course could have been more if Benteke had of scored after the break.  We are looking far more steady at the moment though.

[OCD]

Did bacuna miss a simple pass at the end? I just saw Benteke having a pop?

Benteke was unmarked at the back post. It's a shame as us beating them with an injury time winner would have been a nice change.

[Ger Regan]

It wasn't simple, certainly any ball meant to get Benteke involved, the ball to N'Zogbia was the better option to try.

[Ron Manager]

Evening all. Heard the match on Radio 5. Seems we deserved a most creditable point. According to the awful Jason Roberts (nearly as laughable as Savage) Young skinned Lowton throughout the match..is that true? He also agreed with Agbonlahor's sending off but when he had seen the replay changed his mind completely.

Anyway an excellent point and to quote our manager...we go again!

[Hampshire Villa]

Lee Mason, the ref from Greater Manchester!

[Colhint]

bugger me that's right

[Ger Regan]

Did bacuna miss a simple pass at the end? I just saw Benteke having a pop?

Benteke was unmarked at the back post. It's a shame as us beating them with an injury time winner would have been a nice change.

There was around 4 or 5 united players between him and bacuna though, it would have to have been an absolutely brilliant ball to have picked him out.

[Gregorys Boy]

Evening all. Heard the match on Radio 5. Seems we deserved a most creditable point. According to the awful Jason Roberts (nearly as laughable as Savage) Young skinned Lowton throughout the match..is that true? He also agreed with Agbonlahor's sending off but when he had seen the replay changed his mind completely.

Anyway an excellent point and to quote our manager...we go again!

Well like you listened on the radio so will await MOTD tonight.  A lot of people have said that on first viewing you can see why the ref might have given it, but then at the same time seem to be saying it was a 50-50 at best.   I really feared for us after that, but the team did show great fight and even created the better chances on the counter so it was good for us.

[N'ZMAV]

It was a solid tackle by Gabby, one which he actually started to withdraw from the tackle at the point of contact. He simply went in more committed than Young. Young went in soft and scared. At full speed it looked a heavy tackle - but on the replays it shows the ref was too hasty pulling out the red card.

[Toronto Villa]

We didn't give up today and we tried to play some good football along the way. De Gea pulled off a world class save to stop it being 2-0 and then we get a shit red card for a good chunk of the game against a side that cost 5 or 6 times ours. It is a very positive step forward today.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Oh wow, a point? Didnt expect that. Well done!

[FrankyH]

http://youtu.be/g2amCQWoe00


No way is that a red card.