Aston Villa vs Chelsea post match thread

[simboy]

i fear that's the last time we will play Chavski in the league at Villa Park for a while. Gil worked hard but i thought tired toward the end of the game. a 26% win ratio for a manager speaks volumes, but you could see why once we equalised. we sat back an invited them on to us, never looked like scoring a second. 

[mr underhill]

A loss is a loss. Two wins in 20 .But Lambert's reassured me on SSN that we were excellent and should have won. What a knobhead.

[ktvillan]

I suppose we have to take consolation from the few positives, we weren't hammered, we scored, we played better than normal. Not much to cling to though is it. 

We seem to be once again adding comedy defending to our blunt attack, which does not augur well.  Delph is a bit of a liability in the defensive third giving the ball away in very dangerous areas, and why Okore didn't clear for a corner on the second goal is anyone'guess.

So another point closer to the drop zone.

[Nastylee]

I'm not going to join in with some of the silly comments on here. The performance was not bad considering the opposition but the season starts against Hull. There have been a few signs recently that we could trouble some of the poorer sides in the division and now that the goal record is off our backs we now have the chance to get going again. Lambert is going nowhere so we need to stop repeating the same shite after every match and hope we can muster enough points. For what it's worth, although it might be close I still don't see us going down. QPR and Leicester are goners and I think Hull and Burnley will bail us out but we need to start helping ourselves.

[CJ]

Not as bad as I expected and we played quite well at times, especially in the second half. And a league goal in front of the Holte! On the one hand Benteke deserved to be dropped, but on the other hand what's the point of buying a winger to get the ball to Benteke, then not playing them together until the last 15 minutes. Cleverley being first name on the team sheet continues to be baffling.  Delph had one of his poorer games. Gil is a real find. Chelsea's gamesmanship throughout the game is a reflection of the classless one's personality - constant feigning injury, time wasting, lying down as if limbs shattered etc. John Terry is nothing short of minge on a stick. And the traffic afterwards was horrendous.

Better performance but still a defeat and Hull getting a point today means Tuesday's game becomes even more important. Those games over the New Year against Swansea, Sunderland, Palace and Leicester could still see us going down.

[pooligan]

Would love  Learner and Fox to come out some time and tell us exactly what Lambert brings to the club. Awful results,awful performances,no points and no goals.It is hard to see why they continue to back him

[Richard E]

There have now been as many winners on the half time challenge as there have been home league wins this season!

[claret and blue blood]

Looked at the clock on 64 mins at 1-1 and made the mistake of getting my hopes up.After we scored they changed it a bit and raised their game ,scored and that was it.I think losing again to that dispicable bunch of time saying cynical thugs aided by a biased ref has left me feeling as low about us as I can remember.Lose to Hull and I think we are going down.

[PeterWithe]

We did our best and ruffled their feathers, happier with that performance than I have been on many occasions but we've got to turn that into wins.

MOM was tight between Westwood and Gil.

[PeterWithe]

Oh, and another thing, I'm not sure that id be happy for our players to behave like theirs did, even if we were top of the league and going for the European Cup,

I hope I wouldn't anyway

[pav]

Took youngest son today , train from new St to witton was full of gobby Chelsea fans ...chelsea aggro being chanted very ..classy .
Sat in the north stand lower , more Spanish around me that English ,atmosphere poor but can't expect much really .
As for game ..I thought Chelsea were more than looked after by the Ref early doors ,most of first half actually .okore and Clark did well , gabby poor , weiman works hard but not much product ,Gil is a breath of fresh air but we were always expecting more and more almost miracle like moments ,great balance though .hutton was ok ,Delph poor and a liability at times ,cleverly was certainly not the worst villa player on the pitch ,benteke ...can't remember him touching the ball.
My view wasn't the best looking from corner flag area so forgive me if my ratings don't reflect your game .
Son enjoyed it ,I just wonder what he would have been like in the good times , he's not old enough to witness those times .I was amazed at the queue for shirt printing too .Going to and from the game I'm amazed the amount of people I spoke to and then discover they were Chelsea fans .

[PeterWithesShin]

It was day tripper central today. That the Holte had the most areas of empty seats tells you how many tourists made up the 36K.

[pav]

Agree ,same in lower North , foreigners galore

[PeterWithe]

Not knocking anyone but reading through the thread its as though we are on the down after a trophy laden couple of decades, lets have some stiff upper lips, we've been shit for far more often than we've been good.

Atmosphere was great today I thought, really got behind them and it showed in the play, for a bit...

[ronshirt]

I thought we did alright. We played football but partly I suspect because the opposition were prepared to allow it. As to relegation: we're not going down because again there are three or more teams worse than us.

We have the spine of a half-decent side - this time next year with a bit of luck and a following wind we might even start troubling the bigger boys. Lambert might yet make fools of us all.