Manchester City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Jimbo]

Christ, Villa, where would you be if you could only defend?

[manic-road]

Deserved a point but the first 25 minutes we were off the pace, overall we played well away against a team that cost a hell of a lot. I thought Grealish played well and although we should have had a penalty at the end, City should have had one earlier.

[Goldie.7]

I'd rather the game ended a poor 0-0

[Steve R]

We were really good going forward but were never going to win this game.

A coco the clown opening, the referee letting city players off yet booking ours for similar gamesmanship fouls, and to cap it all a bad offiside call robs us of a pen and a win then within seconds we lose the point we had.

I'm going to get solar panels installed. Bastards.

[supertom]

Credit to the lads. Were this Lambert we'd have fallen to pieces after Guzan's error and been battered 5-0.

Mistakes cost us dearly today. Guzan was woeful today. Richardson was also poor. Sanchez was hit and miss (good goal it must be said).

Benteke wasn't at his best today. Very sloppy throughout and persistently offside. To the point that when he finally was onside, the lino flagged him off (didn't score any how).

I think we missed Gabby today too. He'd have got some joy in that second half.

If we keep this up we'll pick up 2-3 more wins in the last 4 games, and that'll be enough.

[frank black]

Well played Carlos...take a bow

[Deano's Mullet]

Niall Quinn gave Benteke man of the match

[pauliewalnuts]

Christ, Villa, where would you be if you could only defend?

Worth remembering, though, that even under Lambert we weren't defending too badly.

I guess part of it is the pay off of having more attacking threat from Richardson and Bacuna at full back, in that we're shakier defensively.

[Rudy65]

Credit to the lads. Were this Lambert we'd have fallen to pieces after Guzan's error and been battered 5-0.

Mistakes cost us dearly today. Guzan was woeful today. Richardson was also poor. Sanchez was hit and miss (good goal it must be said).

Benteke wasn't at his best today. Very sloppy throughout and persistently offside. To the point that when he finally was onside, the lino flagged him off (didn't score any how).

I think we missed Gabby today too. He'd have got some joy in that second half.

If we keep this up we'll pick up 2-3 more wins in the last 4 games, and that'll be enough.

Christian got MOM!

I agree with you, not one of his better games

[TonyD]

Played well enough to win.   By a mile.  Just pray we stay up because a new left back, one or two others and you're looking at glory.

[Matt C]

If it hasn't been said enough times in the last couple of weeks - there's no way this team should be in a relegation battle.

[AlexAlexCropley]

I'd rather the game ended a poor 0-0

Misericordias

[Colhint]

After that I'm confident well stay up and before the Burnley game. I'll also really look forward to next season

[Toronto Villa]

There's more consistent fight and desire in this Villa team now than really any time under Lambert. They will only take positives from today and they'll have a right to feel hard done by having worked so hard to get back into the game. And we might have won it at the death too. I have no doubt at all we'll be safe after today because teams that work this hard and can score goals tend not to go down.

[VillaAlways]

Sherwood is a bad loser. Good!