Manchester City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[frank]

I was very impressed with Delph and Cleverley, and I thought Grealish had his best game so far. There's much to feel positive about and Sherwood deserves a lot of credit.

[danno]

Heartening and frustrating in equal measure.

Desperately disappointed not to have gotten anything today but actually looking forward to the next one.

Wouldn't have predicted that a few weeks ago.

[russon]

Was Weimann an unused sub again? Hope so, while I don't agree with Sherwood 's apparent freezing out of Gill I am positively cock-a-hoop at Weimann's veritable eskimo status.

[peter w]

I'd drop Guzan after that.

[Ads]

Robbed. After 25 minutes of sloppiness and madness, we dominated the game. Benteke should have been putting us 3-2 up against their reserve keeper.

Rank bad defending too. So bloody frustrating.

Why didn't we sack Lambert in November?

[LukeJames]

The most pleasing aspect about us since Sherwood came in is how he gets the midfield too move off the ball, Its pissed me off for years at Villa how static our midfield is but now the likes of Delph, Grealish and Cleverly will take a few strides from their position too recieve the ball and it really does make us alot easier on the eye and varied in attack.

[Des Little]

I'd drop Guzan after that.

Yep, that was unforgivable. Awful

[Mortimer's Bear]

Bacuna hiding behind Benteke in the wall was equally as unforgivable as Guzans cock-up.

[PeterWithesShin]

In the interest of balance and fairness, i've seen it mentioned more than once that they should/could have had a couple of pens and that there was on offside in the build up to our first. As I only listened on the radio I can't say either way.

[LukeJames]

In the interest of balance and fairness, i've seen it mentioned more than once that they should/could have had a couple of pens and that there was on offside in the build up to our first. As I only listened on the radio I can't say either way.

They should have definately had one, not sure were the other claim is coming from, I remember Okore making a brilliant tackle on Silva in our area but thats about it.

[DeKuip]

Too many positives to take from tonight's performance to get too downhearted over the result.

3-2 down with a few minutes left against QPR and a tough three weeks ahead us we'd all have taken what's happened since.

Five exciting weeks ahead so as we used to chant (for different reasons)... "All the Villa, stick together".

[silhillvilla]

Just home from the match. Absolutely Gutted. We were the better side which in one way is very pleasing and another way concerning, CiŁy were there for the taking today, no Komoany, Toure not on song and off injured. Very disappointing we got nothing.
Again going forward we were superb to watch, CiŁy fans we were sat amongst were murmuring to one another how good we looked.
I think Guzan may need to be dropped for his own good.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Hearing of a coach bricked.Anyone know?

[Lastfootstamper]

To those that went; dunno if this got mentioned during the match thread or since, but, and I shit ye not, at half time a CitŁh supporter asked SVC if he could keep the noise during his commentaries. I was wondering how the atmosphere was. Our lot were all I could hear. Even when they banged in their second, it registered as barely louder than when we netted. The modern "fan", eh!!

[villadelph]

Hearing of a coach bricked.Anyone know?

Heard something about the Villa coach being attacked?

Today was a heartbreaker but god damn we took it to them. Jackie Boy was the best player on the pitch for me. He made a yard of space look like ten.