Manchester City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[KRS]

Just back from the game. I'm sure everything has been said regarding how both teams played and the dodgy decisions...they didn't create many (if any) chances so gifting them the first and 2 poorly defended set pieces have cost us and a draw would have been a fair result.

With regards to atmosphere...that place is like a sanitised corporate morgue for families and day trippers. Apart from a couple of blocks either side of the away section with some half hearted chants there is no singing from the home fans. I'd say there was only about 1400 Villa fans there and were a bit quiet for my liking...it was a strange atmosphere today.

Not sure if there is a typo in your post Lastfootstamper but can't really work out what you're trying to say about the caller...did you mean hear the noise?

[Rudy65]

Hardly surprising as women don't understand the offside law!

Neither does Benteke

[PaulTheVillan]

Grealish, Delph and CNZ could have something good going down the left, with the reverse pass.

[silhillvilla]

Good old deadly was there today, does not look in a good way at present.
Oh and I saw Joe Corrigan, works as a glorified steward there.

[Rudy65]

Just back from the game. I'm sure everything has been said regarding how both teams played and the dodgy decisions...they didn't create many (if any) chances so gifting them the first and 2 poorly defended set pieces have cost us and a draw would have been a fair result.

With regards to atmosphere...that place is like a sanitised corporate morgue for families and day trippers. Apart from a couple of blocks either side of the away section with some half hearted chants there is no singing from the home fans. I'd say there was only about 1400 Villa fans there and were a bit quiet for my liking...it was a strange atmosphere today.

Not sure if there is a typo in your post Lastfootstamper but can't really work out what you're trying to say about the caller...did you mean hear the noise?

The fans make the atmosphere, not the stadium. In my humble opinion

[Walmley_Villa]

Just back from the game. I'm sure everything has been said regarding how both teams played and the dodgy decisions...they didn't create many (if any) chances so gifting them the first and 2 poorly defended set pieces have cost us and a draw would have been a fair result.

With regards to atmosphere...that place is like a sanitised corporate morgue for families and day trippers. Apart from a couple of blocks either side of the away section with some half hearted chants there is no singing from the home fans. I'd say there was only about 1400 Villa fans there and were a bit quiet for my liking...it was a strange atmosphere today.

Not sure if there is a typo in your post Lastfootstamper but can't really work out what you're trying to say about the caller...did you mean hear the noise?

Only just a touch over a thousand Villa fans according to the WMP Twitter, still made all the noise on the box.

[PeterWithesShin]

At £44 a quid a pop a week after Wembley and the cost of a cup final coming up i'm not surprised we didn't sell out.

[silhillvilla]

£46 really with BF.

[olaftab]

Bacuna should be dropped for that cowardly defending of the freekick. Pathetic!

Do you mean Richardson for their second?

Both.

[SoccerHQ]

It's a ground where we have a dreadful record on aswell.

I can fully understand why for 40 + quid a ticket more of our fans are giving the two Manchester away games a swerve.

[pauliewalnuts]

Bacuna should be dropped for that cowardly defending of the freekick. Pathetic!

Do you mean Richardson for their second?

Both.

Both were abysmal at the free kick. Not good watching.

Having said that, though, there was much to be positive about. I just read we're the first team in six years to have more possession than them at the Etihad in a league match. We played very well, if you overlook the defensive fuckups, and were very unlucky to not win, let alone lose.

We just need to play like that for the rest of the season and we will be fine. Certainly, if we play like we've played in the last three matches, we'll win our next two matches.

Which is just as well, as we absolutely have to, because things at the bottom are unpleasantly tight at the moment.

[fbriai]

Hardly surprising as women don't understand the offside law!

Neither does Benteke

I'm not sure anyone really understands the off-side law anymore.

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

Just watched the "highlights" on MOTD.  What would have been good, rather than the pundits saying at the end that we were the better side and played really well, is if they'd actually showed us being the better side and playing really well. 

[villalion]

Just watched the "highlights" on MOTD.  What would have been good, rather than the pundits saying at the end that we were the better side and played really well, is if they'd actually showed us being the better side and playing really well.

agreed

[pauliewalnuts]

Just watched the "highlights" on MOTD.  What would have been good, rather than the pundits saying at the end that we were the better side and played really well, is if they'd actually showed us being the better side and playing really well. 

I thought that.

The highlights basically were just anything of interest to those watching City, and no more.