Aston Villa 1 Knuckledraggers crawl back under their stones 0 Post match thread.

[leylandalbion]

he made a blinding pass, but next minute a mare.  give him time, I think he has a lot more to come as does ayew. 

[SoccerHQ]

Westwood is a weak link, slow weak play, and crap corners. Let amavi take the corners

I agree. Long term I'd go with Sanchez.....Gana....Veretout as first choice midfield.

Is that based on today's performance or a more general view? 

I thought Westwood was good today, constantly showing for the ball and typically selecting the right option.  Hopefully Vertout will have his Ayew match soon as, from what I have read, his potential exceeds Westwood, but I don't think he has matched him yet.

More long term, think we'd be better balanced as a team.

[KevinEaton]

Richards had an excellent game. He was dominant in the air and very solid in the tackle. The back four looked more settled with Clark as well.

It's obvious the subs changed the game but I was really pleased for Ayew. He was very direct and showed some excellent close control when running with the ball. All that was missing was a goal

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Another game of two halves.

1st half was shit. Nobody knew what they were doing and they were doing it badly. Lescott, Clark and Veretout in particular. Awful.

2nd half was completely different. Grealish is pure class. Have Villa ever had a player who can keep and control a ball like him (I've been going since mid 90's and haven't seen one). Ayew demonstrated why we forked out a lot of money. Vertout started to grow as the game went on, also showing he could be useful. On the whole though, we just moved the ball quicker. That was the main difference, and having Grealish in your team makes that so much easier.

It begs the question, why, when we can clearly do it, don't we move the ball quickly much more often?!?!?! Sherwood should take parts from all his games in charge where we move the ball quick and say thats how to play. Easy!

[hipkiss92]

The XI we finished with tonight should be the one that starts on Saturday. Only possible change may be Hutton for Bacuna

[tomd2103]

Won the game which is the most important thing.  Gestede scored a good header, Ayew did pretty well when he came on and Sherwood deserves some credit for making a couple of decent substitutions. 

I thought Gray aside, Blues were really short of quality. 

[passport1]

My opinion remains unaltered. We are in for a dificult season. Beating a toothless Blues side leaves far too many questions unanswered.

[Beijing Villan]

Grealish - MotM
Ayew - the footballer that looked so good on youtube
Veretout - 90 mins, quite good with the ball
Richards - dominant at the back
Guzan - made the save that he needed to make
Amavi - lovely cross, fast becoming a favourite of mine
Westwood - ok, but cut out the floaty corners

Observation #1 - vs WBA we had three free kicks in dangerous positions but didn't make the goalie work, today we also didn't worry the goalie too much. We need to do create more goal threat (and score some bloody goals) from free kicks.

Observation #2 - speed of passing needs to be crisper. It was rubbish on Saturday which is why we lost and today it was OK in the second half but needs more work.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

The XI we finished with tonight should be the one that starts on Saturday. Only possible change may be Hutton for Bacuna

Have you forgotten Hutton is shit?

[curiousorange]

I know the draw for the League Cup is tomorrow, but does anyone know when the Lowest Spend & Clapping At The End Of A Defeat Cup draw is? The Noses on social media seem to think it's important all of a sudden.

[steamer]

At half time I was fucking pissed off, I have been going to these derby's since 1968.
Memory dims , but that that first half was as  dreadful as I have ever seen in a derby,  I have always supported Gabby., but it is  time out.
At half time I could not see us scoring, but hey we did.
Overall it was so low key, the crowd was nervous and I struggled to scream invective at the scum as they were crap and never really a threat.
Klan field at the weekend, 2nd half team please.

[Sexual Ealing]

It was a wonderful header from Gestede, but my God, he has a worse first-touch than Peter Sutcliffe.

[Clampy]

Good to see Sherwood getting in a couple of game changing subs before the opposition manager did. Decent win for us and let's hope we kick on. Richards, Grealish and Ayew were all excellent second half.

Oh and the half time bongo game was rather amusing.

[TonyD]

I have to give TS his due he changed it around HT and we were a different side. Sad to say, very sad to say I think Gabbys day as a starter are gone.  Like to keep on the bench though.  Rudy is not a footballer but boy can he head a cross in.  Not sure how we work around that though.   Jack is simply great.  If he keeps his head we and England have true great to look forward to watching for years to come.     But the main thing is we beat them tonight.   They looked good and I think they have a really decent bloke as a manager.  Loved it second half,  the noise was awesome rocking .

[Tony Erdington]

we were magnificent tonight, no not the team US, the Villa fans only once did I hear the noses with that , wipe that snot song and that was in 44th minute, Holte End you did us proud!!!

Tim got the substitutions right tonight, shows what I know I thought this was not the game for the boy genius my god he scared them to death, Ayew deserved a goal the control in the box wasclass, ref mat as well have put a blue shirt on, poor game. police blocking the road off , could do better, witton arms i'll never walk in there again, oh and forth round WERE IN IT, I miss spit the dog spose he'll crawl back under his shell with the rest of the inbreds.

all in all a Good Night.