Chelsea vs Aston Villa Match Thread

[LTA]

We are finished as a premier league club I'm afraid.  Chelsea have been poor, but haven't had to break sweat.

[Rigadon]

Randy is going to have to put his hand in his pocket and cough up for a quality striker. He did it with Bent, and he's going to have to do it again.

Can't see that happening again to be honest. 

[Monty]

I'm genuinely not interested in any excuses, bad luck, individual mistakes, playing Chelsea (who I think would be losing to most teams today), I am just not interested in any of that shit.

Week after week absolute rubbish.

We have to start to show a bit of pride and say that this isn't acceptable. There are pretty much no other clubs which would accept mediocrity as much as we do.

Exactly. You can come up with an excuse for every match we've lost, but the point is that if you can't expect to beat anyone in the Premier League then you shouldn't be in it.

[kippaxvilla2]

I said to someone yesterday Costa needs some goals, must be delighted to be playing the Villa.

What the fuck is Hutton up to.

And how many fucking deflected goals have Villa let in this season!

It has happened so many times. Falcao needed a goal for Man U come to Villa Park and we provided. I recall Torres for Liverpool before that going through a sticky patch and enjoying a game once again at VP. We are such a charitable bunch. I know there are loads in between too.

Didn't Diego Forlan have a horrendous spell for Man u? ...Until the charity that is Aston Villa duly answered the call.

Did Shevchenko score against us too?

Of course he did.

[jwarry]

Fuck off ref

[Toronto Villa]

Sherwood with a face like someone just shit in his pie.

[claret and blue blood]

We are finished as a premier league club I'm afraid.  Chelsea have been poor, but haven't had to break sweat.

If it means at some stage we get our pride back and identity as a football club instead of the fucking joke we've become then so be it, enjoyable this ain't.

[Monty]

Ayew's done better than Gestede, so he's going off.

[CJ]

Traore on for Ayew. Now got the line up I'd have started with. (Except Sanchez for Westwood obvs)

[ozzjim]

Chelsea have been very very poor. We have been so toothless and ponderous in attack it is scary. We are fucked.

[JUAN PABLO]

another foul by them  no card

[Matt C]

Thought Ayew did alright to be honest

[aj2k77]

Gestede is a fucking statue.

[Rigadon]

Sherwood is not going to turn this around.  He needs to go tonight.

[JUAN PABLO]

half chance - block by chelsea