Southampton vs Aston Villa match thread

[PeterWithesShin]

WM also saying Gabby and Gestede have caused Saints problems.

[auntiesledd]

This is bizarre. Westwood's corners are our biggest threat...

What the...   

ps I've just got in & seen the score. VERY happy to see we've kept a clean sheet thus far. Keep it goin' lads (& here's to grabbing an cheeky win to boost everybody's moral!). 

[Monty]

It's the boggiest of bog-standard 4-4-2s, but the two central midfielders are sitting deep pretty much all the time so we're not getting overrun at least. Uninspiring, but quite solid - a bit like MON's tactics, to be honest.

[silhillvilla]

5th Villa corner.

Rudi goes very close.

Who's floating them in this evening

Westwood - all in-swingers so far

Interesting maybe someone has told him to stop floating and start whipping in swingers in .

[The Edge]

Hutton applauding a crap pass?

No, applauding the idea Sanchez had. Hutton should have committed to the run rather than halting

Amavi and Sanchez look impressive so far

Gestede and Bacuna don't look premier league level at all

not at game just listening to talk sport and following updates on here. Bit confused. Fans at the game giving Gestede pelters. Reporter at the game saying he is "unplayable" and Saints defenders can't handle him. WTF?

He's not . They can!

According to the reporters they' ain't!

Nope, they definitely are.

According to the neutral reporters they are struggling to cope with him.

[pauliewalnuts]

Considering the players out there, that could have been far worse.

Hopefully that wasn't our good half.

The next time a manager finally gets us out of that good half / bad half thing, I reckon we should build a fucking statue of him.

If any manager gets us consistently moving off the ball and creating space, we should name the ground after him.

[cdbearsfan]

Has David Villa done his coaching badges?

[Dave]

Hutton applauding a crap pass?

No, applauding the idea Sanchez had. Hutton should have committed to the run rather than halting

Amavi and Sanchez look impressive so far

Gestede and Bacuna don't look premier league level at all

not at game just listening to talk sport and following updates on here. Bit confused. Fans at the game giving Gestede pelters. Reporter at the game saying he is "unplayable" and Saints defenders can't handle him. WTF?

He's not . They can!

According to the reporters they' ain't!

Nope, they definitely are.

According to the neutral reporters they are struggling to cope with him.

Yes, I'm not misunderstanding what you're saying.

Irrespective of that, they're still coping.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Organised. What a novelty. Keep it up, Villa.

We're certainly keeping them out of our box. Defence and midfield working well together. Shame we're limiting ourselves to hoofing it up to Rudi or whacking down the line for Gabby to chase. There are moments we actually look good moving the ball around.

Southampton look very poor.

[Jimbo]

They might not be the best players in the world, or even at Villa, but they look like they know what they're supposed to do. And that really helps.

[silhillvilla]

No Richards , no lescott and we keep a clean sheet. What can we learn from this

[pauliewalnuts]

Is this being streamed anywhere?

[avfcpg]

No Richards , no lescott and we keep a clean sheet. What can we learn from this

That it's only half time :-)

[Dave]

No Richards , no lescott and we keep a clean sheet. What can we learn from this

That... we're at best halfway through the match and at worst less than two-thirds of the way through the match so talking about a clean sheet is pretty pointless?

[Ron Manager]

Hutton applauding a crap pass?

No, applauding the idea Sanchez had. Hutton should have committed to the run rather than halting

Amavi and Sanchez look impressive so far

Gestede and Bacuna don't look premier league level at all

not at game just listening to talk sport and following updates on here. Bit confused. Fans at the game giving Gestede pelters. Reporter at the game saying he is "unplayable" and Saints defenders can't handle him. WTF?

He's not . They can!

According to the reporters they' ain't!

Nope, they definitely are.

According to the neutral reporters they are struggling to cope with him.

Yes, I'm not misunderstanding what you're saying.

Irrespective of that, they're still coping.

I concur with that opinion.