Aston Villa vs. Leicester City Post-Match Thread

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

And their goal was clearly offside.

[eamonn]

Oh and having not seen any replays, should their goal have stood, was it a pen for them, and what about the elbow on Kozak, from the UT the Kozak one looked a pen but hard to be sure.

From the TV pictures it looked like Huth was trying to remove Kozak's head from his shoulders.

Spot on, it was all out assault.  I even mamanged not to type "get up Kozak you tart"!

Heh.

Gnasher?

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

And their goal was clearly offside.

Just seen you can't be offside from a goal kick. You learn something new everyday.

[tomd2103]

Pleased with the fight we showed in the second half. Shame our crossing was so poor, especially from the right, really didn't make enough of having Kozak and Rudy on.

Agree with that.  I thought Leicester weren't all that impressive - they seem to have a very simple game plan and have obviously relied heavily on the good form of Vardy and Mahrez.  I really just can't understand how our crossing is so poor and we hit the first man nearly every time.

[SashasGrandad]

As everyone I spoke to said afterwards, if we'd played like this for the past month we'd be at least six points better off.

If we'd played like this all season, we'd be comfortably top half.

I kept thinking during the game these are 2 just below-mid table teams. How they are 20 places apart says a lot about how they have both been run this year.

[Steve67]

Leicester top of the table? What a batshit crazy league this is this season. They are high on confidence but the league is high on drugs if they are supposedly a top quality side. Any side that has Robert Huth in it is cack. Clear penalty for Villa not given yet they smash the ball in to Sissokho from two yards away and, well, you know the rest. We still need a replacement for Westwood and a striker but have turned a corner.

[Goldie.7]

Crazy that Gabby has dropped in pace at only 29! Sprinters normally peak at 28 to 32. He needs to diet - why are the trainers allowing this?

Gabby has never had a footballing brain. The fact he's been allowed to stay here for so long off of 'pace' alone is mind blowing. It's not like he uses it to assist others, his assists stats are poor and it's not like he uses it to leave defenders for dead because his goal stats are garbage as well. So what exactly does he do or offer anymore? This season will be the lowest number of games he's played and people will say ... ''well that's why he hasn't scored much''

There is a reason why he's fit and isn't in the team. It's because he's crap and offers next to nothing.

[Legion]

Bloody cold.
Atrocious referee.
Poor first-half.
Much improved second-half.
Bunn was reckless to start with.
A draw against a team challenging at the very top of the table.
Onwards and hopefully upwards.

[CJ]

Probably the most inept display of refereeing I've ever seen. Okazaki should be renamed kamikaze for the number of times he dived - how he didn't get a card for a flying lunge way after the ball had gone beggars belief, and if the ref had spotted his dive just before he gave the penalty (not sure it should have been given anyway) we should have had a free kick for simulation; apparently Huth trying to decapitate Kozak is not a penalty; shortly afterwards Huth also deliberately shoved his hand in Kozak's face off the ball - nothing given; and apparently Vardy is allowed to swing a fist at someone, and instead of a red card it's yellows all round and a handshake. To be fair he was so inept he also didn't spot Gestede's handball for our goal.

As for the game - surprisingly disappointed at seeing how much Leicester are just glorified old school 'direct', i.e. endless long balls; we showed more fight in the second half and that galvanised the crowd - fantastic noise in the Holte again; and if we could cross a ball or miss the first man on set pieces we'd score more - in other words we've started playing like we should have done all season, but at the  end of the day the quality might simply not be there.

[Legion]

Penalty miss

[Legion]

Gestede goal

[Exeter 77]

That referee reminded me of the bad old days of Alf Buksh only Buksh wasn't that bad.

[itbrvilla]

Gestede goal

what's the shove in his face about?

[hipkiss92]

Gestede goal

what's the shove in his face about?

To remind him he's still crap

[bob]

Smells like team spirit.

We are not down yet.