Aston Villa vs. Leicester City Post-Match Thread

[cdbearsfan]

Moyes on MotD

Gestede goal was hand ball: My view. Yes it ball flew up and hit his hand, but this was not a deliberate act.
The two fore arm smashes to Kozaks face were unintentional and were not penalties. My view. An arm/elbow to the face any where else on the pitch is a foul. We should have had at least one penalty

What they missed on MotD was the altercation between Vardy and Baccuna. They squared up and Vardy pushed his head into Baccuna's face and raises his hand. Is that no longer a red card offence?

Bacuna should've gone down clutching his face, the idiot.

[The Edge]

Decent 2nd half and we were denied a stonewall penalty when Huth deliberately and maliciously smashed Kozak in the face. David Moyes has really gone down in my opinion after his bizarre assessment of that incident. Veretout had a shocker giving the ball away constantly and seems to have been taking lessons off Westwood on how to take a shit corner. We needed a win but a draw under the current circumstances was a good one. And Claudio Ranieri has proved that actually you CAN polish a turd.

[olaftab]

Nice measured match report from our friends at The Mirror.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/leicester-were-complacent-against-aston-7192740

I would say there are few professions I have less regard for than football 'journalists'.

What are you on about? That's a very good report by Leicester Mercury 😬

[olaftab]

Moyes what a c*** of a pundit. He had decided how he was going to call it and then found words to describe that. Why not call it as you see it you are not the manager of Leicester City you arsehole? I wish BBC wouldn't waste our money on these word munchers!

[mrfuse]

Awful analysis on Goals on Sunday.
No debate about Cissokho's hand ball or kozak's penalty claim just that Gestede was rewarded for a poor touch.

I didn't realise that handballs were decided upon your level of skill.

I don't know why I was surprised though.

[dave.woodhall]

The season's agenda has been set - Leicester are the plucky underdogs doing well and we're the "serves them right" crisis club. Everything will be moulded around that.

[The Edge]

The season's agenda has been set - Leicester are the plucky underdogs doing well and we're the "serves them right" crisis club. Everything will be moulded around that.

That's annoyingly true.

[clash city rocker]

Wish a miracle could happen and we stay up to piss these journalists off. It would be like the corpse climbing out of the coffin and smashing the undertaker in the face.

[brian green]

You are absolutely right DW. There is very little, if any, objective reporting in the mass media any more, especially in sport.  Every topic is allocated an angle. What is said or written by the vast majority of journalists is a reaffirmation of the allotted angle. The BBC see is as the unwritten page in their charter that those they embrace and employ will shape the opinions of the masses.

In the circles in which I move the standard perceived truth is that Villa signed a bunch of crap French players in the summer, now they are paying for it.  Where did all these opinionated majority get their truth?  From the papers, the radio and the television.

We are indeed the "serves them right" club.  Not least of all for being so beastly to four football media sucklings, O'Neill, McLeish, Lambert and Sherwood.

[Nunkin1965]

I'm flabbergasted by the amount of people suggesting we give a Kozak-Gestede strike partnership a proper whirl. I refuse to see a 20 minute cameo that was semi-effective against a Leicester side dropping deeper and deeper as reason to unleash the slowest and most technically inept forward line in the league.
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Unless our tempo improves Villa will continue to be a comfortable opposition for teams.

Time and again this season Villa have barely laid a glove on sides with the such slow build up in our play.

With whats available to Garde at the moment, whats wrong with giving them both a go with Ayew buzzing around behind them?

 Especially against big physical fuckers like the Baggies.

[Pete3206]

If Moyes managed a team where his centre forward had been basically assaulted twice, he'd be on MOTD with his eyes bulging out of their sockets in protest.

[Nunkin1965]

If Moyes managed a team where his centre forward had been basically assaulted twice, he'd be on MOTD with his eyes bulging out of their sockets in protest.

Haha.

Just like at the end of Total Recall😅.

[Mouse Potato]

If Moyes managed a team where his centre forward had been basically assaulted twice, he'd be on MOTD with his eyes bulging out of their sockets in protest.

Haha.

Just like at the end of Total Recall😅.

Or even the start.

[godzvilla]

Forget about the simplistic Mirror and their like , not all Press reports are negative :.......Godzvilla!
Sunday Times :
"MOST have given up on Aston Villa but not, it seems, themselves. They deserved their draw from this full-blooded Midlands derby and, even if their position at the bottom of the table looks hopeless, they’ve not given up. Dead men still running.

On paper, it was top versus bottom. But a stranger to the Premier League last night wouldn’t have guessed that. These were evenly-matched teams, muscular and honest, every ball fought for like it was the only one. Villa would have felt they could have taken all three points because their fervour had Leicester on the ropes in the second half ".

The Indy on Sunday :[/i]
" Villa played with such spirit and determination that Leicester were pinned in their own territory for much of the second half.   So when the equaliser came from substitute Rudy Gestede with 15 minutes left it was no more than the home side deserved, not least because they had strong claims for a penalty turned down by referee Roger East.

The wind in Villa’s sails was so strong by this time that had they scored again it would not have come as a surprise.  As it was, Leicester denied them any further chances and lead the pack again at least until Arsenal play this afternoon.  As for Villa, history says that they will be relegated with so few points at this stage but Rémi Garde at last seems to have found a way to make them fight".

[Percy McCarthy]

Nice reading, particularly the last sentence. IMO we have, with an unchanged team, out-fought two of the hardest working teams in the division within five days. Remi seems to have got to them somehow.