Aston Villa vs. Leicester City Post-Match Thread

[bob]

Interesting that our last two performances, contributing 25% of our total points haul have come sans Micah.

We've got SIXTEEN POINTS!?

We are staying up! Say we are staying up!

Just giving you heads up for the next two games...

I was surprised Risso missed it.

*makes note to ignore his posts on Villa's accounts*

If we'd have beaten Leicester, it would have given us a huge amount of confidence, and of course 6 points from safety looks a lot different to 9.

[Percy McCarthy]

Interesting that our last two performances, contributing 25% of our total points haul have come sans Micah.

We've got SIXTEEN POINTS!?

We are staying up! Say we are staying up!

Just giving you heads up for the next two games...

I was surprised Risso missed it.

*makes note to ignore his posts on Villa's accounts*

If we'd have beaten Leicester, it would have given us a huge amount of confidence, and of course 6 points from safety looks a lot different to 9.

Oh dear. Refresher course?

[castlefields_villan]

I thought we played well - esp - second half - overall a draw was probably a fair result as they probably shaded the first half.  It could have gone either way after we equalised, but perhaps we need to look at starting with Kozak AND Gestede up front at the Baggies.  Maybe not the conventional passing football you feel Remi wants us playing - but it's all points from now until May.

I still think we CAN get out of this, and without stating the obvious we do need to win at least 8 or 9 of the remaining games.  Saturday has to be one of them and maybe Watford can help us by keeping Swansea where they are tonight.

VTID 

[stuart r]

I've always found it strange how local provincial clubs are genuinely obsessed with us. 

Of course we meet another one next weekend.  Who are so obsessed with us that I have it on good authority they were planning a minutes applause on 8 minutes to celebrate our then points haul.  As they can't count to 12 they might well have to abandon it now.

As Percy put it - clubs like Leicester, Coventry and Stoke don't like us because they know a successful Villa would knock thousands off their gates.

To be fair we are generally liked in Stoke. I see the point though but think it's more an anti-Birmingham thing and we're just the biggest club in Birmingham.

I don't think fans of other local clubs hate us because of a concern that their gates would be affected if we were successful. I can't imagine that ever being a consideration when it comes to football rivalries and hostilities. For me, these other local clubs hate us because we think our club is superior to theirs. And they are right to think we think that and we are right to think that. My experience is that we are perceived locally as a conceited, arrogant bunch of fans. I'm fine with that. It really annoys them.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Just back home after an extended weekender...and just finished reading the thread.
Overall I thought we were the better side and but for a total twat of a ref - Huth's assault on Kozak was as clear as day - and the lack of a Defoe/Bent kind of striker to tap a few of those balls in - could easily have won that.
Another stupid goal conceded, Bunn saving the penalty was justice - ref is twat - as was Rudi's hand of God moment.
I thought we played some good stuff at times - Veretout below par for this game and his corners/free kicks in 2nd half all wasted...he looked fu*ked for the last 30 mins...Gana was excellent, Westy ok. Kozak was a handful for their CBs, won most in the air but no-one near enough to him to make the most of nod-ons. Rudi took his goal well.
Thought Leicester were incredibly one-dimensional...long ball after long ball, even though they've got some pretty skilful players who they largely by-passed. How the fu*k are they top of the league? Effective at what they do, obviously!
Felt to me like we dropped 2 points.

Did I mention the ref at all?
Weak, twatty wa*ker.
(even my Geordie NUFC-supporting mate made this point, without prompting!)

Not sure about Gestede and Kozak together up front, but we need to have a good go at the Baggies...our last 2 PL games have shown that "good" teams are only as good as you let them be.