Aston Villa 2-0 Norwich City Post Match Thread

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

"Villa have never had a 2 goal lead this season until now" BBC MotD commentator.

We were 2-0 up away to Leicester.

[KevinGage]

The consensus was Norwich were poor yesterday, yet they still created enough chances to get back into the game in that second half.

A better team than them would have punished us.

That's not to ignore our defensive improvement recently, but we still get carved open far too easily for my liking. Even against some of the most dreadful sides in the division.

Still, we have a bit of momentum now.  Our record against the Redscouse at home since the early 90s is dire, but if we can win that, you are then talking about six wins over the next three months. When you think of it like that, it's not an outrageous target.

If we can focus on chipping away at the gap between us and Slumberland and then Newcastle or whoever, lets see where we are come mid/late April.

Everyone thinks we're down, most Villa fans included. So there is more pressure on the sides directly above us, especially with the amounts they have spent recently. If we pull it back by then, some of that lot might just cave altogether.

[paul_e]

As much as I would like to hope, the problem is that as soon as you get past our best 11 we have some pretty awful players.It shows how crap Norwich are we beat them with Westwood and Bacuna in the team.
Any injurie in the back 4 and you have Clark and Hutton to come back or even worse Bacuna again.
I do not think Bunn is very good but if he gets injured, it's shudders the flapping Goose.

The inaccuracy in that being that we currently have 6 players (Gestede, Kozak, Traore, Amavi, Hutton and Sanchez) who would all be in (or around) the matchday 18 out injured and we had Ayew out suspended.  Yes we don't have a massively strong squad, no one would argue that, but it's not as horrific as you're trying to make out.

[Witton Warrior]

One thing that struck me yesterday was how many Narwich fans there were - easily twice as many as normal and then they just sat there...

[clash city rocker]

Just let's make sure the fat lady doesn't get to sing afterall..come may I hope it's lemmy singing and not some woman...no offence meant to the ladies on here.

[PeterWithesShin]

Norwich are like a lot of clubs, in the olden days if they brought 300 to VP it was a good turnout, now they regularly sell out the away end. Southampton are another.

[LeeB]

The consensus was Norwich were poor yesterday, yet they still created enough chances to get back into the game in that second half.

A better team than them would have punished us.

That's not to ignore our defensive improvement recently, but we still get carved open far too easily for my liking. Even against some of the most dreadful sides in the division.

Still, we have a bit of momentum now.  Our record against the Redscouse at home since the early 90s is dire, but if we can win that, you are then talking about six wins over the next three months. When you think of it like that, it's not an outrageous target.

If we can focus on chipping away at the gap between us and Slumberland and then Newcastle or whoever, lets see where we are come mid/late April.

Everyone thinks we're down, most Villa fans included. So there is more pressure on the sides directly above us, especially with the amounts they have spent recently. If we pull it back by then, some of that lot might just cave altogether.

That last line is important. If we get close, you can see them all shitting it thinking "Fucking Villa, they never go down so we're fucked"

It's one of the few benefits of swirling round the plug hole for so long.

[clash city rocker]

Must say I was impressed by gabby and gil defending Norwich corners yesterday..didn't think they had it in them.

[Kingthing]

Re: "Atmosphere" on Saturday.
« Reply #95 on: February 02, 2016, 11:44:05 AM »

Don't panic!

My son has a 100% win record at Villa park and we're coming up, so everybody chill out.

All in a days work. I've told the wife not to book anything in until the end of May.

[ChicagoLion]

As much as I would like to hope, the problem is that as soon as you get past our best 11 we have some pretty awful players.It shows how crap Norwich are we beat them with Westwood and Bacuna in the team.
Any injurie in the back 4 and you have Clark and Hutton to come back or even worse Bacuna again.
I do not think Bunn is very good but if he gets injured, it's shudders the flapping Goose.

The inaccuracy in that being that we currently have 6 players (Gestede, Kozak, Traore, Amavi, Hutton and Sanchez) who would all be in (or around) the matchday 18 out injured and we had Ayew out suspended.  Yes we don't have a massively strong squad, no one would argue that, but it's not as horrific as you're trying to make out.

Ayew would improve our first 11, Amaviis a decent prospect but Sissoko is more solid. I would play any of them ahead of Bacuna he is that poor. I have seen nothing to suggest that Traore is ready at this level. Most of the above have been playing regularly in a team that was losing regularly. If our squad was not crap we would not be bottom.

[aj2k77]

I'd be thinking about trying Amavi and Traore out wide next season with Ayew and some other guy up front. Veretout and Gana in the middle. 4-4-fucking 2 but I'm a dinosaur.

[brontebilly]

A nervy last 20 mins because we pretty much decided to shut up shop.
Norwich had a few good chances in that period and if one of them had gone in, it really would have been squeaky bum time.

But, if Bacuna had not been as shit as he is, and put away the glorious chance he had to make it 3-0 then we could have coasted the last 20.

I must mention the WM phone in on the way home.
They were doing a post match interview with Pulis, and he mentioned how the baggies had created no chances today, BUT, Villa had only created 3, but scored 2.
Errrr, hold on, you were playing Newcastle, how the fuck are you so clued on what's happening at the Villa, within a few mins of your own game ending.
They really are obsessed with us.....wankers.

I heard that and thought why the devil is Pulis talking about us at his own post-match interview? He must be trying to appease their fans by drawing attention to us? Bit strange.

West Brom have a very tough game at Everton next week. Cup game at Peterborough midweek.

6 points from relegation zone, that gap should be closer by this time next week.

Good to see Bournemouth losing today, still think they are capable of going on a really bad run.

[damon loves JT]

Everyone thinks we're down, most Villa fans included. So there is more pressure on the sides directly above us, especially with the amounts they have spent recently. If we pull it back by then, some of that lot might just cave altogether.

I agree. Palace, Swansea, Norwich all bricking themselves. We're not: everyone wrote us off ages ago. We've nothing to lose and nothing to fear.

[peter w]

Norwich are like a lot of clubs, in the olden days if they brought 300 to VP it was a good turnout, now they regularly sell out the away end. Southampton are another.

So that's a good thing then.

[peter w]

Everyone thinks we're down, most Villa fans included. So there is more pressure on the sides directly above us, especially with the amounts they have spent recently. If we pull it back by then, some of that lot might just cave altogether.

I agree. Palace, Swansea, Norwich all bricking themselves. We're not: everyone wrote us off ages ago. We've nothing to lose and nothing to fear.

Palace have what? 32 points? 4 or 5 points more in 13 games and they'll probably be safe or at worst for us, completely out of reach. Easily achievable. Only Norwich have hit a brick wall of late. All the others or picking up points somewhere and in all honesty our recent sort of revival isn't or hasn't been good enough to see us close the gap in any significant way. We'll still do well to get 20-25 points.