SHA 1 Aston Villa 1 Post match thread.

[Axl Rose]

Decent result and good to see some cojones in that back triangle

Got pretty lucky though. They definitely had the best chances and missed a couple of sitters

Agree midfield was a problem. Jedinak was excellent. I thought Westwood was better than Gardner to be honest. At least he looked to pass the ball to our players

Is Gardner a bit thick? He sounds it

No way was Westwood better. I know you're certainly a Westwood sympathiser, and myself a detractor, but he was absolutely rubbish today. How many times has that been levelled at him in his Villa career? He doesn't offer anything, other than an occasional flick forward and hope. He rarely does anything noteworthy, and you're certainly in a one man fan club.

Apologies if I sound rude, I respect your viewpoints Matt, and you talk alot of sense on this site. But I don't get the Westwood support. We very rarely benefit from him being in the team, and I feel he should have gone off at half time. Midfield needs to be improved if we're going to get promotion. Jedinak had his best game for us so far.

A draw was fair, though they had the better chances. Kodjia needs someone right next to him.

[ozzjim]

They didn't win their cup final, I am happy with a point. Moving on now to next game while they sulk and don't go to another home game all season

Happy with a draw before the start, happy with one now. Thought Amavi, Jedinak, Chester and Gollini did well. Bacuna was sorely missed in midfield. He gives us legs and drive for his faults, and Westwood gives us a runny excuse for a shit.

Bruce gave us 15 minutes comedy value in Gabby, although i thought he worked hard and was almost useful.

[London Villan]

What was the attendance? Bbc saying 29000??

[pauliewalnuts]

Should have lost but then again, I got sick of saying we should have got something under RDM when we got fuck all so what comes around goes around.

Couple of things i was thinking.

One, a reminder of how poor we were earlier in the season and how much work we have still got to do.

Two, absolutely no doubt, under RDM we would have lost that.

[tomd2103]

Thought after Amavi got booked he looked very good, as did Jedi, Baker and Chester. The rest were all very average.

Very poor second half but 1-1 isn't a bad result, so we'll take it and move on.

I'd go along with that and although I thought Amavi did pretty well on the whole, he got caught ball watching yet again for their goal.  Thought Chester, Baker and Jedinak were solid, Hutton was a liability, Gardner and Westwood gradually disappeared from the game as did the front three.  If we are going to play with Ayew and Kodjia then we need to play Gestede to give us a bit of a physical presence. 

As for Bruce, still unbeaten but I thought he could have been a bit more proactive when it was clear they were coming into the game more.

[auntiesledd]

Very fortunate to get a point in the end. Thank God for a superb header; a decent central defensive 3; and shite finishing from Small Heath. Still a great deal of work for Bruce to do in order to get us to look like a proper team - rather than a collection of mostly half-arsed individuals.

Right, I'm off down the pub.

[Malandro]

Piss poor game.

Chester MOTM.

Player of the year so far. Good player

[Marton]

This has to be Bruce worst game for us so far. Picking Westwood and leaving him on there for 86 min. Is he blind?

Dealt poorly with the injury as well... RMC is one thing, but playing him the entire game as RW?

Then Gabby...its nice to have options for Ayew, but I bet he will Grealish (foolishly) anyway in the long run.
So if this was a carrot handed to Gabby for getting fit...maybe not the best time at 1-1 in an important game?

Happy with the point in hindsight, but this was winnable and squandered.

[cdbearsfan]

Gollini - good saves and dealing with crosses. He seems to be growing in confidence. 8

Hutton - not bad at all apart from the fuck up. But it was a seriously bad fuck up. 5

Amavi - l like him but that was one of his poorest games. 5

Baker - very solid. 7

Chester - good again. 8

Jedinak- best performance yet. 7

Gardner - good goal, never went missing. 7

Westwood - failed to score when he had the opportunity, often went missing. 5

Ayew - had a couple of decent runs but has had better days. Good cross for the goal though. 6

Kodjia - worst performance yet, kept miscontrolling it. 4

Adomah - n/a

McCormack- some decent touches but tried to do too much, running into players when a simple pass would've done. 5

Agbonlahor - n/a

Gestede - n/a

[PaulWinch again]

Point is ok, but poor display. Our biggest problem is the midfield, it just offers nothing.

[Ads]

Queuing up for bottle target practice.

Thought we were very poor today, but pleased we've not been beaten. Showed some mental toughness.

Not having Bacuna's enegery really changed the dynamic of our midfield.

Shotton did Kodjia on purpose and put him out the game. We were just too deep and with out Adomah or an effective Kodjia it was just poor.

We can play a lot better and no doubt will.

[PeterWithesShin]

Stats

sha 60% 14 shots 3 on target, us 40% 5 shots 1 on target.

[Jimbo]

In a derby your midfield needs battlers, not spectators. The amount of times I saw Westwood watching what Birmingham City players were doing, rather than doing his utmost to wrest possession back from them. Then, when there was a break on, he passes backwards. And his 'shot' was typical Westwood. He simply can't kick a football. He's a waste of molecules.

Thank God Jedinak didn't shy away from the action, because we'd have been battered if he'd done a Westwood.

[LukeJames]

Big attendance, not losing to Villa, there'll be some babys made in Bordsley tonight.

[Hairbandinho]

Generally garbage. SHA deserved to win