SHA 1 Aston Villa 1 Post match thread.

[malckennedy]

Westwood was his usual anonymous self. That might have been the worst display I have ever seen by a RB from Hutton. Absolutely horrific in every way. It was literally like he's played up front all his life and just before KO the manager told him he'd be playing RB.

Westwood stood and watched in the incident where they hit the bar - typical. Agree Hutton was abysmal - typical. Agbonlahor ran about like a maniac - untypical as he doesn't usually bother.

[cdbearsfan]

It's disgusting that people are still being detained. They could've kept home fans behind for ten minutes and the entire stadium would've emptied in an orderly fashion.

Those being kettled should complain to the police, their MP and the Villa, in the hope that they are involved in security talks before the next time we play there.

[JUAN PABLO]

the obvious , Gollini , Chester , Baker and Jedi all had good games.  Hutton always has a clanger in his locker even at this level , RMC was just a waste in that position and Westwood needs to move onto Coventry ASAP. The rest were pretty meh except for GG stunning header .

[Gareth]

Baker, Chester & Jedinak were very good although had Donaldson not conjured the Miss of the season from a foot out I'm sure we'd have been asking a few questions :-)

Ayew yet again the great enigma, after 15 months I still can't work out if he is a good player or one who completely imbalances a team? Answers on a postcard....

Felt as a team we spent far too much of the game too deep & just hacking it clear for Kodjia to chase, very one dimensional.

McCormack and Jack behind Kodjia next week with Bacuna, Jedinak & Gardner in centre, although I wasn't 100% anti-Westwood today, thought he closed down opponents well but the one opportunity he had to make impact going forwards he played that stupid loopy ball forwards rather than give Kodjia a simple pass on the floor.

Having Gardner to score anytime helped my mood too :-)

[Five Villa Tattoos]

Having spent an eternity in the police escort they decided to just dump everyone at Duddeston station about 15 minutes ago.
No further help other than "get on the train".
Highlight in the escort were noses proudly defending McDonalds and shouting naughty words from behind the coppers.

[Exeter 77]

I think Bruce decided to get the midfield to sit far to deep in the second half leaving Kodjia isolated and meaning every time the ball was cleared it came straight back. I hope this is lesson learned.

[Matt C]

Typical Derby - high on intensity and low on quality. All in all, not a bad point.

We look more like a team than we have for ages after just a few weeks of Bruce in charge - I think we can be hopeful for the future.

[garyshawsknee]

Sorry to all the folk being detained by the police. You did us proud on the telly for what its worth.  I know its stating the obvious, but Hutton is so bad, easy looking challenges he loses, other ones, goes into them like a bull in a china shop. Thought we got away with it today, never got going, but the momentum is continuing.

[old man villa fan]

Funny how we watch the same match and see it differently. I suppose that's the beauty of football.

I felt the most comfortable in that match than for a number of years. I don't know what it was but I just couldn't see us losing.

They had some chances and a couple of goalmouth scrambles but I didn't feel as though they seriously threatened. We didn't play particularly well but did enough to get a point.

Generally agree with others on their assessments of the players. Jedinak was MOTM for me. Very solid and kept it simple.  Comments about needing Gestede's physicality miss the point that he his not a physical player. He is a nuisance because of his height but gets knocked off the ball too easily. Also, he doesn't close players down.

[Matt Collins]

It was a MON type performance

Function over style. 451. When in doubt put it over the top. Not good to watch but you'll compete in the top half of this league playing like that

Can't see how we can accommodate Jedinak and McCormack in the same team unless we play a diamond

[Legion]

Highlights

[Exeter 77]

A couple of other things;

I thought Ayew was a bit unlucky to get booked.
Shotton a dirty git.
The injury to their guy at the end looked really bad from an innocuous minor collision with Rudi Gestede.

[andyh]

A decent point away from home, but I was disappointed we didn't show more intent.
Our midfield is still our biggest concern and I thought westwood was piss poor again.
I can't help thinking that while we look a bit more solid, it's all build on sand. We are still very fragile and it's going to take a few months, with consistent results before we can have confidence that we really on the right path.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Look at the tits with/on Martin O'Neill

https://twitter.com/AVFCLife/status/792762010220032000

[Flamingo Lane]

Shotton did Kodjia on purpose and put him out the game.

I was very disappointed in Kodjia today.  Early on he looked as if he might have the beating of their defence, but once Shotton hurt him the second time his focus was exclusively on keeping out of harm's way.