SHA 1 Aston Villa 1 Post match thread.

[Matt Collins]

If ayew and adomah are out  next week, it will be interesting how we set up

McCormack and grealish are both good replacements but I can't really see how you get them both into the side unless you weaken the midfield

I guess maybe a diamond?:

Jedinak

Bacuna Gardner

Grealish

Kodjia McCormack

Bloody narrow though. Requires a lot of the full backs. Maybe Bacuna should play right back

[Chris Jameson]

Was it really cold today? Ayew and Amavi were both wearing gloves.

[Rudy65]

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.

He also does that annoying back heel thing which normally results in us giving the ball  away

[Rudy65]

Was it really cold today? Ayew and Amavi were both wearing gloves.

And Rudy

[kippaxvilla2]

Considering we played with ten men throughout the match (Westwood doesn't count and then 9 men for the last 15 minutes (with Gabby introduced) I thought it was a decent point.  There's a lot of work to do on something really simple though - possession of the football.

[Ads]

We got up the island where Morriarty's is and eventually hundreds of us just pushed left through the escort.

They were taking us right back to Aston. Fucking morons. All those police, time and effort because there was a couple hundred Noses in a pub.

[b23]

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.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37816041

[Villafirst]

Ayew's booking was a joke. No way he fouled their player intentionally. If that's the case Shotton and their keeper should've got yellows. Annoying that Jordan will now miss the Blackburn game.

[Taylor]

Good point that. It wasn't pretty but did we expect another 5-1? Jedinak and Baker were great today, I hope this is a turning point for Jedinak. I don't understand the vitriol towards Westwood, he often is lightweight and anonymous, but I thought he had a decent game today, if anything Gardener was the weak link in midfield, goal aside.

[kippaxvilla2]

The attendance was 25,696.

[KevinGage]

Considering we played with ten men throughout the match (Westwood doesn't count and then 9 men for the last 15 minutes (with Gabby introduced) I thought it was a decent point.  There's a lot of work to do on something really simple though - possession of the football.

Gabby -for all his many, many faults- actually played with a bit of balls when he came on and changed the momentum somewhat. Should he be  anywhere near selection after the last few years is a different argument.

Westwood was...eh, consistent.  If you play three in midfield and one of that three is Westwood, it's effectively a two-man midfield. He barely even provides nuisance value.

[MoetVillan]

Jedi and westy played well today. Didn't think I'd be typing that

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Agree on both points, KG.

[john2710]

Apparently Rowlett is complaining that Kodija was wasting time by freigning injury, called it embarrassing.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Jedi and westy played well today. Didn't think I'd be typing that

Jedi did indeed have a good game but his pass to Hutton was a shocker and nearly cost us dear.