SHA 1 Aston Villa 1 Post match thread.

[Chris Jameson]

Danny Baker's tweeted about Gardner's goal celebration, how Pogba just wouldn't get it.

He's quite rightly getting a load of stick as well, he's a bit of an arse is Baker.

[QuintonVilla]

Reports of trouble and a stabbing at The Yenton pub in Erdington. Some saying Blues stormed the pub and attacked innocent bystanders including women, which wouldn't be a surprise as that's their style. Others saying it was Villa on Villa.

[damon loves JT]

Reports of trouble and a stabbing at The Yenton pub in Erdington. Some saying Blues stormed the pub and attacked innocent bystanders including women, which wouldn't be a surprise as that's their style. Others saying it was Villa on Villa.

Yeah let's all speculate.

[Ads]

Can't see it being Blues. They were being locked inside a pub an hour and a half after the game.

[aldridgeboy]

For the photo of above , in relation to our attendance , I've just posted the phot to my instagram "magicalowen". We were clearly sold out

[SoccerHQ]

Reports of trouble and a stabbing at The Yenton pub in Erdington. Some saying Blues stormed the pub and attacked innocent bystanders including women, which wouldn't be a surprise as that's their style. Others saying it was Villa on Villa.

Think it's false. Met my Dad there around 3pm....was heaving with what I'd politely describe as old school Villa support and didn't see any problems but it's not really an area overflowing with SHA support and can't see that lot travelling that far for some sort of ambush.

[VillaAlways]

Unfortunately it's true I was in there in the backroom and we were locked in  by police for about half an hour There were ambulance and police outside. Reports of people coming in with knives

[SoccerHQ]

Unfortunately it's true I was in there in the backroom and we were locked in  by police for about half an hour There were ambulance and police outside. Reports of people coming in with knives

What, right after the game finished? As I said I got there around 3 ish and it was lively but didn't look like world war 3 had just occurred given how busy it was.

Edit: Judging by some of the times of the pics on twitter looks like it kicked off around 4 ish so I was long gone at that point.

[VillaAlways]

Unfortunately it's true I was in there in the backroom and we were locked in  by police for about half an hour There were ambulance and police outside. Reports of people coming in with knives

What, right after the game finished? As I said I got there around 3 ish and it was lively but didn't look like world war 3 had just occurred given how busy it was.

No it was later around 4ish

[tomd2103]

Of course we sold our allocation, thats not even a genuine debate, for some reason that little section behind the goal was empty when Wolves went there too.

From what I could see on the TV, there was a small section where the Blues fans appeared to be seated above our fans.  There were a few rows of our fans directly below them, but then the rows in front of them were empty.  Guessing this was to prevent anything being thrown down rather than the ludicrous claim that we couldn't sell all our tickets. 

[Lescottstweets]

Overall I was pleased with the result and Gardners goal was fantastic. However, why do we continue to play long ball after long ball? It gets us nowhere and is responsible for us giving away a shitload of possession. We have the quality of players to play an along the floor passing game, no need to hoof it and hope, it clearly doesnt work.

[Steve67]

Why is Tish being overlooked?

Poor game is terms of quality today. Defensively we were ok, Jedinak was good defensively but the Villa midfield has all the creativity of an English spin bowler. A point was fair but we didn't play well today.  Can't see Elphick getting back in to the side very quickly. Four unbeaten but we have to beat Blackburn next week.

[paul_e]

Piss poor performance today but it was tactical rather than being down to individuals.  Some people will look at the lineup and see a 433 but that's not the shape we played.  it was a 4141 and Kodjia suffered the consequences of it being kicked and pushed for 80 odd minutes (until Gabby came on and he moved to the left) with no protection from the ref and with us having no other option but to keep putting the ball in to him to take another one.

The heatmaps will show that the wide players were told that defensive shape was their priority so they stuck to their positions and created fuck all.  In midfield it was almost as if they'd been told different things.  Westwood was rushing out to close play and harry up the pitch (oh and for his detractors he won more tackles than any other villa player today, I'm not saying he played well, it's just that some of the vitriol he gets is plain ridiculous) but because no one else was closing they just passed it around him and launched it for their front pair to chase.  Gardner by contrast sat and held his position just in front of Jedi and let them play in front of him.  They need to be doing the same thing or we'll just look the disjointed mess we did for most of the game today.

I thought Gollini and defence were pretty solid although Hutton is still a liability and showed it.

When Adomah went off we really needed to either bring on Gestede and keep the same shape (with Kodjia going right) or mix it up and play RM as a 'false 9' and push Kodjia and Ayew to inside forward positions to pull their centre defenders around and create some gaps.

Final word for the ref, No idea how the midfielder wasn't given red for the Ayew challenge, no idea how Davis managed to kick Amavi all game and only got booked for taking his shirt off and no idea how Morrison got away with nothing for the 2 handed shove in Adomah's back that led to his injury, oh and I still can't work out what Ayew was booked for.  Mike Dean - useless prick.

[Havencheese]

Out of sheer curiosity and because I'll never bother watching one of their games, can someone tell me if any SHA players would be useful in our starting team?

[PeterWithesShin]

I wonder if/when they will work out there'll be empty seats in the away end when they visit VP as well due to reduced allocation. Reducing an allocation to 2000 on safety grounds doesn't mean away fans are in a section of just 2000 seats, it means there can be empty rows for some extra segregation, empty rows nearest the pitch to stop pitch invasions etc.

As for going on coaches, well we did have at least 10 or 12 there so we can't say much on that front.