Wigan Athletic v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[andyh]

Just 2 wins. 2 bloody wins from those 2 absolutely shite periods at the start of the season, and after Christmas and we'd be right in it.

[PeterWithe]

Crap day, crap performance but a win is a win.

[oldham_villa]

Sat in the car park waiting for the traffic to die down.

Sat with friends from work who are Wigan fans. Good voice from the Villa fans

Very disappointing performance today.yes we won, but we were bloody awful. Man of the match was Jedniak, Shane about his blind ball which should have cost us a goal. Until we switched it it was difficult to see the game plan, apart from getba bit of luck or a bit of magic from Kodja.

Johnson has atrocious kicking skills, and his punches were not reassuring
Bree is very tidy, I like him. Thought he was very unlucky to be taken off.
First time I've seen Taylor in the flesh today and he was pretty solid, made some decent runs forward. Wasn't helped much by the very static Amavi wanting the ball short, instead of pushing down the line
Jedniak won everything in the air, the man you want in your team
Chester was steady'ish
Houlahan was a little sloppy at times and could have cost us. Should have hit  the target with an effort
Gardner was fucking awful. It was his shit ball which put Jedniak in the area which contributed to his mistake, and he did the same in the second half. Not good enough to remain at Villa
Hutton improved when he went to full back, as he was neither a midfielder or a defender in the first half
Amavi needs a rocket up his arse. When Taylor he the bell he surely has to stretch play, not stay still. He improved with some good runs with the ball second half, but I was still unimpressed
Adomah had a poor game today, though it was his decent cross which picked out Hogan. I'd certainly not play him centrally again
Kodja was okay today but no clear chances, or real memorable moments . Lost the hall in good places when players had advanced, which could have cost us

Lansbury, I saw him st half time and could not hit a ball to Greslish's feet. He was an upgrade on Gardner though
Hogan doesn't win anything when the ball is in the air but showed great movement for his goal. He took it well too. Needs the balls played in places to give him a chance

Bruce really needs to sort a pattern of play out, as it is poor.

[wittonwarrior]

A win's a win in truth we were awful

[auntiesledd]

Crivens! I'm loving this strange winning-again-lark. Super bit of football which led to Hulk's clinical finish too. Fair play to SB & CC for evidently sorting out the shambles that RDM & Co created. A strong finale to the season will work wonders for confidence levels the forthcoming campaign: so here's to building that head of steam. UTV   

[Matt Collins]

Just watched the highlights on sky. Seems we had the luck today we didn't get at Huddersfield

A problem with Jedinak at CB is that because he's always liable to give the ball away very sloppily, it will be in a very dangerous area.

Fair to see both our goals wouldn't be scored in the premier league either

That all sounds really negative. But the main point is that we won when maybe we didn't deserve to and that's a nice habit to get into. As long as we're also putting together some better performances too.

If he does want to play two up top I'd still like to see us play a diamond. I reckon it could suit a few

[chippy]

The key to all this is sorting out the defence.  Keep clean sheets and your two thirds there. If anyone starts complaining about defensive football like when they moaned with MON's long ball game (that was also effective)  they can just f**k off.

[Matt Collins]

The key to all this is sorting out the defence.  Keep clean sheets and your two thirds there. If anyone starts complaining about defensive football like when they moaned with MON's long ball game (that was also effective)  they can just f**k off.

When MON was spending like Spurs, producing performances like Bolton and finishing below miserly Everton you mean? He definitely did a decent job for us. But with that much subsidy we could have done a lot more with a more progressive and adventurous manager

[pauliewalnuts]

The key to all this is sorting out the defence.  Keep clean sheets and your two thirds there. If anyone starts complaining about defensive football like when they moaned with MON's long ball game (that was also effective)  they can just f**k off.

There's really no need for that.

We won, why start effing and jeffing at people and trying to hook an argument?

[olaftab]

Bruce on Radio:
We persevered and a bit of quality worked for us in the end however today above all it's the fans who won it for us today.

[The Edge]

Bruce on Radio:
We persevered and a bit of quality worked for us in the end however today above all it's the fans who won it for us today.

That's good of him to say but he never even acknowledged  us at the end. Pissed wet through but a win is a win. 5 clean sheets in 6 is an impressive stat  in anyone's language. In a pub full of villa in Wigan now so happy days all round

[Dazvillain]

Win all 8 games left (5 at home) gives us 75 points. Is that enough for 6th place?

I don't think we will do it but if by some miracle we are challenging for that last spot teams above will start to really feel the pressure. Either way it shows now how it is possible next season to get promoted. We're not doing that much very well and yet we are winning games.

Even if we don't think so at the moment, it's nice to be the ones with momentum and in the assendancy though. If we can maintain  you never know who might wobble above us . We must be near the top of the form table

[Toronto Villa]

Win all 8 games left (5 at home) gives us 75 points. Is that enough for 6th place?

I don't think we will do it but if by some miracle we are challenging for that last spot teams above will start to really feel the pressure. Either way it shows now how it is possible next season to get promoted. We're not doing that much very well and yet we are winning games.

Even if we don't think so at the moment, it's nice to be the ones with momentum and in the assendancy though. If we can maintain  you never know who might wobble above us . We must be near the top of the form table

http://www.soccerstats.com/formtable.asp?league=england2

[Brian Taylor]

We won we won we won.. what more to say other than we won won we won won won!

[saunders_heroes]

Another win which stands us in good stead for next season. Nailed on promotion in my opinion.