Wigan Athletic v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[rougegorge]

As the Argus might have said...Form Rate: Poor

However it was a welcome win.

I can't recall any other meaningful efforts on goal apart from the goals, and the second one was well worked, but at least we improved after the substitutions. The midfield for the first hour was woeful. Johnstone did very well though he's been taking lessons from the Bozzie school of kicking.

[BC54 VFC]

In 2012/13 season I voted the Wigan meat and potato pies the best that season in the Premier League. The 3 such pies I purchased today were very disappointing, a pale shadow compared to 4 years ago.

I must add I didn't eat all 3; the other 2 were eaten by my sons.

[PeterWithesShin]

Only because they were disappointing. So you fobbed 2 of them off on your lads!

[Steve67]

Only because they were disappointing. So you fobbed 2 of them off on your lads!

Child abuse. Alive and kicking in rain sodden Wigan. Shame on you BC54!

[BC54 VFC]

Ha ha; they're aged 28 and 24 (the lads not the pies!).

[Fin Feds Dad]

And hats off to the Wigan stadium DJ for playing Dobie Gray - 'out on the floor' , just before kick off.

Bit of northern soul in Wigan , naturally .

[steffo]

Well you know you are going places when you can win with 8 proper players on the pitch.

Gardner. Aboslute shite.

Hutton - right midfield. He cannot defend for a start. He cannot get touch tight because he has no pace. Towards the end of the first half he was bounding down thr right. His first touch was so heavy he ended piling into the defender who got booked. Yet we sing his name for effort.........speaking of which........

Kodaja ......the laziest bastard on two feet and greedy too boot.

I was at the game today and for Mr K I would give 1.

[damon loves JT]

Only seen the highlights but like the way we took a short corner for once rather then just lumped it into the box

Shows how long it is since I've seen us do that: my first thought was 'Matthias Breitkreutz'

[adrenachrome]

Sky Sports

"They gave us a really tough game, that's how difficult the Championship is," said the Villa boss.

"They were really game. They've had a change of manager, change of formation, change of shape and they caused us a few problems.

"It's good to see us show a little bit of resilience. But, if we're being honest, we've got to be better than what we've been today. At least we stuck at it and we got a win, and that's what this league is all about."

Villa's quality was shown on the hour mark when they sent on fit-again £15m striker Hogan along with Henri Lansbury to tip the game their way.

And Bruce insists the sky is the limit as he adds quality to an already-winning formula.

"To be fair to the lads who've been playing, and I've had to play those lads, they've done great for us," he said.

"We've had nine or 10 players missing from the first team and we've still managed to win five out of six.

"A big pat on the back to them, but it is nice that we've got some big players coming back. We've got an international break now and the big worry is will they all come back [unscathed]."

[SirSteveUK]

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.

If we had accumulated as many points from Bruce's last 14 games as we did from his first 14 - -we would now have 60 pts

From that position, we would have needed 5 wins from last 8 games to secure 75 pts - this would have secured a playoff place in 9 of the last 10 seasons-- including 3 on GD

If we now win every match   the maximum pts we can now finish with is 75........

In other news, my aunt has now got balls and has become my uncle 

[UK Redsox]

13 wins 13 losses

A 0-0 draw next up and it'll be 13 13 13 39 39

[PeterWithesShin]

The 2 awful runs we had totaled 21 games, 12 at the start of the season and 9 after Boxing Day. We took 13 points from those 21. We've wasted nearly half a season's worth of games and still may end up not too far off the top 6.

[Villatillidie25]

Form guide looks good. Being the ever half empty, it'd be nice if we started to show some form but for the time being I'm very happy to just have  that winning feeling back

Form guide looks good but it'd be nice to start to show some form? 

Haha. You know what I meant 😂😂

[rougegorge]

Only seen the highlights but like the way we took a short corner for once rather then just lumped it into the box

Shows how long it is since I've seen us do that: my first thought was 'Matthias Breitkreutz'

We did it last week as well and scored

[robbo1874]

For those that can't watch the Skysports highlights:

cheers Rudy. Looked like they pretty much battered us and we sneaked 2 goals?