Aston Villa v Norwich City Post-Match Thread

[aj2k77]

Good performance, still a few problems here and there.

Hourihane getting forward is key. Finally given the licence to play how he did at Barnsley hitting the box and buzzing around rather than so deep. Great game.

Davis. Better than I thought, having the focal point up front made a huge difference. Good game from the lad, poses a lot of selection issues for  Bruce.

Hutton. Sorry to moan but he is fucking cack. Don't select him again.

Jedinak over Whelan will make us stronger.

4 goals at home, confidence shouldn't be a problem or excuse for now. Unfortunately Terry looks gone to me. Much better performance.

[curiousorange]

Much, much better. Cause for celebration and cause for complaint too. Let's see if we can do it again.

[Toronto Villa]

Excellent first half and ok second. Very happy for Conor. Special mention for Davis, brilliant today, and Alan Hutton absolutely shit yet again.

So your shit second half has changed to ok? Rightio

Fucking hell. It's ok overall because we scored twice. I said it was against the run of play. Look at the second half stats. How much of the ball did we have? How many shots or real chances did we create. We could have scored 2 or 3 before making it 3. Maybe the world is rose coloured from your perspective. Not mine

[rob_bridge]

Performance and Result more befitting the club.

Let's see how we do in the next 2-3 games.

[auntiesledd]

Praise the Lord! It sounds like there's plenty of room for improvement, but it's great to see us finally get a hat-full & get the new season rolling. I'm off to heat up that humble pie; & 'looking forward to winding up a few BHA fans later down the pub. It's been a while coming...

UTV

[CT Villan]

I will admit I was worried up to our second goal as we were creating loads of chances and missing most of them as per usual. It was still too nervy in the second half but we finally won. The real test is doing it away from home, but we are better off than we started.

Davis and Hourihane were outstanding.

[Smirker]

Performance and Result more befitting the club.

Let's see how we do in the next 2-3 games.

We need to take it one half at a time.

[Monty]

Do that every week please, Steve!

[four fornicholl]

If Stelling calls him Andre Gray one more fkn time, he's toast.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Excellent first half and ok second. Very happy for Conor. Special mention for Davis, brilliant today, and Alan Hutton absolutely shit yet again.

So your shit second half has changed to ok? Rightio

Fucking hell. It's ok overall because we scored twice. I said it was against the run of play. Look at the second half stats. How much of the ball did we have? How many shots or real chances did we create. We could have scored 2 or 3 before making it 3. Maybe the world is rose coloured from your perspective. Not mine

I'm very happy with today's showing.No we're not the finished article but I saw more positivity in that performance than I have in the past five seasons.So no,I'm not going to put my filter 3 shades on.

[exigo]

Whoever would have guessed that Benteke's replacement was hiding in our youth team? Great performance from Davis – strength, speed and intelligent.

And let's just hope that Bruce has finally clocked that letting your attacking players attack, putting your midfielders in their natural positions and releasing the shackles will pay dividends.

If we'd kept Baker and not signed Terry the defence would be in good shape as well. Assuming he realises that any of the other right backs he possesses is better than Hutton.

[Goldie.7]

Really enjoyed that especially as we didn't revert to the norm of crumbling to pieces when the opposition scored. We just played our own game and it paid off.

Davis having a blinder will hopefully mean we see Gabby dropping further down the pecking order and rightly so.

[LukeJames]

The boy Davis has to play from now on, held it up and ran the line brilliantly, coupled in with his Brighton performance last season and we seem to have a player there that allows Hourihane to play 10 yards further up the field.

[aj2k77]

With the chances we had it could have been 6 or 7.

We definitely need De Laet at right back and really should have gone for a pacier centre half.

[CT]

Considering where we stated, I'd take that all day.

Much better, still some issues, but we looked completely un-Villa like ah times.

Davis and Hourihane were outstanding and what a lovely goal from Andre, hopefully the first of many.

Let the reserves take care of Wigan and then same again at Ashton Gate please.