Aston Villa vs Wolverhampton Wanderers Post-Match Thread

[Villa Lew]

Latest bookies odds to go up

Wolves   1/16
Cardiff    4/6
Villa      11/10
Fulham   6/5
Derby     9/2
Boro       5/1

[HK Villan]

Sunderland 75 was my 3rd game at Villa Park, and will never forget it, but yesterday was the best in many years.

[Legion]

[rougegorge]

To put in a performance like that against the team at the top in the knowledge that both Cardiff and Fulham had won was tremendous.

When we pressed them higher, that's when they looked shaky. That takes a lot of energy and after their 'tag team' fouling as well, especially on Grealish and Snodgrass, I just hope everyone's fit to go again.

So many good performances, but a mention to Taylor who did really well in the second half after a wobbly start.

Great camaraderie in the team as well, although again Bjarnason left the field early on his own, and after scoring that goal!

[tomd2103]

Having watched it live & then again on tv since got back one thing stood out to me, when they scored & when they made substitutions they didn’t look like an in it together camp.  I wonder if all the focus around money and how they are going about it has created a bit of a divide in the squad?

Magnificent performance from us & good luck to the physios & masseurs putting the players back together for Tuesday

I think what last night highlighted is although they have bought some quality players, they still have more than a few Championship plodders in that team.  I thought some of them got exposed quite badly at times last night, particularly the ones at the back.

Didn't go to the away game, so that was the first time seeing them live last night.  What they do playing that 3-4-3 is push the 3 defenders out quite wide, which in turn allows the wing backs to push on.  They tried to hit diagonal balls to the wing backs quite early, the majority of which last night ended up in the Trinity Road and Witton Lane stands thankfully.  You could see what they try and do when it works though as having the wing backs pushed up so far allows the wide forwards (the ones with the real quality) drift inside and find little pockets of space where they can cause real problems. 

[villabear]

Love this pic

[TonyD]

To put in a performance like that against the team at the top in the knowledge that both Cardiff and Fulham had won was tremendous.

When we pressed them higher, that's when they looked shaky. That takes a lot of energy and after their 'tag team' fouling as well, especially on Grealish and Snodgrass, I just hope everyone's fit to go again.

So many good performances, but a mention to Taylor who did really well in the second half after a wobbly start.

Great camaraderie in the team as well, although again Bjarnason left the field early on his own, and after scoring that goal!

Why did he leave straight away? 

[Ads]

Probably moody that he got dropped.

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

Maybe he had an eBay auction ending at half seven.

[Clampy]

I can kind of understand his frustration in a way. He was playing in the Champions League before he came here and now he can't get in a Championship side. I like him a lot though. I'm not one for changing a winning team but I'd be tempted to start him in the next couple of games.

[Clampy]

Maybe he had an eBay auction ending at half seven.

LOL as the kids say.

[London Villan]

We might need to freshen it up on tuesday, BB and hogan could both start.

[Rudy65]

I thought neves was actually pretty good. Excellent passing

It’s just that grealish, Snodgrass and Adomah were better

Neves can certainly pass in the Gerrard Hollywood passes which whilst they look good aren’t often of any real use

[The Edge]

Sedgley Gold N Black

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Haven’t seen it back yet but my initially verdict was that it was an even game and in the end a poor ref was decisive.

The second goal was the key point in the game, not a clue how the ref gave a foul against us for it, poor from us to concede from it but really should never have been one.

Batth was our clear weak link, as he was against Leeds to be honest, at was targeted from the first minute, poor for the first, both before the corner and then when dealing with the corner, and then for the third just seemed to be jogging back.

Should have had a pen that would have bought us back into it, again no idea how the ref came to his decision on first viewing.

Draw would have been a fair result, weren’t at our best but didn’t deserve to lose today imo.

We’ll be fine.

Dunno how he managed to type all that with his extra fingers getting in the way. Them and Sheffield Wed need to join forces. It's obviously all the referrees fault when you concede 4 goals.

[Axl Rose]

Wonderful result to wake up to.

Had some great mates (even if one is a Liverpool fan) visiting Tokyo for the first time. Far too much sake, and far too much amusement from watching the Liverpool fan almost cry during the Man Utd match.

The sake took its toll however, and I fell asleep when our game was at 1-1. Waking up to a 4-1 win against Wolves has immediately made my day. Had countless messages from my dad absolutely raving about Grealish. How good was he second half? Is my dearest dad exaggerating?

I'm going to watch a full re-run of the game now!

Can’t believe you missed it due to sake...tut tut
No no exaggeration at all as you will see in the re run.

Haha. It was a messy evening mate, deary me.

The re-run was fantastic. I might watch it again later!