Forest v Villa Post Match Thread

[wittonwarrior]

Out in Tenerife for the week arsed holed, signing full repertoire of villa songs and happy come on you lions.

[newryvillain]

Looking good.

[SirSteveUK]

Brilliant performance, most compact without the ball I've seen all season. Very impressed with Green tonight and thought Hourihane was very good. McGinn fired up after being dropped, superb. Kudos to Smith, team looked really well drilled tonight. Everyone did well, Abraham didn't have the greatest second half maybe but Smith hooked him.

Agree w all that

Should point out to you both that John was not dropped - he was suspended 2 games

[adrenachrome]

Looks like team spirit.

[Risso]

The celebrations at the end in front of the fans lasted quite a while. Seems to be a brilliant team spirit at the moment.

[Ads]

Just back via Stoke.

We were a cut above Forest all night.

Bar 25 minutes in the first half where it got scrappy, we were generally excellent. Passed and moved it well, disrupted them and harried them off the ball, to a point where they were limited to long ball rubbish.

2nd half was a masterclass in game management. Never under any threat.

Silly goal to concede, Steer at fault, but Lolley should not be getting that far.

Mings a colossus. He's making a huge difference.

Brilliant atmosphere in the away end. What a glorious chance we have now.

[brentastonb6]

Lovely play from Lolley for their goal.  I'd love to see him, Jack and SJM in the same side. 

After their rather lucky goal, again, I honestly can't remember Steer having a proper save to make.  We had a couple of hairy moments but I thought we defended well enough overall and I like the attitude of taking a booking if they really need to.  Tammy was poor tonight but as soon as he went off, you can see what he brings to the game in keeping the ball up front instead of us hammering it into space for Kodjia to chase.  Jack and SJM are a class apart. Hourihane played well and has hopefully returned to being really useful instead of a hologram.  Mings and Hause are ace.  Good win Villa.  Good subs too.

Same here, I’ve been saying this about Lolley for weeks, especially after ripping Albion’s defenders to shreds and being one of us to boot too 👍

[Monty]

It says a lot about the Villa that my immediate reaction to the third goal was 'ah shit I've got hope again'.

[JUAN PABLO]

Keep everyone fit and we should make the top 6.

nailed  on

[KevinGage]

Could this be our Sheff U moment from last season? 

We played worse up there, admittedly.

But that win felt like a major turning point and we visibly grew in confidence from that point on.

[brontebilly]

Brilliant performance, most compact without the ball I've seen all season. Very impressed with Green tonight and thought Hourihane was very good. McGinn fired up after being dropped, superb. Kudos to Smith, team looked really well drilled tonight. Everyone did well, Abraham didn't have the greatest second half maybe but Smith hooked him.

Agree w all that

Should point out to you both that John was not dropped - he was suspended 2 games

Why did he come on as a sub v Blues then. Break has done him world of good. Refreshed for run in.

[Matt C]

We’ve got our mojo back. UTV.

[Matt Collins]

I'd definitely like to see Lolley in a villa shirt

As would he I imagine

If we did go up I reckon it would be almost a nailed on signing

[Rigadon]

Keep everyone fit and we should make the top 6.

It really is that simple. 

Had we had JG fit all season and the current central defence we'd be top of the league.

[johnny from donny]

Why did he come on as a sub v Blues then. Break has done him world of good. Refreshed for run in.

I could be wrong but I think that was because we'd just won a match 4-0 and Whelan had played well in that match. Certainly well enough to keep his place.