Aston Villa v Bristol City post-match thread

[frank black]

Routine

[Taylor]

My man of the match - Whelan. Superb today.

[Legion]

Whelan and El Ghazi were outstanding. So was their GK. A very welcome, if unexpected before KO, 3 points.

[Border villan]

I can only give SJM a 10 for today as there were only three of him on the pitch.
El Ghazi was a revelation and the transformation in Taylor and Whelan  shows what a good manager can do.

[wittonwarrior]

Horrible little club managed by a little whizzel. Good keeper though. And that was just them.

Us proved we can play without Grealish   What tablets has Smith put Taylor and whelan on? Can I have a prescription

[john2710]

Got to give a shoutout to Neil Taylor, who I thought was excellent today, both going forward & defensively. Linked well with El Ghazi, who looked dangerous throughout. Should have won by more & more wins will do it.

[rougegorge]

Before the game I was hoping Kodjia would've been playing instead of El Ghazi, but he put in an excellent second half display.

McGinn was outstanding again which is all the more creditable given he got booked early on and Bristol were a physical team without much finesse on that display. Their management team don't appear to have much of that either.

I would pick out Taylor as well. He's improved leaps and bounds recently and is playing easily the best I've seen him, Elmo at right back too.

[pauliewalnuts]

Bristol City have some proper morons following then

Looking on their forum, it was even stevens and they were only beaten because the referee was practically playing for us.

Weren't they similarly full of shit before this fixture last year as well?

[CJ]

SJM has a great football brain as well. Right at the end we had it down in the corner, he burst through along the bye-line, then instead of laying it off, he did a u-turn and took it back to the corner. Great game management. Oh, and by the way, where did they get 6 minutes ET in the second half?!

[KRS]

Fuck 'em. We won and could have scored a lot more today...4pts clear of them now so their game in hand against Millwall is nullified. Excellent win Villa!

[olaftab]

Phew!

? It was actually a comfortable win despite their goal.

[charleeco7]

Cracking game and absolutely battered them. A few had good games but I thought that was the best I’ve seen Taylor play. Defended well and drove forward linking well with El ghazi who was probably  my man of the match.
Bristol fans were giving Taylor loads and after the whistle blew he walked back and applauded them 😂.

[olaftab]

Thus was not a 2-1 win more realistically 4 or 5-1. Their GK had a superb game and we wasted very good chances.

[KRS]

Can't tell from the highlights if Tammys disallowed goal for offside or handball when he controlled the long ball? Not a criticism but said it after the Blackburn that we still need to be more clinical in front of goal and put teams to the sword...should have been 4 or 5 given the chances we missed today.

[footyskillz]

Got to give a shoutout to Neil Taylor, who I thought was excellent today, both going forward & defensively. Linked well with El Ghazi, who looked dangerous throughout. Should have won by more & more wins will do it.

Good to hear .
I mean I seen from highlights he smashed ball against opposition player and then didn't prevent cross coming in from his side but perhaps his whole game was a lot better.
Seeing him v Rotherham midweek early on was awful falling on ball.
I would say he's still a concern for me especially on his defending and the part he played in the goal being conceded.
That said hear what you're saying so it's good there is part of play that's being recognized and certainly been more solid overall in this winning run!