Spurs 3 Aston Villa 1 post match thread.

[Legion]

Highlights

[Bad English]

Until the nick of Mings he was going to save the equaliser as will

I'm sure we'll be saved by the nick of Mings more often than not

I like it: 'saved by the nick of Mings'. One for the OED list of neologisms.

[cdbearsfan]

Did anyone else think Wes went down a bit to easy? maybe just me and thats fine, but overall hope he has better games

Yes, definitely. He did get better in the five or ten minutes prior to his substitution though, so hopefully that will be more like the Wesley we see from now on. Or, at least, he gets better at diving, we get 200 penalties this season and win the league.

[markeeeebeeee2005]

We’ll be great. First game against a team that were champs league last season (although have forever won naff all). We should have had a penalty if the ref wasn’t a weakling 3-2 would have been fine. We still have two full backs and a defensive midfielder to come in. Their team hasn’t changed much at all. Ours has changed, will settle, and then will smash crap like Spurs.

[hilts_coolerking]

We should have had a penalty if the ref wasn’t a weakling

When?

[Legion]

Spurs are/were hardly crap.

[mr-villa]

possible penalty shout when SJM got barged over in the box.  Franksy thought it was a stonewaller.

[hilts_coolerking]

possible penalty shout when SJM got barged over in the box.  Franksy thought it was a stonewaller.

Well Franksy's back on the glue then because not even SJM appealed for it.  And he's not backward in coming forward.

[PeterWithe]

 Fairly happy with the result thought we were second-best all over the pitch for the whole game which is understandable

The success or failure of the season will not be measured against teams that are European cup finalists

[paul_e]

possible penalty shout when SJM got barged over in the box.  Franksy thought it was a stonewaller.

Well Franksy's back on the glue then because not even SJM appealed for it.  And he's not backward in coming forward.

Was never a pen but if the VAR had gone back a few seconds further Winks clearly pulled him back on the edge of the box.

[phantom limb]

I did feel the ref let them get away with a few, but I am biased so there you go

[Toronto Villa]

Regardless of the defeat it’s great to have a PL post match thread.

[Nunkin1965]

Today simply was always going to be tough.
It’s just so great to be back in the big league and I’m sure we’ll be absolutely fine over the season.
I liked Treseguet’s energy and defensively Heaton Mings and Engels look impressive.
Onwards and upwards and can’t wait for next week to get back to VP.

[BC Villain]

Biggest lessons for us today was that you have to retain the ball much better than we did - especially against the top six teams - and we must be more clinical with chances when we get them.  You can get away with it against the likes of Millwall and Rotherham, but not Spurs.  Being sloppy means you have to chase the ball more - hence us running out of steam.

Some negatives, but certainly positives too.  We've gone to what is in effect the second best team in Europe and not disgraced ourselves at all

[themossman]

Regardless of the cock ups and the result we still showed more character and togetherness in the game than at any point during our last PL season.