Aston Villa vs Manchester City Match Thread

[wince]

So lads and lasses, fear or not am I not missing anything working in the pissing rain then? To be honest, I wasn’t expecting a win either

[Sexual Ealing]

The fear needs to go. I think we are scared to play. Against Liverpool we are going to be slaughtered

I don't think we're scared to play. I think our shape is wrong, yet again, and ergo we're playing very poorly.

I think we're against a team that's better than us who, into the bargain, have got the rub of the green. Sometimes it's not really anyone's fault.

Kill him!

[Toronto Villa]

As a side we are still getting accustomed to this level and the fact that if we give the ball away as much as we do to sides not even if Man City’s quality we will get punished. We saw that against Spurs, Arsenal and of course now today. We’ve done better of late but it’s something that will come with experience and frankly better players. A number of our players will over the course of the season eliminate themselves from future Villa PL squads. That’s for them to prove in the next number of months that they can survive and adapt at this level. Today and next week are massive tests for any side let alone one promoted in the manner we came up. We have to accept, learn and move on.

[mrfuse]

It's no disgrace to losing to Man City, but we've brought most of it on ourselves through mistakes and being a bit timid when we have the ball.

Agreed that and the offside goal.

[JUAN PABLO]

thoufght he was gonna get a yellow then

[PeterWithesShin]

I'd get Jack off, game is gone and last thing we need is him sent off

[taylorsworkrate]

Just seen replay of the goal - surely Sterling is offside and in Heaton's line of view? Straws and clutching I know

They've decided that Silva didn't touch it, despite Silva claiming the goal and all Man City players crediting Silva with the goal.

Its utter bollocks. Don't get me wrong, the massive likelihood is we would have lost the game anyway, but how can anyone look at that with any sort of common sense and come to that decision?

[AsTallAsLions]

I'd get Jack off, game is gone and last thing we need is him sent off

Agreed. Get Conor on.

[kippaxvilla2]

Have we been on the right side of any VAR decisions this season?

[VillaAlways]

Just seen replay of the goal - surely Sterling is offside and in Heaton's line of view? Straws and clutching I know

It’s a puzzling decision. He was off the whole way through and impeded Heatons line of sight. It seems a simple no-goal..

It would have been had it been ours.

[AsTallAsLions]

So lads and lasses, fear or not am I not missing anything working in the pissing rain then? To be honest, I wasn’t expecting a win either

Nothing mate.

[VillaAlways]

Have we been on the right side of any VAR decisions this season?

No

[CJ]

Unusually poor first touch by Jack. What are they chanting at him - you're just a shit....?

[Risso]

How can it possibly be that neither of the Man City players were offside, when they were both clearly "interfering with play".

[JUAN PABLO]

we scored 3 late ones against sheff utd

come on villa   its possible