Leicester City 0-1 Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[eamonn]

Good grief, that’s a lot of anger for so early in the morning?

Isn’t it obvious, we are upsetting the media darlings by daring to infiltrate the top table at the moment. Hence the negative Murphy comments et al - Take a chill pill.

I work in the media. I can confirm that nobody cares about us one way or the other. If we do well, it's a welcome change. If we do badly, it's mildly amusing. There is no agenda.

West London head, knows his music, a way with words...have you been having us on all along...Baxter Dury...?

Oi, do you remember me?
Broke my nose once
Fucking hurt
But I've been thinking about you
Wondering if you're in prison
I went to live on the river
And got into media
But we had porcelain faces then
Nothing seemed to matter
And I thought you were great except for the violence
And I hope you survived somehow
And didn't turn into a total cnut
Which is possible

[Sexual Ealing]

Good grief, that’s a lot of anger for so early in the morning?

Isn’t it obvious, we are upsetting the media darlings by daring to infiltrate the top table at the moment. Hence the negative Murphy comments et al - Take a chill pill.

I work in the media. I can confirm that nobody cares about us one way or the other. If we do well, it's a welcome change. If we do badly, it's mildly amusing. There is no agenda.

West London head, knows his music, a way with words...have you been having us on all along...Baxter Dury...?

Oi, do you remember me?
Broke my nose once
Fucking hurt
But I've been thinking about you
Wondering if you're in prison
I went to live on the river
And got into media
But we had porcelain faces then
Nothing seemed to matter
And I thought you were great except for the violence
And I hope you survived somehow
And didn't turn into a total cnut
Which is possible

I'm a full-blown chancer, rather than a mere night chancer!

[Dave]

Incidentally, lots has been made of how much money we've spent over the years with little to show for it - but Leicester's strike force of Slimani, Perez and Iheanacho cost just under £90m and didn't really look like they knew what a goal was.

[lovejoy]

Not the best game, but as others have, it's the type of game we'd have got nothing from last season.  The fact we can play a game like and win, is just a brilliant example of how far we've come in such a short time.

Any stattos out there know the most points any team has ever been clear of the relegation places and STILL gone down? It's ridiculously early but it feels like 11 points and 18 goal difference is already enough to stop worrying about where we'll be come May!

That's ridiculous.

[rooboy316]

I fucking love this club. What an unbelievable start to the season, what an incredible game against the 'The Mighty Reds YNWA', and last night was a massive result away against a very good side.

But after 20 years of developing apathy to cushion the disappointment of when we eventually ‘do a Villa’, I can’t enjoy this start to the fullest. It’s like when we are 2-0 up in a game and just waiting for the opposition to pull it back. Even when we scored 4 last week, I kept waiting for them to come back. I can’t shake the feeling of inevitability that we’ll ‘do a Villa’ this season too, eventually.

Ah fuck it, we’ll do a Leicester!

[algy]

One for the stattos out there - if that's the first time in 90 years that we've won our opening 4, when did we last win 5? And what is our record amount of consecutive wins at the start of a season?

We haven't won the first 5 games.  The record's 4 wins on the trot, although we've done that a few times now

- 2020/21
- 1930/31
- 1900/01
- 1897/98
- 1891/92

[olaftab]

I don't recall them showing Jack's sublime reverse pass on motd but I was half asleep.

They didn't. I though they might have shown it during their too bad too good section but it was a pony trick by Iwabi rather than total class from Jack.

[RamboandBruno]

I’m working from home today and talkshite on in the background and Murphy has just said Van Dyke is the best centre back that’s ever played, or words to that effect.
Erm, Maldini, Baresi and of course God himself to name but a few.
Whilst Van Dyke is a very good player, I think claiming him as the best CB ever, shows the level of Murphy’s analysis (as well as Liverpool bias), so I’m really not bothering to even think about his apparent disdain/dismissal of Villa over a number of years.

[olaftab]

This is one of the realistic paragraph in the Press:

"It was a spectacular ending to a brutal battle of wills featuring 36 fouls and seven yellow cards.
And no-one suffered more than Grealish, the Villa thriller who became the most fouled player in Premier League history last season and has been even more sinned against this time around.
His languid style almost invites physical contact and Leicester’s befuddled defenders certainly weren’t slow to get stuck in."

[john e]

I don't recall them showing Jack's sublime reverse pass on motd but I was half asleep.

They didn't. I though they might have shown it during their too bad too good section but it was a pony trick by Iwabi rather than total class from Jack.

It was trending on twitter though

[VILLA MOLE]

Incidentally, lots has been made of how much money we've spent over the years with little to show for it - but Leicester's strike force of Slimani, Perez and Iheanacho cost just under £90m and didn't really look like they knew what a goal was.

yep and they talk of players out , but they had a 30 million centre half  and a 21 million full back to bring in

[Nunkin1965]

I’m working from home today and talkshite on in the background and Murphy has just said Van Dyke is the best centre back that’s ever played, or words to that effect.
Erm, Maldini, Baresi and of course God himself to name but a few.
Whilst Van Dyke is a very good player, I think claiming him as the best CB ever, shows the level of Murphy’s analysis (as well as Liverpool bias), so I’m really not bothering to even think about his apparent disdain/dismissal of Villa over a number of years.

Talking of distain/dismissal.

Did anyone see the Martinez interview on Soccer Saturday a few weeks back when he had the downright cheek to suggest that Villa were aiming to get a European spot this season?

First Stelling, holding back giggles and then Merse blew his top exclaiming that he’ll get Smith the sack.
I can’t directly quote but he mentioned something about  losing the next two (Liverpool and Leicester) and the manager is in trouble.

Well that’s not happening now is it?!

[olaftab]

I don't think any of the pundits or presenters have been unfair to us.

This. Sutton was particularly critical of  any caller who rang to have a go at Grealish.

[eamonn]

Savage defended Grealish more than Sutton.

[maidstonevillain]

https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/12108012/barkley-scores-injury-time-winner-for-villa

Funny: they showed 4 or 5 Leicester chances to Villa's 2, before the goal.

Tbf, they showed everything you could call a save and every serious attempt. I can't think of anything they particularly missed. It was commented on in the game that Schmeichel wouldn't need to wash his kit.

The Grealish back heel ought to have been in.