Wolves 0-1 Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[jwarry]

7 more wins and we can do some serious shopping

[Toronto Villa]

Next two games are Burnley and the Bitters. Need to take full advantage.

[oishiiniku]

Doug was lucky that it wasn't a straight red. Just the one match to sit out, at least.
I'm really impressed that we had the guts to keep playing to win with 10 men. Many teams would have tried to shut up shop (and probably conceded given the pressure that was building). Martinez is looking a better and better buy. Roll on Thursday!

[Flamingo Lane]

Great credit to El Ghazi there, for that penalty and, also, how well he came across in that interview so soon after the game.

[Drummond]

Just as well Guilbert and Elmo are fit to replace Cash on Thursday. I guess it will be Nakamba for Luiz though wouldn't be completely surprised to see McGinn play there and Ramsey keeping his place.

[brontebilly]

Terrible performance but a win! Maybe those are the best ones. Thought the peno was harsh enough too but we deserved that after the shite of the last 2 games. We were light years better at West Ham and got nothing, that's football I guess but two suspensions now for the next day.

Martinez was excellent, defence with exception of Mings were decent, Targett particularly did well against Traore. Ramsey was ok and finished strong. That aside, we were average to very poor. Grealish played like he had a hangover in the second half. McGinn up to winning the peno was dreadful again, Traore a waste of space, Luiz indisciplined throughout and possibly could have got a straight red for that elbow.

Martinez 8, Cash 7, Konsa 7, Mings 5, Targett 7, Luiz 4, McGinn 4, Ramsey 6, Traore 3, Watkins 5 Grealish 5

[Brazilian Villain]

Happy days, new chant required.

We're Aston Villa, we don't do drawwwssss,
We don't do draws, we don't do draws, we're Aston Villa, we don't do drawwwssss!

[Toronto Villa]

Terrible performance? It was that bad.

[Risso]

Tremendous win....tremendous.

Xunt of a referee, but a wonderful result. Chuffed to fuck with that.

Agreed regarding Dean, but crazy challenge from Dougie for his second yellow

Luiz committed 2 fouls and Dean never considered giving him the benefit of the doubt for either, the first in particular didn't need a booking and he let a number of similar challenges go after it, it was a typical "I'm in charge here" booking from a ref who thinks he needs to show how tough he is early on.

I'm seen people get straight reds for leading with the elbow like that.

[remy]

Magnificent.
Well done lads !!!!!
Was aching to watch my team play after the barcode postponement.
Top class keeping from Martinez - motm
Bold of Dean for the changes - really pleased
Great penalty at the death and had whole family dancing around the room
What a great way to start the weekend
Where is your fucking gap now Wolves
Great team performance
Young Ramsey local lad box to box
Came out on top
Love Villa !!!!!!

[sickbeggar]

Luiz should know the score. didn't deserve the first booking, but doing that with Dean as ref, well what do you expect?

[sid1964]

Shame we were not there to see it - can you imagine the fun we would have had taking the piss - especially with the injury time winner!!.

[tomd2103]

Will definitely take that.  Martinez was solid, we defended well for most of the game and had a touch of luck a couple of times.  I think we have enough quality in the final third now that we’re going to create chances even when things aren’t quite working like today. 

[supertom]

After the unpredictability of the last few matches, it's nice to grind out a 1-0. It seems like the league is starting to just return to a little bit of normality (there's still some bonkers results around mind you).
I'd hope that we don't slip off the gas in the next game, and try to build momentum again. Almost every time there's been a break, it's come when we didn't want one, and took away our momentum. The Newcastle game being called off on the other hand, I think did us a favour. We had the legs to see this through.

Fairly solid all round. Luiz wasn't great, and the red card was foolish (albeit a tad harsh I thought). Traore doesn't convince me much. I'd rather play Anwar to be honest. He's just as inconsistent but when he's good, he's better (and is good from dead ball).

Martinez the star man by far. What a player, and evidently a great character.

[Risso]

Terrible performance but a win! Maybe those are the best ones. Thought the peno was harsh enough too but we deserved that after the shite of the last 2 games. We were light years better at West Ham and got nothing, that's football I guess but two suspensions now for the next day.

Martinez was excellent, defence with exception of Mings were decent, Targett particularly did well against Traore. Ramsey was ok and finished strong. That aside, we were average to very poor. Grealish played like he had a hangover in the second half. McGinn up to winning the peno was dreadful again, Traore a waste of space, Luiz indisciplined throughout and possibly could have got a straight red for that elbow.

Martinez 8, Cash 7, Konsa 7, Mings 5, Targett 7, Luiz 4, McGinn 4, Ramsey 6, Traore 3, Watkins 5 Grealish 5

Luiz had 100% pass accuracy today apparently.