Wolves 0-1 Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[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

Luiz had 100% pass accuracy today apparently.

Didn't think he showed for the ball anywhere near enough . McGinn and Ramsey were too far ahead of the ball most of the time too. Centre halves forced to go long as a result . Thought he was terrible for one of the Wolves chances, showing Neto I think inside for a free shot

Ridiculous tackle from him at the end, cowardly too with elbow so high. Sold his teammates out.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Great result and nice to win at the death.
Saw the 1st half, but not the 2nd. Always felt with that ref there was going to be a sending off or 2.
Martinez is immense and proving to be the best of the buys so far. UTV and f-ck off dogheads!

[Sexual Ealing]

No Zoom chat for this? I was looking forward to it! Fuck Wulvs!

[olaftab]

Unlucky West Brom already 1 down.

[cdbearsfan]

Fantastic win against a massive bunch of twats.

Well done me babbies.

[Legion]

Another game missed. Another victory. A pattern might be emerging here...

[KevinGage]

We've beaten three of the better teams in the league away from home already and been well worth the win on all three occasions.

Hammered the current champions at home n'all.

Today's win wasn't as impressive as those other games, but the players must increasingly feel if the game gets into the latter stages and it's level we're as likely to win as the opposition.

Whereas last season there was a crushing inevitability about a late leveller or loss from a promising position.

We are still a work in progress. But if we get to seven wins on the board pretty quickly from this point on, talk of European qualification won't seem the stuff of magic mushrooms.

Not that I think we'll do it (or that it should be expected at this juncture). But it would be nice to be in the reckoning for that rather than the stress we all collectively endured last year.

[aldridgeboy]

[Villa Lew]

Absolutely chuffed, couldn't see us winning after the sending off, good pen from Anwar and a good post match interview, his English is excellent.

Emi superb and also the back four did well, Targett had his best game for a while, also credit to Ollie held the ball up well, when under pressure, hopefully Barkley will be back for Thursday.

[eamonn]

It just does not get better than a 94th minute winner. At Wolves.

Great bottle shown by El Ghazi. Fantastic, man.

A great Heskey header late on at Molineux from a Warnock (?) cross in Houllier's first game in charge was pretty special.

Edit, here it is. What a header from Emu!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6nuhgQxyAFc

[RamboandBruno]

No free flowIng football, but a gritty dogged performance, love it! Villa never do this, I was convinced with 10 to go, wolves would score and it would be one of those villa performances that just drifted into nothing. But these lads this season don’t give up, even when their not on top form and down to 10 men. Loved the way Martinez gathered the players together at the end, seems like a top bloke as well as top keeper.
Thought the whole defence played well, Targett in particular and good to see Cash attacking in the 2nd half. Midfield a little lightweight at times, thought Watkins actually ran the line well and kept their defence busy. Let’s not f*ck up it up on Thursday against Burnley’s bruisers

[Risso]

With Burnley and Albion next up, we really should be able to go into Christmas in a very good position.

FFS!  That's as bad as saying 'RIP' in the Deathwatch thread!

[Rory]

Could not give a toss who it was against, that's a fantastic and important three points.

[Villan For Life]

My company has a box at the theatre of unrealistic expectations aka Moulinex. They’ve all been giving it the big build up this week, convinced that they would win, mind the gap etc.

I’m looking forward to seeing their faces on Monday now that they’ve lost their cup final. So nice to see the natural order of things being restored.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Cards aside, I thought luiz was the best outfield player today contrast his powder puff performance last season at the molineux, he's really stepped up. Battling performance by him, never easy having to babysit a rookie however Ramsey got stuck in too and only had one shakey moment.

I thought it was his worst performance in a long time often getting bypassed by the Wolves midfield.
El Ghazi took his penalty beautifully even if everybody except Rui Patricio knew he could only hit it to the right due to the short run up. I hate short run-ups but not for one milisecond did I think we was going to miss.

Scrappy game, typical local derby, not helped by Mike Dean. Against that lot I'll take an ugly win. Martinez may have won MOTM but I was impressed with Semedo who kept Jack relatively quiet like few can but to get nutmegged by SJM and then give away a penalty didn't do him any favours. I had wondered where Wolves found him and have just discovered they paid £35m to Benfica! PMSL

Oh and to top it off, Dingles on molineuxmush are in meltdown. Enjoy your weekend, ladies and gentlemen.