Aston Villa 1-0 Arsenal Post Match Thread

[danno]

Who would yo say was Arsenal's best player earlier?  Matt Ryan must be in with a shout.

[PaulWinch again]

I’d agree. I thought Odegaard added an edge to them when he came on.

[Legion]

Who would yo say was Arsenal's best player earlier?  Matt Ryan must be in with a shout.

Who cares?

[LukeJames]

Since we came back up we have got these by the bollocks. Even their 1 in 4 win against us was dodgy.

[danno]

Who would yo say was Arsenal's best player earlier?  Matt Ryan must be in with a shout.

Who cares?

Just found it odd I suppose, am used to them having players we'd kill for.

[Percy McCarthy]

I'm being lazy here but any Statto's on here care to let us know the last time we did the double over Arsenal?  Pleeeeeease.  Well done Villa.

1992/3 season. Saunders pen at home in a 1-0 win, Daley goal away, also 1-0.

Thanks Martin, appreciate it.

The day of the away game that season was the one when Small Heath were 4-1 up against Swindon and ended up losing 6-4 I think.

I think that was the day of the 2-1 win when Saunders and Townsend scored.

EDIT: you were right. Only just realised I went to both those games, had absolutely no recollection of the Daley one, apart from recalling quite clearly that I was at Highbury when I heard the Blues-Swindon score.

How very Blues of me.

I've lived in the south-east for almost 50 years and have seen most our our matches at Highbury and the Emirates, including 1981, but I think the 2-1 in 1993 was our luckiest victory. We were completely outplayed  but Bosnich saved a Wright penalty and Andy Townsend scored the winner in the last minute. Real smash and grab.

I was at the 93 game with the Arsenal fans (north bank was closed for redevelopment). I couldn’t contain my excitement when Daley scored but all I got at the end was well done and please win the title instead of Utd. As we all know it didn’t end well

I was at the 93 away game at Highbury.

They only gave us something like 2000 or maybe less  tickets crammed in in the corner of the clock end.

Went apeshit went Tony scored!!!
 Am sure it was 0.1 to us and not 1.2

If you read the thread you’ll see we’ve worked out that’s the one.

[olaftab]

Today’s win was critical as it kept us in touch with the side above us. Important to remember that a number of the teams above us and around us will still have domestic cup and European football to contend with starting again later this month. That’s going to take a toll on them. If we can keep it together we can make some ground up and take advantage of their fatigue. Our schedule to the end of the season is quite open relative to the past 6 games.

Yes good point TV.

[olaftab]

Watching MOTD tonight 👍

With relish

[wince]

Fantastic result. Glad the lads put a shift in and we are not in a Deano bad run. Lovely to not be calculating relegation maths but opposite

[ROBBO]

Having very little match day involvement Nakamba could be expected to tire, I think he performed well and was tidy on the ball. After West Ham all teams will double up on Grealish but he will always give teams problems. Solid no frills win.

[Brend'Watkins]

For all their possession, very good passing and movement Arsenal have no cutting edge. As a Villa fan protecting a 1-0 lead is not the easiest watch but if you were a neutral you’d be thinking Villa did it today with ease. We were very good defensively. MOTM goes to Watkins. He is a great player and will improve. He has great desire. We do need to coach him how to shoot with the outside of his boot though. If he can perfect that skill he will score far more.

[nordenvillain]

Today’s win was critical as it kept us in touch with the side above us. Important to remember that a number of the teams above us and around us will still have domestic cup and European football to contend with starting again later this month. That’s going to take a toll on them. If we can keep it together we can make some ground up and take advantage of their fatigue. Our schedule to the end of the season is quite open relative to the past 6 games.

Yes good point TV.

Having said that 5 of our last 7 fixtures are against teams above us or just below us (Spurs), so we need to make sure that we go into these last fixtures fearless and on the front foot.

[SoccerHQ]

Since we came back up we have got these by the bollocks. Even their 1 in 4 win against us was dodgy.

We match up really well v them generally I think. Of course they're nowhere near good enough to probably even be 5th or 6th this season but they have at least started looking better going forward in last two months so a clean sheet is very decent.

It reminds me of how we always used to give Chelsea really good games home and away from towards the end of Mourinho's first spell up to the horrible 8-0 game when in that period we'd always lose home and away to the Manchester lot like clockwork.

Just the way it works. I'm much more confident in playing Arsenal than Leeds or Southampton these days which is an odd feeling.

[johny]

Nice comfortable double over the Arse. Karma you Tarquin cockney bellends for the elitist arrogance they showed before the cup final. A pretty ordinary team now.

[robbo1874]

We did beat them twice the year after down, but they were both at Highbury. Atkinson in the League Cup and then that great comeback 2-1 win late on with Whittingham and Townsend.

was in the North Bank for the 2-1 league win with an arsenal supporting mate. Managed to sit on my hands for the first goal, but when whittingham scored (penalty I think) I went up as did about 6 or 7 lads a couple of seats away from me. Had no idea there were other Villa fans about. The Arsenal supporters weren’t too happy about it and it was a bit moody heading down the stairs on the way out after the match.