Plucky Naive Aston Villa 1-3 Penalty United post match thread

[Toronto Villa]

Hate it when your team loses and yet your players are still grinning and chatting with their pals at full time

Because to them it is a game, it is a sport and it is a profession. They know each other personally in many cases. I have never seen the issue with that before or after the game.

[Skerra]

You’re right SE, Barkley really must start in our next match!!

[Legion]

Hardly an impartial official.

[Proposition Joe]

Just forfeit this fixture each year and at least we won't have to watch them get their 3 points.

[Smithy]

Massively disappointing second half, but thought we were good value for a half-time lead. Their first two goals were very bad defensive mistakes, rather than being 'earned', which is disappointing.  Their 3rd was a good goal, but at least we were going for it by that point.

I'm still furious about the Ollie sending off - I want to see a replay that shows clear daylight between him and Henderson, or I'll remain convinced that's a horrific decision.

One day we'll put a solid 90 minutes in against this lot, rather than a decent half and ultimately capitulating.

[CT]

Hardly an impartial official.

He wasn’t even trying to hide the fact he wasn’t impartial in the end.

[Toronto Villa]

It’s shit there is no doubting it. But the next version of Aston Villa needs to be one that takes points off Man City or Man U. We’ve done it against most of the others this season which in of itself is remarkable a year after we just stayed up.

[villadelph]

Manure benefit from dodgy decisions.. I’m shocked.

Their most prolific tactic is to hunt for penalties. It’s pretty pathetic quite frankly. Totally flipped the game and hopefully the rest of the clubs in the league continue to give them stick for it and their greedy  ulterior motives.

I thought we played pretty well for the majority of the match. Though I wasn’t expecting to win, getting shafted every time we play them is getting pretty old - could do with a fair and balanced match for once.

Referee from Manchester, Ollie haven’t to make his mind up whether to eat 8 metal studs or jump to avoid them, two handballs in the box - no call.. it’s all par for the course with this league.

[SoccerHQ]

Until we match them in the way they influence every single decision in the game, we'll never beat them.

They have the referee in the palm of their hands.

We need to crowd the ref, appeal for that fucking handball. Roll around and scream for a free kick or the inevitable penalty,

Chris Kavanagh - job done as far as he’s concerned. Sure he’ll get a bonus for that.

Finally, is there a bigger c**t in world football than Bruno Fernandes?

I think that's an interesting point.

Take the Greenwood handball. We should've instantly taken one of theirs out to stop the game or just boot the ball out of play and crowd the ref as doing that I reckon he'd have gone over to the monitor to have a look.

Instead play went on for about five minutes without ball going out somehow and bet at VAR Hq they couldn't believe their luck in that the incident could just be dismissed given the length of time passed.

All very frustrating.

[cdbearsfan]

At least this game is always good for making a few quid when we take the lead.

[Stu82]

Hate that club
Luiz twice in two games against them.
Thought we played well at 1-2 and fancied our chances.
Barkley back to usual anonymous self

[Risso]

I'm honestly not bothered now if Luiz stays or goes back to Man City. He's done next to nothing in a positive sense for months, and most in most games he's getting booked for stupid fouls, as well as shit penalties against Man U.

Barkley should have been fucked off weeks ago, useless fat bastard.

[ez]

We got what we all expected.  Pity as we looked fairly comfortable up to Luiz gifting a penalty. Game changer.

[Goldie.7]

It’s the hope that kills you.
It really does.

What hope? We never win against this lot at home. Even if we equalized they would have got another in extra, extra time. 

[CT]

Super performance in the first half, but we give a stupid penalty away and completely lose our heads.  Denied a blatant penalty, but in the end we got what we deserved .  Watkins was a disgrace as well.

Why was he a disgrace? Been fucking great for us all season, worked his bollocks off.