Top 10 Villa Goals this Century

[Meanwood Villa]

https://youtu.be/5OxLZ6NyFwc

Hitz only scored 12 for us!

[Meanwood Villa]

Petrov v Derby?

Grealish v Rotherham is my favourite - but not sure why

Context in the game/season. Really felt we'd chucked it away at half time but turned around to be a great night and another step on our inexorable march to promotion.

[Beard82]

Petrov v Derby?

Grealish v Rotherham is my favourite - but not sure why

Context in the game/season. Really felt we'd chucked it away at half time but turned around to be a great night and another step on our inexorable march to promotion.

Yes your probably right - I think it was also the goal that made me decide that Grealish was the real deal

[RamboandBruno]

Petrov v Derby?

Grealish v Rotherham is my favourite - but not sure why

Context in the game/season. Really felt we'd chucked it away at half time but turned around to be a great night and another step on our inexorable march to promotion.

Yes your probably right - I think it was also the goal that made me decide that Grealish was the real deal

I went to Sheff Wed away a few days earlier, which was a brilliant smash and grab. Turning it around against Rotherham felt for the first time that we might be going up.

[ez]

Weimann away at Liverpool.  Good one-two with Benteke.
McGinn against Sheffield Wednesday.

[Lastfootstamper]

If I'm going to be picky, I think you've over-egged where we were at at the time with McGinn's goal against Wednesday, Dave. We were still very much spluttering along under Bruce, and it counted for bugger-all in a game we deservedly lost.

It still makes my list, though. A wonderful strike of which I had a fantastic side-on view from the back row of L9. If I close my eyes, I can still hear the crack off the bar.

[cdbearsfan]

https://youtu.be/5OxLZ6NyFwc

Hitz only scored 12 for us!

Only one of which was in the area (and still probably travelled about twenty yards).

[SoccerHQ]

Nilis v Chelsea should be on there given we lost him a few weeks later.

Was right behind that volley in the Holte that day.

[dcdavecollett]

It was a wonderful goal!

What happened to Luc was an absolute tragedy.

[SoccerHQ]

It was a wonderful goal!

What happened to Luc was an absolute tragedy.

Bit of an aside but it's frustrating we don't bring back more players and interview them on the pitch at half time, it was brilliant a few years back when Laursen and Angel came onto the pitch and got a brilliant ovation.

I read an interview with Nilis a few years ago and he said he'd love to come back to VP but has never been asked so seems an easy thing for comms department to do. Might even ease the congestion in the
concourses.

Anyway one of the what if Villa careers in last 25 years given how he started as he hit a fantastic goal in one of the Interoto matches that summer. Him and Merson would've been very enjoyable together given how Merse was playing in that time.

[dcdavecollett]

I agree.

I don't know how many would want to come back and talk to the fans but it would be good to see this done as a feature through the season.

Luc did have a few words to the fans in 2001 against Leeds, when it was clear that he would never be able to play again.

[dcdavecollett]

Final words on Luc, who was a superb technician. he would have made as many goals as he scored. He used to put them on a plate for Van Nistelrooy at Anderlecht(?).

To make it even better, he was a Bosman, so cost us nothing. Arsenal wanted him too, but he didn't think he'd get the games there with Dennis B being top of the pile.

Such a shame!

[SoccerHQ]

Final words on Luc, who was a superb technician. he would have made as many goals as he scored. He used to put them on a plate for Van Nistelrooy at Anderlecht(?).

To make it even better, he was a Bosman, so cost us nothing. Arsenal wanted him too, but he didn't think he'd get the games there with Dennis B being top of the pile.

Such a shame!

Merson was in great form that season so we'd have been decent to watch given how boring 00-01 generally was.

Said before I can barely remember anything of that season between Nilis wonder goal and relegating Coventry but didn't Merse score from about 40 yards last minute v Everton that year?

[Meanwood Villa]

https://youtu.be/a60XV28Ejm0

Yes. I was there. Awful game but great finish.

[BigFangVillan]

As strikes go Alan Wright at WHL is up there.

Goal of the month x 3 in the same game.