Leeds United 0-3 Aston Villa Post Match thread

[AV82EC]

Second report from the away end:

The round of applause Tyrone Mings gave the Leeds fans at the end was a thing of absolute beauty. Absolutely bloody hilarious.

[AV82EC]

Third report from the away end:

That was the most beautiful away performance that we’ve witnessed in along while. Get the fuck in.

[cdbearsfan]

Second report from the away end:

The round of applause Tyrone Mings gave the Leeds fans at the end was a thing of absolute beauty. Absolutely bloody hilarious.

Would like to see video of this if it exists.

[Meanwood Villa]

Fourth report from the away end. Fan-bloody-tastic! Hugely enjoyable that. Lived in Leeds since 2003, that was extra special.

[Percy McCarthy]

The last three results just serve to underline what a waste those games against Leeds (home) Watford and Newcastle were. Eight points dropped, with even six more points we would be right in the Europa qualification mix.

The Watford defeat may have been one of those blessing in disguise results. We've looked a lot better, more organised and happier since. Dropping Buendia as well was a brave  call but the right one so far.

It was at half-time in that game when I explained to Risso and LeeB that our problems were being caused by the full-backs being too high, negating the strengths of JJ & SJM. I think Purslow overheard, related it to his mate and the rest is history.

[Percy McCarthy]

Second report from the away end:

The round of applause Tyrone Mings gave the Leeds fans at the end was a thing of absolute beauty. Absolutely bloody hilarious.

Lots of them seemed pretty upset that the blatant booing of anti-racism went out of fashion. So they tried to be a bit more subtle about it.

[robbo1874]

Tonight's performance was well nigh perfect.

The tracking back, covering and pressing was phenomenal. Leeds never got a moment of peace anytime, anywhere. Everytime they got hold of the ball there was at least two Villans closing down,  blocking, challenging and  hassling the man on the ball

Conversely when we got hold of it, we had players available and our passing/control in tight situations was top class- players moving, finding space and making themselves available to the man on the ball.

One-twos, passing triangles and players  seemingly to know where each other was almost by instinct. Pretty obvious that work done at BMH is beginning to sink in.

At times, it was as if Leeds were playing against 15 claret and blue Duracell bunnies.

We just need to get  result v Spam at the weekend to keep progressing.

i only saw the last half hour or so, switched on just before the 2nd goal went in.

From what I saw, I agree with your comments. Villa looked pretty good and Leeds looked an absolute mess. When we had the ball we always looked in control and likely to pose a threat. When Leeds were in possession they couldn’t really get anywhere near to cause us real problems.

The stats in the graun were: Villa 14 with 9 on target. Leeds had 1 attempt on target in the whole match.

West Ham will be massive. I think Wolves we can maybe catch, with a game in hand and still have to play them again. Even 6 weeks ago I’d have said no chance we’ll catch them. But ya gotta believe. 😁

[Perthvillan]

Was well worth getting up at 3.45am for.
They tried a bit of rough stuff for the first 15mins but the first goal seemed to knock the stuffing out of them.
They were really awful in the first half so was expecting some response in the second half and they had a go for fist 15 mins but the second goal from Cash (excellent ball from Ings) and worldie from CC finished them off.
Wonderful performance from all in claret & blue and saw the game out beautifully.
"We're Aston Villa and we're taking the piss" was very funny from the away end towards the end of the game.
We have some pretty tough games now so will be interesting to see how we perform.
We move heaven and earth to sign PC permanently.
He is a joy to watch.

UTV

[Toronto Villa]

Did Ted have another post match huddle with his team afterwards?

[robbo1874]

I heard we’ve got an option to sign him permanently for around 34m. Looks a snip at that price, if you consider for instance, we signed Bailey for 26m, I think it was.

[LeeB]

Just back, man was that ever sweet!

Special shout out to Mings for owning those knuggledragging twats.
 

[eamonn]

Who was it that made a goal-saving block in the third minute of the second half for us? Had that gone in, 1-1 with them in the ascendancy, things could have been very different.

I thought we were still too loose with our passing in the first half. I know it's easy to look like Brazil when you're 3-0 up but when you see how Sanson took care of the ball when he came on (I think the only times he lost it was because he was fouled); I don't see either of Luiz, McGinn or Ramsey having that discipline.

Having said that, Meatball and Duggie put a great shift in, off the ball, and McGinn reminded us that he has a decent right peg too. Overall though, CM is the area we need to go up a level to break into the top 8.
Cash has clearly been working on his attacking game and the finish on his weaker side was clever and well-dispatched. Digne really impressed me with his defensive side, he actually showed great positional awareness a few times and he deserves credit for the neat little move from the throw-in that made the space for the opening goal.

Coutinho's magic must be rubbing off the other players in training cos Ings's pass for Cash's goal was of the highest quality. Ollie did some great things, often quite difficult, but then messed-up with the seemingly easier parts. When he skinned their fella on the right wing, I just knew he was going to go for goal instead of making the easy pass to Ings. Goalscorers are greedy but in Watkins' case, he often has that habit of wanting to get his shot away if he has robbed a defender as a "reward" no matter how shit the angle is.

[Matt C]

Absolute vintage away performance.

So many excellent performances but particular kudos to the Polish Cafu and Mings for channelling the stick he got from that lot into a great performance (loved his Tweet too). 

[ROBBO]

That was the strongest subs bench we've had for many a year.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Now if ever Norwich could beat Leeds next match....