Villa v Man City Post-Match Thread

[PaulWinch again]

Ashley Young was brilliant today, absolutely superb. Looked miles better than Cash, who was poor again, even before the injury. Mings was great as well, as was Luiz. He didn't look like he had much of a cob on after not getting the Arsenal transfer.

No Cash has been a bit under par so far this season, but then so have most of them.

Doug was great I hope he signs that new deal.

[Toronto Villa]

Ashley Young was brilliant today, absolutely superb. Looked miles better than Cash, who was poor again, even before the injury. Mings was great as well, as was Luiz. He didn't look like he had much of a cob on after not getting the Arsenal transfer.

Young was brilliant, it was a great piece of luck that Cash got injured who has been crap all season.

Both full backs haven’t looked their best because how they have been asked to play. They are not wingers and when they are unable to get back on the counter or too knackered from trying to be wingers and defenders they look less than their ability. Ashley Young back in the day looked great because Bouma being a defender helped a lot. Same as Jack with Targett. We need to allow Cash and Digne to overlap every so often but be defenders first, to help the likes of Coutinho and Bailey focus on attacking.

[Somniloquism]

Oh and what the fuck was the ref doing for Phil’s disallowed goal?

More to the point what was VAR doing? It was completely brushed over. How the hell did they decide not to review that? City players just stopped which obviously swayed the officials but that should not stop VAR getting involved. Bizarre really.

Ref whistled before the goal, VAR can't overrule it then. In other words the Lino who gave walker onside first half, decided Coutinho was off spuriously even though the attacking play was on going. Remember we got done the same against Crystal Palace and another match when ref whistles just before the goal is stroked in.

[PeterWithesShin]

Oh and what the fuck was the ref doing for Phil’s disallowed goal?

More to the point what was VAR doing? It was completely brushed over. How the hell did they decide not to review that? City players just stopped which obviously swayed the officials but that should not stop VAR getting involved. Bizarre really.

The linesman fucked up, not the ref or VAR.

[ChicagoLion]

Oh and what the fuck was the ref doing for Phil’s disallowed goal?

The ref pretty much gave them everything and the disallowed goal was a total disgrace.

[Legion]

Ashley Young was brilliant today, absolutely superb. Looked miles better than Cash, who was poor again, even before the injury. Mings was great as well, as was Luiz. He didn't look like he had much of a cob on after not getting the Arsenal transfer.

Young was brilliant, it was a great piece of luck that Cash got injured who has been crap all season.

Really? You wish injury on a Villa player? Or have I read that wrong?

[Legion]

Oh and what the fuck was the ref doing for Phil’s disallowed goal?

More to the point what was VAR doing? It was completely brushed over. How the hell did they decide not to review that? City players just stopped which obviously swayed the officials but that should not stop VAR getting involved. Bizarre really.

The linesman fucked up, not the ref or VAR.

Correct. He was atrocious throughout.

[ChicagoLion]

Oh and what the fuck was the ref doing for Phil’s disallowed goal?

More to the point what was VAR doing? It was completely brushed over. How the hell did they decide not to review that? City players just stopped which obviously swayed the officials but that should not stop VAR getting involved. Bizarre really.

The linesman fucked up, not the ref or VAR.

The ref blew his whistle before Coutinho shot, so it’s the refs fault for not allowing the play to continue which compounded the linesman fuck up.

[Mister E]

Fucking robbed. In every other game I've seen, the lineman would not have flagged  - It WAS onside; you could see it was in realtime.  Linesmen are told not to raise the flag if it's marginal. It was .... robbed.
And Sky is not even discussing it!
So angry.

SG did well today. Picked the right team and set them up well.

I thought the team was well balanced today. Watkins, Mings, Luiz and Young were particularly good. Bailey and Kamara played their role well. Konsa did fine, although I felt for the goal he was guilty of ball-watching rather than marking Haaland.
McGinn was again disappointing, and Ramsey was not really at the races.
What spooks me is the absence of any critique about the linesman / referee on the disallowed goal: I'm still fuming about it.

I hope the club make strenuous complaints to the EPL and the Refs association about it - what happened this evening goes against all the advice that has been given to officials this season.

[ChicagoLion]

Ashley Young was brilliant today, absolutely superb. Looked miles better than Cash, who was poor again, even before the injury. Mings was great as well, as was Luiz. He didn't look like he had much of a cob on after not getting the Arsenal transfer.

Young was brilliant, it was a great piece of luck that Cash got injured who has been crap all season.

Really? You wish injury on a Villa player? Or have I read that wrong?

course not, it’s just that Cash going off improved the team.

[Legion]

The Sky Sports highlights address it.

[eamonn]

Quote from the Mailonline report:

To be honest I'd rather not see links from that pitiful rag on here, no matter how much they praise the Villa.

100% agree.

Sure, but the quotes about Villa Park are great, surely we can agree that.

I've not clicked either but the article is hardly by that MON-loving cnut Oliver Holt is it? (son of that boring auld wan in Corrie that would never die off, Emily Bishop).

Actually, I think he's from the Mirror.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Great team performance, every player did well. I said to my mate he should put Chambers on for Cash and play him or Konsa at rb, shows what I know as Young was superb.

Doug was my m.o.m, although the 2 centre halves and Watkins deserve praise.

That performance has laid down a marker now, we’ve shown we can play much better than our recent efforts if we’re not so open and the tactics are tweaked.

Hopefully it’s a launch pad for Gerrard, we’ll know more after Leicester though.

[Richard E]

Coutinho wasn’t in an offside position, and the ball wasn’t played forward, so there were TWO reasons why he wasn’t offside. The linesman on that side was atrocious all game.

[Steve67]

A much better performance.  McGinn apart, I thought they all played well.  Nice goal from Villa, with consistency from the linesman and  referee, who know what might have happened with Coutinho's banger?  Dendonker in for McGinn and we will be much more solid.  Lovely goal from Bailey, great set up and pass from JJ.  Clever shithousery from Martinez as he slowed it all down and allowed Gerrard to speak to the players.  I thought Gerrard looked much more communicative and engaged with the players today too.  Still some work to do and this was a free hit, but a good point. Luiz, Kamara played well, as did Konsa.  Fantastic ball in from them for their goal but other than that, we looked better defensively other than a couple of minutes.  Something to build on and I hope this gives them all confidence.  You have to earn the right to put the flair players on by being very solid first of all and Gerrard set us up properly today.