Villa v Man City Post-Match Thread

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Did De Bruyne’s cross take a deflection for their goal? I’ve not seen it back but from where I was it looked like Martinez should have done better or I would have expected him to claim the cross.

[Legion]

It was a quality cross for me.

[UK Redsox]

Did you have a good view of Leon’s goal Leeg. Your seat looked to be a prime spot for that

[dave shelley]

I, amongst others wes not exxpecting that.  Onwards etc

[Legion]

Did you have a good view of Leon’s goal Leeg. Your seat looked to be a prime spot for that

Yes. It was outstanding. The move that led to it as well as the finish and his celebration.

[PaulWinch again]

It was a quality cross for me.

Yeah I think it’s mainly the quality of the cross.

[olaftab]

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.

Did you get out of bed the wrong side this morning?

I would say BE got out on the right side as usual.

[Ads]

Really pleasing performance and result.

The midfield shape worked so much better with a traditional 433, albeit Ramsey and Bailey flattening into a 5 helped us.

Ashley Young was superb. That tackle on De Bruyne fantastic and he had Foden in his pocket. A little shake with distribution from the back at first, but felt we grew into the game more.

Rocked a little after they scored when they turned the heat up, rode our luck, but I felt on balance with the effort we put in we deserved that.

There's some real.quality in this squad and if we can get the shape and balance right, we should improve.

I'd being the Donk in for McGinn next week, as he was poor again unfortunately. Maybe a few weeks off will help?

Watkins lead the line well, Bailey finished beautifully and Ramsey on occasion broke the line and hit the box like he was doing.

Felt we stayed compact and very seldom did an individual get drawn out on the press, which is what they look to exploit. Felt Emi was at fault for the goal, but not seen it back.

Loads to work on and build from there. The noise was fantastic second half. Imagine how loud it will be in a year or two when there's another 10,000? Let's ensure we start to put consistent 100% effort in like that evreyweek, as if we do, with the quality we have, it might lead somewhere interesting.

[Bermuda Villa]

Quality battling performance with everyone giving 100%. It just shows when you set a team up with proper shape and the team have belief in this you can get the basics right, now to build on this and get some confidence before you can start introducing the flair into the side. Its all about building some confidence now.

I thought Young was superb with the whole back four so disciplined and putting a shift in and Kamara and Luiz especially excellent, the ball Dougie threaded through to Watkins in the first half was sublime.

As for the Ref blowing his whistle without letting the play develop why is anyone surprised its clear the so called big sides get the decisions, the disallowed Wet Spam goal today was a disgrace but you knew they would side with Chelsea.

Now lets follow this up at Leicester ......

UTV

[Meanwood Villa]

Lots of positive reports from those who were there and it looks from MOTD like we had some good chances.

[PaulWinch again]

Lots of positive reports from those who were there and it looks from MOTD like we had some good chances.

They dominated clearly, but we played some nice stuff as we grew into the game.

[cdbearsfan]

We should have won. Fuck VAR not even bothering to check if our perfectly good second goal was onside.

[Brazilian Villain]

It was a quality cross for me.

Yeah I think it’s mainly the quality of the cross.

Same here.

[Bad English]

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.

Did you get out of bed the wrong side this morning?

I would say BE got out on the right side as usual.

Whichever way I get out of bed and whatever my mood, I will never, ever take kindly to seeing a link to that hateful, damaging organ.

[Sexual Ealing]

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.

No, he writes for the Mail. And I don't care whether they devote a front page to "Hurrah for the Claret Shirts", they can fuck off.