Villa v Man City Post-Match Thread

[Nii Lamptey]

Cracking evening's football - Thoroughly enjoyed that. Performance, atmosphere, tactics, the lot!

Couple of points - Early on, we were getting destroyed down our right. Cash was getting totally overrun down that side (*and has been poor for a while now), but the introduction of Ashley Young totally nullified that threat. Rolled back the years and was easily my MotM.

For the stick we've given Gerrard over the past month or so, he deserves the plaudits for how he set us up for the game, along with the subs he made. Was not expecting McGinn to make way for Phil, so maybe he's now finally seeing what we've been seeing for the past year! Shoutout to Tyrone too - Had Haaland totally under control last night, and spotted both Ty and Martinez winding him up throughout the match.  😁

Despite the ref/linesman fucking us with the offside, REALLY happy with the draw considering what most of us were expecting. The key now is to take that and build on it for Leicester and Southampton and not revert to type.

Jury is definitely still out on Gerrard, as one game a great manager doth not make (*think Yoda said that once!), but credit where it's due, it's a step in the right direction.

Enjoy the remainder of your weekend!  #UTV

[London Villan]

It was a great performance, gerrard and the team deserve a lot of credit for that. The structure of the team worked really well, particularly the full backs not playing in front of the strikers!

[wittonwarrior]

The thing  that saved us last night was Cash getting injured.  From therein we had a full back who could defend on the right. 

[olaftab]

Its quite remarkable to see the change in attitude due to one game.

Iv been saying, give Gerrard time..he is class, and look what happens, he pulls out a plum against a side who were going to annihilate us if you were to believe all the naysayers.

Hopefully some of the idiots might get off his back now and let him do the job he was paid to do.

Ahh....Bless!

[dave shelley]

Its quite remarkable to see the change in attitude due to one game.

Iv been saying, give Gerrard time..he is class, and look what happens, he pulls out a plum against a side who were going to annihilate us if you were to believe all the naysayers.

Hopefully some of the idiots might get off his back now and let him do the job he was paid to do.

Bit of a generalisation there professor regarding calling people idiots for expressing opinions on a public forum.

[colin69]

I would love nothing more than for Gerrard to learn from this performance and be flexible enough to change things as and when needed rather than stick to the same tactics and formations that were not working. If he can it would save all the upheaval of starting all over again….again.
I guess the next two games will show us.

[Bad English]

Its quite remarkable to see the change in attitude due to one game.

Iv been saying, give Gerrard time..he is class, and look what happens, he pulls out a plum against a side who were going to annihilate us if you were to believe all the naysayers.

Hopefully some of the idiots might get off his back now and let him do the job he was paid to do.

Ahh....Bless!

Six posts and they are calling people idiots. Do I detect a former poster under a new username?

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Its quite remarkable to see the change in attitude due to one game.

Iv been saying, give Gerrard time..he is class, and look what happens, he pulls out a plum against a side who were going to annihilate us if you were to believe all the naysayers.

Hopefully some of the idiots might get off his back now and let him do the job he was paid to do.

Ahh....Bless!

I agree. Don't you realise Gerrard having to spend time reading all these idiotic posts on H & V about us wanting to be more successful means he has less time preparing the team.

[Legion]

Its quite remarkable to see the change in attitude due to one game.

Iv been saying, give Gerrard time..he is class, and look what happens, he pulls out a plum against a side who were going to annihilate us if you were to believe all the naysayers.

Hopefully some of the idiots might get off his back now and let him do the job he was paid to do.

Ahh....Bless!

Six posts and they are calling people idiots. Do I detect a former poster under a new username?

Which is against site rules. Why ask for an account to be deleted then re-register with a similar username?

[Clampy]

Its quite remarkable to see the change in attitude due to one game.

Iv been saying, give Gerrard time..he is class, and look what happens, he pulls out a plum against a side who were going to annihilate us if you were to believe all the naysayers.

Hopefully some of the idiots might get off his back now and let him do the job he was paid to do.

Bit of a generalisation there professor regarding calling people idiots for expressing opinions on a public forum.

It does seem to be a common theme from posters with Holtender in their name.

[Legion]

Could be a coincidence, though.

[LeeB]

Its quite remarkable to see the change in attitude due to one game.

Iv been saying, give Gerrard time..he is class, and look what happens, he pulls out a plum against a side who were going to annihilate us if you were to believe all the naysayers.

Hopefully some of the idiots might get off his back now and let him do the job he was paid to do.

Bit of a generalisation there professor regarding calling people idiots for expressing opinions on a public forum.

It does seem to be a common theme from posters with Holtender in their name.

No offense to the 13,000 or so souls I'm about to offend, but all Holte Enders are a bit yampy. The North Stand is the home of cool, reasoned debate.

[Risso]

No offense to the 13,000 or so souls I'm about to offend, but all Holte Enders are a bit yampy. The North Stand is the home of caravan owners, tartan blankets and thermos flasks.

FTFY

[shirley_villan]

Not sure if it's been mentioned but there was a Villa fan receiving CPR from some coppers outside the Holte End club shop just before kick off. Fingers crossed for him.

[darren woolley]

Brilliant performance leaving Villa Park after the game felt so good I haven't felt like that for a while let's hope it kick starts our season.