Chelsea v Aston Villa Match Thread

[SamTheMouse]

5-4-1?

Yep, clearly wants to stop them getting the ball to the wing backs in so much space.

It's almost like we're have a proactive, tactically-minded coach capable of making adjustments during the game based on what the opposition are doing.

It'll never catch on.

[TonyD]

Chilwell is everywhere on the pitch.

[olaftab]

5-4-1?

Yep, clearly wants to stop them getting the ball to the wing backs in so much space.

It's almost like we're have a proactive, tactically-minded coach capable of making adjustments during the game based on what the opposition are doing.

It'll never catch on.

Yes but what would Stevie the legend who has done everything been every where would have done?

[Skerra]

Need to get on the ball much more. Letting Chelsea have far too much of the ball and, sooner or later, they will make this pressure count. Just feel hat if we let them score 1, they will score more.

[Risso]

And another short pass loses possession. Have any of them worked today?

[JUAN PABLO]

That extra touch from mings scared me

[Dave]

No, but if nobody else has a problem with it, maybe you should just watch on TV if it's bothering you?

I'm watching it on TV, and it's still behind. The radio is almost instant, satellite has a delay.

The idea was to just watch the TV, not have the radio on, and don't follow the match thread!

Doesn't help if you want to post your thought about the game though. It's a tough one, if I'm honest I did like the game recently where PWS wasn't on and it never felt like 1 person was a minute or 2 ahead of everyone else.

I agree Paul, you know that nothing is going to happen in the next two minutes which makes it feel a bit pointless.

While we're analysing it, I'd also add that this is the widest-read Villa website on the internet by a mile (there are 1,600 people reading the site at the moment, compared to around 400 for VillaTalk), and there are a lot of people around the world who rely on these threads for Villa-centric updates on what is happening in the match. I've done it a thousand times myself.

So while I can imagine that it might be annoying for people who are watching on TV / online who want to broadly discuss things in their version of "real time", I think the site is serving its purpose far better with regular updates, being done as quickly as possible. And so I for one think that what PWS does is a service whose usefulness outweighs the annoyance that the two dozen or so people who are posting in this thread at the moment might feel.

Others may think otherwise and are welcome to do so.

[Des Little]

This is going to be a long 40 minutes

[JUAN PABLO]

Walker booked

[rob_bridge]

Chilwell is everywhere on the pitch.

He is - silly booking now though

[JUAN PABLO]

Kamte on

[SamTheMouse]

Luiz has been brilliant. Again.

[PeterWithesShin]

SCORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRCHIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[JUAN PABLO]

Wowwwww

[dr.chekov]

fuck yeah