Chelsea v Villa Post Match gloat

[CT]

One of my favourite away days in some time.

Almost sad to see how sanitised Stamford Bridge has become as their fans barely made a peep all game. Our fans were magnificent and to get to sing “You’ve seen the Villa, now f*ck off home” to the leaving home fans was brilliant.

What a team performance - lost count of how many headers we won from their crosses.

Getting Unai Emery was one of the smartest pieces of business this club could do.

[Jon Crofts]

Watched some extended highlights late last night, that Chinchilla fella with the hair, how much was he again, £60 million I recall? I hope they kept the receipt.

Hard to pick a MOTM performance, Douglas Luiz is becoming quite a baller, McGinn has his mojo back and other than the miss early on Watkins is on a roll.

Under that chancer Gerrard I’d happily have sold half that starting 11, not sure now.

[Lastfootstamper]

I was surprised at how basic Chelsea's football is. Bore more than a little similarity to us under Gerrard. Slide ball behind fullback, stand cross up. Are they setting up to bring Kerry Dixon out of retirement?

[baddowvillans]

Let’s be honest we’d be crying blue murder if that Chilwell disallowed goal had been scored by us.

Disagree. Clear foul for me.

Yeah, two hands on his lower back, you'll get pulled up for that on a Sunday morning.

The best bit was the way Ash turned it into a shockingly violent attack😆

He was just making sure the ref had noticed it. Like he does.

Surely the learned pundits on Sky and the BBC call that "clever" or does that only work for some teams?

[Hillbilly]

With Arsenal winning we can no longer win the Premiership. Ah well.

[astonvilla82]

Son rang me three times from London asking did I see the match, think he was slightly drunk, memories he never forget

[dave shelley]

One of my favourite away days in some time.

Almost sad to see how sanitised Stamford Bridge has become as their fans barely made a peep all game. Our fans were magnificent and to get to sing “You’ve seen the Villa, now f*ck off home” to the leaving home fans was brilliant.

What a team performance - lost count of how many headers we won from their crosses.

Getting Unai Emery was one of the smartest pieces of business this club could do.

They were certainly audible at the final whistle.  It must have sounded even better being there.

[Allan C]

A fabulous team performance. Like others have said, I never felt we would concede after the second goal despite the stats which suggested we got away with a lucky result. We restricted them to lots of sideway passes and hopeful crosses and woeful shooting. Excellent all round.

[kipeye]

LeeB protests too much, he'd be playing the biggest drum in reality.

The drum covered with the stretched skin of his impoverished tenants.

Tee hee!

[LeeB]

Son rang me three times from London asking did I see the match, think he was slightly drunk, memories he never forget

Good for him, he's had a tough time at Spurs this season

[LeeB]

LeeB protests too much, he'd be playing the biggest drum in reality.

The drum covered with the stretched skin of his impoverished tenants.

Tee hee!

Come on eamonn, where's your concern for the constant harrasment of simple travelling folk like me?

[Hookeysmith]

Just wow.
I don't think Chelsea would score if we were still playing now.

Mings/ Watkins - Southgate you fucking clown.

Anyone still think it was a mistake to let Ings go?

I like a good few on here thought McGinn was finished at this level but what a turn around

Now we need to punish Leicester

[Concrete Tom]

The stats will say we were lucky..

I'd say we were professional.

Our Exg or whatever it's called was 0.82 whereas Chelsea were 2.09. We will never get anywhere unless we up our Exg.

Higher xG didn’t seem to help Chelsea though, did it?

[astonvilla82]

Son rang me three times from London asking did I see the match, think he was slightly drunk, memories he never forget

Good for him, he's had a tough time at Spurs this season

was waiting for it

[Ads]

The M6 was shut J17-16, so it took my 2.5 hours to get to Stoke, and while things picked up beyond there, it took over 5 hours to grt to Chelsea. Every minute absolutely worth it.

It felt strange to go down to Stamford Bridge and expect us to win, not out of blind loyalty, but because the stats, the form and everything about the way they and we had been playing, suggested we would. And then to do it, so comfortably, absolutely brilliant!

McGinn gets man of the match, and he was excellent, but every week Dougie Luiz is bossing midfield. We can talk about a lot of players who have improved, but his form is excellent. We're so organised, we respond well tactically, such as stopping the Sideshow Bob/Chilwell axis- their increased moaning 2nd half evident of our tactic working.

I was upper tier and in line with their disallowed goal, it looked an obvious foul, climbing all over him.

We gave them a pair of chances first half, the dodgy pass into Kamara and Mudyk going through (I think if Chilwell hits the target Emi is there and saves), but 2nd half they huffed and puffed and never looked like scoring. Lots of crosses, lots of 20 yard+ shots, Emi never really doing anything significant to earn the clean sheet.

Ollie should have scored, the football before McGinn hit the bar was fantastic. Both goals so well taken. We could have used the ball a bit better, which would have helped us control it more. But still, incredibly pleasing win.

I've probably tempted fate, but I've said aloud that I'm going to hold up on the summer holiday as I might well need that annual leave come the autumn...

They're noticing us now.