Aston Villa vs Crystal Palace Post-Match

[Toronto Villa]

Unai’s reaction when Cash smashed the ball out of play right before our third goal was priceless. The fury. Cash will hear about it.

[Bad English]

To me it was a typical post international break game . Players all over the world with little or no preparation looked out of sorts. I wouldn't judge anyone too harshly.

Yes, at times Emi looked like he was suffering from altitude sickness, jet-lag and the squits.

What was it somebody said about a school child behaviour?

Ner, ner, ner,
*Does Emi cock thrust with oven glove.*

[kipeye]

What a strange game.
Should have been out of sight by half tame.
Looked dead and buried in the second tack.
Then somehow bounced back. 
Palace are shite. Yemall right.

I think Kamara needs bender.
Pau can pass but not much of a defender. 
Zani could be a superstar. 
And Bailey did ok. Carf. Carf.

Doesn't even rhyme.

Fixed.

[AV84]

Watching Duran's goal, and it is a brilliant goal, and I get why he'd want to celebrate it, but I notice Watkins goes straight for the ball in the net, presumably to try to get the game restarted as quickly as possible. Not a complaint against Duran, but it's always interesting to see the more experienced players reactions in these situations.

[The Edge]

Generally I don't pay too much attention to the whinging on the match thread, if people want to vent that way then fair enough but can the 'only 1 striker' thing be put to bed, Duran is a fantastic prospect who hasn't let us down and now has 3 goals from about 150minutes of game time this season.

The only other observation is that there was a bit of criticism of Doug on the match thread that made no sense to me, I thought he was the best player on the pitch by a very long way.

This is exactly the sort of analysis that is threatening to plague match threads. I put it to you. Do we want to read this sort of thing during a game?

Good thing this isn't a match thread isn't it.

You are missing the point; this is a post-match thread where you also get similar top-notch primary school ranting.

It's what we come on here for. It would be very boring if everyone agreed all the time.

No it fucking would not.

Yes it fucking would

[supertom]

Side note, probably said many times but games going on this long is ridiculous. Obviously, they just needed enough for us to spank in the third...obviously. But that was enough.
VAR should never take as long as it has at times this season. Clear and obvious should make these decisions relatively simple. If they can't be done within a couple of minutes either it's not clear and obvious or (like today) the officials don't have a clear understanding of the laws.

[Tayls_7]

88 minutes of Villa-enducing fatalism only to be delighted.

I hope Woy is ok. I think he can go into that Sir Graham and Sir Bobby group of managers who are loved and respected across the football world.

[Meanwood Villa]

I thought we were by far the better team in the first half and should have been in front. We looked rattled by their goal but were still creating chances. Admittedly we also looked quite open. That save by Emi from Eze when he tried to flick it over him was top drawer by the way. Nonetheless it looked like an undeserved defeat until a moment of magic from Duran. There was only one winner from there, tremendous stuff. 10 in a row!

[Risso]

I fully and completely back this manager after he took us to 7th in two thirds of last season.

Disappointing to see negativity creep into match threads when things go against us. We always have a chance of a turnaround with this manager.

Get a grip, mate.

It's a match thread on a football forum. What do you think is going to happen when we are losing at home to Palace, and not playing that well?

I’m with Villain82 on this one. Some posts sound like they are written by primary school kids with players veering from being total shit to world beaters within minutes.

I'm not.

He's talking out of his arse, I'm afraid.

But anyway, we won, it's not far off 2am here and I'm going to have a cigar on the balcony

Agreed. I'd much rather read the opinions of people concerning the game in the match and post match threads (whether positive, negative or indifferent), than posters criticising others for daring to say that we possibly weren't playing that well. There's no badges given out for being Bestest Fan of the Month that I'm aware of.

[frank black]

Palace’s game plan of sitting back and wait for a mistake nearly worked

But we should’ve been out of sight.

Loved it when the time wasting bit em on the bum!

[not3bad]

Very frustrating to watch - up to a point. Palace were set up to stifle us and nick a goal to steal the match. They are well organised and their gameplan was working. We didn't help ourselves by missing a couple of guilt edged chances.

I have to admit my corner of the Lower Holte were giving up hope when Duran popped up with that belter. After that there was a feeling we could go on and win it, especially with all that injury time to come. In the end it was a win we had to fight for and a great feeling. UTV!!

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Three points and 3 goals will keep me happy until Warsaw. From the evidence today we're still trying to find a way to gel this team together. Understandably it will take time and injuries to key players hasn't helped.
Unai needs to get the players especially in midfield playing in their best positions or bench them. He takes so much away from their capabilities when they are played out of position.
Delighted for Duran. That was a bit special.

[paul_e]

Agreed. I'd much rather read the opinions of people concerning the game in the match and post match threads (whether positive, negative or indifferent), than posters criticising others for daring to say that we possibly weren't playing that well. There's no badges given out for being Bestest Fan of the Month that I'm aware of.

Sorry but that's utter bullshit. You regularly have a go at people who post in those threads where it doesn't match what you say. Normally someone saying something positive when you've decided everything is shit, you've done it to me many times over the last few years.

[OCD]

Side note, probably said many times but games going on this long is ridiculous. Obviously, they just needed enough for us to spank in the third...obviously. But that was enough.
VAR should never take as long as it has at times this season. Clear and obvious should make these decisions relatively simple. If they can't be done within a couple of minutes either it's not clear and obvious or (like today) the officials don't have a clear understanding of the laws.

Yep. 9 minutes of injury time turned into 16 and a half minutes injury time without there being a bad injury. More than an entire half of extra time. They really need to enforce that it needs to be clear and obvious and not re-refereeing the game, like they said they wouldn't do.

[London Villan]

Watching Duran's goal, and it is a brilliant goal, and I get why he'd want to celebrate it, but I notice Watkins goes straight for the ball in the net, presumably to try to get the game restarted as quickly as possible. Not a complaint against Duran, but it's always interesting to see the more experienced players reactions in these situations.

They were going mad at him on the bench to get on with the game.