Villa 6 (six) Brighton 1 Post Match Lower Grounds Celebration.

[sid1964]

Mcginn was fantastic on Saturday

Torres and Konsa are now starting to form an excellent partnership, and they could be our Centre backs for the next few seasons

Our passing and movement was very good

[Chico Hamilton III]

I was out and about in Horsham this morning and didn't see a single seagull club badge which is unheard of these last few years. I had the reebok 96 home on.

I was in Brighton yesterday - fantastic place, by the way - and must have seen a dozen people in Brighton shirts. It was quite good to see so many. I even had a chat with an old boy who was at the game - he was very complimentary about Villa and we shared horror stories about the drive back down south afterwards. Took forever for me to get on to the motorway from Star City, finally got down to the M25 where the traffic slowed to a crawl, got to within a couple of miles of home and realised the Blackwall Tunnel was shut. Took over 1.5 hours to travel the last 5 miles…..

[LeeB]

There was an incident near the start of the game, before we'd scored I think where it looked like Diably had put the ball past the keeper as it was bouncing in the box then got wiped out, but a free kick was given to them. Me and the lad next to me were convinced it should have been a pen, I've not seen it since and I'd forgotten about it in all the fun that followed.

[AV82EC]

There was an incident near the start of the game, before we'd scored I think where it looked like Diably had put the ball past the keeper as it was bouncing in the box then got wiped out, but a free kick was given to them. Me and the lad next to me were convinced it should have been a pen, I've not seen it since and I'd forgotten about it in all the fun that followed.

I thought that was a penalty as well but I think VAR looked at it as the ref was holding his ear and standing off to the side. It was given as a free kick to Brighton so maybe Steel got to the ball before Diaby though in real time it looked the other way.

[paul_e]

There was an incident near the start of the game, before we'd scored I think where it looked like Diably had put the ball past the keeper as it was bouncing in the box then got wiped out, but a free kick was given to them. Me and the lad next to me were convinced it should have been a pen, I've not seen it since and I'd forgotten about it in all the fun that followed.

If it's th eone I'm thinking of I think it got pulle back for a very soft free kick against Zaniolo, it was one of about 6 really soft decisions the ref gave them in the first 20minutes.

[LeeB]

There was an incident near the start of the game, before we'd scored I think where it looked like Diably had put the ball past the keeper as it was bouncing in the box then got wiped out, but a free kick was given to them. Me and the lad next to me were convinced it should have been a pen, I've not seen it since and I'd forgotten about it in all the fun that followed.

If it's th eone I'm thinking of I think it got pulle back for a very soft free kick against Zaniolo, it was one of about 6 really soft decisions the ref gave them in the first 20minutes.

That must have been it.

The free kick that led to their goal was a joke, and there was one in the first half where Zaniolo was chasing a ball over the top and eating the ground up on their full back when he looked over his shoulder and just stopped dead, about 15 yards short of the ball causing Zaniolo to crash into him.

Blatant obstruction, free kick Brighton.

[AV82EC]

On Zaniolo, whilst he didn’t have the best of games from a creative perspective, he did an absolute job on Veltman the right back. Completely pinned him in his own half and meant he didn’t get forward at all to support March and was a continual outlet for the longer pass from Martinez or the back 4. It was reminiscent of McGinn against Dan Burn.

[AV84]

On Zaniolo, whilst he didn’t have the best of games from a creative perspective, he did an absolute job on Veltman the right back. Completely pinned him in his own half and meant he didn’t get forward at all to support March and was a continual outlet for the longer pass from Martinez or the back 4. It was reminiscent of McGinn against Dan Burn.

I think sometimes people forget there's a difference between a player doing nothing, and a player not doing what you specifically want them to be doing. If Emery sent Zoniolo into that game with those exact instructions then he's probably got a 10 out of 10 and a gold star in the team review.

[simon ward 50]

Poor goal to concede I thought?

[paul_e]

I agree, I thought Zaniolo did a very good job of effectively being our target man for the quick ball to break their press and after about half an hour you could see their midfield backed right off us because of it. That's why it also made sense to change things whe we did to give them a different problem that they also failed to handle.

The only complaint I have about Zaniolo right now is that he wants an extra touch or an extra second to pick what to do, he'll learn and in the meantime he's a really useful option to do jobs like he did at the weekend.

[AV84]

Zaniolo seems a little bit too eager at times, him overrunning it for Watkins goal was a good example. Diaby was making the same run but managed to pull back and not end up offside. But the flip of that is he seems very enthusiastic and seems to have completely bought in to the club and the team and what they're trying to do. So no complaints from me about him.

[PaulWinch again]

I’ll take a player being overly enthusiastic every day of the week.

[London Villan]

He is a solid back-up to Ramsey and has a physical presence, which is also very useful and not something we have a lot of in this squad.

[Dr Butler]

6 goals and not 1 header....great stuff from the Villa.

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[Risso]

Complete noob question, but the player entrance music now, what is it?