Aston Villa v Legia Warsaw Match Thread

[Jon Crofts]

This referee is shite.

[villadelph]

where do they find these clowns?

[Rigadon]

The yellow cards in the match have been an absolute joke.

[SoccerHQ]

Maybe we want the gate money from an extra round? Holte Suite needs the money.

They'll be some decent teams dropping in from the Europa league so odd mentality especially as February would be pretty light without the play off round.

[SamTheMouse]

And we thought English officials were shit.

[jon collett]

Villa have issued a statement. Maybe all the “experts” on here might read this before further commenting:

Aston Villa Football Club can confirm that no away fans were allowed into Villa Park for this evening’s UEFA Europa Conference League fixture with Legia Warsaw on the advice of West Midlands Police following large-scale disorder outside the stadium caused by visiting supporters.

The UK safety authorities, UEFA and Aston Villa, communicated on November 2 that the ticket allocation for away fans for this fixture would be reduced to 1,002 on the advice of safety authorities as a result of previous large-scale disorder caused by Legia fans last month at AZ Alkmaar.

A number of Dutch police officers were injured during that disorder. As a consequence, UEFA banned Legia supporters from travelling to Mostar for their game against HŠK Zrinjski.

In spite of numerous requests for cooperation from Legia Warsaw concerning their travelling supporters, especially in the last two days, no assistance on the serious safety matter of away fans attending Villa Park was forthcoming from the visiting club. The club has repeatedly, including this morning, raised concerns in conjunction with UEFA and all the relevant authorities to Legia that ticketless away supporters were attempting to attend Villa Park.

Approximately an hour before kick-off, Legia fans engaged in planned and systematic violent acts against West Midlands Police officers and a decision was then made by West Midlands Police to exclude all Legia supporters.

Aston Villa strongly condemns the behaviour of those visiting supporters and would like to thank West Midlands Police for their professionalism in very difficult circumstances.

[ez]

I've just seen fan footage of legia fans lobbing bottles into the holte end from trinity Rd.

[devilla]

You can't jump for a header with raising your arms. Unless you're zebedee of course.

[Martyn Smith]

Good to see that both teams haven't obviously settled for the draw

[pauliewalnuts]

The home performances in this competition have been really, really poor.

[JUAN PABLO]

Morennooooooooooooooooooo

[PeterWithesShin]

SCORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRCHIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Lizz]

2-0.

[Martyn Smith]

MOOOOOREEEEEENNNNOOOOOOO!!

[Holte132]

Moreno!!!!!!!!!!!