Aston Villa v Legia Warsaw Post Match Thread

[taylorsworkrate]

Kamara's blip. No excuse, you can see him glance around both directions before he gets the ball, with looking towards Cash the last he does before receiving it. How he didn't see the player in a white shirt there as well god knows.

He is a quality player, but does seem to struggle occasionally when he gets the ball facing his own goal.  He gets caught on the ball or like tonight gives a loose pass.  In contrast, you very rarely see Luiz caught like that.

He's too casual at times when he receives the ball out from the back. Tremendous footballer bur needs to be more switched on in those situations

[Ian.]

Kamara's blip. No excuse, you can see him glance around both directions before he gets the ball, with looking towards Cash the last he does before receiving it. How he didn't see the player in a white shirt there as well god knows.

He is a quality player, but does seem to struggle occasionally when he gets the ball facing his own goal.  He gets caught on the ball or like tonight gives a loose pass.  In contrast, you very rarely see Luiz caught like that.

He's too casual at times when he receives the ball out from the back. Tremendous footballer bur needs to be more switched on in those situations

I’m sure he’ll learn. To his credit, he doesn’t let it get to him and never hides afterwards. Olsen gave him the ball a few more times in those situations and he dealt with it well.

At times we seemed to be slowing it down and trying this even more than we normally do, it felt like it was a training match and we were experimenting and pushing this to its limits last night.

[ChicagoLion]

Another piss poor ref

[yammers]

Another piss poor ref

He was awful! The amount of times their number 55 took chunks out of ours and in particular constantly pushing Dhuran and he got nothing!

[Lastfootstamper]

On the way to the game I had the WM phone-in on, and heard someone saying how taking the control of VAR out of the hands of pgmol and giving it to foreign refs would fix it. Most likely a doghead. I wonder if he watched that last night.

[Nunkin1965]

I see that the Legia manager went full on Arsene Wenger when asked about the trouble and the lack of his own teams supporters during the game.
Mind you he wouldn't dare I suppose!
Very odd atmosphere without away support though.
The Villa just roll on!

[coreyfeldman]

Thought Olsen was pretty composed.
Didn’t stand a chance with the goal and almost had an assist

You can't say that kind of thing around here mate

Yes he can. If you don't like it 'around here' please feel free to go elsewhere. I also thought he did a pretty decent job.

It was a joke, I thought he played well. I was just referring to the posters who immediately started with the Olsen doom and gloom stuff once the teams were announced.

It's very grouchy round here of late

[Legion]

OK. Apologies.

[taylorsworkrate]

Olsen did ok in fairness. Thought he got caught a bit in no mans land with their header that hit the bar, but besides that no real issues. A better back up still required though

[LeeB]

I hope the miserable prick in the Yard birds queue before the game gets the shits, he was lucky not to be eating his own teeth.

[nigel]

Much better from Olsen but I still think the players retain the fear that we do in trusting him at times. Hope this is the start of him becoming a more reliable understudy.

Disagree, mate, sorry.
 I don’t think there was any fear in the players regarding using him as an outlet, in fact several times I thought they used him when there appeared an easier option.
I thought he was really composed and picked some excellent passes.

[PaulTheVillan]

Olsen was half decent. Better than his normal performances.

Shame we couldn't get the 3rd goal.

At some points in the first half our pace of play was so slow.

[nigel]

Thought Olsen was pretty composed.
Didn’t stand a chance with the goal and almost had an assist

You can't say that kind of thing around here mate

Yes he can. If you don't like it 'around here' please feel free to go elsewhere. I also thought he did a pretty decent job.

It was a joke, I thought he played well. I was just referring to the posters who immediately started with the Olsen doom and gloom stuff once the teams were announced.

It's very grouchy round here of late

To be fair, I did take it with the humour that was intended

[Baldy]

Olsen was half decent. Better than his normal performances.

Shame we couldn't get the 3rd goal.

At some points in the first half our pace of play was so slow.

Yes, very slow in the first half. Beginning to think it is part of Unai's game plan. Slow, slow. fast, slow, slow, slow, slow. Let the ball do the work, let the opposition knacker themselves out, keep some petrol in the tank for the business end of the game.

Thanks to Unai, we can change gear at the flick of a switch. Like top teams do.

[Clark W Griswold]

Overall good performance, a little better than the Alkmaar home game. Great first goal in particular, and yes fair dues Olsen was fine and the rest of the team worked fine with him too with no dramas. Keep it up.
I should think a point or better is likely in the last game, we have now won 4 in a row in this competition.