Aston Villa vs Sheffield United Post-Match

[coreyfeldman]

Duran was utter wank tbh

[caster troy]

When teams park the bus I don’t think Bailey and Diaby works. I’d rather see Zaniolo playing off Watkins or maybe McGinn. Get the first goal then when the game opens up you can bring on Diaby.

Duran needs to go out on loan, these cameos are getting more and more erratic. Hopefully the plan is to bring in another forward in January.

[Ducksworthy]

Would be nice to have someone like Buendia on the bench to bring on. I’ve never rated Ramsey - then again I didn’t really think much of Archer and shows what I know.

Ramsey is a good player coming back from a couple of back to back injuries. Hopefully the minutes get him back up to speed.

If you’ve never rated Ramsey, then with respect, are you knowledgeable about football?

In your eyes, evidently not. I’m more than happy to be proved wrong but I don’t see it.

[pablo_picasso]

Slow, & uninspiring without Torres & Kamara.

We still battered the shit out of them for the most part, without ever looking like trying to get out of second gear.

Frustrating as fuck, but, as we become more respected, poorer teams managed by unimaginative people like Wilder will park the bus, & clamp it in setting cement. Thats their absolute right, because if they go toe to toe, they will get battered.

So respect to Sheff U for having a plan & using a predatory striker who did fuck all else all game but put the ball in the net. Not his fault of course, as he had zero service, but having a striker who can score at the drop of a hat can be invaluable.

Not overly impressed by the officials though. Had to have been either Liverpool or Arsenal fans.

The Konsa pen check looked the most like a foul for the 357 VAR checks in the first half (why only 2 mins added time?), especially if Ramseys was a foul for pulling their keeper. (it wasn't, of course).

The handball VAR in the second half where he tried to punch the ball didn't look like a handball to me as it looked like it hit his shoulder. Very few replays of it mind, unlike the Ramsey one. The Sheff U player was lucky as fuck mind, as a fraction lower & he is punching the ball away. Not very bright & he was lucky to get sway with it.

The Duran red car VAR check was a joke. Anybody with eyes could see that he was pushing one player away while trying to get himself released from another. The cut from the clip in the face of the little shit who fouled him in the first place was just desserts for the little shit who fouled him in the first place. And Im not quite sure why the free kick was given to Sheff U. Unless it was a drop ball because it went to VAR. Not sure why it went to Sheff U though...

All of the others looked fine to me. I think... There were quite a few, so may have missed one.

The disallowed goal made me angry as fuck. Ramsey barely touched their keeper. Their keeper touched Ramsey barely just as much. Their defender was pulling & pushing Ramsey at the same time. Now if thats a foul from Ramsey on their keeper, then their keeper & defender fouled Ramsey. Im not bothered about the phases of play argument, because it was all in a pretty quick sequence. We have had goals given against for contacts that were so far back in time that they were made by a T-Rex, so not concerned about that. But apart from the fact that it wasn't even contact worthy taking to VAR, I thought VAR decisions were to only be changed by VAR if they were "clear & obvious". There was fuck all clear & obvious about 15 frames of two arms in the vicinity of each other with a defender half in the way.

There was absolutely fuck all clear & obvious about that goal being disallowed.

Hopefully now though, it will make all of the Sheff Utd fans shut the fuck up about the "phantom goal". We are even in the high stakes officials cock up battle now, so less of the whining in the future about that one poor official decision. We all get them & here is a perfect example where they get one that costs us a big step in the table.

But overall, despite not being great, but weirdly dominating, its great to see that we keep battling until the end & no matter how I feel that we aren't ever going to score even if we play until next Thursday, we have frequently pulled something out of the bag, despite not being amazing.

That is what very good teams do...

And sat in 2nd again, even if it might only be for a day or two, shows how far we have come in such a short space of time.

[Jane]

Get a grip, people. We're currently second.

[steamer]

Fair play to Sherwood in the studio
Full on Vila support, totally disagreed with disallowing the goal as the blades had gone through a movement in control of the ball and then lost it.
Showed many shots of the defender positively moving his arm and playing the ball with his bicep
Pep and Artwata would have been going on ballistic about the injustice of it all
However we should have done better

[Paul.S]

We missed Kamara massively tonight. He’s so vital for us and with Tielemans not available as well we lacked that bit of creativity in the middle. The ref allowed multiple fouls from them and booked us for our first one. The VAR fiasco is just a comedy now. As Dean Smith once said “juggling balls for Christmas” and there’s never been a truer statement.
The lads don’t give in though and we sit second and I couldn’t be prouder of them and Emery.

[Risso]

Duran was utter wank tbh

His first touch goes further than I kick it. He doesn’t look anywhere near as good as the likes of Philogene who we let go.

[Legion]

Duran was utter wank tbh

His first touch goes further than I kick it. He doesn’t look anywhere near as good as the likes of Philogene who we let go.

Or Archer.

[steamer]

1.00 here
too much wine
Time for bed
Roll on boxing day

[Goldenballs]

The handball rule is pretty clear (I think) if it was above his sleeve line, which it looked like it was from the limited replays, then it's not a pen.

And Ramsey definitely fouled the keeper by holding his arm. As soon as you do that and the keeper flaps, it's a foul all day long. I don't know enough about the phase of play bollocks, I'm sure there'll be something in the rules about times, or the fact Ramsey was involved again so quickly.

[rob_bridge]

We are 2nd.

In the best league.

We ain't perfect

But people know we are here.

We need to make sure they continue to know we are here. It's been a long time


Bad decision was Watkins pen - defo a pen.


By the way I like Wilder - after play off final in 2019 he was very complimentary on Villa and Deano.

[Goldenballs]

Duran was utter wank tbh

His first touch goes further than I kick it. He doesn’t look anywhere near as good as the likes of Philogene who we let go.

Or Archer.

He played a nice little lay off for Watkins who then rolled it to their keeper. Other than that, he's like a bull in a china shop.

[andyh]

Just back and crestfallen.
I bemoaned our lack of pace and movement at half time and it was no better second half.
The only time we moved the ball quickly and delivered some quality with runners, zaniolo nicks one
The rest of the game was turgid, slow and predictable.
I’m not sure how much may have been down to arrogance or over confidence, because until the 94th minute, we didn’t show any desire to get into them.


I really don’t know how you can go from an all action, swashbuckling, powerful performance like the Man City game, to that shower.

To lose our incredible home run to Sheffield fucking united is utterly dismal.

[Legion]

They parked the bus and it nearly worked.