Aston Villa vs Sheffield United Post-Match

[VillaTim]

Looks like it hits his lower shoulder anyway .

[Toronto Villa]

Looks like it hits his lower shoulder anyway .

[Bad English]

Blimey! It's Chemical Timmy!

[PaulWinch again]

Indeed.

[VillaTim]

Looks like it hits his lower shoulder anyway .

Look at that picture is the ball not connecting with the yellow of the shirt ? Don't they often refer to anything below the shirt sleeve ?

[LeonW]

I think the failure to award the two handed push on Watkins was all about the Jolinton push in the Newcastle vs Arsenal game earlier this season. It was the officials doubling down because if they had awarded it yesterday, all those old complaints would come back from arsenal fans and the media. Rather than admit fault, the officials closed ranks and protected themselves.

[The Edge]

We’ve got to work out a way of breaking these teams down they’re starting to work us out now.  Far too slow far too ponderous.

Spot on. Everyone outside the top six are now just defending deep. Brighton came to Villa Park with an attacking game plan and we smashed them 6-1. Coaches up and down the country saw that and things changed. They all set out to defend deep now and the challenge for Emery and the coaches is to come up with a counter plan and that will define our season now. Diaby's drop off in form is quite alarming and he could be the key to breaking teams down if we can get him firing on all cylinders again.

To put this in context, since we beat Brighton 6-1, in the league we have won 7, drawn 3 and lost 1. I don’t think anything has changed since the Brighton game other than we have got more relentless.

Brentford are a good example of what I'm getting at. We've played them a lot since the championship days and they have always been on the front foot especially at home. Last week they had 10 men in and around their penalty area and played on the counter attack. That's the first time they have played that way against us in years.

[Drummond]

https://twitter.com/paddypower/status/1738312151230558363?t=TI0mx7UVSih0ZWmMoDh8TQ&s=19

[Toronto Villa]

https://twitter.com/paddypower/status/1738312151230558363?t=TI0mx7UVSih0ZWmMoDh8TQ&s=19

Brilliant. It’s that fucking obvious.

[jon collett]

Anybody know what Watkins did straight after the goal and gets a yellow card?

Wrestled the ball back?

The tv footage is v funny. Shows Zaniolo celebrating then land to a Sheff player lying on the floor flat out and Ollie getting a yellow card.

[Ads]

He went to get the ball out the net and the Sheffield United player just lay on top of it.

[jon collett]

He went to get the ball out the net and the Sheffield United player just lay on top of it.

So who got the yellow card?

[VillaTim]

He went to get the ball out the net and the Sheffield United player just lay on top of it.

pretty much summed up their game plan for the night, fair play it worked but the boring ferret breeding wankers are still going down

[The Edge]

Looks like it hits his lower shoulder anyway .

Motd saying a definite penalty for deliberate hand ball. For some reason the ref justified not giving a penalty by pointing to the top of his shoulder the fucking numpty.

[VillaTim]

Looks like it hits his lower shoulder anyway .

Motd saying a definite penalty for deliberate hand ball. For some reason the ref justified not giving a penalty by pointing to the top of his shoulder the fucking numpty.

2 definite pens then and a dubious goal disallowed. Yeah on reflection whilst we didn't play that well we were robbed