Aston Villa 2 Chelsea 2 Post Match Heart Massage.

[olaftab]

If Chelsea play like that until the end of the season, they've a decent chance of pinching 6th.

Thats the annoying thing - they wont - it seems their two best perfomances of the season have both been at Villa Park.

The place inspires opposition. We need to replace it with a Lego stadium.

[Drummond]

Chelsea have been one of the form teams.

We will bounce back, as always.

[Percy McCarthy]

I know I'm being a bit glum and mardy about this. Obviously, we're going to be among the best in the league for holding leads, because we're fourth in the table! It would just be quite a gut-punch to miss out on that CL position, and we'd absolutely look back on matches like yesterday and especially Brentford as the reason why.

I get what you're saying but after the Christmas games I said the same thing about dropping points against Sheffield Utd. The draw with Nottingham Forest earlier in the season too. Giving up the lead against Man Utd and coming away with nothing. Flopping on the opening day. There's probably more.

It's tough to be objective and look at the season as a whole, especially while it's still ongoing, but if we miss out on 4th there's lots of moments we could point to as the one that cost us. If we lose out to Spurs, by a point, or on goal difference, it'll be losing to them that did it, really.

Which draw with Nottingham Forest was that?

[Somniloquism]

If Chelsea play like that until the end of the season, they've a decent chance of pinching 6th.

Thats the annoying thing - they wont - it seems their two best perfomances of the season have both been at Villa Park.

They beat spurs 4-1 at White Shaart New Ground. Admittedly Spurs went down to 9 men but then they shouldn't be that dirty in their challenges. (Udogie should have gone for a two footed studs showing lunge but ref only gave a yellow as the decision was he missed the player, then got a second yellow) and Chelsea even scored a perfectly good goal ruled out for someone on the edge of the box being offside a fraction and blocking the keepers view against the 11.

[Chris Smith]

I know I'm being a bit glum and mardy about this. Obviously, we're going to be among the best in the league for holding leads, because we're fourth in the table! It would just be quite a gut-punch to miss out on that CL position, and we'd absolutely look back on matches like yesterday and especially Brentford as the reason why.

The flip side of that is if we finish a point ahead of Spurs then it will be looked at as a decent result under the circumstances.

[PaulWinch again]

If Chelsea play like that until the end of the season, they've a decent chance of pinching 6th.

Thats the annoying thing - they wont - it seems their two best perfomances of the season have both been at Villa Park.

Yeah but like all these things it doesn’t happen in isolation. They played well but we made it so incredibly easy for them. We were passive and did nothing to stop them in the second half.

[john e]

we shit the bed when we’re 2-0 up
we should then be in control of the game but virtually every time we hand control over to the team who are 2-0 down

last night the way we played in the first half I was nervous at 2-0 and never felt we had any control in the game even when ahead,

We were pretty dangerous going forward on the counter but that was not often enough because we just couldn’t get the ball off them for most of the match

[Monty]

I know I'm being a bit glum and mardy about this. Obviously, we're going to be among the best in the league for holding leads, because we're fourth in the table! It would just be quite a gut-punch to miss out on that CL position, and we'd absolutely look back on matches like yesterday and especially Brentford as the reason why.

The flip side of that is if we finish a point ahead of Spurs then it will be looked at as a decent result under the circumstances.

Well, let's hope so.

[Villan82]

Just said on another thread, I thought Chelsea last night were the toughest opponent we have faced at home in well over a year. They were motivated and excellent with the ball.

[VILLA MOLE]

we shit the bed when we’re 2-0 up
we should then be in control of the game but virtually every time we hand control over to the team who are 2-0 down

last night the way we played in the first half I was nervous at 2-0 and never felt we had any control in the game even when ahead,

We were pretty dangerous going forward on the counter but that was not often enough because we just couldn’t get the ball off them for most of the match

Yes , getting the ball back without Kamara and off the pace Doug made it all the more difficult .  Then Ollie was struggling to hold it up as he was pretty isolated.  We got more desperate the longer the match went on

[AV84]

I know I'm being a bit glum and mardy about this. Obviously, we're going to be among the best in the league for holding leads, because we're fourth in the table! It would just be quite a gut-punch to miss out on that CL position, and we'd absolutely look back on matches like yesterday and especially Brentford as the reason why.

I get what you're saying but after the Christmas games I said the same thing about dropping points against Sheffield Utd. The draw with Nottingham Forest earlier in the season too. Giving up the lead against Man Utd and coming away with nothing. Flopping on the opening day. There's probably more.

It's tough to be objective and look at the season as a whole, especially while it's still ongoing, but if we miss out on 4th there's lots of moments we could point to as the one that cost us. If we lose out to Spurs, by a point, or on goal difference, it'll be losing to them that did it, really.

Which draw with Nottingham Forest was that?

Obviously I meant the loss.

[nick harper]

Just said on another thread, I thought Chelsea last night were the toughest opponent we have faced at home in well over a year. They were motivated and excellent with the ball.

I agree. I thought it was the best performance by an away side at VP this season. Better than the 3 games we’ve lost in the league.

They also had about 10 players out including Gusto who murdered us down our left in the Cup game. If they do ever get it together consistently, they will be some side. Fortunately, they do only seem to raise their games against the top sides and they’ve taken points off all of them.

Hopefully, they’ll stay at that level for the Spurs game.

[Demitri_C]

Just said on another thread, I thought Chelsea last night were the toughest opponent we have faced at home in well over a year. They were motivated and excellent with the ball.

The thing is we were abysmal for mostbof the game and still scored twice

Imagine if we actually decided to play half decently i think we would have beaten them.

It was a replica of manure game at OT 2nd half. I cannot understand why it happened again. Yes we have injuries but so do chelsea you dint play that poorly.

You need keep the ball and pass the ball better. We were absolutely shocking at that 2nd half

[Skerra]

The reason Arsenal found it so easy to score v Chelsea was their high press. After we lost to Chelsea in the cup, I thought Unai would change our tactics but, we played like an away side, virtually giving up the midfield which made it easy for them to over run us in the 2nd half.

[kippaxvilla2]

Wrong thread.