Aston Villa 2 Chelsea 2 Post Match Heart Massage.

[Malandro]

Excellent point. When you are off your game and face a team like Chelsea, you usually lose.
We all know Chelsea have had a shite year but they still have some more than decent players.

[Forge10]

Oh sorry I thought you meant Gallagher. Yeah Irogbenum isn’t good enough and won’t be for a team who want to be Top 4 consistently. He’ll be moved on without a doubt. He’s playing because there is nobody else.

[kippaxvilla2]

They’ve spent a billion pounds have a great manager and were always going to give a reaction after what happened to them on Tuesday night.  Chelsea can do spurs based on this performance and obviously will want to!

[Mellin]

Yep, let's be fair. Chelsea were excellent tonight and we weren't. Got an important point despite that.

[Steve67]

Chelsea can still finish in 6th or 7th and won't give up.  They hate Spurs and will want to screw them up. 

[PhilVill]

Olsen needs to be moved on. Seriously he breeds absolutely zero confidence in in the back four when he plays.

Carlos another that needs to go and cash

We got lucky today deserved nothing.

Load of bollocks. Martinez breeds confidence because he’s a top player. How can you expect a guy who hasn’t even reached double figures in his Villa career to be able to do the same? Totally different types of player. Ok he had some howlers beforehand but he’s looked decent enough and actually saved us tonight.

He did very well to be honest and that save gave us a point we most certainly didn't deserve. However, that point could give us £40 million more to play with in three weeks.

[aj2k77]

Good point in the scheme of things. It's been a long season, blighted by injuries and we've kept plugging away and it's down to possibly 6 games. 3/4 very good performances and we've done it.

[Randy Gurner]

I thought it was a clear foul and was surprised it even went to VAR. Diego is clearly pushed off the ball and prevented from an easy clearance. Poch can moan all he likes about it ‘ruining the English game’ but that was 100% the correct decision if you’re going by the book.

A great point to salvage from a terrible performance.  We understandably look knackered but feeling positive we can do this! UTV

[Forge10]

I honestly believe 100% we controlled that first half. Early goal, sat back and contained comfortably. Then hit on the break, perfect first half plan.

[PaulWinch again]

Excellent point. When you are off your game and face a team like Chelsea, you usually lose.
We all know Chelsea have had a shite year but they still have some more than decent players.

Not sure it can ever be an “excellent” point if you’re 2-0 up at home against a middling side. It was a decent point in the end, but only because we were so wretched in the second half.

[Drummond]

As Emery said, 'we are happy, as we have Europa League next season', now we focus on Champions League.'

[ChicagoLion]

Iroegbunam was poor for the Gallagher goal watching it back, stood still marking nobody instead of pushing out. Luiz obviously at fault for the first but if Madueke misses it's a blatant penalty anyway as McGinn cleaned Gallagher out.

Gallagher is a very good player high up the pitch, forces turnovers and can score.

I don't get the hype. Every time he comes on he just commits fouls. If he got more match minutes he'd be my number one yellow card pick currently it's Rogers.

I’m going to go against the grain here, I think Gallagher is decent and was central to this game for Chelsea. He out Mcginned Mcginn tonight….. I’d take him at VP.

Yes he is a decent player , played out of position for Chelsea.
But our rookie midfielder should have closed him down before he scored.

[Astnor]

Looked like we had a non-existent attack second half. Diaby didnt participate much - has been out of it for a long time now, strange really cause it look like there some huge potential there. our ssystem seems to be dependent to some extent that all 11 players do their role good enough - if not we seems to fall apart under pressure.

[kippaxvilla2]

You’re forgetting one other thing.  Fourth placed Villa were up against 4th placed Chelsea tonight.

[Percy McCarthy]

Guaranteed 5th with three games remaining and people are moaning. 

Nobody's moaning about guaranteed 5th with three games remaining, they're moaning about the individual 90 minute game we've just watched.

Agreed. Daft post.