Aston Villa v Olympiacos - Post-Match Thread

[stubbsyandy]

Knackered

[paul_e]

Such a weird catastrophe. I don't know how we're going to manage it but Doug cannot play Sunday. Poor bastard looks like his head's nowhere.

Luiz looks like a guy who was fucked but hanging on by a thread and the forced break has done for him. It's not because he wants to leave or is suddenly shit, he's just running on fumes.

[pablo_picasso]

Terrible. All over the pitch. But they weren't much cop & we gifted them goals.

Those officials were as incompetent as most of the officials in this tournament so far.

All in all, an absolute clusterfuck of a night & you can always trust Villa to raise expectations & then crash them spectacularly at the drop of a hat.

If it weren't for the Spurs result, the night would have been a complete blowout & I would be resignedly disappointed, angry & pissed the fuck off.

But the second leg is still there, & while I don't hold out much hope, it's not quite over just yet. And the Champs League situation is a little brighter, until Villa fina a eay to fuck it up, of course..

[mrfuse]

Absolutely nothing went our way.

Nothing wrong with our first goal. Should have had a first half penalty and their penalty was really harsh, You cant give a pen when you are that close to to the player that made contact with the ball.

They then get a horribly deflected goal and the Ref allows the Olympiacos players to disrupt our penalty instead of getting on with it and booking them afterwards.

[Malandro]

Smash them in the second leg.

[PhilVill]

We could have 4th place tied up on Sunday at 7pm so not all bad tonight. As for the 2nd leg, whoever scores first wins the tie. Spring Dougie is nothing like Autumn/Winter Dougie sadly.

[PeterWithesShin]

They don't play again until the 2nd leg.

As bizarre as it is, and as bad as we were at times, it was down to the pens. We don't concede one so soon after making it 2-2 I think we go on to win. And then if Luiz scores our pen I think we score again.

[pauliewalnuts]

That game was a carrier bag full of monkey spunk .

A big dog's cock spunking salty dog spunk right in our stupid faces.

[Somniloquism]

Luiz and McGinn played like hungover Sunday League players and I may murder someone if Lenglet puts on a Villa shirt again.

Can't see a turnaround in what will be a cauldron of an atmosphere

Maccabi won over there 4-1. They then lost 6-1 at their place but it shows could be vulnerable. (Although last round they won 3-2 there first leg).

With the recent results they have had, and some of the luck they had tonight, their name might actually be on the trophy instead of ours.

[Percy McCarthy]

And on the plus side, all the "Champions League qualification is more important" crowd will be thrilled with how this evening has gone.

Not really necessary, no?

Why? The more important thing is more likely now than it was two hours ago. We're a bit closer to the thing that matters.

Well, I’m gutted that we’re likely out of another cup, and the semi-final is always the worst time to lose (maybe apart from the 2015 final, which was horrible), but the Spurs result is some consolation.

We weee unlucky to lose I thought.

[rob_bridge]

They don't play again until the 2nd leg.

As bizarre as it is, and as bad as we were at times, it was down to the pens. We don't concede one so soon after making it 2-2 I think we go on to win. And then if Luiz scores our pen I think we score again.

Agree with both of those - we are the ultimate momentum team.

[malckennedy]

Luiz missing the pen has made it hard though not impossible. At 3-4 I’d have made us favourites (assuming good fortune eventually runs out).

[edgysatsuma89]

I still fancy this game going to ET.

[Small Rodent]

That game was a carrier bag full of monkey spunk .

A big dog's cock spunking salty dog spunk right in our stupid faces.

One foot in the Champions League and an overly stretched foreskin in the EcL final.

[aldridgeboy]

Disallowed goal , penalty not given and an awful penalty miss.

But 2-0 down to 2-2 and then 2-4 is really poor.

An early goal over there , who knows. But 3-0 seems a big ask.

At least Chelsea won.