Aston Villa v Olympiacos - Post-Match Thread

[Mellin]

FWIW, I think we'll do it.

[Forge10]

How on Earth though do you legislate for the amount of injuries we’ve had? Look at our bench tonight…..We don’t have the luxury of a big squad. To be where we are is incredible even though things have been incredibly disappointing of late. During the match threads feelings are magnified and that’s why things seem so bad.

[Demitri_C]

Wish we fuckin had a week off like olympiakos do

No help from our own fa

[ChicagoLion]

This has been coming, some if the predictions on the pre match thread were naive at best.
We have run out of legs and run out of options, hope we can get enough points now for CL qualification because we are done here.

[Villan82]

That was never a 4-2 game. We are right in this tie.

If we wrap up CL this weekend we can go all out to win this tie.

Martinez and Youri going off against Chelsea were cruel blows. If Emi stayed on we probably hold on to beat Chelsea. If we have Youri tonight we probably don't go to Athens 2-0 down.

If we could only have some luck we'd be unstoppable.

[ChicagoLion]

How on Earth though do you legislate for the amount of injuries we’ve had? Look at our bench tonight…..We don’t have the luxury of a big squad. To be where we are is incredible even though things have been incredibly disappointing of late. During the match threads feelings are magnified and that’s why things seem so bad.

Agree

[VillaTim]

Olsen has to go now . If he plays again it's gross negligence.

[PeterWithesShin]

I hope the players are pissed off with the game and their performance tonight and want to put it right, but no way should they feel shame, be called bottlers etc. It's them that have turned us from a relegation threatened piss poor side to a side that's clear in 4th and in a European semi final. A few dodgy games at the end of an injury plagued and still successful season doesn't change that.

[itbrvilla]

Wish we fuckin had a week off like olympiakos do

No help from our own fa

You think it would of made a difference? Sometimes you have to admit we fucked it up.. we gifted them their goals and barely tried to score. We left one of our best players on the bench although we knew the Chelsea score during the game..

[Forge10]

My only concern at this point in time is that we may have to rely on Spurs not winning…. I guess we will see Sunday at 4pm to see how we react.

[Smithy]

We were not very good on the night, obviously, but they were not “4-2” better than us, performance wise. They had almost all the luck.

I’d still back us to beat them over there, but I also think they’ll score which could be a stretch too far for us.

I wouldn’t rule out us scoring late on to take it to ET and having the momentum in extra time and pens.

I’m just delighted say goals don’t count double, if they did, it’s tie 100% over tonight, instead of just 60-70% over.

[Villan82]

Olsen has to go now . If he plays again it's gross negligence.

He has 78 caps for Sweden. Any 'keeper we try to sign knows they will never unseat Emi- won't be that easy to get a better no.2

[Legion]

How on Earth though do you legislate for the amount of injuries we’ve had? Look at our bench tonight…..We don’t have the luxury of a big squad. To be where we are is incredible even though things have been incredibly disappointing of late. During the match threads feelings are magnified and that’s why things seem so bad.

Spot on.

[itbrvilla]

I hope the players are pissed off with the game and their performance tonight and want to put it right, but no way should they feel shame, be called bottlers etc. It's them that have turned us from a relegation threatened piss poor side to a side that's clear in 4th and in a European semi final. A few dodgy games at the end of an injury plagued and still successful season doesn't change that.

I want a trophy. That's what matters, not getting battered against shit teams from other countries every fortnight.

[Steve67]

I hope the players are pissed off with the game and their performance tonight and want to put it right, but no way should they feel shame, be called bottlers etc. It's them that have turned us from a relegation threatened piss poor side to a side that's clear in 4th and in a European semi final. A few dodgy games at the end of an injury plagued and still successful season doesn't change that.

It's true.  Tonight is a game in isolation.  We were poor, but this doesn't mean we haven't had a great season.  Disappointed tonight with what I saw but chuffed to bits with the season.  Even is we finish 5th, its still been a great ride.   It shows how levels have been raised when we are THIS disappointed.