Aston Villa v Olympiacos - Post-Match Thread

[Demitri_C]

Its not impossible

Olympiakos do have the capacity to crumble like we do. If we score early they will be very nervous there.

They honestly are not that good lille are better but we again pur own worst enemies with countless errors

[The Edge]

If there was an award for fans turning on each other we'd win it hands down. That altercation in the UH was something else, they all shook hands on the concourse at HT mind. As my mate said, we were better behaved when we went down!

I'm seriously worried about Doug now, he was off it from KO last night. I'm hoping the missed pen is a watershed and he returns to form on Sunday but I am fearful that he's done for the season. The standard he's set over the last 12 months or so is very hard to live up to week in week out.

He looked petrified taking that pen.

Not helped by Diaby getting brainlessly involved in pushing and shoving which was obviously a ploy to put off the penalty taker. Fucking hell Diaby just walk away from him! These kind of dirty tricks are par for the course in Europe. He/they had better learn. Fast.

[Bad English]

Or one could just show a bit of respect for other people's beliefs. All he wrote was thoughts and prayers, hardly opening a theological debate. On the game, it was a comedy of errors at the back as it has been for a few weeks now. We'll do them in the second leg though. Top four and a trophy is still very much on.

Yes, you are right when you take a post in isolation. I have every for respect for other people's beliefs as long as they keep them to themselves and air them in appropriate places, like their own homes, places or worship or theology seminars and the like. I'm not sure a public forum is the right place to be praising deities and trying to foist religious moral standards upon us.

[DeKuip]

Absolutely gutted over last night’s performance and result, winning that cup would have been for the fans and not playing with our strongest available back four has really pissed me off.
Fantastic achievement if we finish fourth, but the Champions League is really just about making money - great qualifying of course because you have to have a really good league campaign to do that, but we’re not going to win it.

[DB]

After a nightmare journey back last night, just able to post now.
Awful, Doug played worst I have seen him since the SG days. Olsen playing put fear of God into our defence, they looked so nervy - so many mis-placed passes. They did surprise us the way they went for it esp 1st half.
Bad day at the office all round, hopefully Martínez, Pau Torres and Tielemans will be back this weekend.

[Demitri_C]

After a nightmare journey back last night, just able to post now.
Awful, Doug played worst I have seen him since the SG days. Olsen playing put fear of God into our defence, they looked so nervy - so many mis-placed passes. They did surprise us the way they went for it esp 1st half.
Bad day at the office all round, hopefully Martínez, Pau Torres and Tielemans will be back this weekend.

Honestly id rather save all three for Thursday night.

Give gauci a start vs brighton.  Id do lenglet and carlos at cb with konsa on bench.

Get timmy in there give him a start and lets just see how it goes

[Monty]

The more I reflect on the game the more it just looks like a perfect storm of a very bad day and ridiculous bad luck. I don't understand the first goal getting ruled out, I don't understand any of their goals really, and I don't understand Luiz literally missing the penalty, even when he's having a rough game.

Just a concatenation of shite. It happens.

[Percy McCarthy]

If there was an award for fans turning on each other we'd win it hands down. That altercation in the UH was something else, they all shook hands on the concourse at HT mind. As my mate said, we were better behaved when we went down!

I'm seriously worried about Doug now, he was off it from KO last night. I'm hoping the missed pen is a watershed and he returns to form on Sunday but I am fearful that he's done for the season. The standard he's set over the last 12 months or so is very hard to live up to week in week out.

He looked petrified taking that pen.

The babby said ‘he’ll score’. I said ‘no, he’s gonna hit the post’. I just felt he would try too hard to get it right in the corner.

[The Edge]

The non penalty for the challenge on Bailey has to be seen to be believed. That was as blatant as it gets. They disallow our goal for a slight tug on a shirt and they fail to give that pen. Is it anti PL bias or is it just plain old incompetence?

[Percy McCarthy]

After a nightmare journey back last night, just able to post now.
Awful, Doug played worst I have seen him since the SG days. Olsen playing put fear of God into our defence, they looked so nervy - so many mis-placed passes. They did surprise us the way they went for it esp 1st half.
Bad day at the office all round, hopefully Martínez, Pau Torres and Tielemans will be back this weekend.

Honestly id rather save all three for Thursday night.

Give gauci a start vs brighton.  Id do lenglet and carlos at cb with konsa on bench.

Get timmy in there give him a start and lets just see how it goes

I don’t think we can afford to take any chances we don’t need to with CL qualification. It’s what the owners and many of us fans see as success these days.

[Risso]

Leon’s goal was chalked off for Lenglet pulling their player’s shirt.  When it’s so blatant it’s always going to get ruled out.

[Percy McCarthy]

The non penalty for the challenge on Bailey has to be seen to be believed. That was as blatant as it gets. They disallow our goal for a slight tug on a shirt and they fail to give that pen. Is it anti PL bias or is it just plain old incompetence?

It was a stonewall pen but irrelevant as it turned out.

[Monty]

Leon’s goal was chalked off for Lenglet pulling their player’s shirt.  When it’s so blatant it’s always going to get ruled out.

I know, but it's more that it's incredible he gives that and not the Bailey challenge, and the guy's going down anyway.

[Clampy]

Or one could just show a bit of respect for other people's beliefs. All he wrote was thoughts and prayers, hardly opening a theological debate. On the game, it was a comedy of errors at the back as it has been for a few weeks now. We'll do them in the second leg though. Top four and a trophy is still very much on.

Yes, you are right when you take a post in isolation. I have every for respect for other people's beliefs as long as they keep them to themselves and air them in appropriate places, like their own homes, places or worship or theology seminars and the like. I'm not sure a public forum is the right place to be praising deities and trying to foist religious moral standards upon us.

From what I read of Footy's post, he was offering his own thoughts and prayers, not ensisting everyone should follow suit and nether should he.

[Bad English]

I'm not talking about one post, as I said. I was just responding to the criticism Rossi got for pointing out that medical attention was what was needed.