Bruges v Aston Villa PMT.

[Rico]

Brugge were the better team on the night, but they didn't deserve to win because of some freak penalty. It's not in the spirit of the game, and I'm glad it wasn't us scoring an undeserved penalty.

[cdbearsfan]

They deserved to win because they scored a goal and prevented us from doing likewise.

[Demitri_C]

Just saw a video of villa fans fighting with each other at the brugges game. Jesus absolute embarrassment

[eye digress]

One player that looks way off the oace is buendia. Man he has looked bad most games

Think we should have loaned him out to rebuild his fitness because he is offering nothing at the moment

Thought he looked ok, actually. One blind alley dribble but one exquisite ball to open up the left. Showed on the edge of the box in the last 5 to get things going - admittedly to no avail, but he didn’t hide.

[pauliewalnuts]

Brugge were the better team on the night, but they didn't deserve to win because of some freak penalty. It's not in the spirit of the game, and I'm glad it wasn't us scoring an undeserved penalty.

Ha ha ha. Really?

Fuck that, I wouldn't give one tenth of one single shit, personally.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

One player that looks way off the oace is buendia. Man he has looked bad most games

Think we should have loaned him out to rebuild his fitness because he is offering nothing at the moment

Thought he looked ok, actually. One blind alley dribble but one exquisite ball to open up the left. Showed on the edge of the box in the last 5 to get things going - admittedly to no avail, but he didn’t hide.

Indeed. One of the few who didn't enter the pitch with his batteries on 5%. Kamara, Ramsey and Maatsen were the others.

[eye digress]

Agree with that.

A few slagging off Pau too, but as he was forcing his passes a bit as the clock ticked down, naturally one or two went astray. Still a couple of great forward passes in there, though.

For me, the problem was mainly in centre mid (Tielemans seemed to let the crowd get the better of him), the lack of combination with the forward pair up and lack of penetration out wide.

[Pat McMahon]

On the train back from Brussels at last. A good couple of days interspersed with a moment of madness by Mings in a very meek performance by the team.

We lack energy and fluidity at the moment. I was in with the home fans in the corner nearest  where Mings handled and it was the least boisterous atmosphere of the last year’s European games. For 15 minutes we kept the ball and quietened the crowd but we seemed to think that was enough and didn’t go for the jugular as if we really, really wanted a win. They started to realise we weren’t hurting them and grew in confidence and ended the first half stronger.

They got the crowd going, scored their goal and then stoped us playing through them. At no moment did I think we would score though the Brugge fan next to me was having kittens. Other than Martinez I don’t think anybody had a good game and it feels like too many players are struggling for form.

Our support was brilliant first half but I don’t hear them after half time. Bruges were great hosts and their fans, staff and police were really friendly so it was a good trip but one that leaves a feeling that we dropped some of the easier points from our  group that we may regret. It was a throwback to our generally poor form away in Europe last season.

I’m knackered after a great couple of days with Chico, Aftab and many others, but intensely frustrated at the result and performance.

[PeterWithe]

Mings is a fucking idiot, what he was thinking I'll never know.

I thought they were limited but well organised, as soon as they lost the ball they got back into their defensive shape very quickly and we were too pedestrian in moving forward, not helped by Bailey and Maatsen showing little ambition to beat their players. It looked a stonewall 0-0 bore draw.

Bruges was fantastic, beautiful with some excellent pubs and bars, I think I read there are more than 600 beers available and my head feels like I tried most of them. There were some seriously paraletic Villa lads wandereing around.

Much like most of the last 20 years, a great time spoiled by the football.

[Nii Lamptey]

Been to quite a few of the Euro aways the past two seasons, but this one seemed to attract a much larger proportion of our coked up fucktard portion of the fanbase. Lots of instances of Villa fans fighting each other - The bus out of the ground, trouble outside Cafe Pick, some middle-aged nobhead starting on young fans at the burger vans in the square, etc

Someone was also dragged off on a stretcher on Tuesday night from Cafe Pick too - Suspected drug overdose.

Fucking morons - Ruining what should be a memorable time for everyone else.

[astonvilla82]

My lad said they were fighting each other in the ground also, supporters that is

[john e]

Brugge were the better team on the night, but they didn't deserve to win because of some freak penalty. It's not in the spirit of the game, and I'm glad it wasn't us scoring an undeserved penalty.

We made a mistake and they scored from it that’s the way most goals are scored to be honest

[Ads]

It was a lady on the stretcher on Tuesday.

[VillaTim]

the seafood gratin is superb in Bruges , anyone still there give it a go

[PeterWithe]

Been to quite a few of the Euro aways the past two seasons, but this one seemed to attract a much larger proportion of our coked up fucktard portion of the fanbase. Lots of instances of Villa fans fighting each other - The bus out of the ground, trouble outside Cafe Pick, some middle-aged nobhead starting on young fans at the burger vans in the square, etc

Someone was also dragged off on a stretcher on Tuesday night from Cafe Pick too - Suspected drug overdose.

Fucking morons - Ruining what should be a memorable time for everyone else.

There were some people about who I wouldn't want to spend too much time in the company of, so we didn't, we just left and went to the next place, plenty of choice. It was great, I got the impression that a few of the places wern't particularly enamored with having English football fans there, but most were friendly and fine.