Aston Villa vs Juventus post-match thread.

[Risso]

Ha ha yep I hated having to use it but I’d actually take a comfortable 1-0 against Brentford as a sign we’re on the up again. Anything better than defeat at Chelsea will be good as well.

I don't think we're showing signs that we're going to batter anybody, but it was good to see Cash and Kamara back last night, so I'd happily swap the mythical and seen about as often as Brigadoon "imminent thrashing" for the ability to keep a clean sheet on a more regular basis. That's far more likely to see us get the season back on track.

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

I hate using this expression but we’re going to give someone a twatting soon.

Aargh, my absolute least favouite expression ever, just ahead of "if we play like that we'll win more than we lose". It never, ever works out like that.

Ha ha yep I hated having to use it but I’d actually take a comfortable 1-0 against Brentford as a sign we’re on the up again. Anything better than defeat at Chelsea will be good as well.

Mind you, would be nice to do it at Chelsea. Remember the 7-1 and the 8-0 defeats during the dark days?  It was like something from Ripping Yarns (one for the teenagers)!

The "foul" last night? Juventus: enough said! 

[Mister E]

Having been at the game, I seemingly enjoyed it more than a lot of those who watched on TV, which maybe is due to the tension that was in the air at the ground, I dunno? But I thought we did well. Kamara was ace, automatic first choice when fit. The defence was good and I really appreciated Cash having a good game. I’m not his biggest fan but if he could stay fit that really helps with our squad strength and options. Four clean sheets that could have been five out of five were it not for that freak occurrence in Brugge.
Going forward we would have fared much better had lots of attacks not broken down at the feet of Morgz, but Ollie looked sharp first half and Bailey is improving gradually.
All that left me feeling optimistic as I left the ground.

Pretty much my feeling, Perce. The game had a '1 goal wins it' feel, 0-0 was probably the likely outcome.

[Brend'Watkins]

Juve can defend that’s for sure. They’re so well organised. I think it helped us greatly that their main striker wasn’t fit to play. Their No 7 was a handful all night. Overall, the point we gained is a good one, I’d have taken that at the start and I’d certainly take the same on Sunday V Chelsea.

[Mister E]

Both our full backs were clearly under instruction not to get caught ahead of the ball last night. This gave us a strong defensive shape, admittedly against a weak Juve front line, but it makes things very difficult for the likes of Bailey who gets double marked easily. It's fine last night as we had to avoid another basketball type game with no control. But I do think we will have to get Maatsen's pace into the team sooner to stretch teams. Like Moreno used to.

Yes, agree with this.

[Mister E]

Last season Douglas Luiz, Moussa Diaby and Leon Bailey combined for 34 goals in all competitions. Only the slightly wayward Bailey remains. Rogers started brightly but has regressed a little in recent weeks. The result is an ever-sharper reliance on Watkins: 29% of their xG last season, 35% this season.

Just a reminder of our challenges going into December, before the January window.

[Meanwood Villa]

I felt pretty relaxed during the match, I thought we were going to nick it and that we had at the death. From my position in Trinity Upper it wasn't immediately obvious there'd been contact with the keeper and I thought the free kick signal was the ref pointing to the centre spot. Loads around me were saying it must be a goal because the scoreboard said it was!

[Clampy]

On the tellybox after Rogers put it in, it stayed 0-0 on the screen for what seemed like ages, then changed to 1-0, showed a re-run of Rogers celebrating then went back to 0-0. It was all a bit odd.

[Demitri_C]

We should invest in some of those juve defenders. They look the real deal and can defend veey very well

[Bobby Boy]

A really fascinating game and we matched them. Kamara was the key to the improvement and we looked a far better side with him in it.

Rogers is really struggling though and his repeated poor play is damaging a lot of good work. Maybe he does need a break.

These Champions League games have been special, there's no getting away from it.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Bad as the non goal was, I felt McGinn should have buried his chance.Put your foot through it man.

[JUAN PABLO]

Bad as the non goal was, I felt McGinn should have buried his chance.Put your foot through it man.

yes , should never gave their defender a chance to block it .  Smash it . 

[VillaTim]

Yeah don't side foot those , that was a really bad miss looking back .

[Baldy]

They came for a 0-0, we settled for a 0-0 and the ref ensured it was 0-0.

[The Edge]

On the tellybox after Rogers put it in, it stayed 0-0 on the screen for what seemed like ages, then changed to 1-0, showed a re-run of Rogers celebrating then went back to 0-0. It was all a bit odd.

Yeah I think there must've been a delay between the ref's earpiece and the mafia.