Aston Villa vs Juventus post-match thread.

[villadelph]

I’m still trying to understand what Carlos did wrong. He went up much straighter than the keeper, and has every right to go up for the ball. He never even took his sight off of the ball. When the keeper gets his hands on it, he’s misjudged it and his body is shaped like a banana. He fumbles it and goes down in embarrassing Italian fashion.

This game makes no sense sometimes

[Richard]

What was Rogers pass completion?

There is no significant data available to computate an answer.

He successfully passed the ball into the net at the end.....otherwise zero.

[KevinGage]

One thing - aside from the massive Juve cheating - obv.

We were clearly more defensively structured. Prob to the detriment of the game overall.

NSWE obv have a lot of time for Unai. To the point of investing in his family pet project Real Union and acquiescing to having his son on the books as 4th/5th choice goalie at one point.

But if we've been griping about our defensive frailties recently I'm sure they have as well. I wonder if part of tonight was about keeping them onside. They have shown they don't hang around if they feel things are on the slide.

Just thoughts really. I haven't done the research, don't have qualifications in sports science or cod psychology and I'm not passing any of this off as fact.

[alan_clarke]

Watching Rogers come off the pitch and he seemed to be coughing a lot into his shirt. Maybe he is coming down with the flu or something. Definitely looked off it tonight.

He was coughing a lot after/during the Palace match too

[LeeB]

Rogers looked every inch the £8m Championship hopeful tonight, couldn't decide if was tiredness or an allergic reaction to moving slightly to the left.

[VillaTim]

Game went pretty much as I expected, they are tough nuts to crack and were lively on the break, credit to our defence for keeping them out .
Kamara was superb , he makes a huge difference .
We had the chances and didn't concert , Watkins unlucky , Digne free kick not quite accurate enough and someone should have pushed Bailey away from the free kick on the edge 2nd half , that was awful .
Rogers had another mare of a game , we miss Zaniolo in there and Ramsey .
Cash is a cul de sac of sideways / backwards .
We are 2 or 3 players away from being very good.

[Legion]

Zaniolo? Hardly.

[Monty]

Much as I really, really want to put it all down to classic Agnelli shenanigans, I think it was just one of those games where the officials exploded histrionically at the slightest suggestion of anything, including a few things in our favour and, of course, the goal that wasn't.

[RamboandBruno]

Rogers looked every inch the £8m Championship hopeful tonight, couldn't decide if was tiredness or an allergic reaction to moving slightly to the left.

Yea I’d like to see him benched/rested for a couple of games. Would be helpful if Ramsey is back, but if not I’d give Barkley & Kamara a go in the middle with Tielemans further forward.
Tonight I thought was a fair result, neither team created much, defences were good. Couldnt tell at the game, but soft as it was those sort of decisions are made all the time re the goal.
10 points from 15 isnt bad at all. I think we need two draws or one win from the last two away games, to take some of the tension out of the Celtic game.

[Nev]

As soon as the ref administered treatment to the first Juve player that went down I knew he was a wrong 'un.

I thought Kamara was outstanding, Rogers needs a rest, Carlos had his one good game in eight which doesn't bode well for the weekend, Bailey was slightly better and Ollie faded after a good first half.

I suspect the Manager is happy with the last two results and while we're a bit flat, long term they might not look too bad after all.

[tomd2103]

General confusion in the ground after the 'goal'.  Watching MOTD you can see he gave a foul, even though that was very questionable.  Martinez's save looked good in real.time, but it was great watching it back.

[Tuscans]

What was Rogers pass completion?

There is no significant data available to computate an answer.

Have you loaded all the data centres into the bios registry?

[Mossie Hennebry]

I think the ref simply decided that a draw was a fair result and made it so. It's frustrating and it's wrong, but that's the way of these things. Leipzig is a must win game now and their form is similar to ours. Onwards and upwards.

[VillaTim]

Zaniolo? Hardly.

Rogers keeps giving the ball away , cannot do that at this level.
Zaniolo would draw fouls and get us up the pitch better , we are missing that , yes Rogers started well but has now been rumbled and it's not working.

[Monty]

Zaniolo? Hardly.

Rogers keeps giving the ball away , cannot do that at this level.
Zaniolo would draw fouls and get us up the pitch better , we are missing that , yes Rogers started well but has now been rumbled and it's not working.

It's never form, it's always being found out.