Aston Villa 2-1 Leicester City post match thread

[Gareth]

Not pretty but job done eventually.  I thought Leicester defended very very well in that we had a lot of ball with Mings and Konsa but they had everyone tightly behind the ball and marking up so rarely an easy attacking option, missed Rogers running/dribbling option to open them up.

Again an individual error punished for their equaliser, the ball Ollie played towards Mings was hopelessly under hit

Great substitutions Unai :-) Maatsen the man :-)

Kamara motm for me

[jon collett]

Pleased to get a win.

Our tempo was so slow. Something Unai has said he wants to change.

For the goal yes it was a poor pass from Ollie but I had a clear view from above and Mings bottled the fifty fifty which would have snuffed the whole move out. Possibly understandable he doesn’t want to risk injury.

Disappointed with the midfield. No creativity until the subs when  Buendia played like an inside forward and Maatsen went for the by line.

One their big centre half went off Ollie got more space and exploited it.

But still pleased with the win. The most important thing from today.

[DB]

Not a great display , but 3 points is most welcome.

It's been said before but Leicester fans are a strange breed . They seem to have a school boy hard on about all things Villa. They sing  " We forgot that you were here " , really , you sang about us for 90 minutes and know when we last won a trophy. Farty little upstarts.

I thought they were fairly noisy given their teams performance. The 30 year chant is harsh but fair

They're from Leicester. 'Normal' isn't in their vocabulary.

They are a bit like Cov when we used to play them. They care about us more than we care about them.

[Pat Mustard]

Not a great display , but 3 points is most welcome.

It's been said before but Leicester fans are a strange breed . They seem to have a school boy hard on about all things Villa. They sing  " We forgot that you were here " , really , you sang about us for 90 minutes and know when we last won a trophy. Farty little upstarts.

I thought they were fairly noisy given their teams performance. The 30 year chant is harsh but fair

No, bollocks to that. I know it’s the prerogative of football fans to wind up the opposition, but they were unquestionably the biggest bunch of bellends to visit Villa Park in many a year. The lack of self-awareness in the living in the past bollocks was extraordinary - it’s like they hadn’t noticed they have been relegated since they won the league, we are in the Champions League and Forest are currently third.

Oh, and by the way, enjoy the massive points deduction coming your way when you inevitably go down this season - pricks.

[Somniloquism]

For the goal yes it was a poor pass from Ollie but I had a clear view from above and Mings bottled the fifty fifty which would have snuffed the whole move out. Possibly understandable he doesn’t want to risk injury.

Well I saw it more as he rightly judged it to be 70/30* in favour of Ayew and thought rather then diving in and the ball and player being dinked over him and away, he would be better suited keeping him out wide and hope the 4 others in the box would take care of the 40 year old.

* Mings was the same distance in our half as Watkins was in there one when he played the weak ball back. Mings was in a standing start and Ayew was on full pelt.

[john e]

The first half was right up there with the Man Utd game in boringness

Second half was a bit better, but it wasn’t great was it let’s face it, never feels too bad on the way home though when you’ve managed a win

[usav]

I was frustrated watching the game, but on reflection I think they came for a draw and made it very difficult for us.  There was no pivot out of the defence, they had Kamara, Barkley and Tielemans all man-marked, which is why we saw so much of the passing between Mings and Konsa and then balls out to Digne and Cash.

Better in the second half, but we always have that one slip-up in us, don't we?  The commentator on the NBC feed gave a mad statistic about the amount of goals we have conceded from the other team's first shot on goal and although I can't remember the exact number, it was alarming and we are by far the worst team in the league for that particular stat.

[Percy McCarthy]

Pleased to get a win.

Our tempo was so slow. Something Unai has said he wants to change.

For the goal yes it was a poor pass from Ollie but I had a clear view from above and Mings bottled the fifty fifty which would have snuffed the whole move out. Possibly understandable he doesn’t want to risk injury.

Disappointed with the midfield. No creativity until the subs when  Buendia played like an inside forward and Maatsen went for the by line.

One their big centre half went off Ollie got more space and exploited it.

But still pleased with the win. The most important thing from today.

I don’t think that was a 50/50.

[Percy McCarthy]

I was frustrated watching the game, but on reflection I think they came for a draw and made it very difficult for us.  There was no pivot out of the defence, they had Kamara, Barkley and Tielemans all man-marked, which is why we saw so much of the passing between Mings and Konsa and then balls out to Digne and Cash.

Better in the second half, but we always have that one slip-up in us, don't we?  The commentator on the NBC feed gave a mad statistic about the amount of goals we have conceded from the other team's first shot on goal and although I can't remember the exact number, it was alarming and we are by far the worst team in the league for that particular stat.

Although we didn’t add to it today.

[Proposition Joe]

I was frustrated watching the game, but on reflection I think they came for a draw and made it very difficult for us.  There was no pivot out of the defence, they had Kamara, Barkley and Tielemans all man-marked, which is why we saw so much of the passing between Mings and Konsa and then balls out to Digne and Cash.

Better in the second half, but we always have that one slip-up in us, don't we?  The commentator on the NBC feed gave a mad statistic about the amount of goals we have conceded from the other team's first shot on goal and although I can't remember the exact number, it was alarming and we are by far the worst team in the league for that particular stat.

Although we didn’t add to it today.

Indeed, their first shot was another world class save from Martinez. Shame the rebound got put away.

[Paul.S]

We are a good team and a few signings away from being a very good team.
We’ve won today with a few missing and a few seasons back there’s no way that would’ve happened. The transformation since Emery came has been unbelievable and unlike others who the press love he doesn’t bleat about injuries and just gets on with it.

[PaulWinch again]

Watkins not only fluffed his chance (again) but cost us a goal.
He needs an enormous kick up the arse along with a few others.
Duran is going to walk straight back in to this team if he’s not careful.

I don’t think a “kick up the arse” is what’s needed, he’s very evidently trying hard. Also he’s been directly involved in over a third of our league goals, let’s not confuse him struggling a bit with him being useful. He’s still very important.

[usav]

I was frustrated watching the game, but on reflection I think they came for a draw and made it very difficult for us.  There was no pivot out of the defence, they had Kamara, Barkley and Tielemans all man-marked, which is why we saw so much of the passing between Mings and Konsa and then balls out to Digne and Cash.

Better in the second half, but we always have that one slip-up in us, don't we?  The commentator on the NBC feed gave a mad statistic about the amount of goals we have conceded from the other team's first shot on goal and although I can't remember the exact number, it was alarming and we are by far the worst team in the league for that particular stat.

Although we didn’t add to it today.

Indeed, their first shot was another world class save from Martinez. Shame the rebound got put away.

Talking of that, am I the only one that thinks Cash should have done better there to slide/block the shot?  I know other things went wrong before that, so not trying to blame him, but thought his tackle was late and on the man, rather than trying to block the shot.

[Steve67]

Their goal was a poor pass from a poor Watkins, but the ball still had half a pitch to travel and not a single Villa player concentrated on marking a Leicester player in that attack.  Shockingly poor defending.  Backwards, sideways, against a Leicester side who came to park the bus and grab a draw, boring fuckers.  Good goal from Barkley, who played well.  The winner was a well worked goal and neat finish.  A dull game but a win is a win. Unbeaten run of two games.  We really need some extra pace and craft and I hope we bring a couple in.  Good use of Maatsen today.

[Astnor]

We are a good team and a few signings away from being a very good team.
We’ve won today with a few missing and a few seasons back there’s no way that would’ve happened. The transformation since Emery came has been unbelievable and unlike others who the press love he doesn’t bleat about injuries and just gets on with it.

Well said.