Aston Villa vs Tottenham post-match thread

[Percy McCarthy]

Home game v one of the Manchester's hopefully

Plymouth (h) for me please. Let the Mancs play each other or Jaudi Arabia.

[JUAN PABLO]

Plymouth please (H)

[JUAN PABLO]

In fact think the Villa fans would love a weekend in Plymouth and we are good enough to do them there .

[Brazilian Villain]

In fact think the Villa fans would love a weekend in Plymouth and we are good enough to do them there .

Their record home attendance (43,587) was against us in 1936.

[brontebilly]

I really wish I was a betting man as I'm broke and Villa not to keep a clean-sheet must have been decent odds even at the 80th minute mark. Don't think any of us expected Spurs to stay nil even when we were still having most of the play.

Most of our wins this season have been by one or two goal margins. I really hope we hand out some mullerings between now and May as we have it in us from an attacking sense. That back door is permanently on the latch though.

Having two centre backs who are comfortable on the ball was key to playing through an admittedly half hearted Spurs press. Bogarde was caught for the goal but was tidy in possession.

Delap bullied our defence in Ipswich so will present a much different challenge next day out.

[cdbearsfan]

This is why I can’t stand this ridiculous, overrated club. In defeat to a club at least as big as them, the headline is about them. Who gives a fuck about ‘who they are.’ Tossers.

I think it's more that neutrals are interested in whether their manager gets the sack than any perceived anti-Villa bias. I can't be arsed to check, but I bet when we got twatted by Fulham in 2022, the headlines were all about Gerrard, not Fulham (before he did eventually get sacked an hour or so later, that is).

[jon collett]

players still to come back , our leading goalscorer missing , those two to get match fitness

yes the second half will be great

p lop , chelsea , spurs  and arse out ,  it could be


And Asensio .. you dont play for real madrid for ten years and be average  , I just knew he would be class , like our new Merson  and great to see Rshford working hard .


Hope the armchair lot enjoyed us.

Tut! We don't all live in Hinckley with east Astonian access.

Tin Hat?

weavers

The place not the pub. I grew up in Codder!

[RamboandBruno]

If like a winnable away tie, with enough ticket allocation to have a chance of going.
Man Utd are shit and Man City aren’t what they were, but want to avoid them ideally. Also would like to avoid Forest and Bournemouth at the moment.
Preston, Plymouth, Cardiff away perhaps, or if not any of them three at home

[Mellin]

I'm scarred from a 2-0 loss away at Preston in the Championship. Was an absolutely miserable day and we were shit. Like really, really shit. I'd like to exorcise those demons.

[Clampy]

I thought we looked terrific going forward. Shame we couldn't keep a clean sheet again mind but delighted through.

[VillaTim]

Really entertaining game , at times we played some fantastic stuff , we are going to be a real handful once we get the defence back . The week off did them all good.  They all did really well but my MOTM was McGinn he was superb today .

[passport1]

Excellent. It's beginning to look like the season I expected. Onwards and upwards!

[JUAN PABLO]

In fact think the Villa fans would love a weekend in Plymouth and we are good enough to do them there .

Their record home attendance (43,587) was against us in 1936.

Who won BV?    was it a  good game ?

[Dante Lavelli]

Massive Tottingham inquest again on the Beeb.

They're just shit.

When will you learn.

I thought Spence despite being out of position tried hard. Conte used treat him as a joke but he was very good for Forest. A lot more heart than Porro anyway.

By all accounts he’s been their best player in the last 3/4 games.

Yep. I think he looks decent.  A unit and reasonably good with the ball.

[Dave]

Enjoyed this take:

...before Mathys Tel showed he can absolutely be the man to fill Richarlison’s shoes by scoring a flattering late consolation goal in a deeply damaging defeat

.....

This is perhaps more damaging even than the midweek non-trier at Liverpool. There is less excuse for being swatted aside by Villa. They are for one obvious thing not as good as Liverpool, and for another are themselves bedevilled by most of the things generally used as mitigation for Ange’s Spurs being awful.

They lost Ezri Konsa to injury here and had no senior centre-back available. While Spurs simply shrug and decide to just not bother with defending altogether in that situation, Villa chose to make the best they could of it. A bold strategy.

Villa have also had a workload comparable to Spurs, and have struggled with it. But their league season remains on an even keel and their cup ambitions intact.

Spurs have only excuses, recriminations, a relegation battle and Ryan Mason’s toughest caretaker spell yet

Edited as the paragraphs after were decent too, so I've added them.