Aston Villa v Chelsea Post-Match Thread

[VILLA MOLE]

Not a lot has been made of our penalty claims., unless i missed it

Also Alan Smith , almost feeling sorry for Chelsea not having a recognised striker and somewhere they need to recruit.  my god how many players do they fucking have !

[Brazilian Villain]

Never met a Chelsea fan here. Don't think they exist in Ireland.

Same here, I've met more SHA fans in Ireland. The only Chelsea fans I know are an East Londoner (Greek descent), 5 or 6 black Zimbabweans that I worked with, and a Thai girl I know.

*All the Zimbabweans I know are Chelsea fans, whereas Kenyans are usually Yanited fans with a few Arsenal thrown in.

[Astnor]

If Chelsea slide some further down the table this season it will be interesting to see if they change manager and start a rebuild with players in and out.

[eye digress]

Whilst Rashford was excellent yesterday what changed the game for me was bringing Bailey and Malan on because we had someone to hold the ball up and sheer pace both sides of the pitch.  Chelsea couldn't cope with both Bailey AND Rashford yesterday.  Really good use of the subs by Unai.   If Bailey was better at picking people out, the game would have been won well before the 89th minute.

Or more direct. I know we’ve been banging on about it for months, but if he could just find that extra bit of confidence…

Still, it was much improved, with shades of last year’s sub appearances that presaged his red hot form.

[Demitri_C]

If Chelsea slide some further down the table this season it will be interesting to see if they change manager and start a rebuild with players in and out.

Luckily  their next two are Southampton  and then Leicester  at home. There is no way they are not battering them. Both of those sides are hopeless

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Never met a Chelsea fan here. Don't think they exist in Ireland.

*All the Zimbabweans I know are Chelsea fans, whereas Kenyans are usually Yanited fans with a few Arsenal thrown in.

Glory hunters, Coventry are a distant memory now then?!

[Pat McMahon]

Aye, Maatsen needs some serious 1-1 coaching on stopping crosses coming in.

It looked far too easy from my position in the Holte, but having watched the highlights, his defending was so passive for that first goal. 

I think he was too square to the winger for Ipswich’s goal last week and Chelsea’s yesterday and didn’t do enough to stop the option of the cross. Digne is a much better defender and I reckon he’ll start on Tuesday. I noticed Collymore on Twitter saying he thought he was 10-20m too advanced in moments when we weren’t in secure possession leaving lots of room to run into.

Maatsen did well however to keep going and had a good second half going forward - helped by Rashford driving their right back towards his own goal.

[Percy McCarthy]

Never met a Chelsea fan here. Don't think they exist in Ireland.

Same here, I've met more SHA fans in Ireland. The only Chelsea fans I know are an East Londoner (Greek descent), 5 or 6 black Zimbabweans that I worked with, and a Thai girl I know.

*All the Zimbabweans I know are Chelsea fans, whereas Kenyans are usually Yanited fans with a few Arsenal thrown in.

The black African Chelsea mate I was on about is Zimbabwean.

Great bloke. I got £300 for recruiting him for our work.

[Tayls_7]

Never met a Chelsea fan here. Don't think they exist in Ireland.

Same here, I've met more SHA fans in Ireland. The only Chelsea fans I know are an East Londoner (Greek descent), 5 or 6 black Zimbabweans that I worked with, and a Thai girl I know.

*All the Zimbabweans I know are Chelsea fans, whereas Kenyans are usually Yanited fans with a few Arsenal thrown in.

The black African Chelsea mate I was on about is Zimbabwean.

Great bloke. I got £300 for recruiting him for our work.

You'd think international diamond smuggling was better paid.

[Percy McCarthy]

Never met a Chelsea fan here. Don't think they exist in Ireland.

Same here, I've met more SHA fans in Ireland. The only Chelsea fans I know are an East Londoner (Greek descent), 5 or 6 black Zimbabweans that I worked with, and a Thai girl I know.

*All the Zimbabweans I know are Chelsea fans, whereas Kenyans are usually Yanited fans with a few Arsenal thrown in.

The black African Chelsea mate I was on about is Zimbabwean.

Great bloke. I got £300 for recruiting him for our work.

You'd think international diamond smuggling was better paid.

Haha! He has to pretend to be a pallet repairer though.

[LeeB]

I’d forgotten Chelsea even had Neto until yesterday - very good player, you can see why he was out of Wolves at the first possible opportunity.

Neto is an excellent player and always plays very well against us.

One to look out for in future 'picking up for a song and making the selling team look like mugs' deals.

[brontebilly]

Neto probably pushed McGinn for motm, he destroyed us in the first half. But he's one of them with all the ability in the world but I'm not sure he will ever deliver consistent performances. Tends to get the odd niggle that sets him back.

Chelsea are flaky really. Their centre backs are soft, keeper(s) are liabilities and the likes of Reece James has regressed hugely. I don't see them going on a big winning run to get a top 4 spot. The two goals they conceded were as bad as anything we have let in all season.

[eric woolban woolban]

Did anyone notice Konsa celebrating the second goal. First camera angle and he's hopping around as his boot has fallen off.
Second camera angle and he launches his boot into the air.

[Somniloquism]

Yep. I wonder where it landed.

[Somniloquism]

Pitchside. Unfortunately they don't show McGinn playing with the mascots, but at the end it is interesting that Onana was in the tunnel embracing each player when they came off.