Brugge v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[olaftab]

Wow…that’s a decent walk. Well done.

[OCD]

Loved tonight.

Came out of the home end in the South Stand unscathed and made some Belgian friends.

Great support from the Villa faithful.

Can anybody tell me why Unai got booked please?

Ran on to the pitch and kept complaining. Were you here?😂

In Delaney’s now but not sure how I would know that. I was watching the game!

Ignite the emoji John it was that’ certain time of the night. If I knew where Delaney’s was would have come over to say hello😊

No worries. I see the yellow card but just didn’t know what it was for. Seems from the BBC it was for arguing rather than coming in the pitch.

I ended up at Cafe Pick which was ecstatic. Great fun.

I think I got better food and drink in the ground than the Villa supporters but had to walk back afterwards as no public transport and I couldn’t get to our shuttle buses!

A yellow card would have been the least he would have deserved.

[olaftab]

He did win that but he did struggle - he improved a fair bit when he went out wide - and Mings definitely should have won it shouldn’t he?

Tyrone is being lauded for that superb clearance but that shouldn’t have been necessary if either him or Ezri had dealt with the cross.

[Louzie0]

I figured Lou was working on the assumption that we were going to pop a couple in ourselves.

Exactly! 👍

(& hopefully a couple in each half!)

[Pat McMahon]

https://x.com/villaontour_/status/1897021146182410273

Kettled and prepared for spraying. That can't be good.

Sore losers.

A few people have mentioned this to me. They kettled us waiting for the buses to arrive and they had a water cannon parked outside too. We reckoned they just wanted to give it a run out as it is probably never used so they did a sort of test tdrive to the ground. It certainly wasn’t pointed at us.

We were drinking with some Bruges fans after the game and they said hooliganism is a big issue in Belgium. On our two trips there I haven’t seen a hint of trouble, though apparently they smashed up the bars around Cafe Pick after a home defeat in October.

Another cracking trip seeing lots of familiar faces and some new ones. Great to meet 144 Boiled Eggs from here yesterday

[Percy McCarthy]

https://x.com/villaontour_/status/1897021146182410273

Kettled and prepared for spraying. That can't be good.

Sore losers.

A few people have mentioned this to me. They kettled us waiting for the buses to arrive and they had a water cannon parked outside too. We reckoned they just wanted to give it a run out as it is probably never used so they did a sort of test tdrive to the ground. It certainly wasn’t pointed at us.

We were drinking with some Bruges fans after the game and they said hooliganism is a big issue in Belgium. On our two trips there I haven’t seen a hint of trouble, though apparently they smashed up the bars around Cafe Pick after a home defeat in October.

Another cracking trip seeing lots of familiar faces and some new ones. Great to meet 144 Boiled Eggs from here yesterday

Hurray! Two of my favourite people met up!

[Chip Butty 111]

Great result. Good performance against a decent side. Mings MOTM. Immense. Digne very good. Asensio always brings a touch of class and ups our level. Bailey some good and bad. Watkins awful. Rashford anonymous. Rodgers average to poor. Cash a car crash, penalty winning aside.

I was with you till I got to Rashford and then Rogers comment completely floored me. I assume Rodgers is a different player to UEFA PotM Rogers?

I thought Rashford and Rogers were OK, in fact I'd have taken Ollie off and played Rashford down the middle with Ramsey out wide. Ollie is having one his horrible streaks, trapping the ball like someone in ski boots and not looking remotely like scoring. He needs a tap in and he'll be off again. When Brugge see the tifo next week, and realise we have 2 home ends they won't like it.

[Pat McMahon]

https://x.com/villaontour_/status/1897021146182410273

Kettled and prepared for spraying. That can't be good.

Sore losers.

A few people have mentioned this to me. They kettled us waiting for the buses to arrive and they had a water cannon parked outside too. We reckoned they just wanted to give it a run out as it is probably never used so they did a sort of test tdrive to the ground. It certainly wasn’t pointed at us.

We were drinking with some Bruges fans after the game and they said hooliganism is a big issue in Belgium. On our two trips there I haven’t seen a hint of trouble, though apparently they smashed up the bars around Cafe Pick after a home defeat in October.

Another cracking trip seeing lots of familiar faces and some new ones. Great to meet 144 Boiled Eggs from here yesterday

Hurray! Two of my favourite people met up!

Cheers Parcy 👍, you’re not so bad yourself.

Steve is a top lad. Your name cropped up a fair bit in the afternoon conversations.

[Percy McCarthy]

https://x.com/villaontour_/status/1897021146182410273

Kettled and prepared for spraying. That can't be good.

Sore losers.

A few people have mentioned this to me. They kettled us waiting for the buses to arrive and they had a water cannon parked outside too. We reckoned they just wanted to give it a run out as it is probably never used so they did a sort of test tdrive to the ground. It certainly wasn’t pointed at us.

We were drinking with some Bruges fans after the game and they said hooliganism is a big issue in Belgium. On our two trips there I haven’t seen a hint of trouble, though apparently they smashed up the bars around Cafe Pick after a home defeat in October.

Another cracking trip seeing lots of familiar faces and some new ones. Great to meet 144 Boiled Eggs from here yesterday

Hurray! Two of my favourite people met up!

Cheers Parcy 👍, you’re not so bad yourself.

Steve is a top lad. Your name cropped up a fair bit in the afternoon conversations.

That’s lovely mate thanks. A nice consolation to be there in some capacity.

[lovejoy]

It's not over, obviously, but we have every right to feel confident going into the home leg with a two-goal advantage.

Brugge are now 18-1 to qualify for the quarter-finals, and that feels about right.  For context, we're about 25-1 to win the entire tournament.

If we DON'T go through, something pretty spectacular has gone wrong for us (or right for them).

But there’s more chance of them going through than us winning it

[Somniloquism]

Well yes, the odds of us beating them, PSG or Plop, Arse or a Madrid and then Bayern/ Barca is slightly higher then Brugges winning one match. Well done.

[Percy McCarthy]

Well yes, the odds of us beating them, PSG or Plop, Arse or a Madrid and then Bayern/ Barca is slightly higher then Brugges winning one match. Well done.

Insight.

[olaftab]

The water cannon has been there since Small Heath turned up with 50,000 and took over the stadium.

[olaftab]

It's very concerning that we're 3-1 up after the away leg. I couldn't sleep last night through worry.

Yes very very fortunate. Should be ashamed of that result.

[144 Hard Boiled Eggs]

Loved tonight.

Came out of the home end in the South Stand unscathed and made some Belgian friends.

Great support from the Villa faithful.

Can anybody tell me why Unai got booked please?

Ran on to the pitch and kept complaining. Were you here?😂

In Delaney’s now but not sure how I would know that. I was watching the game!

Ignite the emoji John it was that’ certain time of the night. If I knew where Delaney’s was would have come over to say hello😊

No worries. I see the yellow card but just didn’t know what it was for. Seems from the BBC it was for arguing rather than coming in the pitch.

I ended up at Cafe Pick which was ecstatic. Great fun.

I think I got better food and drink in the ground than the Villa supporters but had to walk back afterwards as no public transport and I couldn’t get to our shuttle buses!

I walked back too Jon, as I did last year. Both times, though, I had a couple of beers in the Bruges pub by the ground to prepare myself! No problem with the locals. Happy to chat about the game.