Brentford vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Hopadop]

Matt Upson on t'wireless was raving about both fullbacks.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

We made really hard work of that. Apparently we have so much fire power up front but you'd never know. Unai has given Bailey all season to play himself back to form and despite it obviously not happening he continues to select him.
Rogers is great at driving forward with the ball but so often it ends there. Playground stuff as he tries to beat everybody.
Watkins this season looks mentally exhausted after a long season and summer. He still might finish the season on a high but he's been half the player he was last season. 10 touches first half. He's struggling to get into games and when he does often his technique lets him down.
Ramsey is doing okay but still not the player we loved before his injury.
Rashford is trying to be a team player, some quality assists but still finding his feet.
Melan is the one that has looked like he actually knows what he's doing but Unai for some mad reason doesn't seem to fancy him or at least prefers to stick with his old favourites.
He probably called it right not playing Asensio today due to Brentford being a team of dirty thugs but apart from the first 10 minutes of the second half, we rarely showed signs of raising our game and taking control.

An ugly win is an ugly win, it's a clean sheet and three points thanks in large parts to a strong and determined defence. Hopefully it was a one off and our so called great firepower upfront can up their game. Fourth spot may have gone but 5th is certainly still up for grabs.

Disasi MOTM which is funny as I doubt you'd have found a single Villa fan who would have started him at right back today.

[eamonn]

Mings imperious again , he's getting back to 100% . Disasi superb .
Not pretty , not helped by the officials , but a very important 3 points .
Mings MOTM again.

The officials could have been a lot more unhelpful.

[Clampy]

Thought we were excellent all game really, limted them to very little apart from the shot off the post. Disasi was just tremendous. What a defender he looks.

[usav]

We made really hard work of that. Apparently we have so much fire power up front but you'd never know. Unai has given Bailey all season to play himself back to form and despite it obviously not happening he continues to select him.

Especially away from home.  I can't remember him being great away from home even last season.

[Sexual Ealing]

We made really hard work of that. Apparently we have so much fire power up front but you'd never know. Unai has given Bailey all season to play himself back to form and despite it obviously not happening he continues to select him.
Rogers is great at driving forward with the ball but so often it ends there. Playground stuff as he tries to beat everybody.
Watkins this season looks mentally exhausted after a long season and summer. He still might finish the season on a high but he's been half the player he was last season. 10 touches first half. He's struggling to get into games and when he does often his technique lets him down.
Ramsey is doing okay but still not the player we loved before his injury.
Rashford is trying to be a team player, some quality assists but still finding his feet.
Melan is the one that has looked like he actually knows what he's doing but Unai for some mad reason doesn't seem to fancy him or at least prefers to stick with his old favourites.
He probably called it right not playing Asensio today due to Brentford being a team of dirty thugs but apart from the first 10 minutes of the second half, we rarely showed signs of raising our game and taking control.

An ugly win is an ugly win, it's a clean sheet and three points thanks in large parts to a strong and determined defence. Hopefully it was a one off and our so called great firepower upfront can up their game. Fourth spot may have gone but 5th is certainly still up for grabs.

Disasi MOTM which is funny as I doubt you'd have found a single Villa fan who would have started him at right back today.

Agree with all this (apart from the spelling of Asensio's name. Wink).

[brontebilly]

Only watched the last few minutes.

That Nathan Collins tackle should have been a Red

It was pretty bad. Over the ball.

The one on Ramsey was a dreadful tackle too. Ramsey went to play the ball with his right yet the back of his left foot got cleaned out of it.

[BoVillan esq]

Very little to be said of that other than we got the 3 points, Brighton/Forest next, make or break, one things for sure we'd better start remembering how to score goals.

[VillaTim]

Mings imperious again , he's getting back to 100% . Disasi superb .
Not pretty , not helped by the officials , but a very important 3 points .
Mings MOTM again.

The officials could have been a lot more unhelpful.

True .
But our 2nd goal wasn't off and that changes it all .

[Clampy]

Also, how quiet did we keep Mbeumo and Wissa?

[Dave]

Absolutely mental that we have -4 goal difference and nobody else has a negative goal difference until you get to Everton in 14th.

[SaddVillan]

Plenty of people seem to be unhappy with certain aspects of   today's performance.

Couldn't give a shiney shite myself.

I'll happily take 9 more crappy jammy piss-poor 1-0s in the League and 3 more in the Holy Grail.

[Tony Daleys Shorts]

Clean sheet.

Away from home.

Post UCL game.

Ollie winner.

Happy Saturday night.

VTID

[eamonn]

If we can win Wednesday, going into the break off four straight wins will feel quite a big boost going into the back end of the season.

The lads can then look forward to their warm-weather training in Dubai and chillax with their wags in the generous down-time Uncle Unai gives.
Maybe old friend Jhon could take a short flight to meet-up with his old comrades. It could be a really wholesome time all round!

[brontebilly]

Rashford not exactly busting a gut to shine is he. Bailey was garbage as usual. Rogers needs a fortnight in dubai.

Nice to see you seek the positives from an important win.

He was absolutely hammering Rashford when we signed him. Pure agenda. Ignore.

Rashford was poor when he came on. He was hardly involved. We lost all balance in midfield when Ramsey went off. Don't think Rashford is suited to playing on the left of our four. From memory, at his best at Man United he was left of a three and playing on the counter.