The second half felt quite reminiscent of the past few seasons at home. A dash and a bang of quality, co trol the game, one minor scare, but by and large very comfortable and the result not under pressure.
I didn't think we were that bad in the first half, albeit caught cold by a set piece.
They then had a couple of chances, but King is a cheating little rat and was rightly booked for folding like a deckchair before he'd even got to Martinez. Wilson should have gone too, diving after no contact with Bogarde and then waving your arms about sufficiently to be booked. Total gobshite.
Felt a few today showed they're potentially past it a bit and the injury to Mings helped somewhat. He's just too limited on the ball and he isn't good enough to pick that pass through the lines. Conversely Pau dealt with things very well, albeit it helped them having a circus act up top after Jiminez went off.
Digne was really poor too; missing tackles, wayward passes, miles too deep for a lot of the first half.
Pleased that Ollie got his goal, Guessand works very hard and is slowly adding little touches and flicks going forwards. Buendia suprised me, especially after giving the ball away 3 times in 2 minutes of being on. Rogers worked hard and slowly started to find Villa shirts.
Decent enough comfortable win. About time.
