Aston Villa v Young Boys Post-Match Thread

[Duncan Shaw]

It seemed clear that once Ollie was on, the instruction was to try and set him up for a goal.

So something we do in every match🤔

Not to the extent of actually squandering better chances to do it, e.g. the Sancho one last night.

[Ads]

A decent hour and then shit.
The last 30 mins were abysmal. Young Boys were really not very good, lower Championship standard at best, yet we allowed them to dominate us in the last half hour.

I thought Malen and Maatsen were very good, Tielemans and Onana glided through

I had a ticket for the game and booked the afternoon off but only got out of the office in London at 7pm and caught the last 30 in the pub. I thought Maatsen looked decent going forward but was caught out for the disallowed goal and was also caught napping a few times in our own box. I don’t yet trust him as a defender.

You'd have struggled anyway as the trains from Euston were fucked.  My son was booked on the 14:10 due in at 15:30, and arrived just in time to neck the pint I'd bought him in the Holte End car park "fan zone" (one beer trailer tucked in the corner) before we had to dash in for KO.  I was "lucky" enough to be working in Nuneaton yesterday 

Euston appears worse than ever of late. No joy after Tottenham, was a nightmare last week getting back to Piccadilly as well.

[Crown Hill]

A decent hour and then shit.
The last 30 mins were abysmal. Young Boys were really not very good, lower Championship standard at best, yet we allowed them to dominate us in the last half hour.

I thought Malen and Maatsen were very good, Tielemans and Onana glided through

I had a ticket for the game and booked the afternoon off but only got out of the office in London at 7pm and caught the last 30 in the pub. I thought Maatsen looked decent going forward but was caught out for the disallowed goal and was also caught napping a few times in our own box. I don’t yet trust him as a defender.

You'd have struggled anyway as the trains from Euston were fucked.  My son was booked on the 14:10 due in at 15:30, and arrived just in time to neck the pint I'd bought him in the Holte End car park "fan zone" (one beer trailer tucked in the corner) before we had to dash in for KO.  I was "lucky" enough to be working in Nuneaton yesterday 

Lucky you. Easy journey from here!

[kippaxvilla2]

I’ve seen Duncan Norvelle throw stronger punches than that ‘hooligan’

[London Villan]

Where did the spend the pre and post match drinking in town?

[Pat McMahon]

A decent hour and then shit.
The last 30 mins were abysmal. Young Boys were really not very good, lower Championship standard at best, yet we allowed them to dominate us in the last half hour.

I thought Malen and Maatsen were very good, Tielemans and Onana glided through

I had a ticket for the game and booked the afternoon off but only got out of the office in London at 7pm and caught the last 30 in the pub. I thought Maatsen looked decent going forward but was caught out for the disallowed goal and was also caught napping a few times in our own box. I don’t yet trust him as a defender.

You'd have struggled anyway as the trains from Euston were fucked.  My son was booked on the 14:10 due in at 15:30, and arrived just in time to neck the pint I'd bought him in the Holte End car park "fan zone" (one beer trailer tucked in the corner) before we had to dash in for KO.  I was "lucky" enough to be working in Nuneaton yesterday 

Thanks for cheering me up Duncan! I’m sad to have missed it but the early kick off meant getting away on time from London proved impossible. The positive would have been actually being able to get a train home for a midweek game instead of cashing a lift.

Re the trouble, when there is a small following like last night why not just put them upstairs and leave the lower section empty?

[Tony Daleys Shorts]

Or leave them on the car park, a la Legia.

[dave.woodhall]

To avoid a quotathon, the angle of the seats in Upper Trinity makes effective policing there unsafe.

[darren woolley]

Another win job done we move on.

[Nev]

Where did the spend the pre and post match drinking in town?

I work in Town and for every European game, with an obvious exception, you would see fans of the opposition but I didn't see one yesterday at all.

[Chris Smith]

Where did the spend the pre and post match drinking in town?

I work in Town and for every European game, with an obvious exception, you would see fans of the opposition but I didn't see one yesterday at all.

My mate was in The Sly Old Fox and said there were a load in there.

[MillerBall]

And some in the Colmore in the City Centre (they were friendly enough).

[Chris Harte]

Still plenty of nonsense on Twitter about Villa and the SAG in view of the fact some of the YB fans played up inside the stadium last night, after Villa or the SAG had banned you-know-who from coming in the first place.

I know I'm preching to the converted here but it boils my piss when people with an agenda delibarately claim that there was a ban on members of a nation state or of a particular religion when in fact it was a ban on supporters of a particular football club.

Anyway, sorry for the rant.

[dave.woodhall]

Where did the spend the pre and post match drinking in town?

I work in Town and for every European game, with an obvious exception, you would see fans of the opposition but I didn't see one yesterday at all.

They were all in Bordesley gazing in wonder at the site of the Sports Quarter.

[Somniloquism]

Wouldn't be surprised if they are lifted at the airport.

Bern's a small airport so they could be flying from anywhere in England, to anywhere in Switzerland, via anywhere in Western Europe.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2dz3ex6r1lo

Six men were arrested earlier at Birmingham Airport on suspicion of assaulting a police officer and violent disorder.