Aston Villa vs Man United Post-Match Thread

[Witton Warrior]

Thank you for making my day/week/Christmas you lovely Villa boys

[Steve67]

Two delicious goals from Morgan.  Great win, doesn't matter how, just do it, and we did.  You can have a lot of the ball but if you do nothing with it, tough shit.  Up the Villa,

[martin o`who??]

Anything that passes Fergie and Gary Neville off is fine with me.

[Somniloquism]

She I like you.  But stop talking shit.


Sue Smith
Former Leeds and England forward on BBC Radio 5 Live at Villa Park
Absolutely incredible from Aston Villa. The record, the run that they're on, but Morgan Rogers has been a big part of that and we saw that today. Two absolute brilliant goals from him.
And you have to feel for Man Utd. They kept going, they kept trying to get that equaliser. But from an Aston Villa perspective, unbelievable. What a record.

She is doing exactly what Keown wasn't doing in that statement and the rest is pretty much spot on apart from 8 words which of course doesn't apply to us.

[SaddVillan]

Obviously there is no version of us beating them that wouldn't be very satisfying.

But after the last thirty years I reckon them coming away saying how they were probably the better team on the day, and had they only scored that one chance it might have all been different, or if that one player hadn't needed to go off injured, and how they can take a lot of positives from the performance if not the result, and how sometimes a better team just has one brilliant player and that's all they need to get a result even if they're not playing well...

Has to be up there as one of the better versions of it.

It really only needed the "that one refereeing decision to have gone the other way" for the full house of our post-Man Utd commentary from the last couple of decades.

Exactly this.  They’re almost becoming good at playing the plucky card.
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For all their "dominance", they only scored courtesy of an early Christmas present from Matty Cash.

I couldn't give a shiney shite about xG.

The only metric that counts is balls in the Onion Bag.

[kippaxvilla2]

WelshBlue
 

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Replying to IanT 
18:09, SUN 21 DEC
Rogers is Bellingham lite. He does very good things but Bellingham does more things good.

That said, maybe TT doesn't t need everything Jude is good at in that shirt.

[aj2k77]

Get that right up you you glory hunting ******.

[Steve67]

Unai, throwing his coat and giving it large.  Sir Unai.

[brontebilly]

Awful performance really. I think only three players played up to par. Was quite impressed with Man United. Tactically they did us in midfield, both Cunha and Mount were very impressive. Fortunate we have this complete freak of a player playing on our left today. Outstanding.

Martinez 7 - solid throughout
Cash 5 - awful mistake for the goal, made one great block in second half
Konsa 6 - one great block too but a bit iffy including  a weird defensive header
Lindelof 4 - shocking indictment on West Ham they didn't press him onto his left foot like today, Konsa and him watched Cunha miss that sitter
Maatsen 6 - a bit meh but had a big problem next to him
Kamara 5 - poor today, caught ahead of ball constantly
Onana 5 - age old problem evident again - unable to play on half turn
McGinn 8 - great ball to Rogers for the first, battled really well
Rogers 9 - outstanding goals, dug us out of a massive hole today with his quality
Tielemans 4 - really poor. Anonymous first half and not much better in second
Watkins 4 - midfield was the problem position today but can't ignore his current level of performance

Not sure about subs today, Buendia should have come on a lot earlier I thought. Digne was ok.

[Rory]

Thank god for morgs. Watkins has to be replaced asap

He is dreadful.

We need a poll on the Watkins thread to see how many people are still Watkins Worshippers.

A reckon a few have become atheists over the past few weeks.

Please, in the name of McGrath, let's not drag this over here as well.

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

Did John e get his bare arse out by The Holte Pub...just asking ..

Woooar!

Thank you Santa Baby, for the Villa win. I was telling you I've been a good girl this year! X

[kipeye]

I was sure they were going to bring on Van Nistelrooy to score a late double...

[Taylor]

Thank god for morgs. Watkins has to be replaced asap

Without Ollie, Morgan doesn’t score the second.

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

Lindelof being marked lower than the rest of the defence seems a bit harsh.

[PeterWithesShin]

We beat ManU at home, 10 straight wins, 10s for everyone involved.