Aston Villa vs Man United Post-Match Thread

[Demitri_C]

What a early xmas present 🎁 👏

We didn't  play well but who cares. We beat those bastards and another one!

Thought maatsen was very good but of course rogers.

Expect our winning run to come to a end with Chelsea  and arsenal away. Its abit of a ask to win both so just enjoying it while we can UTV and merry xmas to all

[PeterWithe]

Haven't read the thread so apologies for repeating anything but a lovely feeling to beat those fuckers by doing 'just enough'. Absolutely delicious to read one of my glory hunting mates describe it as a 'moral victory', like a plucky non-league team visiting in the cup, playing well but leaving with fuck all.

Rogers' goals were top drawer but I didn't think he was at his best overall, and certainly allowed Maatsen to get overrun a little in the first half. We seemed to struggle with the amount of traffic in the middle of the park, perhaps as we missed the Torres-Youri-Rogers series of vertical passes forward. Shaw in particular was pretty effective in stopping McGinn being the target for the outball resulting from their very effective press.

My MOM (albeit very unfair on MR) was Onana.

[London Villan]

Mcginn found the physical battle with shaw really tough. They have some similarities in how they compete and it’s not often SJM gets outmuscled.

[Rigadon]

The result was a ‘heist’ according to the guardian ‘talking points’.
 

[Demitri_C]

The result was a ‘heist’ according to the guardian ‘talking points’.

We didnt  play well to be fair but united hardly  battered us either. United were better side but not by much. 

[Nev]

The result was a ‘heist’ according to the guardian ‘talking points’.
 

Newton Heath get a special bit all to themselves as well.

[Mister E]

The result was a ‘heist’ according to the guardian ‘talking points’.
 

"Villa were very lucky..." Well, maybe but both sides had several chances to score more goals. In the end, Villa's solid defence did its job well. What is more interesting is that Manchester set the team up in  way which Villa found difficult to cope with ... which makes the victory even more creditable.
The narrative that without Rogers we'd have lost is lazy: yes, he scored one outstanding goal and was well-positioned to score the second, but they were team goals created from good passing and individual skill from other players (McGinn's pass to Rogers for the first should be given far more credit than I've seen / heard / read-about, and Tielemans' persistence and skill for the second was classy). Furthermore, without Heaven's first-half defending display, Villa would have been out of sight.

[Chip Butty 111]

As Mr Clough said to the BBC interviewer 45 years ago when Forest were top of the league, and all they were banging on about was Liverpool, Utd and Arsenal...."one day you lot will realise we are a decent side"....

[VILLA MOLE]

They played the prettier football, we didnt click too often  but still managed to win.  Just a reminder they scored form our cock up at the back 

[kipeye]

That game was all about man to man marking to block transition in midfield. That's why we found it so difficult to get going. I'm puzzled why we didn't have a high press at home against a fragile defence. Reminded me of the Liverpool away set up. Maybe not for the purists, but much better second half when we stopped trying to play from the back.

[andyh]

We have to be better against Chelsea.
I think we will be.

[not3bad]

We seemed to struggle for rhythm once those early chances had come and gone. But we just had the game’s best player, so there.

My daughter’s baptism at Villa Park. Magic.

Man Utd, to be fair to them, broke up our play quite effectively at times.

[john e]

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

Next game mate

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