Aston Villa vs Man United Post-Match Thread

[olaftab]

I have mixed feelings about the game. I'm a lot more happy with the score than the performance. It still looks like we have an inferiority complex against man utd. We played like we were the underdogs relying on counter attacking when really we should be taking the game to them a lot more.

Really? Read this piece from F365 report:
For all but the youngest Man United fans, there will have been something uncannily familiar about this game. An away team coming to a team on a formidable winning run and throwing absolutely everything at them, arguably having the better of the game on the balance of the 90 minutes, and then going home with absolutely nothing.
Old Trafford saw more games like this than any of care to remember in the 1990s and 2000s. That Villa Park is now the venue for such behaviour really is quite something. For the first time since before that era of United dominance – before the invention of football in 1992 even – Villa have won seven top-flight matches in a row. Things are happening here.

[olaftab]

Yeah, we rarely twat anyone. Unai wants to win while using as little energy as possible.

I heard he was raging with anger after the Bournemouth game. Kept them locked in for 30 mins and showers were adjusted down to zero degrees.

[cdbearsfan]

I should hope so too. No surprise to me we have hardly seen Barkley since, quite rightly being punished for scoring the third goal when his job was to fuck up to bring Bournemouth back into it so we could win by one, as usual.

[Mellin]

It's difficult to put your finger on. Best home side in Europe over 3 years is not luck, but there are so many tight games and we just do enough. I think there's a bit of energy conservation going on. Maybe there's a strategy for ahead, level and behind. We are obsecenely good at seeing out games when in front whilst the number of one goal wins means we're not as good at extending it. Those stats pull over the full 3 years too.

There has to be a reason for that.

[Beard82]

I think the tightness / 1 goal wins come from the realtive lack of depth compared with other teams targetting the top 4.   For years Man City have been doing enough, and then can bring on 200m of talent for the last 20 mins and they add 1 or 2 more.

In the nicest possible way - bringing on Guessard just doesnt have the same impact. 

[KevinGage]

I'm loving that Newton Heath fans are moaning about our luck and how much better they were.

They have a case but hey, fuck off anyway and keep crying.

Exactly that.

If we can’t hammer them (and the are due an absolute shoeing from us) this is the next best thing.

[brontebilly]

They had a lot of the ball and it mostly ended with them plopping a cross straight into Martinez hands. They had that Sesko chance which was from a mistake, that ball shouldn't have got through about 6 players, and Cunha fluffing that header, and that was it.
Wulvz caused us as much and maybe more bother, and they got fuck all as well. They think they're in the fight but we're in 2nd gear.

We were totally outplayed in midfield though. I was surprised how decent they were. That's even with Martinez, the centre back, coming in there at half time. Ugarte didn't contribute anything but Mount and Cunha were far too involved.

West Ham probably matched our three too.

[Crown Hill]

Thought we soaked it up and conserved energy fist half which is the Unai way. We always up the lace when Malen comes on.

McGinn was my MoTM. Huge passion. Onana poor and I think Kamara concerns about being one booking away from suspension. Class from Rogers. Terrible mistake from Cash who looked ropey against their wingback. Not totally convinced about Lindelof and Konsa but they didn’t threaten.

Fernandes a big loss for them but we do get stronger as games go on anyway. Cunha impressive but then they paid so much for him.

Enjoyable win against an awful Club based on myth and finance.

What happened to Emi with the physios. Were they trying to get him to go off for a concussion check?

[RamboandBruno]

They had a lot of the ball and it mostly ended with them plopping a cross straight into Martinez hands. They had that Sesko chance which was from a mistake, that ball shouldn't have got through about 6 players, and Cunha fluffing that header, and that was it.
Wulvz caused us as much and maybe more bother, and they got fuck all as well. They think they're in the fight but we're in 2nd gear.

We were totally outplayed in midfield though. I was surprised how decent they were. That's even with Martinez, the centre back, coming in there at half time. Ugarte didn't contribute anything but Mount and Cunha were far too involved.

West Ham probably matched our three too.

I think them having the edge for a lot of the game, is very different to us being totally outplayed. That just isn’t the game I was at.

[Yeltzbagger]

They reckon they have been ravaged by injuries.
By my calculations Man U spent £445m on their starting XI; Villa spent £175m. I don't think it's unlucky if they spent over £115m combined on Sesko and Yoro. More like stupidity.

[simon ward 50]

Thought we soaked it up and conserved energy fist half which is the Unai way. We always up the lace when Malen comes on.

McGinn was my MoTM. Huge passion. Onana poor and I think Kamara concerns about being one booking away from suspension. Class from Rogers. Terrible mistake from Cash who looked ropey against their wingback. Not totally convinced about Lindelof and Konsa but they didn’t threaten.

Fernandes a big loss for them but we do get stronger as games go on anyway. Cunha impressive but then they paid so much for him.

Enjoyable win against an awful Club based on myth and finance.

What happened to Emi with the physios. Were they trying to get him to go off for a concussion check?

I don't think the medics could agree on the concussion? Emi was desperate to stay on though!

[brontebilly]

Sesko and Gyokeres look really poor.

[darren woolley]

I'm so happy we beat them good win.

[Nii Lamptey]

Even more ecstatic that we beat them whilst not at our best. HOW many times have they done that to us over the years.

Been a long time coming that one, and hopefully the first of many. UTV.

[malckennedy]

They reckon they have been ravaged by injuries.
By my calculations Man U spent £445m on their starting XI; Villa spent £175m. I don't think it's unlucky if they spent over £115m combined on Sesko and Yoro. More like stupidity.

Only 2 injuries in their starting line up plus rat boy at half time. The rest were AFCON (they chose to sign them) or suspension (he chose to commit large numbers of bookable offences).