Chelsea v Aston Villa Match Thread

[Chip Butty 111]

Alan Smith...could bore an arsehole in a wooden horse

[SaddVillan]

Caicedo is pretty lucky not to get a booking there, piss poor challenge.

From the Beeb website:

A late sliding challenge by Moises Caicedo on Boubacar Kamara earns Villa a free-kick but the visitors are not happy with that.

They want referee Stuart Attwell to show Caicedo a yellow card.

Attwell decides to keep his cards in his pocket on this occasion.:

Put your house on Kamara getting a yellow for something similar later in the game.

[cdbearsfan]

I was scared, then.

[Toronto Villa]

We play this rope a dope game too much. I know it’s a tactic to bring teams on to us and break but it’s going to mud if we fall behind against better sides. It would be nice if we had the ball for more than 10 seconds.

[Sexual Ealing]

Reece James always worries me.

[JUAN PABLO]

another chavski miss ..  stop giving the ball away  and slow as fuck

[Hopadop]

Chants of Michael van Gerwen
published at 17:46 GMT
17:46 GMT
Chelsea 0-0 Aston Villa


Nizaar Kinsella
BBC Sport Chelsea reporter

The Aston Villa away supporters have spotted VIP darts guest David Munyua, who supports Chelsea, and are targeting him with "oooh Michael van Gerwen chants".

That's pretty good knowledge of the sport of darts from away fans in west London given van Gerwen knocked him out of the World Darts Championship.

[Matt C]

They’re dominating the midfield at the moment

[PaulWinch again]

There was always a risk it would be like this here.

[SamTheMouse]

Not enjoying this at all.

[JUAN PABLO]

keep giving it away

[john e]

It would be nice to win a challenge in midfield or even keep hold of the ball

[Exeter 77]

How is that not a booking?

[enigma]

Palmer staring to dominate

[PaulWinch again]

I reckon this will be 2-0 to them, it’s got that kind of feel.