Chelsea v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Rudy65]

The mad thing for me is even when we go behind I just have this feeling we can come back - this has to be the best performing team in my 50+ years.

Yeah, me too. It was a very odd thing, but half time I thought “ah well, doesn’t matter cos we’ll get at least 2 in the second half”. And lo, we did.

This Villa team is just bloody incredible.

I was there in 81/82 and believe me the tension hasn't even started yet! The "Do you want to bet against us?" is not upon us yet

Me too
I keep telling my son and daughter’s partner to drink it in and enjoy it. 3 years under MON was great but this is different gravy.
Arsenal will bottle it. City are the real issue. Both have bigger and better squads than us but we have the master Unai

[Witton Warrior]

Brilliant result, well done Villa and especially Unai, what a masterclass in how to get a game perfect in both timing and strategy, of course you don't play Ollie in the first half, he wouldn't have gone the full 90, you give ollie the best chance when Chelsea are knackered, not forgetting Arsenal in a few days, Unai knew Chelsea would come at us like something gone mad 1st half, so the gamble was to run the legs off them, hopefully get in at half time 0-0 or 1-0 down, we did it, then he changed the shape of the team to win, then you bring on Ollie (fresh legs) Onana to shore up the midfield push Tielemans forward and you break them, they had nothing left, Moresco must have been thinking WTF is Unai doing at half time, now he's thinking have I got a job.

Brilliant win and players slightly rested for Arsenal. 

This coaching lark is easy innit

[olaftab]

THIS TEAM, THIS MANAGER.

[PeterWithesShin]

I preferred the 80/81 league season...

 

[Witton Warrior]

The mad thing for me is even when we go behind I just have this feeling we can come back - this has to be the best performing team in my 50+ years.

Yeah, me too. It was a very odd thing, but half time I thought “ah well, doesn’t matter cos we’ll get at least 2 in the second half”. And lo, we did.

This Villa team is just bloody incredible.

I was there in 81/82 and believe me the tension hasn't even started yet! The "Do you want to bet against us?" is not upon us yet

Me too
I keep telling my son and daughter’s partner to drink it in and enjoy it. 3 years under MON was great but this is different gravy.
Arsenal will bottle it. City are the real issue. Both have bigger and better squads than us but we have the master Unai

Rudy us old gits will be just as excited as the youngers won't we?

[PaulWinch again]

It’s pretty remarkable to have been so bad in the first half and have the capacity to win from there, at one of the toughest places to go in the league. Just remarkable.

[Stu82]

First half, good defending but generally awful.
After 60 minutes Chelsea looked like Rabbits in headlights, we battered them.
Ollie was excellent, creating havoc for them.
Onanna was immense.

Could we?

[RamboandBruno]

Ollie will get the most plaudits for the goals and Sancho was tricky and exciting to watch but Onana was the key sub for me, their midfield wilted as soon as he was in there putting himself about and giving some niggle back. Bogarde cam on and did the same as well and in fact I think the biggest mistake tonight was to leave that sub a little too late, I'd have taken Kamara off 10 minutes earlier because it only needed 1 mistimed tackle and he was getting booked and Onana was in control by that point so we could afford to make the change.

Spot on Paul. Onana was a huge influence.

Im just a bit bloody zen now, like what the actual f**k is this run with this team. I dont expect us to beat Arsenal on Tuesday..,,but…

[Rudy65]

We closed the game out well tonight as well. My heart rate was at minor heart attack stage rather than full on cardiac as it is normally !

[john e]

All that conserving energy in the first half played dividends as Chelsea ran themselves out

Then give them a sound thrashing in the second half
easy

[steamer]

Mine eyes have seen the glory, those eyes are a bit misty

[Crown Hill]

All that conserving energy in the first half played dividends as Chelsea ran themselves out

Then give them a sound thrashing in the second half
easy

Like Paul on the Road to Damascus!

[LeonW]

Side note; was Sanchez even booked for handling it outside of the area?

[Nev]

Onana made all the difference for me. Of course it wasn't everything but him stepping into everything in the middle third was vital.

And to shove it up Sky. Appalling bias again and a funeral reaction, with grudging praise from Smith. We weren't beat at HT, nor were we world beaters after but the slant towards the home side was embarrassing.

[Halfway to Moseley]

Still can’t believe it. Wow!

Think the last comparable WTF transformation I’ve watched on screen was seeing From Dusk til Dawn at New St Odeon. Ollie Watkins playing the Salma Hayek role.