Lille vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Mellin]

only english team out of 9 to win in Europe

Nice bit of perspective there.

[eamonn]

only english team out of 9 to win in Europe

Yeah, the bookies would have given you good odds on that happening.

Higher than Lesta winning the league.

[algy]

Apparently Unai's 100th Villa win.

Got their quicker than George Ramsay they said!

In fairness, they did have to keep stopping every few months to colonise Africa in those days.

Not *just* colonise Africa. We had to pilfer their stuff as well.

To be fair it was a clever bit of work. Pinch all of Johnny Foreigners valuable things, make a fancy hat out of them, then get our king to wear said fancy hat whilst patronising the leaders of the countries we’ve stole stuff from.

It’s next level stuff when you think about it.

[Steve67]

A useful win to stop the rot. Good goal too. Won without too much stress and with a weaker side than I’d expect Unai to play on Sunday. Well done Villa.

[dcdavecollett]

Good to see Amadou and Doug playing well together and both passing it to good effect.

[Villafirst]

That was Dougie's best performance since rejoining us. Good passing and movement. That lob over their defence  putting Watkins clear was excellent. He's getting back up to his best level.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Apparently Unai's 100th Villa win.

Got their quicker than George Ramsay they said!

Joe Mercer was the 2nd fastest, then George Ramsay.

[Stu]

George Ramsey wasn’t a manager.

[Demitri_C]

Not pretty but who cares.

Clean sheet a win at a hostile ground cant turn our nose at that

Happy days!

[Dick Edwards]

Lille were not very good

Nor were we. We move on with a whistle. Harsh. We didn't trouble their keeper enough but our overall performance was disciplined and tactically excellent. We pretty much controlled the game, away to respectable opposition.