Aston Villa v Lille Post-Match Thread

[Ian.]

I thought McGinn, Torres, Onana and Luiz played well. Your a harsh man Bront!

[Mellin]

This poor girl stood next to Stan looks absolutely terrified.

[Stu]

Only saw second half, we got the goal against the run of play with Ollie ready to come on the sideline. Ollie did make a big impact off the bench but that's with Lille pushing on too. Ordinary enough in truth against a very average Lille team. Lindelof for me was a positive again, don't think he's had a poor game at centre back for us yet. Sancho with an assist and Bailey with a goal wasn't on the bingo card tonight. Maatsen, Torres, Rogers, Onana, Luiz , McGinn, Tammy all meh though.

Anyway, onto next round

Take the point that the opposition weren’t too clever but Villa were generally by far the more accomplished side. The confidence visibly flowed back into the team after we scored the first goal.

[Mellin]

"I was looking for Jadon to thank him for the assist and he was nearly at Witton station."

😂

[Clampy]

Good win and some encouraging signs that we are slowly getting our confidence back.

[tomd2103]

Pretty comfortable against a side that didn't really pose too much of a threat over the two legs.  3rd European QF in three seasons - let's see who we get.

[ROBBO]

Happy for the win but poor opposition.

[Legion]

Bologna or Roma?

[Somniloquism]

Not Malen as the script is written there.

[PeterWithesShin]

Steal MyToilet

The second-half opener settled Villa's nerves, which were evident around Villa Park during a tepid first half. Villa could have drifted into trouble but they remained largely in control.

The second goal added gloss to a performance which again lacked quality and energy. Villa did what they needed to do to get the job done, but still need to improve - both in the Premier League and Europe.

Yet they can still produce one-off moments, like Martinez did, to lift them and ensure their Europa League dream remains alive.

[devilla]

Bologna Just scored. Oops wring thread.

[Legion]

Bologna winning.

[JUAN PABLO]

elliot is  a good player , I honestly think  more minutes from him  and we would have had a few more points  when bailey , buendia and even rogers was dire.
he has worked hard , turned up every day and you can see the players like him... ..

The confidence hopefully will start to come back  Sancho looked good tonight  and I like the Linderlof and Pau partnership.  Ollie did well other than one typical Ollie moment and Bailey got a goal , oh my . . .

Onana was better and with Youri soon back , Im thinking we can still get a chumps league place.

win Sunday and its on .....   

[Mellin]

I've really warmed to Elliot. It's a shame. But Emery has obviously decided he either isn't worth 35m, or more likely, we don't need to spend 35m in that position.

Which we don't. We need pace. Lots of pace.

[brontebilly]

Only saw second half, we got the goal against the run of play with Ollie ready to come on the sideline. Ollie did make a big impact off the bench but that's with Lille pushing on too. Ordinary enough in truth against a very average Lille team. Lindelof for me was a positive again, don't think he's had a poor game at centre back for us yet. Sancho with an assist and Bailey with a goal wasn't on the bingo card tonight. Maatsen, Torres, Rogers, Onana, Luiz , McGinn, Tammy all meh though.

Anyway, onto next round

Take the point that the opposition weren’t too clever but Villa were generally by far the more accomplished side. The confidence visibly flowed back into the team after we scored the first goal.

Sure and it's job done. But result aside, didn't see much sign of life in us really. Couldn't get out of our box after half time until we scored. They had to gamble then and it made things easier for us. A bit more care and we could have scored a load - Sancho off post, Watkins not able to put a 2 yard pass through to Luiz, might have been another one.

Luiz kind of summed us up. He seemed to win the ball back a lot to be fair, far more than Onana. Brilliant ball to put Sancho through but stupid moments around our box. Passing ball straight out of play at one stage under no pressure. Maatsen another one, just so sloppy. He cost Luiz a yellow.