Aston Villa v Sunderland Post-Match Thread

[PaulWinch again]

I think when you do get out of a game like that the lessons can be learned pretty easily, I highly doubt we’ll be that loose late on again.

But the most important thing is we’re starting to score plenty of goals again - you can weather defensive lapses when you’re free scoring.

[Hopadop]

"How good was that!! HOW. GOOD. WAS. THAT!!"

[saunders_heroes]

Nearly gave me a heart attack today. Great win though!!

[Percy McCarthy]

Incredible.

Man City just scored.

[Dave]

Sunderland showed why they are level with us on most points gained from losing positions. Just glad we stopped them going first in the table.

Still won't be first on motd tonight.

Even if it's a 0-0 borefest at Wastelands.

At this rate we'll justifiably be second on

[Cropley10]

The big positive is that we haven’t bought Sancho. ——Stealing a living on top player money!

[Hopadop]

The big positive is that we haven’t bought Sancho. ——Stealing a living on top player money!

I reckon he's a good, sometimes great, player. But I also reckon I'd never want to count on him when it's muck and bullets. The Antimcginn.

[eamonn]

Sunderland showed why they are level with us on most points gained from losing positions. Just glad we stopped them going first in the table.

Still won't be first on motd tonight.

Even if it's a 0-0 borefest at Wastelands.

At this rate we'll justifiably be second on

Ha, yeah and I assume the Merseyside derby will also trump us.

[Witton Warrior]

We are scoring some classy goals

[eamonn]

The game reminded me a little of the 3-3 with Brentford almost exactly two years ago. We were in the driving seat at 2-0 and then Brentford scored thrice in ten minutes before a late Watkins equaliser.

Then Dougie got booked in injury-time, knowing he was one card away from a two game ban with this being the last game before an amnesty kicked-in. He couldn't see it out and his missed pen against Olympiakos soon followed with his fine Villa career coming to a frustrating end as he left weeks later.

[Villa Lew]

Wow that's probably taken 10 years off my life, which is not great at my age!

[Dave]

Obviously there's no way of knowing, but I wonder if Isidor is played onside and gets to run through the gaping hole between our centre-backs if Pau is on the pitch.

[KevinGage]

From a Mackem on RTG:

We had arguably a better first half than Villa. They were better second half overall. We never gave up, scored 2 late goals when we’d been written off yet again. We could’ve won it but they did, because same as us, they never gave up.

They are a great team but we were able to score 3 against them. We made mistakes, but so do Arsenal, so do Man City. We can’t expect our lads to be perfect and make the right split second decision every time, because the top teams don’t every time either. The fact that this game could’ve been 3 points to us today shows how far we have come and should give everyone encouragement. Villa are a top 4 team, established, in Europe this year fighting for a trophy and in a Champions League qualifying place and we matched them. Anyone can pick fault, but take a step back and see how far we’ve come.

[rob_bridge]

McGinn Ollie and Emi at the end were brilliant.

Rogers at it today again.

Pressure off - go and win EL and finish 3rd

[Toronto Villa]

Very well said by the Sunderland fan. It’s been some ride for that lot. A dreadful few years as they plummeted down the leagues. And to now be back in the PL and perform as they have their fans must be in dreamland. Well done for a top season. They absolutely could have won it today.