Aston Villa v Sunderland Post-Match Thread

[Toronto Villa]

How many times did Man U during the numerous Ferguson title winning years did they find a way to win. However it came about, they played to the very end of games and scored late, late goals*. Thats what excellent sides do.


*Usually at our expense.

[cdbearsfan]

On the balance of play, Sunderland were maybe a bit unfortunate to be behind at half-time. We dominated second half though, and it would have been a travesty if we hadn't won.

[tomd2103]

Sancho can’t be trusted.

There are a few on the bench who now fall into that category unfortunately.  The drop.off in performance level when we began making substitutions was pretty alarming. 

[OzVilla]

I get the gnashing of teeth at the substitutions buts its a squad game these days.  And those subs also combined to get us the winner. Just a shame Tammy couldnt have celebrated it more.

Great to see Ollie officially now on one of his streaks too, great timimg that. UTFV.

[olaftab]

On the balance of play, Sunderland were maybe a bit unfortunate to be behind at half-time. We dominated second half though, and it would have been a travesty if we hadn't won.

Sunderland did not deserve a draw based on their general second half performance so the result was correct.

[ROBBO]

Unai defended Sancho and to a degree I can see his point, we were in cruise control when again we decided to play short out of defence, have a look at the replay we had at least two chances to play a long ball out but no we went tip tappy again before Sancho lost posession.
It's been  a feature all season, I know it's the way Unai wants us to play but sometimes our skill level lets us down at the back. It was a brilliant game, Sunderland came to play and had the better of the first half but we really looked a top four side in the second, we could have scored six easily. I think that is Watkins best game of the season, a proper centre forward.

[Brend'Watkins]

I get the gnashing of teeth at the substitutions buts its a squad game these days.  And those subs also combined to get us the winner. Just a shame Tammy couldnt have celebrated it more.

Great to see Ollie officially now on one of his streaks too, great timimg that. UTFV.

Yes, you’re right it’s a squad game. Even so, we have no midweek game so rest isn’t the issue that it normally is. Ollie looking for his hatrick might have been just as rewarding.

[Pat McMahon]

Landed in Kuala Lumpur a short while ago and from my messages I thought we’d lost. Luckily saw the score on BBc but sounds like I missed a rollercoaster of a game.

Chuffed at the result and at the 10 point gap with 6th