Nottingham Forest v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[PeterWithesShin]

[Mister E]

Forest created one real chance - the Dibu wonder save. And the pen.
Ortega made 2 decent saves in the first half and blocked Ollie's effort in the 2nd half.
Onana went off injured - should be back for the 2nd leg.
The ref/VAR were cretinous re Anderson's tackle on Watkins - a yellow at least, probably a red, but not even reviewed - how so?
Gloom and doom as ever when we lose.
Needed to be more opportunistic/aggressive when we broke forward - perhaps some shots from distance Duran style?
A rocking Villa Park next week channelling our PSG vibe - should see us through.

Exactly.

[kippaxvilla2]

Welcome to Villa Unai.

FT: Nottingham Forest 1-0 Aston Villa
Unai Emery lost a leg of a Europa League semi-final for the first time since his Sevilla side lost 3-1 at Valencia in May 2014, having gone unbeaten in eight straight semi-final matches in the competition before today (W6 D2

[brontebilly]

Could try Luiz and McGinn in middle v Spurs. Interesting that Sancho came onto the left tonight and Rogers went right. Still there for us but we need a strong performance v Spurs to tee us up nicely for it.

[FatSam]

On Andy Reid’s argument that Anderson won the ball and it was just a coming together between two players: What the actual fuck?Anderson went over the top of the ball with his studs up and went into Watkins’ ankle
With his full momentum. That is the definition of being out of control.

[Baldy]

Deep down, I think Unai will not be to disappointed with that result. Even our players seemed to settle for 1-0.

We all know what Villa Park is like on a big european night and I reckon the villans in the crowd will roar/energise the lads over the line. We will be set up to attack with a lot more intent and I didn't see anything from Forest tonight to worry us on the counter attack.

It will be all guns blazing in the second half. 

3-1 Villa on aggregate

[PaulWinch again]

Welcome to Villa Unai.

FT: Nottingham Forest 1-0 Aston Villa
Unai Emery lost a leg of a Europa League semi-final for the first time since his Sevilla side lost 3-1 at Valencia in May 2014, having gone unbeaten in eight straight semi-final matches in the competition before today (W6 D2

Well it’s 4 semi-final games played 4 lost for us so far. Hopefully the 5th times a charm.

[wince]

Will we actually turn up? And if we don’t what is the point of even competing. Made it harder for ourselves than needs be. I am not happy going into next week a goal down. But predictable as this is Aston rabbit in the headlights Villa.

[Halfway to Moseley]

With previous Emery teams, 1-0 down against Forest with the home leg still to go, I’d absolutely fancy us.

That’s not the case at the minute - I’m not sure this team has it in them. I hope I’m wrong.

[dave.woodhall]

Carrying on from before the match, I don't think I've ever seen a more biased report than Nick the prick Mashiter on the BBC. 

[tomd2103]

On Andy Reid’s argument that Anderson won the ball and it was just a coming together between two players: What the actual fuck?Anderson went over the top of the ball with his studs up and went into Watkins’ ankle
With his full momentum. That is the definition of being out of control.

Would have been a red in the Premier League.  I'm still a bit puzzled by the process of the penalty award.  He clearly gave a goal kick, so for a penalty to be awarded, they had to overturn the goal kick decision first and I'm not sure how they could do that.

[Goldenballs]

Another manager we've destroyed!

[TopDeck113]

And another one! (Villa no-show in a semi-final)

Thank goodness it's only 1-0

[Mellin]

I must've misunderstood and we've been knocked out tonight. I'm gonna give people the benefit of the doubt and presume beers have been consumed. Jesus.

[taylorsworkrate]

On Andy Reid’s argument that Anderson won the ball and it was just a coming together between two players: What the actual fuck?Anderson went over the top of the ball with his studs up and went into Watkins’ ankle
With his full momentum. That is the definition of being out of control.

Would have been a red in the Premier League.  I'm still a bit puzzled by the process of the penalty award.  He clearly gave a goal kick, so for a penalty to be awarded, they had to overturn the goal kick decision first and I'm not sure how they could do that.

It was clearly not fully over the line as shown by several angles. Its just unforgivable from Digne