*** Aston Villa v Champions - Official Match Thread ***

[sheblue]

Lucky to have got the points.

[gillie]

Even with a win we show why we are so far behind in the league.Slow no movement or very little upfront and at times the gap between midfield and attack was a veritable chasm.

[Cit.revenge]

well that was peno from Nastasic but psssstt :)

[Moonchesteri]

I have a feeling the Villa fans will be fuming in their forums. Glad it's for once like this

[Cit.revenge]

Silva was week today but Tevez could finish game just to pass Silva there alone on 7 metars and he see him , but nooooo.

[carolina-blue]

Pheeew made hard work of that , Just got in from work weatched the last 30, Good job Ref didnt have the same camera view def Pen But I thought that would have been cruel on our defence we looked strong Kolo was very good imo , 3pts we fight on ,

[Lee_R]

Well done City.. a win is a win. Keeping the dream alive.

[kennyboy]

How good is Kolo Toure?! We have been missing out not playing him more often

[City64]

If it wasnt for Guzan,s fingertips it would have been a cosy 3 nil jobbie .

Still , a "few" on here would still be moaning like fuck !

[Ted Hughes]

Fucking abysmal 2nd half against surely the worst side we have met.

How did we become this average ? Not winning the title is one thing but this is so fucking mundane. Also, where was the organisation in that 2nd half ? If we can't play football, can we not at least line up solidly without letting a terrible side get at us ?

The one encouraging thing for me is that I would have made Nasti motm tonight until he kicked that geezer in the penalty area. He showed me that he can stand up & be counted as the main cb rather than just watching someone else do it.

We aren't strong enough aerially with him & Kolo though & could have paid for it.

[Duckman]

We have been ubber shite , shocking performance really.

villa's teenage midfield bossed ours through out the game.
Zaba was awesome, Dzeko was very good, as I was hoping he'd be. Kolo's on the pill.

[Dubaimancityfan]

Thank fuck for that. Hard won 3 points but it could have been different if not for Guzman and the post on 2 occasions. I think we defended really well but going forward we were ordinary except for a few occasions. Silva was absent tonight which is why we didn't create many clear cut chances. I wish Tevez would pass more and be less greedy.

[Cit.revenge]

Thank fuck for that. Hard won 3 points but it could have been different if not for Guzman and the post on 2 occasions. I think we defended really well but going forward we were ordinary except for a few occasions. Silva was absent tonight which is why we didn't create many clear cut chances. I wish Tevez would pass more and be less greedy.

But Its not just Tevez , why Bob can't sort that thing its the same to assist and score in my eyes , that is what he should say that tick heads and that slow biuld up , its so sow that i would be back in defense.

[MilnersJaw]

How good is Kolo Toure?! We have been missing out not playing him more often

kolo was great but people seem to forget how great lescott was last season.

[Cit.revenge]

How good is Kolo Toure?! We have been missing out not playing him more often

kolo was great but people seem to forget how great lescott was last season.

Kolo is great really this season.

[carl_feedthegoat]

Fucking abysmal 2nd half against surely the worst side we have met.

How did we become this average ? Not winning the title is one thing but this is so fucking mundane. Also, where was the organisation in that 2nd half ? If we can't play football, can we not at least line up solidly without letting a terrible side get at us ?

The one encouraging thing for me is that I would have made Nasti motm tonight until he kicked that geezer in the penalty area. He showed me that he can stand up & be counted as the main cb rather than just watching someone else do it.

We aren't strong enough aerially with him & Kolo though & could have paid for it.

Agree with this - It was a Southamptonesque performance and we deserve to be slagged off for it, I hinestly thought we wouldnt repeat it...I was wrong.

Mancini going to blame the players again? as that tactic is working like his CL tactics...shite.

[clawbaggio]

Made really hard work of that. Especially the last 5 mins when we gave the ball away every time we got it and invited the pressure.
Good old Mike Dean, gave them a load of minor decisions but we got the big ones. Coulda been a foul for our goal and a pen for them.
I see Nasri is still dog shit

[Pretty Boy Lee]

Don't understand the Tevez is greedy stuff. His goal won us the game and the chance with silva he did the same thing and would have had a 2nd has it not been cleared off the line.

How many chances does silva squander on goal anyway. He's hardly clinical.

[Spurge]

Christ villa are shite are they in the last chance!

Love how my last chance has caught on.

But seriously how many chances will nasri get, when will one more poor performance be enough for the saloon?

To be fair he did ok got involved straight away and linked up play ok

[kjchronic]

Missed the game, managed to not see the score, so decided to read through this thread to see how it went... we must've been crap as when I was reading the Tevez goal I thought that was us making it 1-1, especially considering all the mentions of 'dire' first 25 mins, I wasn't even sure on the result until I read 3 points at the end.

Experiencing a game that way was a first for me, not easy reading but at least I got a gist of the flow of the match lol