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Player Match Ratings: Woah, we’re half way there!

Its only half time, despite Bon Jovi’s confidence, but if we can hold on to what we’ve got at the Hawthorns on Tuesday night, then we’ll make it to Wembley on 27th May. We take a one goal lead with us on Tuesday night and that didn’t really look very likely at half time, did it? Albion arrived yesterday, with avoiding defeat as their primary objective. Is Pulis providing Jimmy Shan with tactical advice as well as Michael Appleton? The first half looked like a carbon copy of the game th

May 12, 2019

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Player Match Ratings: We’ll play our first XI next time!

It has been 3 months and we have gone 12 games since we last tasted defeat. It is still disagreeable to see visiting fans celebrating a win at Villa Park and it is even worse for their team to be picking up the Championship trophy afterwards, as was the case yesterday. The last time we ended a game pointless, was against the team that we next face over two legs for a place in the playoff final. Our clear objective is now to ensure that we remain unbeaten in our next three games. Six of the

May 6, 2019

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Player Match Ratings: The History Boys make it 10/10!

We witnessed history being made yesterday. In years to come the question will be asked, do you remember when our great club broke their record of consecutive league wins in 2019? That record had remained unbroken since 1910. That’s beyond living memory, so we had to refer to the record books to read about that winning run and that grand old team. In the years to come, you will be able to say that you were there and that you witnessed this incredible run. You can tell your children, you

April 23, 2019

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Player Match Ratings: That’s 8 great consecutive wins

We were missing three of our biggest hitters for this game, but the absence of Jack, Tyrone and Kortney could not derail our fast finishing promotion train. These three players had played crucial roles in extending our run of successive league wins to 7 before yesterday’s game. Their absence was a real cause for concern before Saturday’s kick-off, but we proved that we are not quite a one-man team after all, despite rumours to the contrary. It has been 44 years since Aston Villa last r

April 14, 2019

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Player Match Ratings: Too close for comfort!

A fifth successive league win has taken us above Middlesbrough and into fifth place. We played some scintillating football in the first half and were the better team by some distance, but we ended it just one goal to the good. A two or a three-goal lead would have better reflected our first half dominance and it would have put the game beyond our visitors. We were unable to play with quite the same panache that we had produced in the first half during the second. We almost appeared

March 31, 2019

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Player Match Ratings: Catch us if you can!

We now have our place in the top six. The battle is to stay there. Derby and Bristol City may have a game and two games in hand of us respectively, but we have the points on the board. City must also visit Villa Park and neither of these teams are currently winning games for fun, are they? The likes of Preston, Forest and Wednesday are behind us, so they would need to have a better finish than we do to the season, in order to overhaul us. As Ron Saunders once said at the business end of a very s

March 17, 2019

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Player Match Ratings: Rams to the slaughter!

Jack’s back and so were the Villa yesterday! Alan Durban, Kevin Hector, Roy McFarland, Alan Hinton, Archie Gemmill, Roger Davies and Francis Lee. Your boys took one hell of a beating! Captain Jack invigorated the team on his return and led by example. We have not looked nearly as good as we did yesterday, in the 13 league games that we have played without him, since injury deprived us of our talisman. One player does not make a team, but one player can help a team to play like one! Thr

March 3, 2019

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Player Match Ratings: Our season ends in February!

Two defeats within a week have consigned us to a fourth season outside of the top flight. Fans bought half season tickets a couple of months ago in the hope of witnessing a strong second half of the season. They will now be resigning themselves to the fact that half of the games that they paid for have now become meaningless end of season fixtures for our football club. We started well but we just don’t make good starts into goals and half time leads, do we? Instead we concede goals fre

February 17, 2019

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Player Match Ratings: Sharp Blades stunned by Villa!

This was an unbelievable, outstanding, incredible, amazing, astonishing, sensational, surprising, unexpected, remarkable, dramatic and thrilling comeback! With eight minutes of normal time remaining Sheffield United were temporarily on top of the league and were a seemingly comfortable three goals ahead. By the end of the game that lead had disappeared before their very eyes, their promotion hopes had been blunted, and they found themselves shell shocked and sitting back in third place wher

February 9, 2019

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Player Match Ratings: We win again (but only just!)

This should have been a more comfortable win. We had the chances to have put the game out of sight before our penalty gave us a two-goal cushion. As we all know a two-goal lead can more than occasionally not prove enough for us. This so nearly proved to be the case again yesterday. Our visitors who had for 75 minutes looked like a team that were on the bottom of the table and destined to give us a rare routine victory were injected with belief by a goal out of nothing by Sears. Afte

January 27, 2019

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Player Match Ratings: Two down but we get one point

We gained a point from a losing position rather than lost points from a winning one for a change yesterday. We were nothing short of appalling in the first half and made it all too easy for Hull. Given our form of late, more than a few of us could see this one coming. Chester’s timely goal came just before half time and it gave us some grounds for hope where there had previously been none. If there was anything positive to be taken from this game, it was that we awoke in the second h

January 20, 2019

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Player Match Ratings: Another embarrassing cup exit

The news that had spread around Villa Park before yesterday’s game that Abraham may well have played his last game for Aston Villa deflated our spirits and the game that followed did nothing to lift the gloom. Dean Smith tasted his second defeat at Villa Park yesterday. Swansea recorded their first ever cup win against us. We produced the sort of shambolic performance that was reminiscent of those that we had grown accustomed to witnessing during our relegation season. We were knocked out o

January 6, 2019

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Player Match Ratings: Flame but Jack’s spark missed

There were flames and a pre-match firework display yesterday but we missed the spark of invention around the box that Jack had until his injury at WBA been providing us with, during the game itself. Dean Smith indicated after the match that he anticipated being without Jack for the rest of this month. His two-month absence will deal a potentially lethal body blow to our promotion hopes. It has already badly dented them, with us having taken only 6 points from a possible 15 from the games he

January 2, 2019

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Player Match Ratings: Adieu to automatic promotion?

Leeds stretched their lead over us to 15 points with their late, late winner yesterday. I can’t really see us closing that gap during the second half of the season. That would leave us with just one automatic promotion place to aim for namely the one currently occupied by Norwich who are currently 14 points ahead of us. To claim that place we must rely on Norwich not being this season’s Cardiff and, on our ability, to overtake them along with the likes of WBA and Derby. It might just come down t

December 24, 2018

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Player Match Ratings: Villa battle back for a Desmond

We extended our unbeaten run to 7 games yesterday and Stoke’s own unbeaten run now stands at 9. The deluge in which the game was played was not conducive to flowing football and both teams cancelled each other out in the first half. The goals like the weather were not going to dry up though and the second half rained goals. I had feared that the visitors might extend their run of victories at Villa Park to 4 each time they went ahead but we are made of sterner stuff than we once were,

December 16, 2018

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Player Match Ratings: A ten goal thriller at the Villa!

What a game that was! It’s not very often that Villa draw a game 5-5. The last time we did so was way back in 1966 when we came back from 5-1 down to draw 5-5 at White Hart Lane. Tony Hateley scored 4 of our goals against Spurs on that day. On this occasion it was Tammy Abraham that did the same. When the dust has settled, we can reflect on the positives and negatives to be taken from this game. We scored 5 goals but conceded 5 as well. We pulled goals back to equalize on three occas

November 29, 2018

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Player Match Ratings: 4-2 on the Noses big day out!

Joe Gallagher, Trevor Francis, Kenny Burns, Kevin Dillon, Mark Dennis, Pat Van den Hauwe, Julian Dicks, Noel Blake, Tom Ross, Jasper Carrot your boys took a hell of a beating! This game turned on the 35th minute when Gardner’s cross flew past Chester and Adams got a foot to it only for the ball to thud against the post rather than give the knuckle draggers a two-goal cushion. What could possibly go wrong for them after that? We could go straight up the other end and hit an equalizer whi

November 26, 2018

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Player Match Ratings: Chester secures the win

James Chester was back to his best last night firstly preventing a Bolton equalizer and then scoring our decisive second goal to send us temporarily to the top of the bottom half of the table and just 4 points behind the top six. We had the perfect start last night with a 4th minute goal that it might have been hoped would lead to a confidence inspiring goal glut against a Bolton side that are currently on the crest of a slump. The visitors instead threatened to draw level and we s

November 3, 2018

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Player Match Ratings: Our season starts here!

We tried placing round pegs in round holes rather than in square ones yesterday and it worked! It was nice to hear applause at half time and again at full time from a packed Villa Park on Saturday as the team left the field. It is very early in Dean Smith’s tenure at Villa Park and he has only had a couple of training sessions at best with some of his new players but there were still some early encouraging signs. We pressed our opponents in their own half and showed a willi

October 21, 2018

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Player Match Ratings: Another two points surrendered

At half time it was a question of how many goals that we would win by rather than whether we would win. They appeared to be just what we had needed to face last night namely a team that had less confidence and were in worse form than ourselves. At the end we proved to be just the team for a club at the bottom of the league to have faced. At half time it was Alex Neil’s managerial future that looked likely to be under more threat than Steve Bruce’s at the end of the game. What a difference a refe

October 3, 2018

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Player Match Ratings: Villa frustrate and disappoint

One moment of magic from John McGinn could only temporarily dispel the gloom from Villa Park yesterday. The beat team won, and we were a long way off being the best team. Our visitors gave what will be one of their best performances of the season whereas we produced one of our worst in what is fast becoming a season to forget. Sheffield Wednesday inflicted our first home league defeat of the season upon us for a second successive season yesterday. They started brightly and found it

September 23, 2018

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Player Match Ratings: Loan stars goals win it!

Goals from Tammy Abraham and Yannick Bolasie on their home debuts gave us a much-needed win last night. This was not a scintillating performance from us. Our visitors rarely threatened our brittle defence and we eased to a routine victory without looking particularly good. The win was comfortable enough and it was achieved without us having to hit our stride. We didn’t look fluent last night, and we have a team of individuals that have yet to become a team but when that does happen

September 19, 2018

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Player Match Ratings: 2 valuable points thrown away!

One goal is often not enough and so it proved yesterday. Up until Reading’s late equalizer it had looked like we had done just enough to get a win and “just enough” appeared to be all that we had thought that we would need to do. Our defence is however porous, and we were not capable of closing out yesterday’s game. We have not managed to keep a clean sheet in the league so far this season. That is a feat that we achieved 16 times last season. Our defence, which was so well organised back t

August 26, 2018

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- Jacob Ramsey
  
  By It's Your Round · Posted Just now
  
  He just needs time to gain his flow again. The injuries and time out have had a big impact, but as one of our own, and seeing his qualities before the injuries, I’d hope we can have some patience with him.
- Matty Cash
  
  By abdulaziz1 · Posted Just now
  
  That cross shows that if Garcia sign it would help us a lot. Fair play to Cash for the cross, he isn’t a bad player. He just have some limits, and definitely ok as a squad player. I don’t think Garcia would’ve start for a game like yesterday, but we miss a lot by now really crossing well. I think the introduction of Garcia, Malen and Bade will give us more dimensions. Add to that the introduction of Mings. We’re good at set pieces yet we don’t have any proper player to do them. Digne crosses well but really that’s it. With Garcia and Malen it would introduce proper pace which can even give the likes of Rogers, Ramsey, Watkins and Duran more spaces. The ability to go through defenders from Malen would give chance to Garcia to cross (that’s something Cash mostly lacks despite yesterday). Then for the set pieces, having Mings and Bade could make us even more dangerous in that field. Imagine trying to defend a corner while having Mings, Bade, Onana, Barkley, Watkins/Duran all to stop? I think we’re slowly building a great unit. Cash himself will still have many chances, for different scenarios and rotation. Different approaches as well. But I think summer is the right time to sell. I think midtable clubs or even promoted ones could think of signing him.
- Lamare Bogarde
  
  By MaVilla · Posted 1 minute ago
  
  i thought they were both off to Barcelona to sit on the sidelines until they could be registered in 2027.
- Lamare Bogarde
  
  By It's Your Round · Posted 2 minutes ago
  
  Agreed 👍🏻
- Ollie Watkins
  
  By OutByEaster? · Posted 2 minutes ago
  
  I think that's 80 for him for Villa now - more than Andy Gray or Gary Shaw and still on for the possibility of being the first man to reach a hundred for us since 1962. Not too shabby.
- Lamare Bogarde
  
  By Risso · Posted 3 minutes ago
  
  What a strange post. Yes, of course they're all injured. Onana went off after twenty odd minutes yesterday, and McGinn and Barkley are injured, although according to Emery, McGinn's training on grass again. If you didn't think Barkley and McGinn were injured, what DID you think was the reason neither of them were in the squad yesterday?!
- Lamare Bogarde
  
  By useless · Posted 4 minutes ago
  
  I've always found Bogarde's height strange, when you look at him in isolation he doesn't look that tall, but when you see him next to a tall player he's often just as tall as them if not taller, I think it must be the way he's proportioned, which is perhaps more like an average height person, rather than a typically tall person.
- Loïc Badé
  
  By It's Your Round · Posted 6 minutes ago
  
  Ah Jack Charlton, I loved that Irish side of the 90’s
- Arsenal
  
  By tinker · Posted 7 minutes ago
  
  Having watched their fans leaving the stadium in the cup final, before the end in 2015 I'm not surprised at anything they do tbh, spoilt. Football would be so much better without these clubs that dominant the game, the big 4 or whatever it's referred to lately. It's refreshing that Newcastle, Spurs, Forest, Bournemouth, Brighton and us are having a go despite PSR trying to give them the advantage.
- Arsenal
  
  By Mantis · Posted 7 minutes ago
  
  This is incredibly ironic coming from an Arsenal fan.

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