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we have done great first half. frustrated them and silenced the crowd. Hause has been terrific no nonsense row Z centre half performance. Lansbury has done bits, all the team battling well. Gazi typical gazi he needs to give us some magic wingplay. Sheffield impotent blunt blade nothing to worry about., However Wilder will surely tear the paint off the walls half time so the first 10 mins of half 2 will be like the seige at the iraQI Embassy, we need to weather this storm then see if we can nick the points, smash and grab

Im happy with this..,..considering our away form. they've not tested us at all. their main tactic seems to be a long diagonal ball. do that all day if you want theyre the home team we can sit in for a bit.

need to get grealish and gazi on the ball more.

about time norwood got a card persistant fouling.

need a card early to stamp out the fouls on grealish

you know what its like for players who dont play for ages then start. they pull a muscle after about 10mins jed steer style

Get behind Henry.... he can play! he came with a big reputation. he's got to show us what he can do some time. He's had some decent moments. remember Leeds away? He's a big lad with a nasty streak. I love that. He can pass it like gerrard (50 yard switch) and do the dirty work. He's got to have a chance we lknow what houihane can do (set pieces but not much else) we know what luiz can do if he can be arsed. Henry has showed us flashes it's time he had a run everyone else has. (except kenian)

This is must win for smith especially with poch available. We've had the so called hard teams now we can go to sheffiled and play our football. they will play their 100mph football we will either have to a) keep possession or 2) let them have the ball but have to match their work rate. I would be tempted to start Luiz and play keep ball.

The good news is Collymore has offered to come in and do one to one back to goal sessions with Wesley. gratis! Do it now Smith!

loving that 2007 version of vlogging.....but anyway Apparently the plastic Villa fans who watched the game on TV have told me this "tribute" to Saunders was an insult. JLoyd Samual had better. also no one told me abot the 80th minute I was still squirming in my seat. It was so shamefull infront of 15m tv veiwers only a retake will suffice. Forget these 1 minute applauses's. Saunders deserves a silence which has to be impeccably observed. I expect there to be one at St Andrews aswell. Smith needs to come out and make a statement apologising. and next home game we need to go all out. a herculean effort to honour this guy. 110% as he would say.

match of the day 2 made us look like a right bunch of mugs last night. Not only laughing about the mings debacle, the two on two situations with Vardy and inoacho. Smith got schooled by the old dog rogers! To add insult to defeat I'm sure Dublin got some facts about Saunders wrong.

I'm reluctanly with dean smith on kodjia. I think he would be worse than wesley and If wesley gets subbed cue ironic cheers from the fans it will probably be the end. for both players.

At least Gazi is getting in area's and having a pop. 2 decent chances. Abraham needed a dozen chances to score 1 last season. Gazi as centre forward is a very interesting concept. The raw materials are there, build, speed, mobility, control, ariel ability The only issue would be his bravery. Could he handle the ammount of whacks he'd get off centre halves, and the verbals. he didn't like mings reprimand earlier on in the season

dissappeared against wolves early on with "concussion" his sprinting stats certainly go through the roof when his number comes up on the led board..

Just read the match report on gov propaganda channel bb*c. then watched the two managers post match presser. Rogers talked in depth about how his diamond nullified Villa midfield. Smith said the game wasn't tactical at all, long balls over the top for Vardy were the difference.

Is mCginn suspended many people are saying he has accumulated too many cards now and won't travel to brammel lane?

I thought exactly the same. Gay pride banners everywhere. couple of Saunders banners near the tunnel. Absolute joke. Massive opportunity missed in front of the camera's. Holte enders should of been working thru the night on a massive banner to fill the lower tier. the least that could of been done for a man who brought us so much glory. Very Poor!

The legend Ron Saunders must have been turning in his grave. No wonder it started hammering it down. That was absolutley shocking. Smith reminded me of Marco Silver stood on the touchline hands in pockets sucking on his zipper. We dug ourselves out of a hole with that lifeline just before half time. It was set up for Villa to come good. Then gazi misses a sitter. which proved the turning point. A few things I noticed: Elmo was playing brilliantly in the first half untill he found himself witrh a shooting chance and he flapped it. then the crowd got on his back a bit and he was awful from then on. Kodjia might aswell upload some photos of his house to right move. If he can't get into the team about Wesley he's finished. Which he is. Smiths love in with konsa must come to an end! this guy should be loaned out to a champ club. Luiz is too casual to play DM he's obviously talented but doesn't appear to want to be here and plays like it. SMith will never sub Wesley as it will finish him. Everyone was hoping Wesley was seriously injured when he went down in the first half. People are going over board about leicester. They're just counter attackers with a ruthless striker. like villa under o'neil. I still think Grealish is better than Madison. Grealish can dribble Maddison is a give and go merchant. Put maddison in a villa shirt and his career would tail off if he tried a one two with wesley. This was a sickening defeat.

It's no wonder smith keeps defending wesley in press confereences. Smith and Jesus threw wesley under the bus asking him to come in and do the business as a 22 year old green bananana. No other club would do business like this. They would have someone in the squad for him to compete with and learn off. As it is Villa have no strikers with top level experience. This shocking oversight could be the one thing that dumps us out of the division. Wesley Kodjia and Davies will hit the ground running it'll be fine. No it's NOT! It was a massive gamble thats failed! What we needed was a premier league veteran to act as mentor to give him the low down on the dark arts of prem football. Someone like Daniel Sturidge would have ticked all the boxes. His injury record would mean Wesley would get plenty of game time and he'd chip in with a few goals. When a raw benteke joined Agbonlahor was at the club. He'd proved himself scoring goals under O'Neil and getting his cap(s). What happened to his career after 2014 happened. but he was already proven. Even when Gab broke into the team he had players like Angel and CArew to shadow....show them the path to the glory, put the medals on the table and the lamborgini car keys. What has Wesley got? Richard O'Kelly barking at him in his medievil dialect whilst waving a screwdriver he uses to start his ford mondeo? As it is Wesley is only saved from being the laughing stock of the prem by newcastles strikers being more expensive and just as shit!

Smith should not be untouchable. Since he had his new bumper new contract we've only accumulated 1 point. Lecicestor had no hesitation in axing raneri when they went through a sticky patch.....after he'd won them the prem title. the butchers had no pity on him! Fans went ballistic last season when we only had one fit centre half at the club. Bruce caught a bullet for that fiasco. and rightly so, it's worse than bad managment it's gross misconduct! Now we have a similar situation up front. Its nothing short of a disgrace. I told anyone who'd listen in the summer we needed proven prem class. Even a veteran like Sturridge on the bench. Wesley could watch him in training, room together, be his mentor. Jesus's head should roll for this, it's the one thing we didn't want to happen.

Smith says "he will score goals but we've just played big clubs." However what about the games against the mid to lower table boys........tap in he squandered against Toon? He's not getting any attempts. He had one chance against wolves and he skied it. I don'tknow about Kodjia he is unpredictable I doubt he will put himself about up front. but we know his dribbling skills he can keep hold of the ball ..but .he's so greedy he you'll l never get it back. I personally think Smith is praying for Wesley to get a knock so he can take him out the team for a while.

can't believe Villa fans chanting judas kevins name last night. Ex players should be booed or ignored completly. No wonder wesley had a stinker when he heard the fans chanting for the opposition striker. I was thinking wtf? Villa have completly been mugged off. Provided him with an eduction then flutters his eyelashes at wolves during the transfer window last year then finally jogs on. He could of gone on strike and forced another loan to villa His work experience at Villa (scoring 2 out of 8 tap ins a game) came at the expense of Kenian Davis's development. Villa have been left with a striker who will always look for one more pass than have a dip at goal! he was lucky he was up against our understudy at centre half. same with rashford another over hyped epitomy of english mediocity.

chelsea are under a transfer embargo and have had to promote lads from the academy to fill gaps. Their star man Hazard left in the summer. They've lost the previous two. rookie manager who we beat 3 times last season I fancied a win tonight. Other teams have gone on the road and come back with big scalps. If you look at it like this they were "there for the taking" tonight. However they have an amazingly expensive spine like Willian who is not far off world class. Kante one of the best DM's Aspilaqueta who is an experienced prem player and a couple of others. But when are we going to get a big scalp under smith? or are we the classic flat track bullies?

first half we competed but 2nd it was just chance after chance for chelsea. konsa was appalling. Mings was defending by himself. Heaton kept the score down. The subs were atrocious. Jota for Trez. At least trez can move with the ball.

konsa should be loaned out to the champ in jan. terrible defender