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Devastated. I see Villa sail silently into a dark grey future. Bah.

**** it. How are we going to win a penalty shoot-out? No way.

After this experience K-Macs decision on whether he's interested in the manager job or not will probably be considerably easier.

Sadly, I have to agree.

This is simply depressing. Only sort of positive I see is that the match really puts forward our glaring need of a class striker so no one can miss it.

Rapid Wien 1 - 1 Villa (Bannan 12) I like having easily accessible highlights for each match, so gonna try to post as often as possible.

Agreed, except for Beye. I'd keep him, as he's an adequate and versatile backup not going around mouthing off all the time (or did I miss anything?) if he doesn't play. Clark put in quite a good case yesterday for why we don't need Davies anymore. Bit hard on the player, I like Davies, but as things have developed we simply need to shift him out to focus the money from him on other positions. Sidwell and Heskey simply can't deliver on the level we aspire to and should be shifted for their own career's sake as well as this club. As a side note I REALLY hope we manage to keep Luke Young.

Friedel - 8 Did well the few occasions he was tested. Young - 9 So, so solid, much more attacking threat than I would think. Seemed to love playing. Warnock - 7 A bit sloppy on occasions, but overall good performance, also in attack. Dunne - 7 Didn't always seem up to speed, but did what was needed. Clark - 8 Mature and calm display. Lots of good interceptions, worked well with Dunne. As with Albrighton, good game to ease him in. Albrighton - 9 MOTM. Could see how he flourished and developed almost from minute to minute. Excellent first game to expose him. Petrov & Milner - 9 Instrumental. Nice to see such fluid passing. Chuffed for Petrov's goal. Downing - 8 So, so happy for him to score and have a good day. Not MOTM, but he should gain plenty of confidence from this display. Young - 9 Excellent return to good, old "classic" Ash. He had a field day in his free role. Carew - 8 Did all the right things except scoring. Made lots of room for our attacking midfielders, which made their job easier. The most uplifting today was probably how effectively Downing, Albrighton and Ash went on their attacking, switching sides at will and tormenting their defense. This is how we hoped it would be when Downing got here! Let's not get carried away just yet. Were we really that good or was it just West Ham being abysmal? Of course it was a combination of these two but either way we will not see how good this team really are before we meet a bit more qualified opposition. Bit shameless self-promotion: Missed the goal scorers, but quite happy with nailing the quoted part!

Good run from Parker. We could use him.

Must say, if this is a club in crisis I would hate to be at the receiving end of Aston Villa in it's prime!

What an thoroughly entertaining first half. We're on effing fire! Really nice to se so many players doing great, like Albrighton, Ash and Downing. Delighted for Stan! If we continue this it WILL come more goals, and, tbh, I think that we will. Both MacDonald and the players seems quite set on making a mark. On a side note: Isn't there a matchday chat in the official site? Can't find one.

Petrov!!! Delicious.

Care to elaborate? Sources? Care to elaborate? Sources?

I'd still like this Pellegrini fella.

Good going. Now tie down Delfouneso and Albrighton for at least five years, please.

Suddenly I had a vision: Villa will shockingly destroy West Ham, but in the end the score will be "only" 3-0. Carew, Ireland and Albrighton score.

Very entertaining match so far. Albrighton definitely making a case for himself so far. He's so damn hungry! Great to see Nigel doing well too.

Lively and promising first quarter from Villa. Like what I see!

Hendsomely played by Albrighton!

Interesting team. Carew fw plus Young in the Hole, Albrighton and Downing at wings and Petrov/Reo Coker central.

This one's not bad.

>> Aston Villa 3 - 1 Feyenoord << (Albrighton, Heskey, Sidwell) Another variety, including penalty shootout Thought it would be a nice thing to have the highlights from each match easily accessible, so here goes. Btw, I like this year's matchday thread system.

Forgot the third option: "None of them".

Yes, very pretty. (sorry, please continue)

So, how about them transfer speculations?