bred

If we could get a player like Javier Pastore in, I'd cream myself. Where do clubs like Palermo find the scouting to get players of that calibre so young.

Defour and/or Hazard please

So happy to see us close out a game. Only took 3 seasons.

very nice carlos

They'll tire out.

love the Away and 3rd kit.

metlife

anyone hating ultimate team? all those people that spammed the hack and have stacked teams really bug the shit out of me. Easy to best though if you have Delfonz as one of your two strikers since he has 88 pace.

if anyone has espn360. The match in its entirety is on there.

I felt a hernia developing in the last 30 minutes and was tempted to turn off the television. So glad I didn't. Voted for Luke Young

so John Carew got a goal and 2 assist. hell yeah

zat knight own goal maybe?

to be fair, Hines came on with a point to prove

Guzan, collins,dunne,warnock

young,petrov,nrc,milner

gabby, heskey

so same line up par, guzan

I will root for the US because I am an American dammit.

i'd say NRC for petrov since he is carrying a yellow

granted, it didn't work, but despite the hysterics here, Heskey for Delph actually made some sense.

Delph was on a yellow and has not shown the ability to hold up and be a bit safe in the challenge, so it avoided a possible send off.

Samba moving forward had caused Warnock real problems on high balls so it added some height and strength on that side.

We needed a goal so it created the option of 442 quickly converting to 433.

Milner has proven he can be dangerous in the middle.

Agreed, the middle becomes a little susceptible to attack, but Blackburn wasn't working the ball in from passes in the middle anyway.

The sub had lots of good logic regardless of the outcome, which was admittedly very disappointing. But the sub was not our undoing.

We have 6 points in 3 games, hell yeah

I live in Vegas, soo i love my area of America

O'Neill dismayed by Euro exit

Villa boss left deflated after Rapid setback

Martin O'Neill has expressed his 'desperate disappointment' at seeing Aston Villa crash out of Europe.

The Villans saw their Europa League ambitions crushed by Austrian outfit Rapid Vienna on Thursday, despite claiming a 2-1 victory on home soil.

A 2-2 aggregate scoreline over the course of the two legs saw Rapid progress courtesy of the away goals rule.

Villa made more of the running in the second leg and went ahead when James Milner converted from the penalty spot, after Ashley Young had failed from 12 yards minutes earlier.

John Carew added a second after the interval, but Nikica Jelavic bundled home 14 minutes from time to bring Villa's continental adventure to an end before it had even begun.

O'Neill said afterwards: "We should have won. We did actually win the game. We should have got through. We should have had the game out of sight before they scored and it was unfortunate.

"They exerted some pressure at 2-0, which you would be expecting, but I thought we had a number of chances to go from 2-0 to 3-0 and that would have sealed the tie.

"Overall I was very pleased with the application of the side. I am desperately disappointed that we are not through.

Experience

"It would have been great experience again particularly for the younger players and last season, despite the way it ended for us in the Uefa Cup, I thought we had some splendid nights at Villa Park.

"I will miss those but we have to get on with it now and we will come again."

O'Neill refused to condemn Young for his penalty miss, insisting Villa did more than enough over the course of 90 minutes to have booked their place in the group stages.

"They were both penalties and the one time the ref did pretty well in the game was to allow the play to continue for the first penalty after Young was fouled," he added.

"Ashley was disappointed to miss the penalty. He scored a great one against Liverpool and felt confident about taking it. James converted the second and then we went in front.

"We always felt we needed three goals in the game because there is the possibility of conceding. We had two good chances to seal the game.

"I thought the team played very well."

Mon speaks

to the part in bold if you knew it was coming why didnt you make achange to combat it? we clearly wasnt coping. their manager made a change at teh right time and paid off while you buried your head in the sand

He said they put us under some pressure but it wasn't like they were creating chance after chance.

Also although we had a 2 0 lead we knew all they needed was to score 1 goal, trying to get another wasn't a terrible decision and had milner finished his easy chance we'd have been laughing.

Honestly if we had made changes and still lost would you be on here saying it was unfortunate but at least MON made the right changes or would you complain that we changed things when we were winning and should have gone for another goal? I get the impression that every game we lose a section of fans will be on his back for not doing something.

welp

**** im nervous

tomorrow

john **** carew