Ratings and Reactions: Cardiff 0-0 Villa

[Davkaus]

Bacuna & Bert - 7

Vlaar & Baker - 9

Guzan - 8

 

 

Did you watch the first half? Our defence looked like something from a Chaplin film.

[Shaw_nuff]

Meh from me. We were shocking in the 1st half. Better in the 2nd but hard to tell as they are woeful and down already as far as I can see.

[Cizzler]

Sorry. On what planet did Albrighton play well? He actually gave the ball away EVERY time he got it. He was up against DECLAN JOHN and didn't beat him ONCE. His end product is atrocious.

 

Our players are **** dreadful.

[coda]

Frustrating. Strikers lack confidence/fitness. Good to see Vlaar back.

BT Sport cancellation line must be busy.

[Danishlad]

Guzan 7

Bertrand 7

Bacuna 7

Baker 6

Vlaar 8

Bennett 6

Westwood 7

Delph 7

Albrighton 7

Gabby 5

Benteke 5

Weimann 6

[Swerbs]

Guzan: 6 - Good save at the start, not much to do

Bacuna: 4 - Didn't cope with Zaha at all, should of played Benteke in instead of shooting

Vlaar: 6 - Decent, not much to trouble him

Baker: 6 - Surprising decent tonight

Bertrand: 5 - Noone trouble him quite a lot in the first half

Bennett: 5 - Did nothing of note, not quite Gareth Bale

Westwood: 6 - Played okay

Delph: 6 - Actually completed some passes! Good shot too

Albrighton: 7 - Our most creative player today

Agbonlahor: 3 - Utterly useless

Benteke: 5 - Not involved much, should of shot instead of passing

 

Weimann: 6 - Was in loads of space and making good runs, denied by great save

[Rovers13]

Cardiff are so going down. They looked much better with Malky at the helm.

Good point and a better performance than the usual crap.

They were shit with Mackay as well

[Cizzler]

I must have watched a different game.

[romavillan]

Gabby much more to blame for me too, the flick was class from Benteke for that golden chance, why he didn't hit it first time I will never know.

One outstanding save form the deflected Delph shot and then just a mind boggling save at the end. Sadly I don't think they were our best chances though. really should have scored a couple regardless of those great moments from Marshall. We really need to find some form from somewhere.

[The_Lions_Roar]

A combination of poor finishing and 2 wonder saves stopped us from winning that. Cardiff are a poor side, vlaar showed why he's vital to us, if only we could start converting chances.

[sonic_bouma]

1st clean sheet in 12 games for Cardiff.

Even if we don't lose we never fail to give a little gift to our opponents

[osmark86]

Newcastle won't be fearful of us, that's for sure.

Edited February 11, 2014 by osmark86

[The_Steve]

1st clean sheet in 12 games for Cardiff.

Even if we don't lose we never fail to give a little gift to our opponents

 

C'mon. TBF, there was 2 top class saves. Can't do anything about that.

[LondonLax]

 

 

We're in big trouble if we can't beat Cardiff and West ham.

 

we need 12 points from 12 games, easily doable.

 

But games against Cardiff and West Ham should have been 6 points, imo.

 

 

Yeah, the thing is though we tend to also get results like beating Man City and Arsenal or the performance at Andfield so you can never pick which Aston Villa will turn up. 

 

This game is a pretty good example, we looked like relegation candidates first half but were comfortably on top second half. 

[Bunnski]

It's not often that this team finds a steady footing to dominate a half.  Unfortunately, we miss easy finishes that could put the game away.  Credit to Marshall for the save, but Andi had half the goal open and managed to find the keeper, and Gabby managed to tap dance his way out of a goal.  Disappointed that this team fails to find the net so many times from point blank range.

The defender got a touch on the ball just before it got to Weimann.

[osmark86]

Gabby: 

 

words of trvth from a man with a stunning do.

[Agbonla-score]

Cardiff went missing in the second half most teams would have finished them off.

Lambert took far too long to make the obvious substitution. Poor finishing from Gabby. He's not on form.

Albrighton and Delph again bright sparks.

We're only 4 points better off than last season.

I know it was his first start in ages, but I do wonder if there is any way back for Bennet

[OutByEaster?]

Aaaand the Albion make that point a little less valuable.

[romavillan]

 

It's not often that this team finds a steady footing to dominate a half.  Unfortunately, we miss easy finishes that could put the game away.  Credit to Marshall for the save, but Andi had half the goal open and managed to find the keeper, and Gabby managed to tap dance his way out of a goal.  Disappointed that this team fails to find the net so many times from point blank range.

The defender got a touch on the ball just before it got to Weimann.

 

 

Yes, that touch made it a sharp chance, Andi hit a good finish that 999 times out of a thousand from that range is a goal. Just a stupidly crazy mental insane save.

[Morpheus]

More interested in what the lady was saying behind him?