Ratings and Reactions: Villa - Hull

[metalhead_villain]

Excellent game, put to bed in the first half....overall rather stress free, which is not something we've been used to recently. Big well done to AW10 and J-Bowz! The boys put in a hell of a shift.

 

This does not make up for the shit shower of a season, but it's nice to be safe at long last.

 

Onwards and Upwards!

[chrisp65]

"shoes off if you love villa" . the commitment he showed to the cause was admirable

 

I lost a Tesco dap copying that sort of idiot idea against Ajax.

[Silafou's_besi_mate]

Delighted for Bowery - he played so well. He gets too much stick on here for a player who hasn't been given enough game time until today.

Albrighton and weiman were awesome. Westwood was good but Delph had a quiet game.

Well done boys.

The Villa park faithful were on another level - delighted we got behind the team from start to finish.

[AVTuco]

Yiihaaaa, what a homecoming! We're safe now I suppose. I still don't know the score, we scored three, that's all I know.

Tonight will be bliss, and it will be late. First of all, I plan to read through the game thread, and enjoy every single line you guys have wrote. And then..... I don't know, I'm just really happy and relieved right now. Thank you, thank you, thank you...

Edited May 3, 2014 by AVTuco

[David-Copenhagen]

Done.

Westwood was excellent, Bowery and Weimann worked well together, Weimann took his goals well and worked hard, Bowery proved he might yet have a future at this level.

And breathe.

Seriously! He played well and showed a lot of endeavour, but never looks like he will score.

Just not a Premier League player.

Except when he was denied by a superb save from the keeper.

Twice. He played really well and showed a lot good moves and did not put a foot wrong.

MOTM for me.

[TRO]

Great ! 

 

Weimann proved me wrong today !

 

we've just got to work on the other 37 games

[Davkaus]

Option missing from the man of the match list. Got to be Ian Taylor for me.

[AVTuco]

Said in the game thread that whoever scores the winner will be my hero forever.

Andi it is then.

Suits me better than fine. I've always liked him. Now I love him.

[Danwichmann]

 

 

 

Done.

Westwood was excellent, Bowery and Weimann worked well together, Weimann took his goals well and worked hard, Bowery proved he might yet have a future at this level.

And breathe.

Seriously! He played well and showed a lot of endeavour, but never looks like he will score.

Just not a Premier League player.

Except when he was denied by a superb save from the keeper.

Twice. He played really well and showed a lot good moves and did not put a foot wrong.

MOTM for me.

 

 

He may have put one foot wrong, otherwise it could have been a clean sheet  

[AVTuco]

Dodgyknees, are you back from the game yet?

If I recall correctly, you only go see us win live, is it so?

[Brumstopdogs]

Just got back.

 

Great performance from the Villa boys to keep us in the division.  

 

Bowery and Weimann the stand out players.  

 

Now let's sack Lambert and go again.

[The_Steve]

The offside not given

 

[AVTuco]

The offside not given

 

I know it's not the issue, but where the heck is our right back / right mid?

[heid3ster]

When I woke up this morning (game was on at 7am here) and saw the team sheet, I very nearly went straight back to bed. Not for the first time, I find myself very pleased that the team had more belief than I did.

 

Full credit to J-Bowz for shaking off the OG and going on to a truly great performance. That cross for the third goal was sublime. He never stopped running all game, chasing down every ball even in the 90th minute when everyone else was tiring out. Weimann also worked his socks off as usual, and I don't actually blame him too much for his reaction to the first goal. A lot of the criticism of him this season has been fair, I won't argue that. His finishing hasn't been the best, his touch and decision-making sometimes pretty weak. But the accusations that he stopped trying because he had a new contract and thought he'd made it -- I never thought that was justified. No one in this team works harder than he does. I was really pleased to see him get some rewards for it today. Westwood was also excellent today, as was Gabby before he went off. I actually thought Albrighton had an off-day, but I guess others saw things in his performance that I missed.

 

Credit to Lambert and the coaching staff too for managing to get the team up for this performance, confidence must have been rock bottom after the last string of results. I certainly didn't see how we would get any more points this season and I know I'm not the only one. Now I wouldn't be surprised if we got another (or three) from City or Spurs (Spurs more likely). Of course, the performances that led to that rock bottom confidence need to be addressed in the summer. We cannot have another season like this.

[darrenm]

The offside not given

I know it's not the issue, but where the heck is our right back / right mid?

In the wall against a Tarquin free kick

[Raver50032]

Great win, well done Villa... Safe for another season. Now, club needs some change.

 

For today... May the fourth be with you...

[Brumstopdogs]

 

The offside not given

 

I know it's not the issue, but where the heck is our right back / right mid?

 

You make a good point. At free kicks and corners we are so naive.  The amount of times the other team has a corner and then they have a 2 vs 1 situation to get a cross in is really frustrating to watch! Happens week in and week out.

[packoman]

Hull should have saved that one for the final. When was the last time Huddlestone didn't have a shot at goal from around there?

[VillaAndLoyal]

We got over the line and the relief at the final whistle was palpable. We played fairly well and did what was needed but the Hull players (and fans) didn't turn up and there was only ever one team which really wanted to win. The fans were fantastic and helped push the players over the line. It was very telling in the second half that it was our real heroes, players like Ian Taylor, John Carew, Paul McGrath, Martin Laursen, Ollof Mellberg etc that received the recognition from the fans, not the current players masquerading as Premier League footballers. Many of the performances this season (Swansea, last week, for one example) have been nothing short of disgraceful and change is needed because we won't always scrape clear of relegation.

 

Considering the *hit we've put up with this season, the fans have been very patient. Now it's time to sell to an owner who can invest in the team and squad, bring in a dynamic young manager (who, I don't know, anyone will be better than Lambert) and sign some players to replace this current dross.

[rjw63]

Thought Baker was terriffic yesterday. He gets tons of stick on here but he didn't put a foot wrong yesterday.

 

Bowery also did very well, nice assist for goal three. But in reality he's never going to be a top flight striker.

 

Didn't stay for lap of "appreciation"...straight in Holte Suite for a couple of el cids then up Ladyboy Road for an awesome balti

 

Also the missus came yesterday, it was her first win of the season...same as Pelle and the Villa Sweden mob. About time they all witnessed a victory!