Ratings and Reactions: Villa v Cardiff

[HanoiVillan]

Nobody is going to confuse that for a good performance, but job done. 

Amavi and Jedinak very good throughout, most others good in fits and starts. Grealish got much better after the break and had a good second half. 

Hope Baker isn't out for long. 

[brummybloke]

29 minutes ago, This Could Be Rotterdam said:

Genuinely the worst referring performance I've ever seen. Their goal seemingly a mile offside *not literally*. 

Amavi played him on by a good yard having seen the highlights.

[sexbelowsound]

57 minutes ago, Spoony said:

Winner in the who can post the funniest GIF race.

No contest.

[brummybloke]

Great result. Seems strange us winning more than losing or drawing. Keep this up and all we can do is hope others have a bad patch.

 

Well done manager and squad. 

[Hoof hearted]

Amavi was immense today. Gabby is still shit. Westwood actually played well other than the lapse for the goal. Cracking result as Warnock teams rarely get beat by 2 goals and we were'nt that great, onwards and upwards.

 

[OutByEaster?]

Excellent - although in some ways I'm still not sure what to make of us - we never seem quite in control of games, but I think we might be more in control than we look - we're a bit baffling.

The back four were reasonable against the biggest team we've faced this season, I was worried when Baker went off, but we held out. Chester was good. Amavi was fantastic - best player on the park for me by a distance, credit to Hutton for a days hard work.

As said already Westwood really grafted, but still made a big ol' cock up, Ayew was very poor, not at the races at all today, Kodjia was excellent and the last half hour belonged to Grealish. A good win, with decent goals and periods of decent football - the team are working hard and working for each other.

Moment of the match was Kodjia beating his man all ends up, stopping to sneeze and then beating him again. Genius.

(Although it only just beat out Gollini's little dance with Grealish after the final whistle.)

Onwards!

 

[Phumfeinz]

Missed the game, did we play as well as the scoreline suggests?

[alreadyexists]

I hope they put Codger's sneeze in the highlights so I can see it. Also would like to see the little dance.

[Brumerican]

8 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

Excellent - although in some ways I'm still not sure what to make of us - we never seem quite in control of games, but I think we might be more in control than we look - we're a bit baffling.

The back four were reasonable against the biggest team we've faced this season, I was worried when Baker went off, but we held out. Chester was good. Amavi was fantastic - best player on the park for me by a distance, credit to Hutton for a days hard work.

As said already Westwood really grafted, but still made a big ol' cock up, Ayew was very poor, not at the races at all today, Kodjia was excellent and the last half hour belonged to Grealish. A good win, with decent goals and periods of decent football - the team are working hard and working for each other.

Moment of the match was Kodjia beating his man all ends up, stopping to sneeze and then beating him again. Genius.

(Although it only just beat out Gollini's little dance with Grealish after the final whistle.)

Onwards!

 

Amavi was very good today but for me  Chester was the star of that back four  .(By a distance that makes your distance look like not much distance )

[Brumerican]

10 minutes ago, Phumfeinz said:

Missed the game, did we play as well as the scoreline suggests?

Deserved winnners but it was a tighter game than 3-1 suggests IMO.

[OutByEaster?]

1 minute ago, Brumerican said:

Amavi was very good today but for me  Chester was the star of that back four  .(By a distance that makes your distance look like not much distance )

The same but opposite.

(This seems like the first time in a long, long time I've been in an argument with someone on VT about which of two players was most excellent - I like this quite a lot.)

 

[briny_ear]

Well done Brucie & his boys.

[pacbuddies]

Cracking result and it sets us up nicely for an assault on the play off positions. However, the loss of Kodjia, Adomah and Ayew in January is going to be a major blow so I hope Xia and Bruce have done some effective succession planning orherwise it could all be a false dawn.

[StewieGriffin]

I still can't get my head around all this winning malarkey.

Big game next week - win that and other teams will really start to fear us

[Grasshopper]

Just saw the Westwood F***up. Pathetic.

and just when you need a compact back 4 in a defensive line, guess who's out of position leaving an attacker unmarked on the 18yrd line?

Step forward the one and only Alan f***up Hutton.

Bacuna & Tish need to get fit asap

[villa4europe]

1 hour ago, sexbelowsound said:

Winner in the who can post the funniest GIF race.

No contest.

More people probably voted for another one but apparently that's not how this voting malarkey works...

[sexbelowsound]

1 minute ago, villa4europe said:

More people probably voted for another one but apparently that's not how this voting malarkey works...

Yep, I got all the electoral collage seats. 

BOOOOYA!

[AntrimBlack]

A bit nervy towards the end, but excellent result.

11th position, 3 points off play-offs.

Bruce has done extremely well, and unexpectedly quickly.

[Villanun]

Can only judge on the highlights, but the three goals were well taken. Nice to be winning by such a convincing scoreline.

[Stratvillan]

Thought it was Amavis best game for us. Actually thought Westwood played quite well. Can't wait for jan to get a right back and a proper centre mid.