Ratings & Reactions: Villa v Swansea

[AVTuco]

We were on the front foot with good intensity.

Abraham's best game so far with us, even if he could've scored more. McGinn was great.

We have to keep attacking, because our defense and keeper are still suspect. Nyland made a couple good saves though, hopefully he'll get confidence from that clean sheet.

[villalad21]

As much as i have bashed Nyland in the past and even today he saved us today. Fair play

[R.Bear]

Thats better 

[Jareth]

1-0 up, Bruce would have thrown Whelan on for Adomah - but today we got Kodjia. Huge difference in attitude. 

[TheMightyVillans]

5 minutes ago, deeps said:

What was his reaction? 

Celebrated like we just got promoted to the premier league

[Keener window-cleaner]

Close call between McGinn and Nyland for mom, but I give it to Nyland as he made a couple of match winning saves and deserves credit to come back strong after his recent performances. 

[KenjiOgiwara]

4 minutes ago, Bunnski said:

Fair play to the keeper, he turned up second half and kept the clean sheet which will hopefully boost his confidence for future games. McGinn was top quality. Good to see us press them all game and that was the major change I noticed compared to under Bruce. 

That ball recovery and turn of pace McGinn has reminds me of Milner. 

[romavillan]

Only given Smith "Average" because all he's done is pick the most balanced side available in his favoured shape based on the extremely little he's seen in training. The real value of Smith will take a bit more time to come through.

Not great, but clean sheet and 3 points. All the Brucer's shoudl be ecstatic with that at least. Thor is either on drugs or sees shadows from another dimension, or is in some sort of distorted bubble of space time, there were times when he had oodles of time and space, the pass was clear and he's chipped it to no-one or straight up passed it to one of them. The effects of whatever it is seem to come and go though, did some simple stuff well and covered a lot of ground but his WTAF moments are literally incredible, in the sense that I find it impossible to believe.

Grealish up the middle is just a no-brainer, it's where he can influence things the most. They only had a couple of days with teh full squad together so the confusion with the shape that was obvious at times on anf off the ball will disappear with time. Still though 42k at home in the Championship, 3/4 of serie A would kill for that at home in the top flight and there's not a great many clubs that would command that kind of following in the second tier. Great to know we're one of them and that we have a Villan as head coach and a Villan playing number 10. 

The longest journey starts with the smallest step. Onwards and upwards.

Edited October 20, 2018 by romavillan

[sparrow1988]

5 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said:

Excellent start. Good football. Shite referee. 

McGinn was superb. Nyland as well. 

I do however wanna express my confusion at how a team with attacking talent like we got, can be so utterly lacking confidence and drive in the final third. Just confuses me so much. 

[Davkaus]

Nowhere near clinical enough, and a very nervous second half. Amazing that there was a single goal in that game. Well deserved 3 points though. 

Another shit ref, what a surprise. Still amazed he didn't give a penalty towards the end, damn near ripped his shirt off. 

[romavillan]

10 minutes ago, TheMightyVillans said:

Terry with the time wasting haha. Abraham's reaction at the full time whistle was something else.

Smith's was notable too. Happy days.

[romavillan]

Just now, Davkaus said:

Nowhere near clinical enough, and a very nervous second half. Amazing that there was a single goal in that game. Well deserved 3 points though. 

Another shit ref, what a surprise. Still amazed he didn't give a penalty towards the end, damn near ripped his shirt off. 

Yeah that just kept going on and on, and he never let go, everyone screaming, still holding, the player went down (Codger?) and got back up when the defender let go and no penalyt, mental.

[Jareth]

Considering what's happened this season, and that we were playing a recent prem side, we got the win, should have had 3 - but we won - psychologically this is absolutely huge - a win to start the new era is massive. Look at Tammy on 85 mins whipping up the crowd and hear the reaction. We are back. 

[Keener window-cleaner]

The front 3 unit we had in the first became disjointed when Bolasie and Kodjia came on, but I guess it's partly because they haven't had as much time on the training ground. We looked a little bit nervous towards the end, but on the whole what a fantastically promising performance! Think I'm gonna write it 100 times in different threads but the 4-3-3 suits Grealish and McGinn o so well! And suddenly it just looked like we had a settled team, passing the ball!

Even our defence looked solid!! What was that!?!

[Adam2003]

2 minutes ago, villalad21 said:

As much as i have bashed Nyland in the past and even today he saved us today. Fair play

I would respectfully suggest - and not targeting you in particular, I am as guilty of this as anyone at times - that we’d be better off not bashing people in their first 10 games or so and giving them some time to see what they are made of. I’m not saying he’ll necessarily be great, but even if he does end up that way it’ll still take some time. Hopefully new manager (jand some clean sheets) should mean fans have patience with him and the team.

[VillanousOne]

Much better all round.
 

We still need more work and more confidence but you could see the promise.

[villalad21]

1 minute ago, Adam2003 said:

I would respectfully suggest - and not targeting you in particular, I am as guilty of this as anyone at times - that we’d be better off not bashing people in their first 10 games or so and giving them some time to see what they are made of. I’m not saying he’ll necessarily be great, but even if he does end up that way it’ll still take some time. Hopefully new manager (jand some clean sheets) should mean fans have patience with him and the team.

He need to learn how to command an area at set pieces. He is way too passive, never leave his line.

He is an exellent shot stopper but he need to improve other parts of his game.

[villabromsgrove]

Keeper was man of the match .... players needs to be fitter .... football was better to watch .... our misses were happening in an unheard of area "the six yard box", which augers well for our future under Dean Smith.

Early days with lots to do, but I'm full of confidence that we are at the beginning of a really exciting era. It's onwards and upwards with NSWE, Deano and Co. UTV!

[Jareth]

2 minutes ago, Adam2003 said:

I would respectfully suggest - and not targeting you in particular, I am as guilty of this as anyone at times - that we’d be better off not bashing people in their first 10 games

Don't be daft, we write people off before they've even signed, tis our human right!

[gwi1890]

What formation did we play?