Ratings & Reactions: Villa v Ipswich

[srsmithusa]

36 minutes ago, TRO said:

Slightly annoying...ok, one way of putting it.

if their hitting the post had of gone in..  do you think the sky results reader would have said.....Villa 2 ipswich 2.....but Villa was the better side?

Not trying to quarrel.  Because of course the point you were making is right, but it’s also did feel good to be clearly the better side.  A very welcome change.  

[wilko154]

4 hours ago, screwdriver said:

The game should of been put to bed in the first half. We need Abraham to start taking his chances. If benteke was upfront for villa creating this many chances he would have had 40 goals by now.

You realise Abraham is the leagues top goalscorer and is one goal away from being our top goalscorer in the league since 1981. He misses a few chances but the difference is busts his balls to get into the right place for those chances, and he converts his fair share.

Benteke isn't up front for Villa so it's a pretty pointless comparison.

[JAMAICAN-VILLAN]

7 hours ago, Nigel said:

A bad slump needs to be overcome by any means necessary. 3 points is 3 points.

Agreed, I thought the Hull drae was a turning point, now a scrappy tough win. Hopefully we slowly gather confidence and momentum.

[TRO]

54 minutes ago, srsmithusa said:

Not trying to quarrel.  Because of course the point you were making is right, but it’s also did feel good to be clearly the better side.  A very welcome change.  

They were bottom of the table...so what exactly was you expecting, I'm not trying to quarrel either.

We had a much welcomed win, but there was so much evidence of poor play at times too, where we done our best to live up to our latest nickname....The "Desmonds"

 

[TRO]

3 hours ago, sidcow said:

Am I the only one? I am sitting here feeling like we lost.  The performance today and the atmosphere in the stadium.... It was so disappointing it actually feels like we lost. 

I think it was the ability to make such hard work of what should have been a much easier victory....that's what makes it feel like a defeat.

but I would take 3 points all day long.....just not a game for gloating.

Edited January 27, 2019 by TRO

[Only2McInallys]

Negative energy from fans makes players play worse.Creative players avoid anything risky and defenders make more mistakes.

Yes the team are not playing as well as they could. but with toxic atmosphere promotion is impossible.

[AJ]

Overall, not too bad. Tammy was awesome, and so was McGinn. If only he could get his shots down. If any player deserves a goal, it is our McGinn.

For Ipswich, I thought their goalie and Sears had a good game. For all the work he had to do, he made some very good saves. As for Sears, that was quite a wonder strike that Kalinic couldn't do anything about. He worked his socks off for them.
Dishonourable mentions to Taylor and Elmo, who both play like they hate football. Elmo was right in front of goal, but instead of shooting, he back passes to an  Ipswich defender. He is so bad, I would play anyone or anything instead of him.

[El Zen]

9 hours ago, TRO said:

Slightly annoying...ok, one way of putting it.

if their hitting the post had of gone in..  do you think the sky results reader would have said.....Villa 2 ipswich 2.....but Villa was the better side?

No? 

(As it happened, I believe it read Villa 2 Ipswich 1)

Edited January 27, 2019 by Michelsen

[newhavenhibby]

17 hours ago, Brumstopdogs said:

The main thing is that we got 3 points and over the game as a whole we were deserved winners.  Now we need to make some decent singings and go and stuff Reading next week.

There is an abundance of work to do to match this lot!

 

 

Aye, in the Holte that night and a great win.

Just looked at the sides for that night and I think Villa had 7 English and 4 Scots ( including Hibby, Des Bremner),   Barcelona had 10 Spanish and 1 German............................how the game has changed!!

[The Fun Factory]

10 hours ago, Londonastonvilla said:

Negative energy from fans makes players play worse.Creative players avoid anything risky and defenders make more mistakes.

Yes the team are not playing as well as they could. but with toxic atmosphere promotion is impossible.

I though the fans were fine. It was a drab january mid table championship match. What did you expect? To get over 33,000 in is ridiculous, given we have been mostly useless for nearly a decade. 

[Brumstopdogs]

24 minutes ago, The Fun Factory said:

I though the fans were fine. It was a drab january mid table championship match. What did you expect? To get over 33,000 in is ridiculous, given we have been mostly useless for nearly a decade. 

Yes, I agree with this.

To put it into context Spus vs Southampton (played in the prem last month) had a smaller attendance than Villa vs Ipswich.

When you consider the dross we generally watch and have watched the support (number wise) is very impressive.

Edited January 27, 2019 by Brumstopdogs

[Brumstopdogs]

 

 

Edited January 27, 2019 by Brumstopdogs

[The Fun Factory]

Yesterdays match is going to be the 5th highest attendance in England over the weekend, and 6th in Britain overall. And it was a mid table side versus a relegation bound side in the second tier. If we ever actually approached being half decent again our support base would be huge.

[blandy]

1 hour ago, newhavenhibby said:

Aye, in the Holte that night and a great win.

 

Me too. The dirtiest game I've ever seen. Barcelona then were a different beast to what they are now.

[Davkaus]

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Yesterdays match is going to be the 5th highest attendance in England over the weekend, and 6th in Britain overall

Tbf, there aren't many weekends at all you can say that. Bit selective to pick a weekend for an early round of the FA cup!

Edited January 27, 2019 by Davkaus

[Brumstopdogs]

Concerning that these kind of people go to the matches (although not really a surprise):

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/shocking-weapon-seized-aston-villa-15737848

 

[Davkaus]

17 hours ago, OutByEaster? said:

 

 Crucially though, he got the big decisions right; ours was a penalty and theirs wasn't.

I agree there's wasn't. I've watched ours a few times but all from the same AVTV angle, and I still don't see that really. The ref obviously has a much better view so maybe there's more there than it looks like. If that's a penalty though, it should have been stopped a few seconds earlier for James Chester's brutal assault on their #5  

Edited January 27, 2019 by Davkaus

[Davkaus]

3 minutes ago, Brumstopdogs said:

Concerning that these kind of people go to the matches (although not really a surprise):

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/shocking-weapon-seized-aston-villa-15737848

 

Disappointed it wasn't something from the veg aisle. Remember kids, chives, not knives.

Edited January 27, 2019 by Davkaus

[Eric]

I can’t understand all the negativity, we should have scored at least 5 and were unlucky not to.

[newhavenhibby]

3 hours ago, blandy said:

Me too. The dirtiest game I've ever seen. Barcelona then were a different beast to what they are now.

They certainly were and its only in the last few years have become part of the "beautiful game"

A notorious Hibs v Barcelona game  in the Fairs Cup in the early sixties where they tried to kick Hibs off the park, ended with the Barcelona players fighting first with the officials, knocking the ref to the ground and then with the Police when they came on to restore order. One of these was the European Footballer of the Year..................................cannot see Messi et al doing this in the modern game lol