Ratings & Reactions: Villa v Blackburn

[Vive_La_Villa]

Score doesn’t reflect the game. We should have wrapped it up at half time. 

But to be fair I actually think Blackburn were much better than Boro and Derby. They weren’t  team that played with no pressure and gave us a good game second half. We defended well as a team. 

The goal we conceded was poor all round. McGinn unnecessary foul, wall didn’t jump, steer error and slow reaction from the defence. 

But we won and that 5 in a row. Unfortunately it’s still not in our hands but hopefully that’s a matter of time.

UTV!!

 

[Tomaszk]

That first 20 mins. Good grief. Ferocious.

Green really poor and Tammy doing his best to throw away goals and we still win.

Should have been 5 goals up before 60 mins.

[BleedClaretAndBlue]

job done that was the most important thing. Sat too deep and looked leggy after they scored, but time to regroup and go all out for the win at Hillsbrough next week to finally give fistface his first defeat (unbelievable). 

McGinn, Mings class as ever, Whelan very good again, not Jacks best infront of Southgate, seemed to be playing quite deep. Just glad to get the win and look forward now.

Preston losing was the only good result today, Sheff Utd had gone 7 straight games without conceding (since we got 3 in 10 mins); then let Weimann get a bloody hatty against them.

[briny_ear]

Good win but sounds like we should have had a few more goals.

However, it’s the points that count. We are nearly doing as well now as same time last season and I reckon the play offs beckon. Ours to throw away now.

[Jareth]

I feckin love John McGinn

[Demitri_C]

Second half we were not great but showed resilience. Mings was superb and motm. That bit of skill second half Hilarious. Mings has been worth every penny of that wasteman bolaises wage# we saved

[alreadyexists]

1 minute ago, Demitri_C said:

Second half we were not great but showed resilience. Mings was superb and motm. That bit of skill second half Hilarious. Mings has been worth every penny of that wasteman bolaises wage# we saved

#wasteman

[ciggiesnbeer]

I am still loving the Smith / O'kelly style of play.

Attack, attack attack.

I like watching us play.

[Demitri_C]

Probably best bit of business we did was sending #wasteman back and getting superman mings in instead

[terrytini]

Fantastic opening 25 minutes.

Gritty and professional last 25.

Cant play pretty football for 90 minutes, nobody can, so in a wierd way I take more encouragement from the defensive side than the attacking.

[CosmicVillan]

3 points..should have been more

[sidcow]

[Vive_La_Villa]

37 minutes ago, ciggiesnbeer said:

I am still loving the Smith / O'kelly style of play.

Attack, attack attack.

I like watching us play.

The one touch stuff around the box is a joy to watch. The work off the field is starting to pay off. 

[AVTuco]

We won. Not much else this time, but that's ok.

[hippo]

Form in front of goal was a worry - we seem to want to walk it into the net. 

[Vive_La_Villa]

10 minutes ago, hippo said:

Form in front of goal was a worry - we seem to want to walk it into the net. 

And we would have on several occasions has the finishing been better. Trust you to find something to worry about

edit: at times we could have got the ball in quicker but i prefer this approach to the old aimless cross at any opportunity that we’ve seen for years. 

Edited March 30, 2019 by Vive_La_Villa

[briny_ear]

56 minutes ago, sidcow said:

Who’s that with the red glove?

[dounavilla]

Spoiler

Come on !!!!!

 

Edited March 30, 2019 by dounavilla

[DrUnKeNbUm]

Made it a bit harder than we needed to today but at times our football was excellent.

 

Massive thanks to everyone who gave advice on the best time to get to the ground to meet the players. My daughter got to meet Jack and has been on cloud 9 all day.

[Davkaus]

I think we can all agree that Adomah should never be brought on to run down the clock again.