Ratings & Reactions: Villa v Watford

[Ponky]

I missed it due to my need to sleep. 

Woke up at 6am, checked scores, did a quick first pump, whispered "suck shit Deeney", then tried to get back to sleep. 

[Herman22]

Seems to be a theme but I only caught the second half. Everything was better, passing, ball retention, movement, defending. All looked comfortable. Having said that Reina needed to be on his toes. 

I though Marv was the best player on the park, he was everywhere. I didn't think Drinkwater was poor but Douglas gives so much more going forward. Jack was Jack, full of energy and looked to get at Watford at every chance. 

I must admit when the ball hit Tyrone's hand I did think he would get a second yellow. I think we got away with one there. 

But the fight shown and the celebrations after the goals shows you what it means. We need that again against Bournemouth but we should have one if not two new strikers in by then which will help the cause. 

[rodders0223]

Most generous referee ratings I think I have ever seen.

[kidlewis]

6 minutes ago, rodders0223 said:

Most generous referee ratings I think I have ever seen.

Yeah he was awful. Did not give jack protection when he was clearly fouled twice.

 

waited for another foul to book the guy who took Grealish out on the half way line. That was 100% yellow on its own.

 

no governance around driving forwards the time wasting clearly happening. 
 

we barely played 75 minutes. 
 

only good thing is we won in the 95th and the game was slow so recovery will be good for us. 

[Paddywhack]

And Mings probably should have been off too 

[supermon]

are there any extended highlights anywhere

[MaVilla]

23 minutes ago, supermon said:

are there any extended highlights anywhere

There will be some on the villa YouTube channel at some point in the next couple of days.

[robby b]

7 wins out of 24, almost a third of our games, that's what I was hoping for at the start of the season (in order for our results to be average compared with the rest of the teams). With 3 more plus 6 draws from the remaining 14 matches that would give us the 40 points total, which is usually enough to stay up. (I do appreciate that it might not be this season though! It's so close in the bottom half at the moment!). :s

[robby b]

26 minutes ago, MaVilla said:

There will be some on the villa YouTube channel at some point in the next couple of days.

There are already extended highlights on Villa TV, on the OS. They actually put them on there last night. Fast! : )

[Kingman]

[TRO]

13 hours ago, DaveAV1 said:

I think Mings meant it to be honest......

Do you think he placed it? 

[newhavenhibby]

Great result lads.

4 points from last 2 games........without a recognized striker.............lets see what you can do when your new signing plays up front.

Kick on from here.

[Herman22]

One thing I've just noticed the last minute goal came from all three centre backs. Hause wins the initial header, Tyrone get a few touches in the box and Konsa fires at goal. 

Amazing fighting spirit from the team! Could be a season defining moment added to the last minute winner against Brighton earlier in the season. 

[TRO]

12 hours ago, Robtaylor200 said:

Well I didn't expect that 

me too....I thought the second half " fight" was so reassuring and encouraging.

That will prove to be a watershed moment in our season.....Atmosphere, was something else.

[TRO]

2 minutes ago, Herman22 said:

One thing I've just noticed the last minute goal came from all three centre backs. Hause wins the initial header, Tyrone get a few touches in the box and Konsa fires at goal. 

Amazing fighting spirit from the team! Could be a season defining moment added to the last minute winner against Brighton earlier in the season. 

Hause has his faults, but his aerial ability, is an asset.

[TheStagMan]

I would also like to add - 40,000 + in the stadium on a cold Tuesday evening in January. Kudos to the fans as well. Brilliant attendance.

[Vive_La_Villa]

If you ignore the city game since we went to a back 3 we have conceding 3 in 3 and have a goal difference of +2. It has definitely made us harder to beat. It’s probably the way we’ll set up for the rest of the season now. 

[DaveAV1]

1 hour ago, TRO said:

Do you think he placed it? 

Definitely, he does it all the time in training 

[PaulC]

Massive win, really felt if we had lost that, even though theres lots of games left, we would have struggled to stay up. 

[screwdriver]

It was pretty much all villa without really testing foster 1st half. Watfords goal came against the run of play.

one of my favourite players that i watch on match of the day gerrard delafeo did absolutley jack all. I was suprised when trez got subbed I thought el gazi should of gone.

I thought Drinkwater had another decent shift.

Luiz has made an great impact as sub in the last two games. always good to see players celebrating by jumping in to the fans.