Ratings & Reactions: Villa v Watford

[nick76]

I’m sick as a dog the last day or so and I almost didn’t go tonight to the game but I went and I’m so glad I did.  I can now die in bed now for the next day or so.

Such a dire performance but jeez didn’t they make up for it with that last minute goal, think I screamed and hugged everybody.  

Massive, massive, massive win!!!

[Vive_La_Villa]

I love how the extra stoppage time cost them because they time wasted all second half.  Got what they deserved. 

Edited January 21, 2020 by Vive_La_Villa

[richp999]

4 minutes ago, Brumstopdogs said:

 

 

Don’t tell me these lot don’t care...

so happy for them tonight.

[LakotaDakota]

60 minutes in i was convinced we were finishing bottom of the league, Now if we can beat Bournemouth things would look an awful lot rosier

[Harry]

Deeney, Deeney what’s the score

[Stratvillan]

Thought we played well considering we have no centre forward. Thought the commitment if not the quality was outstanding.

[OutByEaster?]

What a finish, the noise was unbelievable, my arms hurt, my voice is done for the week. It was incredible - joy, relief, the bursting of frustration, it was pure, justified, passionate noise - it fills your lungs and your ears and your chest and your heart. I love coming out of Villa Park at times like that, people bound, they smile, they shout, they sing in the street - it's a collective energy, something that's in all of you all at once. I love this f***ing game.

We won that on effort, we haven't got a striker, we occasionally looked lost without one, but we've got heart and legs and the players we have overcame the players we don't have. I thought we deserved it, we edged it on the night and we were the team that wanted it most.

Watford scored early and played the spoiler - assisted by what I would have to say is the weakest display of refereeing I think I've ever seen. It wasn't a Kevin Friend comedy of bad decisions, Atkinson got a lot of decisions right - it's just that he didn't take any action on any of them - he should have booked Foster for time wasting with ten minutes left in the first half - a warning the first time, then a booking the second - he didn't do that, he didn't even do it on the fourteenth time. There was a point in the second half where Watford had a throw in, a player walked over to take it, got to the ball, turned around and walked away, then another walked over and had a look at it without picking it up - Atkinson waved his arms around and slapped his thighs with frustration - as if he'd forgotten he was the referee. By the time Watford got their first booking I'd counted five that should have already been issued. The Watford staff are currently trying to turn this game into one that they only lost because Tyrone Mings didn't get a second booking for handball - which was at least consistent - no one got a booking for anything - which meant that Watford time wasted constantly for an hour, it meant they stood over every free kick, it meant they marched every throw in half way down the field, it meant they chopped Jack Grealish down whenever they felt like it - it meant they took the mick out of a referee that had no control of the game whatsoever.

And they got exactly what they deserved.

I thought Nakamba was brilliant, he won the ball back more often than Drinkwater gave it away (which is some going), Grealish at times looked like he was on his own against Watford and very nearly winning, Douglas Luiz's finish was better than he's getting credit for and Targett got forward really well. Of course we look ropey when we get trapped passing the ball around at the back - that'll fix itself some when we get a striker on the field. We had moments where we looked awful - but there were moments of talent like Reina's double save, and there was effort and determination in every Guilbert slide, every Trezeguet chase and every battle with Watford's behemoths. 

And then there was that finish.

Hugs with strangers, screams, fists to the sky...just the most wonderful full stop on a sentence that said "Up yours Deeney!" This win won't keep us up, but seasons are made of moments and this moment will help us an awful lot. It's one a lot of players will remember, and not just Ezri Konsa. What a debut night at Villa Park for Pepe Reina, and imagine if you will how young Indiana Vassilev feels as he gets into his bed tonight....a couple of weeks ago I watched him bag a couple of goals at Bodymoor Heath in front of a hundred people - there was a smattering of applause - he's just been involved in something just a little bit more extraordinary. Tomorrow he gets to stroll into Bodymoor and tell Tyreik Wright and Jacob Ramsey and Mungo Bridge what that felt like, tomorrow he's king of his world.

Tonight, maybe just a little bit, and just for a moment, we were all king of our world.

 

 

[The Fun Factory]

Priceless win.  A poor game in all honesty but who cares.  Left a bit before the end  so missed the scenes. Watford get what they deserve with their orrible time wasting. They could have killed the game off as we did not play well for large parts of it. Deeney can waddle off back to his sordid little grief hole.  Reina kept us in the game.  We have won more games than Arsenal which is baffling.

Drinkwater needs 3-4 reserve games to get anywhere close to the starting XI. Pointless signing.  Could be a season turning result. Bring on Leicester.

[Awol]

Luiz comes on, we equalize. 

Vassilev comes on, we get the winner. 

Coincidence? 

Unbelievable result, only 2pts between 16th and 19th but it feels a lot better looking up the table from here. 

Last word to big Tyronne...
 

 

[mottaloo]

1 hour ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

If we work that hard every match, we win or draw more than we lose!

.......and that's what frustrates me about Villa..........they simply don't. The Villa away at leicester, or Villa at home to everton & liverpool then turn in to the villa at sheff utd or watford away...............but i guess that's for another day. I'm just relieved for the 3 points 

[The Fun Factory]

38 minutes ago, Bizzzle said:

Reminds of the quote from the ball of the century of Warne on Gatting in that he looked like someone has just nicked his lunch.

[MNVillan]

Tuesday afternoon here in Minnesota. Found myself screaming alone at a bar while a bunch of Chelsea fans congratulated me. Up the bloody Villa, this is why we bother to care

[Mazrim]

Choke on deez nutz Deeney you **** hideous Godless Dolphin-faced freak.

[sheepyvillian]

28 minutes ago, nick76 said:

I’m sick as a dog the last day or so and I almost didn’t go tonight to the game but I went and I’m so glad I did.  I can now die in bed now for the next day or so.

Such a dire performance but jeez didn’t they make up for it with that last minute goal, think I screamed and hugged everybody.  

Massive, massive, massive win!!!

Lets hope the illness isn't contagious. 

[maqroll]

28 minutes ago, LakotaDakota said:

60 minutes in i was convinced we were finishing bottom of the league, Now if we can beat Bournemouth things would look an awful lot rosier

Big game against Bournemouth.  And plenty of time to get Samatta worked into the side and for other signings as well.

 

 

[JAMAICAN-VILLAN]

[Kingman]

59 minutes ago, Bizzzle said:

 

 

[kidlewis]

46 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

I love how the extra stoppage time cost them because they time wasted all second half.  Got what they deserved. 

That’s the beauty of it 

[Robtaylor200]

Well I didn't expect that 

[Spoony]

I actually have some respect for Deeney. He’s a bluenose, he **** hates us, he plays out of his skin against us, winds us up and he scores against us.

Obviously he’s a knob, but that’s proper football and how it should be. We’d be all about that if he were a Villan.