Ratings & Reactions: FAC3: Villa v Liverpool

[Danishlad]

5 minutes ago, Lord Willard said:

Does Davies miss that.....

Leave Davis alone. Davis is the type of player Barry would love to form a strike partnership with in a few years time.

[Stockport_Villain]

3 minutes ago, Herman22 said:

I'll start this by saying everyone on the pitch should be hugely proud. 

But for me 3 players stood out for me. 

Barry, obviously the goal is so well taken but his work rate was second to none. 

Rowe was brilliant at left back. Tired badly and was subbed off but showed he could be a quality left back.

Revan, I thought both centre backs played well but he looks like a defender that knows how to defend. Was captain tonight and he earned that armband. 

All round great performance from the kids! 

 

Completely agree but would add Sylla to that. 

[useless]

Maybe Davis would have missed the Barry chance, but it's the kind of chance that players a lot better than Davis can also miss, not as easy as it looks, Barry had to shape his body just right to trick the keeper into thinking he was going to shoot the other way in order to score.

[ferguson1]

Lost 4-1 but absolutely proud as punch with the team tonight.  Every single one of those lads will be smiling for days. 

[wilko154]

Superb, so proud of them.

Hope to see some of those players in the first team in the next few years.

Did themselves and the football club proud tonight.

[tonitottakai]

Genuinely hope the young lads stumble upon this thread and realize how proud they’ve made the supporters with that display. Brilliant stuff, there’s glimpses of real quality in there, makes one feel optimistic for the future of this great club.

[osmark86]

just excellent. we held our heads high for 60 minutes until we gassed out against one of the best teams in the world. fantastic from the kids!

[Sulberto21]

As they play more men's football they will improve tactically too. Hopefully over the next 12 months some of them will get loan moves to help them with their development. 

3/4 of them are close to men's football already. Revan definitely can be introduced to the first team fringes along with Rowe at LB and of course Barry. Mungo Bridge has a good career ahead of him.

Brad Young has balls the size of Jupiter. Cook me!

[jackbauer24]

I can't confirm but I suspect this is the youngest average age starting XI in the FA Cup as well as the most first team debuts in one game?

Would love some stats like that to be proven! Well played, Revan looked particularly impressive.

[mallett]

Great performance by the boys despite losing.

However, we need to not get it out of perspective. These players showed that they are not yet ready for the premier league. It was boys against men even if the boys did work incredibly hard.

Physically so many of them could hardly run because of cramp by the 60min mark. That just takes time to develop physically and training.

As someone else has written some of these won’t make it even as professionals. Bear in mind some of our best prospects were training with the first team and so ineligible. But they’ll always remember that game.

Hopefully some of them will make it as well. Maybe if we are safe later on in the season and have some less important games we can bring some of them on for a few minutes here and there to help their development and reward those who have been putting in the right sort of work in training.

[Zhan_Zhuang]

I saw the interview before with Klopp and he seemed so dismissive of our situation and seemed to reign himself in from saying something really controversial.

Lost any respect I had for him there but what about his post-match comments? Was there any great redeeming of his character? 

[briny_ear]

24 minutes ago, BleedClaretAndBlue said:

 

It seems fairly mental that Milner is still playing top flight football. It feels like several universes away that he played for us.

[briny_ear]

Totally absurd that this match should have gone ahead btw.

[Wainy316]

42 minutes ago, sne said:

Nice for Fabinho to get a Louie Barry shirt

He didn’t.  Barry was told to go and get it back and he did

[pintpotvilla]

1 minute ago, mallett said:

Great performance by the boys despite losing.

However, we need to not get it out of perspective. These players showed that they are not yet ready for the premier league. It was boys against men even if the boys did work incredibly hard.

Physically so many of them could hardly run because of cramp by the 60min mark. That just takes time to develop physically and training.

As someone else has written some of these won’t make it even as professionals. Bear in mind some of our best prospects were training with the first team and so ineligible. But they’ll always remember that game.

Hopefully some of them will make it as well. Maybe if we are safe later on in the season and have some less important games we can bring some of them on for a few minutes here and there to help their development and reward those who have been putting in the right sort of work in training.

I know what you mean but it's not like they would all play together in the Prem. I think a few of them could certainly come on off the bench

and make a difference in certain games. Louie Barry and the full backs for certain would not look out of place  within the structure of our

first team

[1974Centenary]

Talksport all over the Villa boys right now.

[bcarpet]

I really hope at some point the holte end can show these lads their appreciation of how well they played when crowds are allowed back in

[Sulberto21]

4 minutes ago, mallett said:

Great performance by the boys despite losing.

However, we need to not get it out of perspective. These players showed that they are not yet ready for the premier league. It was boys against men even if the boys did work incredibly hard.

Physically so many of them could hardly run because of cramp by the 60min mark. That just takes time to develop physically and training.

As someone else has written some of these won’t make it even as professionals. Bear in mind some of our best prospects were training with the first team and so ineligible. But they’ll always remember that game.

Hopefully some of them will make it as well. Maybe if we are safe later on in the season and have some less important games we can bring some of them on for a few minutes here and there to help their development and reward those who have been putting in the right sort of work in training.

What you're saying is correct. However the defenders out muscled them at times. Yes they got tired but some of them had to be bought in by their parents. If we had 3/4 first teamers playing with them then their legs wouldn't have gone so quickly as the experienced pros would have managed them better.

[markc]

Missed who got motm on the tele tonight,  must of been a Villa player though.  Interested to know if was a bottle of vimto or Dr pepper they were given though.

[fightoffyour]

11 minutes ago, Zhan_Zhuang said:

I saw the interview before with Klopp and he seemed so dismissive of our situation and seemed to reign himself in from saying something really controversial.

Lost any respect I had for him there but what about his post-match comments? Was there any great redeeming of his character? 

No.