Ratings & Reactions: LC3: Chelsea v Villa

[Brumstopdogs]

 

[KentVillan]

Played well. Decent game to watch in the end.

Smart from Smith / MacPhee to keep the kids out of the firing line in the shootout. Shame that AEG's shush to the Chelsea fans didn't set the tone, but Young was pretty unlucky to hit underside of the bar. Nakamba never gonna score a pen in a million years haha.

I had Cash MOTM, but could have been a few players.

Hause's tackle on Lukaku was brilliant. Couple of brilliant balls into Archer (I think one from Sanson and one from Buendia?)

JPB also looked very good when he came on, played an exquisite pass out to AEG.

Lots of nice football against a decent side. Good runout. Hope Sanson's injury nothing too serious.

[villa4europe]

2nd time in 2 weeks we've gone toe to toe with the champions of Europe and looked more than good enough for 1.5 of it

That was a good game, both teams missed some great chances, the difference between the cost of 2 sides is mental so I don't see how anyone complains at that

Again tuchel needed a few hundred million off the bench to beat us 

[brummybloke]

The only ones to not perform were emi young and el ghazi.

Everyone else gave everything and barring a couple great chances for archer he would have got my motm.

Gave it to traore constantly foulder, shoved, clipped, chopped but still gave the most effort I've seen him give.

Young though ? Mis placing pass after pass didn't help the team. 

El ghazi ? Didn't do anything, wasn't blocking on the press, wasn't driving forward shirked every 50 50 , not his finest hour although good penalty.

Emi, tried too hard to make through balls with nothing coming off, so instead of just keeping it simple, carried on giving the ball away.

Critical ? Yep because those 3 should be showing the rest and instead we're the weakest links tonight.

[tomav84]

1 minute ago, Peter Griffin said:

He didn't miss, it was saved. Ash missed.

Exactly...why is it that marv is the one getting all the grief? 

[thunderball]

1 minute ago, Zero7 said:

Nakamaba had a great game, shows how far our keeper options are behind top teams. 

Steer was solid, couldn’t ask for more really?

[Genie]

I only watched the second half. We were overrun for a 10-15 minute spell and lucky not to have the game out of sight. 
Aside from that they played well.

Steer looked like he was trying to get out of the way of the penalties for some reason.

[juanpablosaliceband]

When is this club going to be serious about winning a trophy again? We have played almost 1,000 league games since we last won a trophy and only one of those games has had any lasting relevance from my recollection; West Ham away on the last day. We haven’t won’t a league or qualified for a champions league. We qualified for Europe a few times and ended up blowing it in the qualifiers to Rapid Vienna two years in a row. Tonight we were four games from a trophy in what was probably going to be the hardest game on the way to the final, yet we prioritise our team selection for a trip to old Trafford, where we haven’t won in over 10 years and will be odds on to lose again. Tonight’s team did great but that’s not my point. Extremely frustrated and feel the need to vent. Sorry. Desperately want to see is win a trophy and we have blown a big opportunity tonight  

 

 

[WooJung]

6 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:

One thing I will say is, I genuinely don’t know why Nakamba is taking a penalty. 

I'd sooner have steer take it

[Jono62]

I was watching the game with no commentary and the fans were shouting he always goes right about Steer during the pens. 

I voted Axel as motm. Thought he was excellent. 

[romavillan]

Some really good performances by fringe players and players who needed minutes. Hope Sanson injury isn't bad he looked good. We were the better team from about halfway through the first half and for a good spell when we equalised. Buendia got some stick but second half was key in us winning the ball back to start some of our best moments. Archer missed a couple but kept making the right runs against a top class defence.

We really do have a good crop of youngsters coming through and the best squad we've had for a long, long time. Pens Steer didn't look close to Martinez's level, AEG is the coolest word removed in the world when it comes to pressure pens. Konsa looked a cert and Buendia has taken a very nice penalty. Young unlucky and Marv didn't look right when he was waiting to take it.

Played some really good stuff and were unlucky to lose away to the Champions of Europe with a very young side that hasn't played together much. Things really do look bright for us

[leemond2008]

Complete conjecture on my part here but I'll bet that a few of the kids would have been bang up for taking a pen and they were told that they couldn't, I'd like to think that we were protecting them by getting the senior players like Marv and Ezri to take them, missing a penno in the league cup won't do much to them, but for the kids it could really knock them if we went out due to a miss from one of them.

[Vive_La_Villa]

I can understand some fan frustration with us not take a few more senior players. But if that’s all they can find to talk about after that game then it’s going to be tough to have a debate about it. 

[chrisvilla4]

Very proud. Well done lads. 

 

Needed steel eyed steer in the shoot out. 

[Peter Griffin]

Just now, LondonLax said:

If you say so.

Do you think it was their first team? Chelsea made 10 changes from their league game

[ciggiesnbeer]

As an aside I dont like Tushchel. he comes across as a petulant child. Obviously a very good manager I just dont like him.

[WooJung]

I seem to be in the minority in having Tuanzebe as man of the match, thought he was absolutely immense all evening.

[sheepyvillian]

5 minutes ago, AVFCDAN said:

I laughed to myself at the thought of Nakamba taking a pen at full time and sure enough up he steps, sorry Dean that’s an awful decision and totally on you. Everyone can miss but you don’t let Nakamba take a pen.

On the positive side we were fantastic in the 90 mins.

How is that on Dean ? Nakamba obviously volunteered, what's Dean supposed to say, you back your player for having the confidence to take a penalty. 

[theboyangel]

2 minutes ago, CVByrne said:

Annoyed that Smith had Nakamba take a pen. Ruins the evening that. A player you know has no chance of scoring takes the 2nd pen

That's why Young took the second one but he.missed too. 

If Nakamba hasn't of stepped up it probably would've been one of the youngsters taking it. 

I don't see why it's ruined your evening though.. Disappointing yes, but so many more positive things to take from this game. 

[bannedfromHandV]

Superb again tonight, part of me doesn’t give a toss we lost on penalties.

Delighted for Archer after missing a couple of big opportunities but he looks a helluva player.

Can’t believe Sanson went off again, was it concussion or something else (I was half watching the game on my phone in the pub)?