Ratings & Reactions: Villa v Norwich

[foreveryoung]

That immediate burst of pace when Ing's came on is what gave us the goal. I have said many times on here, when we play at pace, which we can do, we look unplayable. Why we don't play this way, I do not know, maybe Gerrard thinks we can keep it up. The way we are playing lately, even though we got the win today, just looks laboured, slow and without the work rate we need to get us to the dizzy heights of midtable.

You don't have to have the skill of Man City or Liverplop to play the game with a bit of pace.

[CLARETANDBLUEFOXY]

On the way home back from the game now - I’ve gotta say, personally for me, I feel like the referee killed the momentum of the game. First ten minutes of the second half he blew his whistle every time a Norwich player fell over and there was more yellow coming from his pocket than from the Norwich shirts. After that, we became quite timid and fearful of flinging ourselves into the battle. Had the ref not been so card happy, I feel we would have started the second half the way we ended the first half. Just my opinion anyway. Great to get the win and the clean sheet and it was great to hear Deano get the good reception he deserved. 

[robby b]

With a game in hand on Palace and two in hand on Brighton and Newcastle, a top ten finish is still possible. 

 

[useless]

Wasnt' a great performance, but wasn't that bad either. Good win.

Nineth in the table based on games since Gerrard became our manager, so only the top six and Wolves and Newcastle have taken more points than us in that time, Wolves just three more points, having played one more game.

Another intersting stat based on games played since his appointment is that in that time only the top five have a better goal difference.

[theboyangel]

12 minutes ago, robby b said:

With a game in hand on Palace and two in hand on Brighton and Newcastle, a top ten finish is still possible. 

 

but but we’re shite

 

[sheepyvillian]

20 minutes ago, robby b said:

With a game in hand on Palace and two in hand on Brighton and Newcastle, a top ten finish is still possible. 

 

Don't say that on here . They'll be calling for your neck.

[Xela]

1 hour ago, rjw63 said:

I wouldn't give a stinky shit how "crap" we were if we won 2-0 every week.

Fans moan when we lose

Fans moan when we win

 

[Xela]

2-0 win and hit the woodwork twice. 

A decent afternoon. 

[bannedfromHandV]

We deserved the win but it was a laboured performance again, no real intensity to press except for Watkins (who I marked as MotM based largely on his willingness to run and press despite again being a thorn in the side of many of our attacks), Coutinho looked off the boil again, McGinn was largely anonymous, Iroegbanum struggled a bit but grew into the game, put some good tackles in.

Overall just a bit meh again, a better team probably would have beaten us, Norwich are way off the required levels for this division. Sad that Deano had to suffer the ignominy of getting relegated at VP.

[fruitvilla]

Eleventh clean sheet this season? Joint sixth with Wolves!

[Tommo_b]

Thought that was alright myself. 

[ender4]

Brilliant match, loads of chances, 2 great goals.  Well done Villa.

[jim]

7 minutes ago, ender4 said:

Brilliant match, loads of chances, 2 great goals.  Well done Villa.

This. Not much more you can ask for.

[May-Z]

52 minutes ago, foreveryoung said:

That immediate burst of pace when Ing's came on is what gave us the goal. I have said many times on here, when we play at pace, which we can do, we look unplayable. Why we don't play this way, I do not know, maybe Gerrard thinks we can keep it up. The way we are playing lately, even though we got the win today, just looks laboured, slow and without the work rate we need to get us to the dizzy heights of midtable.

You don't have to have the skill of Man City or Liverplop to play the game with a bit of pace.

The issue is that pace is only useful if used cleverly/properly.

I don't think we have the speed of thought for that pace to work.

Plenty of times Coutinho gets the ball and you can see he wants to move it quickly, but the movement isn't there. 

Or, other players take too long to control and get their head up that the opposition get back into position. 

[briny_ear]

9 minutes ago, ender4 said:

Brilliant match, loads of chances, 2 great goals.  Well done Villa.

Are you sure you are on the right site? 

[HKP90]

2 hours ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

Doesn't paper over the fact that if we could finish we should have scored about 5 either

We did have some decent sequences of football as well.

Come on, mate, they beat us on corner kicks!! 

[foreveryoung]

9 minutes ago, briny_ear said:

Are you sure you was at the right game? 

Corrected. 

[VillaParkAvenue]

The main reason why we give the ball away is that our main way of attacking is very direct. Villa progress the ball faster up the pitch than almost every other team, and playing with high risk and a lot of one-touch passes (sometimes on a level the players can’t control) often leads to losing possession and having to start over.

[rbcuk]

Got all 3 points but what a shit game of football, atmosphere was non existent but doesn’t help with what’s being shown on the pitch 

[MrSmirch]

2 hours ago, rjw63 said:

I wouldn't give a stinky shit how "crap" we were if we won 2-0 every week.

Mental.