Ratings & Reactions: Villa v Man City

[Talldarkandransome]

Time to celebrate with some Double Hazy

[JAMAICAN-VILLAN]

6 minutes ago, daft said:

We are sore, beaten and weary as a fanbase. All credit to the gaffer and the team today, but they seriously need to work to win the faith back. 

If they do, I swear to **** God the Villa fans will pull up trees and move mountains for them. 

But we are far, far from that at the moment. 

One of my favourite passages was when Emi started whipping up the fans asking them to see us over the line!

[stewiek2]

12 minutes ago, IrishVilla10 said:

Would be interesting to see that midfield with dendonker for Mcginn 

 

Haha keep dreaming son

[TomC]

17 minutes ago, CLARETANDBLUEFOXY said:

On the way back home from the game now and I have to say I have never seen Villa Park rock like it did at full time today.

The fans were great today. Whoever expected a toxic atmosphere was wrong. They were behind the team the whole time.

[Hanky]

Great performance. Thought back four were superb for the most part, special mention to Ashley Young. 
 

Thought Luiz and Watkins had brilliant games as well. There was a real work ethic to the side today that seemed to be missing. Atmosphere really good. Hopefully we can build on this now.

[Tommo_b]

Just now, rbcuk said:

Let’s see how they play next weekend against Leicester and will he do his usual 3+ changes, if it wasn’t for Martinez that could have easily been 5 or 6

Yeah could’ve been, that’s why we signed him.

if wasn’t for a bad linesman decision it could’ve been 3 points to Villa too.

[rbcuk]

Just now, Tommo_b said:

Yeah could’ve been, that’s why we signed him.

if wasn’t for a bad linesman decision it could’ve been 3 points to Villa too.

I’m sure Ederson would have saved it, as he didn’t even try as the whistle went 

[CLARETANDBLUEFOXY]

6 minutes ago, TomC said:

The fans were great today. Whoever expected a toxic atmosphere was wrong. They were behind the team the whole time.

It was honestly beautiful to see and hear. 

[roonst83]

Big big result that is. Way more than most expected. All credit to Gerrard for executing his game plan. We actually had a game plan. Was refreshing. Every player, to a man, was excellent tonight but special mentions to Ashley Young and Ollie Watkins, both of whom I’ve been openly critical about. Watkins worked tirelessly up front and grew in confidence as the game went on. Young was absolutely brilliant. Really really pleased with his output and performance tonight. 

You could evidently see this team grow in confidence today. The belief and confidence increased throughout and all credit to the players for that. We reduced a brilliant City team to fairly little in the way of clear chances which we deserve great credit for. What I admired most was how hungry and aggressive we looked to get back into the game and, critically, how positive we were in searching for the winner afterwards. We all felt together, fans as well as players and coaches. And the players definitely seemed driven to succeed for the manager tonight. Really proud. 

I like the look of Boo Boo and Luiz together, as we’ve been wanting for ages. Offers us more protection of the defence as both can use the ball very well and Boo’s reading of the game is exemplary. 

JJ is always way more effective for us when driving forwards. I was at Palace and he barely ventured into their half. He needs to be further up the pitch where his strength, tenacity and drive is a real force for us. We looked better without McGinn too. We all love the guy but he needs rotating and with the addition of Dendonker I expect (hope) that to be the case. There’ll be games which suit McGinn more than others - and same goes for other players too - so we should rotate more where we can. 

Gerrard’s post match interview on Sky was enlightening as he openly said he’s had to ask himself questions and ask himself how he can change things. This is possibly the most important quotation I’ve heard from him. He, and we, need to be able to flex, change and learn all the time.

This has to be the start of a more positive time for us all and we have to take the positives and confidence from tonight into the next two games, and beyond to start representing ourselves more accurately. Long way to go but tonight was big. And after a few weeks of feeling dire it’s nice to feel positive about us again. Long may that continue. 

Edited September 3, 2022 by roonst83

[VillaParkAvenue]

1 hour ago, rjw63 said:

Hard grafted point.

makes you question why they couldn't do it at Bournemouth or against Wet Spam

Against them we tried to control the game but we can’t break teams down.

Villa once again performed better against the top clubs, with focus on staying tight and counter.

[Rodders]

the first game in his career where gerrard has overachieved with a result. It's only taken him 10 months. But credit for today. Pleased with the point, but without sustained improvements and consistency, it will mean **** all if we now go back to the horror shite we've put forward this season. 

[Jareth]

57 minutes ago, avfc1982am said:

 I'm grateful for the point and the players effort, but I'm not about to w*** myself silly over a draw at home ffs regardless of who it's against. 

It was Man Citeh

[WallisFrizz]

Just now, Rodders said:

Pleased with the point, but without sustained improvements and consistency, it will mean **** all if we now go back to the horror shite we've put forward this season. 

To be fair, Gerrard pretty much said this himself in his post match interview. With slightly less swearing.

[Lichfield Dean]

37 minutes ago, fightoffyour said:

I don’t think the direction the ball is played is or has ever been part of the offside rule.

Well, here is the rule:

A player is in an offside position if:

• any part of the head, body or feet is in the opponents’ half (excluding the halfway line) and
• any part of the head, body or feet is nearer to the opponents’ goal line than both the ball and the second-last opponent

https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules/laws/football-11-11/law-11---offside

 

[jim]

18 minutes ago, rbcuk said:

Let’s see how they play next weekend against Leicester and will he do his usual 3+ changes, if it wasn’t for Martinez that could have easily been 5 or 6

But it wasn’t and we SHOULD have had a perfectly good goal. 

[bannedfromHandV]

19 minutes ago, rbcuk said:

Let’s see how they play next weekend against Leicester and will he do his usual 3+ changes, if it wasn’t for Martinez that could have easily been 5 or 6

If it wasn’t for the refs it could have been 2-1 us

[fightoffyour]

7 minutes ago, Lichfield Dean said:

Well, here is the rule:

A player is in an offside position if:

• any part of the head, body or feet is in the opponents’ half (excluding the halfway line) and
• any part of the head, body or feet is nearer to the opponents’ goal line than both the ball and the second-last opponent

https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules/laws/football-11-11/law-11---offside

 

And where does it say about the direction the ball is played?

A player can be closer to the goal than the ball and the second last opponent, the ball is played backwards, the player runs back and retrieves the ball, they are offside.

[MrBlack]

1 minute ago, fightoffyour said:

And where does it say about the direction the ball is played?

A player can be closer to the goal than the ball and the second last opponent, the ball is played backwards, the player runs back and retrieves the ball, they are offside.

I always believed if it was played back that it didn't matter. But seemingly that rule suggests it is irrelevant. 

What does matter is that the 4th official didn't follow the current rulebook in regards to waiting for the end of the passage of play. Of course, it had to go against us when they did.

[Don_Simon]

2 hours ago, sheepyvillian said:

Fantastic point. Well deserved lads, you did me proud. Hopefully that can shut up the winge bags for a while.

The manager deserves credit for keeping the self - belief amongst the players, it certainly showed tonight and we got what we deserved. 

Let's take that momentum into next week. Buzzing. 

Do you think there's been nothing to "whinge" about?

[Lichfield Dean]

2 minutes ago, fightoffyour said:

And where does it say about the direction the ball is played?

A player can be closer to the goal than the ball and the second last opponent, the ball is played backwards, the player runs back and retrieves the ball, they are offside.

Well, now, that's interesting.... It does appear you could be right in the circumstance you describe, which would be the situation with Coutinho today (assuming Ramsey had touched it which he didn't). But your point does seem valid.