Ratings & Reactions: Villa v Man City

[BOF]

Get. The ****. In. As they say.

[parisvilla]

Luiz and Kamara look to be a proper partnership and enjoy playing together. Could be crucial for us. 

Young and Mings really excellent in the back 4.

Really need at least a win from the next two now. 

 

[gwi1890]

9 minutes ago, rjw63 said:

Hard grafted point.

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

Don’t know what to do with the ball

[PieFacE]

Pragmatic approach today paid off. Fully expecting us to revert to type in the next game. But credit where it's due, got it right today.

[Xela]

12 minutes ago, Jas10 said:

Criminal, corrupt league…

Some of the decisions today need investigating. 

[Aston_Villan4]

2 minutes ago, Peter Griffin said:

Rather than can't, there is no point, regardless whether it was onside or offside, once the whistle has gone a goal cannot be given

Exactly, everyone was just standing around. Frustration should be aimed at the linesman, not the ref blowing his whistle.

[Dale]

9 minutes ago, The_Steve said:

Ramsey doesn't touch it

And even if he did the ball didn't go forward in either pass, ergo cannot be offside. 

[foreveryoung]

Just now, jim said:

Well yeah.

1 draw against the worse I've seen Man City play in a good while, don't change my mind.

Let's see against Leicester and Southampton before we can judge. At the moment it's like trying again with the Ex who has made your life a misery.

[BleedClaretAndBlue]

Youngy MOTM. Dougy class, Ramsey did well but should have scored.

shame the linesman had itchy trigger finger for Coutinho goal.

Good fight, good tactics (), lets build on this. Out the bottom 3. Lets turn the season around

[TomC]

I'll take it!

Mings my MOTM...he had Halaand in his pocket. Pep clearly switched Halaand over to their left side in the second half to get him away from Mings, and it worked.

Doug and Kamara simply have to play together in midfield. That's the best midfield has looked.

Young did better than Cash, it has to be said.

Bailey hardly had any touches, but he made the big one count.

Digne was better today than he has been.

OK, now the down side. Konsa simply can't start anymore. I thought playing Konsa somewhat justified today because we needed his pace to deal with Halaand. However, when Konsa was on him, he let him drift away for the goal. Pace doesn't help if you have no idea where your mark is. He is reading the game very poorly. Konsa out.

City did have some really poor finishing in the first half that helped us, but that's football. Even they aren't invincible.

As for the offside...clearly a bad decision, but Ederson might have stopped it if the whistle hadn't gone.

EDIT: Forgot to say...the Christmas tree variation of the 4-3-3 is better than the diamond.

Edited September 3, 2022 by TomC

[CVByrne]

Gerrard in. I'll give him the two games 

 

[Aston_Villan4]

2 minutes ago, Thug said:

He doesn’t have to blow the whistle.

He has to when the flag goes up.

[IrishVilla10]

Our next 4 are all very winnable games.  3/4 wins with Gerrard and a big learning curve and improvement from the team I would take it.

[Thug]

Just now, Aston_Villan4 said:

He has to when the flag goes up.

No he doesn’t 

[The_Steve]

1 minute ago, Dale said:

And even if he did the ball didn't go forward in either pass, ergo cannot be offside. 

And Carragher said it was marginally offside - geniunely give up sometimes.

[Villan_of_oz]

If today is to be the start of some decent results then I'll happily be wrong...

[Tommo_b]

1 minute ago, foreveryoung said:

1 draw against the worse I've seen Man City play in a good while, don't change my mind.

Let's see against Leicester and Southampton before we can judge. At the moment it's like trying again with the Ex who has made your life a misery.

You thought Man City were bad today? Wow.

[nick76]

Thought we’d get smashed but we did well.  

We looked like we were going to park the bus but then grew into the game.

It wasnt City’s normal flowing performance but we can only play what’s in front of us.

Credit to Gerrard, think he should still be fired and one drop doesn’t make an ocean but he earnt his money today, so fair dues to him.

Thought Young had a really good game.  Delighted for the fans.

No surprise we got done by the officials and so be it that a goal was wrongly ruled out.

I’m a happy tonight.

[Aston_Villan4]

Robbie saying the linesman made a mistake by raising the flag. Wasn’t following the rule. Glad to see him calling it out. Need more of that in the media.

Edited September 3, 2022 by Aston_Villan4

[MasterVillan]

Hmmm…I seen the biggest improvement when young came on for Cash, which is a worry