Ratings & Reactions: Villa v Leeds

[Talldarkandransome]

4 hours ago, brummybloke said:

In tenerife celebrating / commiserating my 50th birthday, managed to watch 1st half on my phone and 2nd half in a bar.

Great birthday present from the club, 3 points

Performance not ideal but who cares we got the 3 points.

 

 

Thats what happens when you get to 50

[Lerner's Driver]

5 hours ago, Philosopher said:

Loads of misplaced passes, lack of understanding with teammates, not one dribble, defended okay, but clearly needs time to properly integrate, and  get used to the pace.

Some of what you say was true for the first 20 minutes, but after that, he made a goal saving clearance and almost scored after a marauding run, so plenty of pace. Plus, he came on earlier than intended due to an injury and only joined the club this week, so any lack of chemistry with his teammates is not his fault. I'd say you need to change your specs, mate 

[delboy54]

We should do what Chelsea and man city do, and put in an offer for a player in a struggling premier league team near the bottom.... buy their best player.

Put in an offer for this latest wonder kid Gnonto ....

[rodders0223]

Moreno had a bad 15. Horrible team to come in cold against after 10 to make  debut in a new league. Leeds are shit but they're absolute dogs who can just run and run and run.

I thought Moreno was in for a torrid.

It was a brilliant display of , more than  anything, character.

He grew into the game. He was brave. Showed some quality. Showed loads of positivity to drive forward and wasn't hiding or shying away, in trying to win the ball( got caught once or twice)

 

 I'm not saying he's the new Bouma, I'm not doing that annoying thing Villa fans do when a new signing makes a debut and looks for positives that weren't there...but that was about as  positive debut as you can get in the circumstances.

[Brumstopdogs]

8 hours ago, Mantis said:

Wasn't a great performance but we seem to have a steely grit that we didn't have before. To be fair Leeds played well and it was a very bitty game that could've easily gone against us.

Oh yeah and

 

[CLARETANDBLUEFOXY]

We didn’t really deserve to win for most of that, but that’s what successful teams do- grind out results again the odds. Delighted with this although slightly annoyed Spamford got his usual  goal against us. 

Edited January 14, 2023 by CLARETANDBLUEFOXY

[Brumstopdogs]

Although the overall performance wasn't great we were much improved in the second half and the players were fully committed.

For those claiming we were a bit lucky remember the reverse game at Elland Road earlier in the season (finished 0-0) where we got just 1 point but we deserved 3 (we had 19 shots to Leeds 7 on that occasion).

Swings and roundabouts and all that....

 

 

Edited January 14, 2023 by Brumstopdogs

[Wurzel]

8 hours ago, smg said:

That may be true but sadly it takes time and patience, sadly Villa fans don’t have that and therefore are going to be disappointed.

I can see no reason why one can't be replaced in the summer, I would start with Konsa. We have Carlos coming back and if he's upto it after injury then Mings would make a fine backup.

[Herman22]

I always find it interesting to see who people choose for MOTM. I went with Young for three reasons. His calm pass out of defense really set the first goal off. Amazing tackle before our second goal and he was up against their best player and kept him relatively quiet. 

But Martinez and Bouba are equally good shouts. 

[Tommo_b]

37 minutes ago, Wurzel said:

I can see no reason why one can't be replaced in the summer, I would start with Konsa. We have Carlos coming back and if he's upto it after injury then Mings would make a fine backup.

Why Konsa over Mings? From what I observe Mings is the better of the two all round. 

[duke313]

1 hour ago, CLARETANDBLUEFOXY said:

We didn’t really deserve to win for most of that, but that’s what successful teams do- grind out results again the odds. Delighted with this although slightly annoyed Spamford got his usual  goal against us. 

Martinez kept us in it. On another day we could easily draw or lose that 3-2. We were poor for most of the game, can’t keep riding our luck. 

[Nigel]

We did to Leeds last night what the better teams have been doing to us for years, found a way to win.

For an hour, right up untill the second goal, we couldnt get out of our half. To have won that could be transformative for the mindset of the team, and definitely the tonic we needed after midweek.

This isnt the villa we are used to.

Kamara was the difference for me, such a quality player, always in the right place at the right time.

The other was Martinez, he just calms the entire back line down with his presence. Hes also perfect in a backs to the wall game with his gamesmanship, god you would hate him if you were the opposition.

On a side note, just how the Leeds fans can boo their manager after that performance was weird.

[Wurzel]

7 minutes ago, Tommo_b said:

Why Konsa over Mings? From what I observe Mings is the better of the two all round. 

Sorry, I agree I mean Konsa should be replaced first.

[Wurzel]

6 minutes ago, Nigel said:

We did to Leeds last night what the better teams have been doing to us for years, found a way to win.

For an hour, right up untill the second goal, we couldnt get out of our half. To have won that could be transformative for the mindset of the team, and definitely the tonic we needed after midweek.

This isnt the villa we are used to.

Kamara was the difference for me, such a quality player, always in the right place at the right time.

The other was Martinez, he just calms the entire back line down with his presence. Hes also perfect in a backs to the wall game with his gamesmanship, god you would hate him if you were the opposition.

On a side note, just how the Leeds fans can boo their manager after that performance was weird.

On the Leeds manager and booing, I think I read last night that they have two wins in , I presume, 17 away games. Leeds twitter is full of people wanted him sacked.

[Nigel]

12 hours ago, Delphinho123 said:

 

The only positive is..we won! But we’ve been outplayed now by Stevenage, Wolves and Leeds for large parts of games and that will concern Emery. 

 

Yet we are 4th in the form table, with 4 wins and a draw from the last 6.

[Delphinho123]

8 minutes ago, Nigel said:

Yet we are 4th in the form table, with 4 wins and a draw from the last 6.

Yeh. Unbelievable really. 

[NurembergVillan]

37 minutes ago, Wurzel said:

On the Leeds manager and booing, I think I read last night that they have two wins in , I presume, 17 away games. Leeds twitter is full of people wanted him sacked.

I think it's 2 wins in 17 - not just away matches.

In isolation they were unlucky last night, but at what point does it stop being about luck?

[tinker]

Leeds goal, for the pass out of defense to Neville's 'next pele'  Bamford was 2 yards offside, I know we have first and second phases of play when it suits but the whole offside confusion is still an issue. 

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxVLDiEP1hetIoMygSuVUoEVzzQQqMU1gJ

Edited January 14, 2023 by tinker

[fightoffyour]

11 hours ago, smg said:

It’s probably an age thing but I can’t get on board with ‘shithousery’ it’s f*****g cheating. If we need to run the clock down keep possession in safe areas use your skills/ brains but we as a team are becoming an embarrassment at the moment by adopting these tactics.

 

11 hours ago, Johnnyp said:

I thought it looked quite poor from us. Like i said earlier, it’s not something id want us to incorporate in our game consistently. We were deliberately keeping the ball out of play at times - huge chunks of time. I don’t like it. Running the ball into corners is completely different, balls in play - tough shit if you can’t get it off us. What we did tonight was unsporting. Look, we won and i never seen us do it to that scale before and hope not to again. 

Agree and disagree.

Agree in the sense that shithousery and time wasting is annoying as ****, it should have no place in football anymore, and can easily be eradicated instantly just by introducing a stoped clock.

Disagree in that while the rules are what they are, we have to play them to our advantage like all of the other top teams do.

[fightoffyour]

54 minutes ago, Wurzel said:

On the Leeds manager and booing, I think I read last night that they have two wins in , I presume, 17 away games. Leeds twitter is full of people wanted him sacked.

Sounds like a good return for Leeds, they should be grateful.