Ratings & Reactions: Southampton v Villa

[Lerner's Driver]

He's working miracles. 

Delighted for Olly.

 

[Daweii]

It wasn't pretty at times, but good teams win no matter what and we're starting to do that. Fantastic 3 points. 

[JAMAICAN-VILLAN]

Edited January 21, 2023 by JAMAICAN-VILLAN

[MachoFantastico]

Not the best performance, but it's still an important three points. Emi superb yet again. Some nice spells of passing to, but I think we need more firepower up front especially with Ings gone. 

[pete101]

Just now, MotoMkali said:

Was definitely a foul. Var made it look less serious. Ramsey got caught in his ankle and big shove in the back from a big bastard. He was in position to clear the ball without the shove. 

Need to look at it again so later, thought it was for the shove

[Zhan_Zhuang]

Good game.

Interesting to see the evolution of the team; mentally stronger with almost a swagger in phases.

I gave it to Watkins as I thought he finished well for the goal, held up play intelligently and worked very hard (as always).

Kamara, Luiz, Martinez also played very well.

[KAZZAM]

20 fouls 1 yellow they got. Foul foul foul. 

Didn't play well tbh but still won. 

[It's Your Round]

Decent win, we controlled the game and rode our luck at times. Sloppy in front of goal but we at least created chances. I no longer have that feeling that we’ll definitely concede in the last 10 minutes. 

3 points off BHA in sixth…

All hail Sir Emery! 

[Mantis]

Does Emery ever get tired of winning?

[Sulberto21]

Just now, Vive_La_Villa said:

I think we made hard work of that. Were in control and on top enough to win comfortably. VAR also let us off too as was never a foul.  
 

Can see the confidence of the players growing though. So great passing at times. 
 

Another 3 points. This is starting to feel weird. 

Blatant push in the back - a foul is a foul. We should have had a penalty too .

overall Easy win although one or two sloppy moments and we need to be sharper with our chances. Glad Ollie scored. 

[avfc1982am]

Nearly double the possession, double the pass rate, a win, away from home. Boom!!! 

 

[Villaphan04]

if we had Unai from the beginning of the season we'd be comfortably in a top 4 battle

[sne]

Swedish commentator finally picks up on Elyounoussi stepping on the heel of the Villa player is the reason the goal was disallowed and not the arm in the back. Only took him 25 replays to do so. Well done buddy.

[Condimentalist]

Great win that

[UpTheVilla26]

Thought we controlled the game. 

They had a couple of chances but on the whole we kept the ball and some really nice build up play, just lacking the final ball. 

Wins like that are the hallmark of good teams. I like it. 

[Lord Willard]

Gave Watkins MOTM. 

Shout-out to Martinez. 

Luiz and Karmara are just phenomenal.

Ramsey getting back into the team is what we needed. 

Baileys position is under massive threat. He is our weak link 

[Brumstopdogs]

 

[MotoMkali]

1 minute ago, pete101 said:

Need to look at it again so later, thought it was for the shove

It was both. In slowmo looks like barely made contact but he had quite a lot of momentum and Ramsey goes with it.

[IrishVilla10]

[Talldarkandransome]

5 points ahead of Palace, and 5 off 5th. Pretty good considering where we were. 

Winning ugly is just as good as winning pretty