Ratings & Reactions: Villa v Spurs

[TheMelvillan]

Ah what a brilliant performance

i swear mcginn was actively taking the piss most of the game. Supreme performance from probably the cheapest bought player on the pitch

As for grumbles, the one that had me most irate was when mcginn and son went shoulder to shoulder after buendia getting his Achilles raked and son getting the decision. I was incensed!

[WHY]

6 minutes ago, Powehi said:

I like a moan as much as the next person but page 1 of the post-match thread where we've won and gone joint 6th being all about the consolation pen shows it might be going a bit far.

Could cost up Europe, that’s why fans are rightly annoyed!

[Powehi]

5 minutes ago, WHY said:

Could cost up Europe, that’s why fans are rightly annoyed!

Right, not the 10-odd game headstart we gave other teams due to the Scouse chancer. Got ya

[DJBOB]

Takes a lot of cojones to coach the team to play that high of an offside trap.

This guy really knows his stuff. Suffocated Tottenham for 80 minutes then took Ollie off and said good luck trying to score against this. 

[TheMelvillan]

Just to clear it up and stop the debate, king unai just said in his interview that it wasn’t a penalty so we will hear no more on the matter

[TheMightyVillans]

Surely the best display of a team using a high line all season? Seeing son's reaction for being offside for like the 6th time just before the final whistle was beautiful.

[villarule123]

Best offside trap I've ever seen live at VP. It was insane 

[SuperTed]

58 minutes ago, smg said:

Only read the first page but it seems these days we concentrate more on the officials performance than the teams performance.

Don’t get me wrong I’m chuffed to bits but it’s infuriating that we’re trying, against all odds a few months back, to break into Europe and yet beating a team comfortably isn’t enough when the officials are so dire. 

[TheMightyVillans]

Emery said he believes it wasn't a penalty.

[WHY]

12 minutes ago, Powehi said:

Right, not the 10-odd game headstart we gave other teams due to the Scouse chancer. Got ya

It’s the here and present that counts. Not really sure why a Villa fan would have a problem with other fans thinking the ref was shite, which he was, odd.

[sharkyvilla]

A mention for how dull the commentary team was today as well.  Almost had me longing for Gary Birtles, even if just to hear him explode over the late offside flagging.

[Wainy316]

Offside Hotspur

[Powehi]

1 minute ago, WHY said:

It’s the here and present that counts. Not really sure why a Villa fan would have a problem with other fans thinking the ref was shite, which he was, odd.

I don't have a problem with it, I made an additional observation to the original post stating that we spend more time analysing the ref's performance than our own.  

Have a good weekend, enjoy the win. UTV

[fightoffyour]

34 minutes ago, Powehi said:

I like a moan as much as the next person but page 1 of the post-match thread where we've won and gone joint 6th being all about the consolation pen shows it might be going a bit far.

It wasn’t just a consolation penalty though. It’s caused undue stress and resulted in us talking about it rather than enjoying a comfortable 2 or 3 nil result that the performance warranted. That’s why it’s infuriating. Not to mention that European qualification could well hinge on that goal.

I wish I was in here waxing lyrical about another total football performance by a team who look every part champions league contenders, but I’m not, I'm pissed off at a kane and the officials yet again - when as you said I should be happy. That’s the problem.

Edited May 13, 2023 by fightoffyour

[AVTuco]

53 minutes ago, Powehi said:

It is becoming a bit of an obsession on here.

It is.

[villa4europe]

Its an obsession because they're absolutely **** wank every week

[OutByEaster?]

It'd be easy to get caught up in how that game ended, in how teams get a chance to score in the eighth minute of six added minutes, or how the England Captain can have a penalty because he's famous and eight referee's all agree that he's famous, or to be sidetracked by a preposterous offside rule that means it's only offside if Spurs don't score and where the flag was raised against Bailey on 55 minutes for an offside that probably happened in the first half, or to be distracted by the infernal heat and how two hours in the Lower Ellis has left me looking like a half cooked sausage, but we shouldn't, we'd be missing the big point.

Aston Villa were much, much better than Tottenham Hotspur today, and indeed we were much better than Newcastle a couple of weeks ago, we were better than Chelsea at their ground before that - in fact, we're a very, very good football team - and it might just be starting to matter again.

We're organised, we're talented, we're together, we have a plan and we have players who know their roles in it - we utterly dominated that first half - Spurs didn't have a single shot (other than when they were offside but still waiting to be offside) and we created half a dozen chances and three or four really big ones. It looked like one of those games where Man City play someone midtable - a Palace or a Brentford or some-such. They were a mile off us, as a team, and individually - with the exception of the big cheat up front, how many other Spurs players would get into our line up? One? Maybe?

I don't know how it happened, but we're good - and not just good, at times we're beautiful, we play quick, incisive attacking football and slow controlled build up football and we switch from one to the other seemingly at will. Every player played well today - I thought in the first half McGinn in particular was sensational, and in the second, Mings and Konsa did really well - defensively it sometimes looks like we're giving up huge chances, but they're almost always offside and we're learning to play our high line, very, very well.

This manager of ours is a genius - he's making decent players into a tremendous team and he's going to get better players. I saw Wes Edens with Nicola Ibbetson, Paul Tyrell and Chris Heck pre-game, touring the shop and the Academy building - the support is there, we have ambitious, engaged owners and a manager who acts as the right conduit to turn that into results.

We might make Europe this season, we might not, but this is a season where we've become something we weren't last season and haven't been for a long time, a serious football club that is going to be involved at the right end of the table in seasons to come. 

So yeah, up yours dirty Harry and up yours to the PGMOL, but mostly, up yours to Tottenham - I don't think they realised, but we didn't just beat them 2-1 today, we beat the big six, it's dead, we're better than Spurs, Newcastle are too, it's over. The idea that the same teams compete for the big things at the top in perpetuity is done.

I loved today, I can't believe I've ended up needing an ambulance on standby at the end given how much we've dominated, but I think we have to recognise this one as something important, more important than the daft refereeing, more important even than drawing level with Spurs in the race for Europe - this game was a seismic event, English football is changing and this  might be one of those games we look back on as vital in its reconstruction.

Onwards and upwards, we dared; we dream.

 

[Powehi]

6 minutes ago, fightoffyour said:

It wasn’t just a consolation penalty though. It’s caused undue stress and resulted in us talking about it rather than enjoying a comfortable 2 or 3 nil result that the performance warranted. That’s why it’s infuriating. Not to mention that European qualification could well hinge on that goal.

I wish I was in here waxing lyrical about another total football performance by a team who look every part champions league contenders, but I’m not, I'm pissed off at a kane and the officials yet again - when as you said I should be happy. That’s the problem.

Sure. I'm going to enjoy a decent performance and win against a lacklustre Spurs where we're now extremely likely to have Europe in our own hands at home on the last day. You can watch the VAR slo-mo replay again and call the ref a clearing in the woods. UTV

[Nigel]

How can it take 6 minutes to find a decision a clear and obvious error?

[Villarocker]

22 minutes ago, TheMightyVillans said:

Surely the best display of a team using a high line all season? Seeing son's reaction for being offside for like the 6th time just before the final whistle was beautiful.

Son must be on his way back to London on the coach tonight feeling like he should be on the train. The guy was literally offside all afternoon.