Ratings & Reactions: Villa v AZ Alkmaar

[limpid]

Your ratings and reactions please. Keep it respectful even if you know everyone else is wrong.

A mod will add the players to the MoTM poll later.

[rjw63]

[Tegis]

Dougie

[PieFacE]

Job done

[Mantis]

Not as easy as we'd have liked but can't complain. Another win.

[Mr_Dogg]

Too easy

[Lichfield Dean]

Slightly lucky, but a decent result. Not totally convincing performance though.

[foreveryoung]

Emery knows.

[CosmicVillan]

Not the match I was expecting but got over the line 

[Demitri_C]

Carlos motm for me. Subs changed game.

We were not good tonight but main thing is we won this game. Harsh on AZ as they played well and deserved a point.

 

[Alakagom]

Win against Legia by 2 goals and we can send under 9s to Bosnia in busy December 

[osmark86]

Wasn't too worried even at 1 down. We were the better team throughout and scoring just looked inevitable. MOTM to Digne who I thought was brilliant today. UTV!

[Demitri_C]

Also loved how calm we were in final 10 mins they didnt have a sniff

[The_Steve]

Not an easy game. But we made it harder for ourselves than it needed to be. In truth, I wasn't worried when they scored (it was offside).

Baffling refereeing tonight - denied two obvious penalties in the first half and he was allergic to booking all of the cynical fouls from AZ.

Lovely linkup between Ollie and Dougie for the winner.

 

[R.Bear]

Nothing special but the goal is to win the group and this is a big step towards doing that. But it is concerning that we've played a good 90 minutes once in four group games so far. Of course, on the flipside we've won three of them which is a big positive when not playing well.

Edited November 9, 2023 by R.Bear

[KevinRichardsonsMoustache]

Every bit of pressure from AZ today was of our own making. That’s annoying but it also shows that we’d walk games if and when we can cut this stuff out.

Doug is a class act. Ollie was quiet but took the goal well. 

[CVByrne]

Good to come back and win 

[Enda]

We were quite poor for large parts of the match, but were the better side.

Dougie's pinpoint pass won us the game.

A number of players could do with a rest. Diaby, for example, did very little.

[villa4europe]

turns out our demise was greatly exaggerated

[jim]

Result is all that counts. Digne v good again.