Ratings & Reactions: Spurs v Villa

[JAMAICAN-VILLAN]

WTF is going on???!!!

[foreveryoung]

But but, Everton are next and they have been docked 10 points don't you know. 

[Mantis]

People saying it was a smash and grab and that we were awful but that really wasn't true in the second half at all. This was a classic case of a poor start followed by the manager making changes and turning it around.

[TomC]

3 minutes ago, MWARLEY2 said:

Today has shown me that we have one weakness. One. If the oppo play full pace aggressive press our playing out from the back just doesnt work .

We'll be seeing that from City next week. I will be interested to see what Unai does tactically in that one.

 

[East London Villa]

Much more even second half, partly from us stepping up our level and partly from them tiring.

Great result and a lot for us to learn from, because we were so far off it during the first half. Teams that play with intensity really trouble us and we have to find a way to combat it.

Thought Spurs gave a very good account of themselves considering the injuries and understandably tired with lack of options on the bench.

McGinn Luiz Kamara so much better second half.

On to a big game against Legia next, win that by a couple of goals and we can rest players for Bosnia because we'll have already won the group based on head to head results. UTV

[VillaParkAvenue]

Extra super happy we managed to come back from going behind. Not scoring first has been a problem for us, brilliant if we can change that.

[romavillan]

2 minutes ago, KAZZAM said:

Big big win. UTV. 

It is isn't it? Been a long time since we've been in the top four. If we beat Bournemouth we'll be on 31 points after 14 games. Keep that pace up over a season and it's an 80pt+ season. That's incredible.

[allani]

Very good second half performance.  We had a much better balance when Tielemans went into midfield and gained the upper hand in the middle of the pitch.  The high line worked brilliantly in the second half.  It meant that the spurs midfield had no space, they kept spotting that their attackers were offside and gave the ball away a lot as a result of trying to force a pass.  Interesting that the BBC are focussing on Son having 3 goals disallowed rather than talking about how good our defenders were at continuously catching him offside.  A lot of their "big" chances came from players being offside but the linesman not flagging straight away.  Also their keeper pulled off a couple of great saves in the second half (although he got lucky that the ball bounced off the post after the Bailey shot).  Huge win that should give us a lot of confidence.

[HKP90]

5 minutes ago, Pinebro said:

I don't like to see this coming from the official account. Shows a lack of respect.

 

F*** 'em. No one ever gives us respect. The commentary I was listening to at full time spent 5 mins banging on about how spurs are actually very good. The last 10 seconds they signed off with 'oh, and well done to Aston Villa'.

 

Edit, now they are interviewing Post... and the first question was 'do you feel hard done by after 4 offside goals'. Double f*** em all.

Edited November 26, 2023 by HKP90

[It's Your Round]

5 minutes ago, Talldarkandransome said:

It's gonna be on SSN once they finish talking about Venables

A quick interview with Ollie and SJM and then straight to Dyche

[Annoyman]

I hated every second of that first half. Cash just having one of his madman games didn't help and Bentancur didn't deserve to get crocked like that

To be fair, we were always in it, and Spurs maybe didn't have the energy or the personnel to sustain that level of play into the second half, whereas our subs were fairly transformative.

Tielemans and Bailey made things gel a lot better going forward, and even if the compusure on the break still  came and went a bit, it felt like a game we were much more in control of after we went 2-1 up. Kamara also progressed the ball forward really well in tight areas at a few points. With him banned you've got to thing there'll be a starting place for Youri to figure out against Bournemouth

Watkins was there with a good bit of decisiveness and composure when it counted; Martinez sealed the defeat in our last away game and kept us the 3 points in this one. He is so, so good in those heart in mouth moments when someone has a clear sight of goal that looks nailed on.

Spare a thought for a such a dominant performance by Spurs, whose coaching and system is so airtight they can run teams like us ragged and dominate possession even with the horrific injuries they have, and also spare a second completely different thought for Spurs who were simply too tired and wracked with horrific injuries to give this game the grandstand finish of two late Spurs goals that every neutral was surely praying to the football gods for

(Spurs are a good watch and not objectionable, TV people talking about Spurs, not so much)

[Zero7]

Thought we were as bad as I’ve ever seen us first half. Got lucky today against spurs B team. They will be a force once they get their players back. 

Hopefully we strengthen in January, need a new RB and a bit of pace. 

[AvonVillain]

Cockney journo interviewing Ange on 5Live practically hugging him with sympathy right now... objective??

[El Segundo]

Unai got it wrong first half, Konsa's not a right back and Catty Mash is not a midfielder.  Fortunately he put it right second half and we looked much better with Bailey and Tielemans down our right.  Glad Diaby went off too, for me he's been mostly mediocre since September.

They were faster and stronger first half and we were very lucky to be anywhere near level at half time, but I think the intensity of their first half cost them as they looked tired after about 70 minutes and didn't have much in the way of fresh legs on the bench.  We really should have killed them off in the 70th-80th minutes but didn't make the most of some good breaks, and almost let them back into it.

Three offside goals for them - it's a heart stopper but it works.

I'd say a bit lucky to win it, but we hung in there first half and were probably the better side second half.

 

[Lerner's Driver]

Shit first half, lucky to still be in it, excellent second half and a sexy as **** result!

Welcome to Aston Villa Youri, it means more here.

Well played lads.

[turvontour]

19 minutes ago, sidcow said:

Now cue 25 minutes of why Spurz should have won. 

Sky just saying how poor Spurs were at defending our second goal.

No, it was just a really really good goal.

Edited November 26, 2023 by turvontour

[srsmithusa]

1 minute ago, El Segundo said:

Unai got it wrong first half, Konsa's not a right back and Catty Mash is not a midfielder.  Fortunately he put it right second half and we looked much better with Bailey and Tielemans down our right.  Glad Diaby went off too, for me he's been mostly mediocre since September.

They were faster and stronger first half and we were very lucky to be anywhere near level at half time, but I think the intensity of their first half cost them as they looked tired after about 70 minutes and didn't have much in the way of fresh legs on the bench.  We really should have killed them off in the 70th-80th minutes but didn't make the most of some good breaks, and almost let them back into it.

Three offside goals for them - it's a heart stopper but it works.

I'd say a bit lucky to win it, but we hung in there first half and were probably the better side second half.

 

just want to check i understand.  Unai got it wrong playing Konsa at RB becuase "Konsa's not a right back" and he put it right the second half when Konsa was still playing RB.  ?  Do I understand you correctly?

[jim]

I’ll just leave this here

[HKP90]

I would also say I'm very sorry Venebles has died. I liked him very much as a person and an England manager. 

Tottenham don't have exclusive rights to grieving. 

[allani]

3 minutes ago, Zero7 said:

Thought we were as bad as I’ve ever seen us first half. Got lucky today against spurs B team. They will be a force once they get their players back. 

Hopefully we strengthen in January, need a new RB and a bit of pace. 

Funny that our 5 missing players for almost the entirety of this season seemed to pass the commentators by today...