The_Steve Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Not sure Benteke meant the elbow Could be wrong of course He looked for the defender before doing it, unfortunately. He was ball watching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samjp26 Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Lampard really isn't a word removed. Great bloke, great player. Agreed. I said today, I wanted Lamps to score, he deserves the record he has set. True professional. Genuinely seemed humbled by the applause he got as he left the pitch. Of course, I wanted us to be 2 goals up when he scored! The fact you wanted somebody to score against us is ridiculous 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacbuddies Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Lampard really isn't a word removed. Great bloke, great player. Agreed. I said today, I wanted Lamps to score, he deserves the record he has set. True professional. Genuinely seemed humbled by the applause he got as he left the pitch. Of course, I wanted us to be 2 goals up when he scored! The fact you wanted somebody to score against us is ridiculous It was inevitable that someone would score against us. We can't keep a clean sheet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Eden Hazard - 32m > Villa XI - 30m. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Eden Hazard - 32m > Villa XI - 30m. But we did have two players on the bench that cost us somewhere near 30m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 What's happened to Delph He was off the scale today Awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted May 11, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted May 11, 2013 Eden Hazard - 32m > Villa XI - 30m. Really does show the gulf doesnt it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Or a sub who came on for 5 mins who cost £50m ;-) Then again we had a sub who cost £24m who didn't get on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 If you're going to be booking players for that, you'd see 10 a game. He should have been sent off for that. Alan Shearer made a great career and won many plaudits for doing that all the time It doesn't make it right and one would hope that Lambert will have a word when the time is right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 I don't think the elbow is malicious at all If it was the other guy wouldn't have stayed on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Lions_Roar Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Thought the ref was poor for both sides. He set the tone when he booked baker after 2 mins for a grat tackle. I'll watch basketball if I want to watch a non contact sport! Hopefully it won't affect us, winning the last 2 were more important than today. All eyes on tomorrow and hoping for a couple of favours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetrees Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Setting the referee aside, who wasn't good for the game as a whole, I thought that Chelsea showed their star quality today. They needed to in order to overcome a very good Aston Villa side performing at a very high level of their abilities. A draw would have been a fair result. Next season will probably be a good one for both sides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parisvilla Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 (edited) If you're going to be booking players for that, you'd see 10 a game. He should have been sent off for that. Alan Shearer made a great career and won many plaudits for doing that all the time It doesn't make it right and one would hope that Lambert will have a word when the time is right. Sav is on MOTD tonight and will say that Benteke was unlucky to go for the second yellow but thinks the elbow was a straight red. Edited May 11, 2013 by parisvilla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Setting the referee aside, who wasn't good for the game as a whole, I thought that Chelsea showed their star quality today. They needed to in order to overcome a very good Aston Villa side performing at a very high level of their abilities. A draw would have been a fair result. Next season will probably be a good one for both sides. Nice to see you back again 'the trees.' 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 (edited) Tut tut tut, Christian you silly boy! Cost us the match there! I'll forgive him, as he's been brilliant this season. On to Tuesday night. Wait and see what happens. How the f**k did he cost us the match? Because we were all over them until he was sent off perhaps? Really! There was me thinking that they only had 10 men when Benteke got sent off! Perhaps you are suggesting that we needed the man advantage to beat them although I would remind you that we were winning when it was 11 v 11. Benteke did not cost us the game. Wake up and smell the coffee. Its looks like your eyes are just as good as mine and we can both count. Chelsea are third in the Premiership and through to a European final whereas we have flirted with relegation all season and were dumped out of both cups by lower league opposition so yes we probably did need that man advantage. I'm sure it was just coincidence that Chelsea got so much 'better; when it was 10 v 10 and then went on to win the game. Our defending let us down yet again hence their two goals but I would have put money on Beneteke scoring at least one more taking advantage of playing with more space that a ten man opposition gives you. I share your disappointment as its a game we could have won given how we played in the first half but the simple reality is the game changed as soon as Beneteke was sent off. Benteke getting sent off did not cost us the game. If you argue that it did then I will argue that the referee cost us the game by not sending John Terry off for his elbow on Weimann. You are clearly in the minority blaming Benteke and perhaps it helps you to come to terms with the defeat if you have someone to blame! Hmmm.....you might want scroll through the thread and check that point. Oh and please cut out the cheap digs too, we all support the same club here. The few posters on here who blame Benteke are hardly a representation of the Villa fan base are they! Oh, there is nothing cheap about my digs, they are all priceless! Well its a sample of views from the clubs fan base. Who knows whether its representative. As for the second I'm not sure priceless was quite the word I had in mind Overall I'm just **** pissed off we lost from a winning position yet again which is the lot of all Villa fans. Such is supporting Villa. Edited May 14, 2013 by Harry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernova26 Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Anybody who thought that elbow wasn't deliberate is wearing claret and blue tinted spectacles I'm afraid. Naughty from Tekkers that. I also thought it was a great game and the ref was dodgy for both teams. We've come a very long way since the 0-8 and boy did today show that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted May 11, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted May 11, 2013 I thought it was a great performance today. If we'd kept 11 men on the pitch we'd have won that game, and I think we'd have won it comfortably in the end. Thought the Benteke red was harsh at the time, after seeing the video I realise it was, BUT I hadn't even noticed that elbow in the game. He should have gone for that so not sure we can complain. But for the high boot incident, I don't think he can be blamed. His eye was on the ball. Certainly wasn't deliberate But that was undeniably the turning point in the game. Not so much because we went down to 10, but because after Benteke went off, we offered very little going forward. He was having one of those very good games and it cost us to have him go off. Overall I think it was a good performance, despite the result. Great atmosphere and the reception for Stan was incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 The MOTD coverage is just silly. Total Chelski love in from Motty with barely a mention on Villa. Grump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 What is this Lampard this is your life? A load of shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted May 11, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted May 11, 2013 They showed our goal, and the Terry foul that should have been a red. And EVERYTHING else was Chelsea? We had a load of chances at the start of the second half that weren't shown. And what about Westwood's shot that would have put us ahead that Cech saved? Or that deflected one that grazed the crossbar? I don't usually complain about MOTD because I feel like it's just claret and blue specs and all clubs think they're hard done by. But that was **** terrible today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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