Aston Villa (H) – Sat 11th Dec 2021 (3:00pm)

[A_S]

I'd love to see the ratio of fouls committed to time in possession over the season. 

[El Rojo]

Just now, m0e said:

Well, that wasn't fun at all. Big win.

 

Top 3 now pulling clear.

I’m back to not enjoying large parts of our games: the downside of title-winning form. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

A thoroughly detestable game and nice 3 points.

[gkmacca]

2 minutes ago, waddy78 said:

Bit off at the end, kop singing his name quick wave then off to the away end.

George Sephton wasn't playing the music he wanted. 

[Byrnie]

2 hours ago, Captain Turdseye said:

 

Hey, the mystery poster has been right every time until today. You’re Don Juan now. You better be here on Thursday. 

I've posted the line up the last 3/4 matches. All have been on the money.

 

Yours,

 

Don Juan.

[Ne Moe Imya]

It seemed scary there at the end but I don't think they had another shot after our goal, did they?

 

They did come out of their shell a bit and we should have punished them but if you look at the threat they offered over the whole game it was very, very little. Gerrard has done well there to drill them defensively but they're still a long ways off being an actual good team.

[magicrat]

2 minutes ago, El Rojo said:

They still benefited though - 4 minutes stoppage time mostly down to them, which gave them a few more half-opportunities at the end. 

We had 3 breakaways to kill it and fucked up so just us much our fault it got a bit hairy at the death.

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

3 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

Cunts on the beeb crying about their pen appeal and our winner. Go and get shagged!

Pen appeal? If they should’ve had one pen we should’ve had five.

[3 Stacks]

Just now, Ne Moe Imya said:

It seemed scary there at the end but I don't think they had another shot after our goal, did they?

 

They did come out of their shell a bit and we should have punished them but if you look at the threat they offered over the whole game it was very, very little. Gerrard has done well there to drill them defensively but they're still a long ways off being an actual good team.

They had no shots on target.

[Byrnie]

9 minutes ago, KMD7 said:

I thought it was Alan Smith? Could be wrong

Think it's Gary Breen mate.

[Caramac]

[magicrat]

Fuck knows what was up with Ali today. Hope he has got all the brainfarts out of his system. 

[Jimmy Hills Chin]

Looks like Chelsea got a really soft penalty as well as the cheating cunts up the road. This, along with refereeing like today, makes it looks like we're going to have to do it the hard way.

[TheHowieLama]

1 minute ago, 3 Stacks said:

They had no shots on target.

Yeah, there best chance of a gola today would have been keep kicking it around Alisson. Terrible stuff from the big man.

[Byrnie]

Huge 3 points, obviously. Our intensity for the first 35 minutes of the 2nd half was phenomenal. 

 

Title chases put years on you.

[KMD7]

1 minute ago, Byrnie said:

Think it's Gary Breen mate.

Must be. Was far too complimentary to us at times to be Smith. 

[gkmacca]

There should be yellow cards immediately for keepers who walk up to pen takers and defenders who try to delay the kicks. It's creeping into the game now - keepers just come out and stand there practically toe to toe with the taker and the refs ignore it. They all tried to put Mo off, good on him to ignore it (not for the first time) but it's completely out of order.

[Trumo]

A tough slog against a team that only looked to make the game bitty, and a ref who once gave a goal even though the ball had gone a foot wide of the post. We were far from our best but we persevered, no thanks to a staggering level of ineptitude from PGMOL. What are these bastards in the black going to be like over the festive period while stuffed to the gills with mince pies and Advocat (or Jon Moss the rest of the year)?

 

As for Stevie? Mate, you were in Liverpool teams who came up against this sort of shit at least half a dozen times in the league. We used to see this regularly against the likes of Stoke, Bolton and anyone managed by the LMA Massive. I bet you were frustrated beyond belief and didn't think those sides were worth a point (or more) on the day, so DO NOT go thinking your team's approach and the referee's ineptitude should have seen you earn a point (or more) either. Fuck that small-minded mentality off sharpish if you harbour serious ambitions of managing the mighty Reds.

[Sweeney287]

That was rediculously nervewracking 

 

Stevie knew that if he brought villa and went toe to toe they'd get mullered, as would he by the villa fans, so he done what most managers have to do. 

 

Would like to think that, with a couple of transfer windows behind him, he can show what his vision of a team playing football is and hopefully it wasn't what we just witnessed. 

 

I haven't seen any clear replays but wonder how close Ali was to fouling Ingrave if we got away with one. 

[niallers]

All 3 top teams won with penalties today which will fuel the rest of the league's conspiracy theories of the big clubs getting help. Ours was a penalty, city's wasn't and i presume Chelseas 2 weren't either. Cheating cunts all

[El Rojo]

Villa’s set-up was very 2004-2007 Benitez/Mourinho. Generally, you can’t prosper playing football like that any more. Brighton and Brentford are playing more expansive football with a lot less resources. Both of them have really put us through the wringer too by standing up and having a go at us. 

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

1 minute ago, Jimmy Hills Chin said:

Looks like Chelsea got a really soft penalty as well as the cheating cunts up the road. This, along with refereeing like today, makes it looks like we're going to have to do it the hard way.

Dive by Rudiger for the second penalty. Same player probably dived for the first one as well, but that one did  look correct.

[Anubis]

Just knew that the more Beglin heaped praise on Mings, the more Mings was going to royally fuck it up. He does it every time. Makes a few good blocks, everyone goes overboard, and next minute he’s looking like the kid who’s just broken another school window.

 

Oh yeah, and Ashley Young is one cheating, shithouse, wankstain. Made up at the thought of him moaning his way back to Villa Park. I hope there is a massive traffic jam on the M6.

[3 Stacks]

4 minutes ago, magicrat said:

Fuck knows what was up with Ali today. Hope he has got all the brainfarts out of his system. 

He was slipping all over the place.

 

The one where he boots it off Matip, though, Ings pushes Matip into him. 

[El Rojo]

4 minutes ago, gkmacca said:

There should be yellow cards immediately for keepers who walk up to pen takers and defenders who try to delay the kicks. It's creeping into the game now - keepers just come out and stand there practically toe to toe with the taker and the refs ignore it. They all tried to put Mo off, good on him to ignore it (not for the first time) but it's completely out of order.

True, but I did enjoy Martinez’s antics when Manchester United had an injury time penalty against them.