Aston Villa v Leicester City Post Match Thread

[PeterWithesShin]

They're from Leicestershire, it's a given they'll be weird coming from that backwater shithole. Everyone from there is.

[PeterWithe]

Was this some kind of special occasion or day out for Leicester? they seemed to have far more, very pissed, very gobby wannabe hardmen in the coach park than I’ve ever noticed before?

I forgot my sons coat so went to the club shop to pick something up and did notice there was a lot of them barely old enough to drink and not currently shaving that were getting the badge in. They even had a song about us and our silverware.

Yes they were singing that and one about our city being blue, I nearly died of shame when I realised the truth they spoke.

Kind of heartwarming how even Midlands teams we don’t even think about measure themselves against us.

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Was this some kind of special occasion or day out for Leicester? they seemed to have far more, very pissed, very gobby wannabe hardmen in the coach park than I’ve ever noticed before?

I forgot my sons coat so went to the club shop to pick something up and did notice there was a lot of them barely old enough to drink and not currently shaving that were getting the badge in. They even had a song about us and our silverware.

Yes they were singing that and one about our city being blue, I nearly died of shame when I realised the truth they spoke.

Kind of heartwarming how even Midlands teams we don’t even think about measure themselves against us.

Yes sadly they are correct broadly in their calculations!

Maybe that could be the new motto instead of Prepared?

"Aston Villa: the yardstick for shit, small clubs in the Midlands since 1874"

[Footy-Vill]

It was a basketball style game because both midfields allowed the other team to play.

Leicester did press though high up the pitch hence the errors

I don’t care about Leicester but I do worry that we don’t have the personnel to press, particularly in midfield, so that good teams ( and Leicester have clever forward players) can exploit us.

Kamara, Luiz and Ramsey all have their qualities but pressing isn’t one of them.

Letting teams play will kill you.

I always say it's like a 5 a side or 7 a side football game because basketball is a totally different sport from football and not all football fans are familiar with its game style. Fortunately, though I'm a big NBA fan and a decent basketball player myself. One thing though I've never understood why this term is used here and in UK commentary when talking about football as if it were basketball games even though the scoring and the number of points awarded are very different and men's football players aren't all 6 feet 3 or taller. I can only conclude that if a game is relatively 'high scoring' and end to end and why people use this term.

Five aside or seven aside is apt as scores there are open as is junior level football. Fascinating really how people see things. Anyway I depart these internet shores as away from midday and will hope to be in line for next Sunday when we beat Man City if my theory is proved correct. Best wishes and no offences as get its an example that I don't comprehend due to my level of understanding of both sports.

Yours intriguingly Footy.
And up the villa!

[Mister E]

Every forward misses chances. Watching back the highlights here, Bailey's miss at start of second half was arguably worse. Watkins had a very good game today.

You're right. The one Watkins nearly got to in the first half came through a bunch of players at warp factor 8; many top class strikers would have failed to get on the end of it.
Bailey is the weak link, accentuated by the great game Tete had.

[AlexAlexCropley]

That Tete seems to have a good head on him

[Percy McCarthy]

It was a basketball style game because both midfields allowed the other team to play.

Leicester did press though high up the pitch hence the errors

I don’t care about Leicester but I do worry that we don’t have the personnel to press, particularly in midfield, so that good teams ( and Leicester have clever forward players) can exploit us.

Kamara, Luiz and Ramsey all have their qualities but pressing isn’t one of them.

Letting teams play will kill you.

I always say it's like a 5 a side or 7 a side football game because basketball is a totally different sport from football and not all football fans are familiar with its game style. Fortunately, though I'm a big NBA fan and a decent basketball player myself. One thing though I've never understood why this term is used here and in UK commentary when talking about football as if it were basketball games even though the scoring and the number of points awarded are very different and men's football players aren't all 6 feet 3 or taller. I can only conclude that if a game is relatively 'high scoring' and end to end and why people use this term.

Five aside or seven aside is apt as scores there are open as is junior level football. Fascinating really how people see things. Anyway I depart these internet shores as away from midday and will hope to be in line for next Sunday when we beat Man City if my theory is proved correct. Best wishes and no offences as get its an example that I don't comprehend due to my level of understanding of both sports.

Yours intriguingly Footy.
And up the villa!

It means end to end with both teams looking dangerous when they attack. For someone who sees things that aren’t there and posts like the Wizard of Oz talking to a load of simpletons you don’t half struggle with the simple stuff. Look up Dunning-Kruger effect.

[martyn ellis]

Was at the game (thank God for 3pm KOs now and again), have seen the highlights, have read this thread and have to say that (obviously apart from the loss), it was a decent game to watch with even the revered Lineker mentioning on MOTD that Villa played very well. How we managed to lose that is beyond me. Even with Kamara in a tight spot, he still had chance to clear instead of fannying about in the area, and, although not mentioned on here (?), watching live and then on the highlights, he was definitely clipped in the lead up to their 3rd. Ref played on because K took a while to go down but it was the result of the 'foul'. Some good performances, especially from Ollie and I felt for him as he failed to put away what looked like a sitter which would have made it 3-1. Bailey was OK first half but needs to re-learn how to beat a man. Even Coutinho, who many have given up on, injected invention and some positive accurate passing when he came on. Buendia had one of his better games and when many refs would have stopped the game for a head injury as he was clattered near the Holte, he played on and that led directly to their second goal. Overall I like the 'process' of our developing style even if the execution lets us down at times, but surely that will come. We've played a lot worse and won this season.

[kippaxvilla2]

Didn’t we need a winger according to Emery?  Why not that Tete?

[tomd2103]

Was this some kind of special occasion or day out for Leicester? they seemed to have far more, very pissed, very gobby wannabe hardmen in the coach park than I’ve ever noticed before?

They've been like that when they have come to Villa Park for a few seasons now.  We gifted them a win yesterday, but I thought they were pretty poor on the whole and will be in trouble next season when Maddison and Barnes leave in the summer. 

[JUAN PABLO]

Was this some kind of special occasion or day out for Leicester? they seemed to have far more, very pissed, very gobby wannabe hardmen in the coach park than I’ve ever noticed before?

They've been like that when they have come to Villa Park for a few seasons now.  We gifted them a win yesterday, but I thought they were pretty poor on the whole and will be in trouble next season when Maddison and Barnes leave in the summer. 

And that Tielmans

[Clampy]

Out of interest, what's this sitter that Watkins is supposed to have missed?

[Pete3206]

First half when he was right in front of the goal.

[mrfuse]

The "we should have bought a proven Striker" comment every time Watkins misses a chance is already getting on my nerves. Who was this proven striker that always scores that was available at a decent price?

I thought Ollie Watkins had a decent game and the blame wasn't with him for us loosing the match. The chance where he got it caught up in his feet, I thought the keepers touch was enough to stop it becoming a tap in.

The other big talking point is obviously the playing out from the back. This is not going to change its Emery's way and rightly so, we just have to get better at it. In this match one of our best players this season Kamara was to blame for not playing out from the back correctly and if he isint good enough then I don't know who is. Yes he made a massive mistake but he is good enough to improve and he had an uncharacteristically bad day.

Just on Kamara did he not get tripped for Leicesters 3rd goal? He could have been stronger but I've seen it a few times and it does look like a foul.

We are going to loose matches and today was one of those games where we shot ourselves in the foot. Its disappointing because a win would have taken us up a few places but I cant say im fuming with the loss which was the often the case when Gerrard was in charge.

[Clampy]

First half when he was right in front of the goal.

Was that when the cross came in at 100mph which he could not reach? That's the only one I can think of in the first half.