RB Leipzig vs Aston Villa post match thread.

[Dante Lavelli]

Was it 3 at the back with cash as RWB or a straight swap for Bailey?

[paul_e]

Was it 3 at the back with cash as RWB or a straight swap for Bailey?

Straight swap, Cash was way too far forward to be playing a wing back (and he really enjoyed himself).

[Witton Warrior]

Felt like we scored all 5 goals! That was great fun. I think Jhon's goal stunned everyone as there was a muted response of disbelief. Keep winning Villa

[VillaTim]

Duran MOTM for me , his input won the game . Rogers a close second

[garyellis]

Overall standard of play was very good. I think we’re only 3-4 players away from having a very good defence.

And you know that’s just bollocks

[Smithy]

I still think we need a minumum of four points for top eight.

A think it’s only 3 points needed because some of the teams who could theoretically finish ahead of us with two/three wins have to play each other, so they can’t “all” finish ahead of us if we win another game.

That’s not me, I saw someone say something along those lines on social media.

[Chip Butty 111]

Kamara looking majestic, McGrathesque, doing all the bits and pieces without any drama, knitting it all together. Boy we have missed him..

[pauliewalnuts]

Overall standard of play was very good. I think we’re only 3-4 players away from having a very good defence.

And you know that’s just bollocks

Christ, Gary, cheer up and stop cruising the thread looking for someone who isn’t happy enough for you.

We won, you know.

[Somniloquism]

Looks like Ads took a tumble.

[pauliewalnuts]

Kamara looking majestic, McGrathesque, doing all the bits and pieces without any drama, knitting it all together. Boy we have missed him..

He’s an absolutely top quality player.

[Mister E]

There will obviously be a lot of moaning but I thought we played really well other than a few brain farts. I think a big part of the problem is that we're just fucking around with the defence too much. I reckon we need to pick 2 'sets' of 4 and just start one or the other as a unit until we start seeing a bit more cohesion because today was simple communication errors that shouldn't happen.

The Duran/Watkins debate is going to keep on all season but I think we saw the good and bad of both of them today. Watkins ran them ragged first half, got an assist, could've had a couple more, had one disallowed and missed a couple of half chances where he needed to be a bit more alert. Duran scored from nothing, had one disallowed but then was pretty anonymous other than missing a half chance of his own. They're both superb strikers and if we can keep them both happy for another 18months we'll have done really well.

Tielemans needs a break, I hope Onana is fit enough to give him one for a few games over Christmas.

Good summary, Paul.

[Meanwood Villa]

Funny old game. Early goals in both halves followed by utter dominance. Give away a stupid goal against the run of play and fizzle out. Thankfully we had the Barkley bonus in the second half.

Given we couldn't buy a win for a good few weeks, three in a row is not to be sniffed at. Champions' League table looking good tonight.

[Mister E]

Overall standard of play was very good. I think we’re only 3-4 players away from having a very good defence.

that's a great pisstake comment ... 😁

[Meanwood Villa]

I still think we need a minumum of four points for top eight.

A think it’s only 3 points needed because some of the teams who could theoretically finish ahead of us with two/three wins have to play each other, so they can’t “all” finish ahead of us if we win another game.

That’s not me, I saw someone say something along those lines on social media.

By way of example, four of the five teams who could overtake us this week play each other.

[PaulWinch again]

A lot of the football was very slick tonight.