Aston Villa Reserves v Forest Post-Match Thread

[Somniloquism]

They're no worse/better than us at it. All teams just do these things when it's required. One advantage Newcastle won't have when they come to VP is a 50,000 screaming fans who can influence the officials as in the case of Durans sending off. The crowd went ballistic and several players ran over, including the keeper flapping their arms around and the ref bottled it and sent him off because Scharr was holding himself "down there" which he definitely wasn't and no one including VAR thought he was. All that was a clear tactic to get at Duran due to his volatility. Hopefully Unai will use the video of that incident to get the players even more up for it than they would normally be. We owe 'em one.

TBF to Scharr, he wasn't holding "between his legs", but the back of his thigh where Duran's left foot/studs made contact which is what stopped him avoiding the foot down the back. That can be a sensitive place so probably more painful then the lower back. However THAT shouldn't have been what made up the refs mind being as two different officials on the field were saying reckless (yellow) / accidental to the ref and his red decision stemmed solely from the players hand not being on his back.

[Dave]

A bit of butterfly effect that just occured to me - Alex Moreno could end up being massive for our season.

If we hadn't loaned him to Forest, Forest would probably have got a difference reserve right-back, who would have played on Saturday. Their manager therefore wouldn't have needed to go with that terrible back five that we kept walking through.

Good work Alex.

[Sexual Ealing]

Ah, but he's a left-back Dave, which renders everything you've ever posted totally redundant, you fraud!

[Dave]

Yeah, I've never been any good at remembering right and left.

[Martyn Smith]

Some of the comments on here make me wonder about what people expect from a football match. The team who are currently 3rd and look odds on to qualify for the CL gave us a hard game at times and looked strong and threatening. No shit

[Hookeysmith]

Martinez booked last 2 games now , he's on 4.
Is he one off a ban ?

No worries if he gets banned as we have the outstanding Olsen as back up.

Just not against Palace!!

[Drummond]

Yeah, I've never been any good at remembering right and left.

Try doing it left and right, you'll fare much better.