Aston Villa Post Match Thoughts

[CAMiller]

Did anyone ever mention a roller coaster? Disappointing to lose from a winning position at half time but we are still in there competing toe to toe against the top teams and with a fighting chance of survival after tonight's results turned in our favour (although the last gasp equaliser for Reading was a blow). Just 5 more cup finals and 5 more heart attacks to stave off

Thoughts?

[caytonmiller]

Bowlax 😣😥😪🤮

[Back of the net]

Did better against 11 men.
The penalty they got changed the momentum and we couldn’t recover.
Hope I’m wrong but I think that’s us down.

[Brin]

I'm so incensed with Ajayi's inept performance tonight, that's two s.hite performances back to back, and what does Warne see in Newell to play him like he does?

I'm posting tomorrow when I've calmed down......I AM SO PISSED OFF WITH THAT SECOND HALF PERFORMANCE!

TALK ABOUT THROW A GAME AWAY!!!!!

[the_idiotb_stardson]

Doff your cap to Aston Villa, a superb club, with a real soul, magnificent supporters and a team timing their end of season run in to perfection.

Just how good were they in game management? They closed down the game completely in the last 15 minutes and we didn't get a sniff.

My only complaint is that we didn't bring Williams on earlier although.


We gave everything , they were just better.

[frogmiller]

Doff your cap to Aston Villa, a superb club, with a real soul, magnificent supporters and a team timing their end of season run in to perfection.

Just how good were they in game management? They closed down the game completely in the last 15 minutes and we didn't get a sniff.

My only complaint is that we didn't bring Williams on earlier although.


We gave everything , they were just better.

You're right IBS. There class on the pitch the second half was there for everyone to see. We couldn't use the extra man advantage work because they were just too good.

Although, we should have ad a penalty in the second half, McGinn although played well was given the freedom to back into players and then throw himself on the floor without it being a foul. He did it once so much that he backed away from the ball 2 yards, one of our players said thank you, took the ball only for the referee to give a free kick.
Grealish was a pleasure to watch in the second half, he deservse to be at a higher level but why oh why does he need to try and get players booked and sent off?
The referee in the first half was brilliant but in the second half he got conned quite a bit. Easier to see on the replays than being at the match I suppose.
Dean Smith was in the ear of the fourth official for most of the first half but hardly at all in the second! The cameras were filming him constantly whilst doing it and if it wasn't him it was John Terry. I don't want to think that this type of behavior would effect the way the officials preform but it did seem to last nght.

I've seen where people are saying that we were bad in the second half. We weren't as good as the first half but they were much better with 10 men than we were with 11.

We can hld our heads up and be proud that we're Millers. We've been looking for 3 teams worse than us this season and we can honestly say that there are! Unfortunately they have more points than us but it's not over yet!

Believe!

[ragingpup]

You're right IBS. There class on the pitch the second half was there for everyone to see. We couldn't use the extra man advantage work because they were just too good.

Although, we should have ad a penalty in the second half, McGinn although played well was given the freedom to back into players and then throw himself on the floor without it being a foul. He did it once so much that he backed away from the ball 2 yards, one of our players said thank you, took the ball only for the referee to give a free kick.
Grealish was a pleasure to watch in the second half, he deservse to be at a higher level but why oh why does he need to try and get players booked and sent off?
The referee in the first half was brilliant but in the second half he got conned quite a bit. Easier to see on the replays than being at the match I suppose.
Dean Smith was in the ear of the fourth official for most of the first half but hardly at all in the second! The cameras were filming him constantly whilst doing it and if it wasn't him it was John Terry. I don't want to think that this type of behavior would effect the way the officials preform but it did seem to last nght.

I've seen where people are saying that we were bad in the second half. We weren't as good as the first half but they were much better with 10 men than we were with 11.

We can hld our heads up and be proud that we're Millers. We've been looking for 3 teams worse than us this season and we can honestly say that there are! Unfortunately they have more points than us but it's not over yet!

Believe!

Agree with most of this Froggie. The only thing I'd question is that whilst they were undoubtedly a much better side even with 10 men, I think that firstly we didn't box clever with the extra man to try pushing them back quickly enough but most importantly we didn't anticipate them storming into us straight after the break and seemed not mentally tuned in ready for this assault. We should have been just as pumped at the start of the 2nd as we were at the start of the first and that might have held out for longer and frustrated them into leaving gaps that we could exploit at the other end.

Felt like a huge thump in the coffin lid.

[CASPER-64-FRANK]

Not good enough 2nd half, too many misplaced passes.
Credit to Villa once they scored the 2nd they were organised with ten men dropping deep.
Always seem to shoot ourselves in the foot when a point was there for the taking.
The game seemed to have bypassed Semi tonight.
Substitutes made no difference.
Must win game at Stoke on Saturday.

UTM

[ackworth miller]

Bitterly disappointing to lose that one

At the end of the first half I thought we were in for a second great win on the trot. 1-0 up against 10 men at home with us getting behind the lads. Sadly not!

Aston Villa turned it up a few notches second half and just overpowered us. The players didn't know what had hit them. We gave it a really good go with a couple of deflected shots from Taylor and Vaulks but most of our set pieces into the box second half they were onto it first and up the other end in a flash. Their quality told in the end and you can see why they've won 7 on the bounce. Grealish is annoyingly good, and I have to mention the lack of intent shown by Newell in most of his play tonight. Newell was below par but I'm not going to criticise the lads too much because, overall, we did give it 100%. At least none of our main relegation rivals got the win.

UP THE MILLERS, and onto Stoke in Saturday

[great_fire]

They were like headless chickens when they went down to 10 men, should have taken advantage then.

They were much more composed second half and we were lacking ideas.

Think that kid with the sign in the Villa half must have been the son of a teacher; "May I have your shirt Grealish?", instead of "Can I", Podd would be happy, don't know if he got the shirt though.