Aston Villa (A) - Match Thread

[Leyton388]

anyone see that man city wiped the floor with sunderland?

that super expensive winger rafa can't afford in his budget of 100 million plus seemed to do rather well.

You really think Chelsea would have sold him to us lad for £8m???

[stuartb]

I thought we controlled the game well albeit without a cutting edge in attack. Rafas tactics are working to an extent but not sure how we will get a goal.

id take a draw I guess but would be nice to see us go for it in the second half - def play Keane more central and bring Babel on the left. El Zhar would add some edge on the other flank too.

[FatTony]

The mighty, dynamic, Gerrard-esque bundle of energy Lucas Leiva...

Or not.

I've still seen nothing to give me any hope of promise from this lad.

[attack attack attack]

What a sad ****** ..coming on another teams website ... what a cock you must be .

??????

obviously upsets you so much to see an argument put forward against the methods of benitez?

[Vermilion]

You really think Chelsea would have sold him to us lad for £8m???

[Attilladahun]

Corner Xabi floats a good one just cleared

[calvoboy]

Carew > N'Gog

Young > Keane

Agbonlahor > Kuyt

Mascherano is not an attacking player, and right now I'd take Barry and Reo-Coker over the current versions of Alonso and Lucas any day.

I'd disagree on all of those player for player comparisons (apart from Carew vs N'gog) but that's not the point. I would never have started with the eleven that Rafa did, and wouldn't have made the subsitution that he did.

The point I was making is that our tactical approach was totally negative from the start. If you genuinely think that the reason we couldn't attack Villa today and had to pick a defensive 4-5-1 with players out of position is because their midfield and attack is better player-for-player than Babel, Mascher, Alonso, Kuyt, Keane and Torres, all of whom were available for Rafa to pick today, then all I can say is that I couldn't disagree more.

[Nicey]

You really think Chelsea would have sold him to us lad for £8m???

Any fan with half a brain would release this, this bright spark ...

[Assassin]

anyone see that man city wiped the floor with sunderland?

that super expensive winger rafa can't afford in his budget of 100 million plus seemed to do rather well.

Whats your problem

[Exiled_red]

Another good cross from Dossena

[Attilladahun]

Another good cross from Dossena -corner

[certifiable]

A fare is the fee paid by a traveler allowing him or her to make use of a public transport system: rail, bus, taxi, etc. In the case of air transport, the term airfare is often used.

Your earlier post:

" i guess we'll see how rafa's "superior" tactical approach to games fairs now that he has lost his two saviours."

Once again, it should be fares.

Bring in public transport, fuel costs, travellers, anything you want.

Case remains it should say fares.

Grammatically poor WUMS are the worst kind.

[Attilladahun]

Dossena shot from corner and then cleared

[FatTony]

A better start from us, at last we're attacking their goal area.

[attack attack attack]

to be honest ban me if you want, the people on this site are running a dictatorship.

A bad word cannot be said agaisnt benitez, if it does you get banned or abused by posters with a count over 1000