Villa v Chelsea (scores)

Villain · 17-12-2003 10:46pm #1

What a great result for us, lets hope we can go on and win it now and get into europe.

Chelsea actually had a pretty strong team out:

34. Neil Sullivan
2. Glen Johnson (55)
26. John Terry
13. William Gallas
3. Celestine Babayaro
15. Mario Melchiot
14. Njitap Geremi
10. Joe Cole
4. Claude Makelele (45)
11. Damien Duff (55)
9. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink

SUBS
6. Marcel Desailly
8. Frank Lampard (45)
21. Hernan Crespo (55)
30. Jesper Gronkjaer (55)
31. Marco Ambrosio (GK)

GO ON THE VILLA

The Clown Man · 17-12-2003 10:49pm

Gronkjaer for duff! Pah!

Villain · 17-12-2003 10:58pm

Originally posted by The Clown Man
Gronkjaer for duff! Pah!

Well it was a double substitutation with Duff and Johnson going off and Crespo and Gronkjaer coming on

celticfc · 17-12-2003 10:58pm

GOE Villa, great result.

kmart6 · 17-12-2003 11:19pm

Great Result

Great Match

Great Time Wasting

What more could want

What's the story with Angel?

He seem's to just come to life for some game's and do nothing for others

eirebhoy · 17-12-2003 11:23pm

What is going on this season with all the managers playing players on their bad sides?
Houllier with Kewell and Diouf
Ferguson with Giggs
Ranieri with Duff and Cole
And the rest.

Duff hasn't got a right foot to his name. If he gets the ball on the right wing he will run with it but he will then have to stop, turn and cross. When he's on the left he runs riot. Joe Cole is just as good with both feet (if not right footed as we seen with his to great shots) so why the hell doesn't Ranners play him on the right and Duff on the left?

The substitutions were OK expept for taking Duff off. I probably would have taking Geremi off instead of Makelele too and switching Cole and Duff around.

A desicion like playing Duff on the right could be what is losing them the games. Whenever Duff plays a full match on he left (witch is very rear) he usually plays super (eg. Wolves, Lazio, Newcastle).

Villain · 18-12-2003 1:12am

Just saw Angel's goal

Fu.cking screamer, by far his best goal in a Villa shirt, even Ranieri said he was the diference.

Fair play to Ranieri he admitted Villa were better and deserved to win.

If beat Bolton and go on to meet Arsenal in the final does that gurantee us Europe (given that Arsenal will qualify through the league for europe) or will it go to the next placed team in the league??

Xterminator · 18-12-2003 9:53am

I reckon if Villa lost the final they could still be in europe.

However, if they can beat Chelsea on the night, who's to say they cant beat the Gooners?
Lets face it, if arsenal are in the league cup final, and the latter CL stages, as well as possibly the FA cup, they will have some fixture headache!

X

kida · 18-12-2003 9:58am

Don't think Birmingham got in a few years ago - goes to the league.

Its only the FA Cup losers go in as there used to be a place in the cup winners cup.

smuckers · 18-12-2003 10:32am

Well done Villa every player played well we were poor yesterday Terry had an off day roll on Fulham.

Villain · 18-12-2003 12:47pm

Originally posted by kida
Don't think Birmingham got in a few years ago - goes to the league.

Its only the FA Cup losers go in as there used to be a place in the cup winners cup.

I think it was different back then do, there wasn't as many places available in europe.

eirebhoy · 18-12-2003 1:14pm

If you are a runner up to an already qualified team in the FA cup you go to Europe but that is not the same with the League Cup. Think of all the teams that have got to the final of the league cup and lost to the likes of Liverpool, they never got into Europe and it would be stupid if they did.

ZENER · 18-12-2003 1:25pm

Well done Villa, great game to watch ! Makes you wonder why they kept Angel on the bench for so long, he's obviously enjoying his football now !

With a performance like last night's they should give the gooners someting to chew on.

Tinky

Gillie · 18-12-2003 2:00pm

Fair Play to Villa.
They wanted it more. Great Match! Great Goals!
Did you guys read about the "Battle Of Britain" Proposal?

http://skysports.planetfootball.com/article.asp?id=177537&cpid=14

Interesting!?!
Comments?:)

growler · 18-12-2003 4:55pm

someone suggested that the reason Ranieri plays people on their "wrong" side is that when they then run at the defence , they have options for passing and shooting. duff's pass through to , i think it was crespo , last nite was one such case.

I also assume that Mr. Melchiot had been at the mulled wine for a few hours before kick off, nothing else can explain his bizarre play!!

chelsea really managed to lose the midfield battle last nite , and while nowhere near as bad as the home game against Bolton, where we missed 7 or 8 clear scoring chances, Crespo would be expected to finish his few chances better than he did last night.

Not the end of the world by any means for Chelsea but annoying to go out of the competition with such a whimper.

Sundy · 18-12-2003 8:33pm

Angel what a goal and he could have had a hat trick only for great saves by a dirty sullivan who was intent on decapitating Mcann.

Must say i was delighted to see villa go ahead and then go ahead again after chelsea pulling level, shows great great character. Hope they reproduce that in the league!

nlgbbbblth · 18-12-2003 9:35pm

After this Ranieri should resign

Aliminator · 18-12-2003 9:50pm

lol. Ye called for the same when Beshiktash beat ye at stamford bridge a while back. he hasn't really put a foot wrong since. ye expect too much. money doesn't bring everything.

AngelofFire · 19-12-2003 12:10am

Excellent match we maintained our sharpness for the full 90 mins and got the winner. if we can perform like that week in-week out we will shoot up the table.