Aston Villa vs Man Utd match thread

Quandary

Park really has offered nothing this half :mad:

spockety

PHB wrote: »

Makes perfect sense. Same reason I was cheering City last weekend. Villa winning puts them in a great position to push on and take 4th, which is not good for Liverpool.

Things are not that bad yet.

Come on the Villa.

SlickRic

utd playing excellently here.

very impressive.

villa doing well in their own box.

mike65

spockety, they are.

OPENROAD

monkey9 wrote: »

Hopefully he does so again after this match

Hope he does.


What did you think of the dive?

LuckyLloyd

Villa are winning, and deservedly so, but have zero control of the game. There is going to be a couple more goals in this game and it is impossible to predict who gets them.

Bobalicious93

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Villa are winning, and deservedly so, but have zero control of the game.

That really doesn't make sense... Surely you have to have some sort of control over a game to deserve to be in the lead?

Theresalwaysone

Deservedly Lloyd? How so?

Park has been terrible. Get him off, no brain, horrible first touch, doesnt think nearly quick enough.

Fuhrer

monkey9 wrote: »

Hopefully he does so again after this match

Hopefully he'll write a book about the people who dive who are ruining the game and how he'd never do it.

spockety

mike65 wrote: »

spockety, they are.

To save the risk of dragging this off topic, I'm afraid we will have to agree to disagree.

monkey9

OPENROAD wrote: »

Hope he does.


What did you think of the dive?

I think the same what i thought after nGog dived. Players are encouraged to dive because if there is any contact it's deemed a foul.
Rooney dived there anticipating contact being made, just like Gerrard did last week, except he got it wrong cos no contact was made
He dived against Arsenal earlier in the season and contact was made then so got his peno
Diving will always be in the game and i hate it!!

SlickRic

Theresalwaysone wrote: »

Park has been terrible. Get him off, no brain, horrible first touch, doesnt think nearly quick enough.

indeed.

very kuyt-like.

it's remarkable how similar they are in possession.

LuckyLloyd

Bobalicious93 wrote: »

That really doesn't make sense... Surely you have to have some sort of control over a game to deserve to be in the lead?

No, not at all. Villa have created more chances, but the game is a wild end to end affair and, if anything, Utd are enjoying the few phases of consistent pressure that have been strung together. Hence, they are good value for the lead despite having no real grip on proceedings thus far.

shoutman

Villa look threatening on the counter, unlucky enough not to be winning 2-0, Rooney is looking very threatening and I'd be surprised if there wasn't more goals.

Villa have a great scraping back four, and by that I mean they do very well at covering each others arses, 2-1 Villa please.

Insect Overlord

Hopefully we'll get some more Obertan magic after the break.

Bandit12

mike65 wrote: »

I hate to say this but c'mon Rooney!

:eek:

Theresalwaysone

United will win this imo.

Intensity is too much for Villa. United will keep it up and their better passing will lead to goals.

The next goal is absolutely vital though.

Bobalicious93

Theresalwaysone wrote: »

Deservedly Lloyd? How so?

Park has been terrible. Get him off, no brain, horrible first touch, doesnt think nearly quick enough.

I don't know who's on the bench, but who would we bring on? Is Obertan on the bench?

Or possibly bring on Berba and stick Giggs on the left.

Kev_ps3

Berbatov for Park plz

MementoMori

Would be very shocked if there weren't more goals in this.

Utd with more of the ball and Rooney looking dangerous but Villa's defence looking a lot more solid than Utd, where Fletcher looks a liability at RB.
Clearly not his position as he has looked uncomforatble there.

orourkeda

Theresalwaysone wrote: »

United will win this imo.

Intensity is too much for Villa. United will keep it up and their better passing will lead to goals.

The next goal is absolutely vital though.

No sh*t

MementoMori

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Hopefully we'll get some more Obertan magic after the break.

He's been very quiet this half. Almost anonymous. Almost like he isn't even on the pitch at all.;)

Theresalwaysone

Bobalicious93 wrote: »

I don't know who's on the bench, but who would we bring on? Is Obertan on the bench?

Or possibly bring on Berba and stick Giggs on the left.

Well get Berba/Owen on and go for the traditional 442. Or Obertan in a straight swap for Park.

Either would be better than how Park is peforming today.

shoutman

I don't see intensity making a difference, the way MON plays have the time villa are used to doing nothing but defending for 60minutes at a time, 45 will be no problem, that said i still see us conceeding, just not two.... hopefully.

UTV!

orourkeda

Villa have more than held their own. Good to see them at least turn in a good performance so far.

Hope they can keep it up now

Kev_ps3

Owen for Giggs.

orourkeda

shoutman wrote: »

I don't see intensity making a difference, the way MON plays have the time villa are used to doing nothing but defending for 60minutes at a time, 45 will be no problem, that said i still see us conceeding, just not two.... hopefully.

UTV!

I was waiting for that remark to come up.

starbelgrade

Bizarre choice of half time music on Sopcast streaming.. a Villa song, Glory, Glory Man United.. both fair enough, but then some bird singing a George Michael song, then some R&B song with the lyrics, "F*ck you, I don't want you back"?!?!

OutlawPete

Took off Giggs.

Lovely ..

Come on Villa!

LuckyLloyd

O'Neill rarely has a plan B and is horrendous at making in game adjustments btw - another reason to fancy Utd despite the hill they have to climb.

shoutman

It was cunning plan by MON all along...

OutlawPete

Christ utd are going hell for leather now ..

If we don't concede first 20 mins we'll win me thinks .. fingsers crossed.

I was there in '83

Quandary

FFS Park really looking sluggish

Insect Overlord

Get Obertan on for Park already! :mad:

LuckyLloyd

Refreshing to watch a game where the referee is getting every contentious call spot on.

therokerroar

Really hoping the intensity continues right the way through, we need Villa to be as knackered as possible for their visit on Tuesday night :cool:

Park is a passenger

Insect Overlord

Berbatov for Park in a few minutes, according to the commentators.

LuckyLloyd

Villa's midfield continues to retreat and set itself ever deeper...

Mr.Nice Guy

Would be so typical of United to blow a great chance to draw level with Chelsea. Always has to be done the hard way.

villains77

therokerroar wrote: »

Really hoping the intensity continues right the way through, we need Villa to be as knackered as possible for their visit on Tuesday night :cool:

not going to happen

Quandary

this will be interesting

JerryHandbag

Park off thank fook

curry-muff

Berb on, cue the comeback

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Did I just hear the commentator on ESPN say that Heskey has exceptional pace?

LuckyLloyd

Back around 2000, Heskey would have slammed that in the net.

shoutman

Cuellar RB, Collins CB?

SlickRic

it's gibbo time.

Quandary

Here comes the Gibsonator with the hail mary

villains77

how long is left