I’m just totally blown away.
That was the best performance I’ve seen from the Villa in years, if you consider we were playing one of the highest level teams.
The reasons seemed manifold, mostly because we out-Newcastled Newcastle in pressing them to death. It was something the Barcodes aren’t used to facing and they quite simply couldn’t deal with it.
I’ve just heard that’s the first time we’ve won 5 on the trot in a quarter of a century.
That says it all.
Ramsey hit the post in the first minute and while I thought that might sum up our game, my thoughts where we would rue missed chances that didn’t happen.
The narrative from the commentators early on was that Newcastle played poorly, but we were so good that it eventually changed to how good we really were.
I thought we’d run out of steam, but we didn’t.
The second half was slower, but Newcastle just couldn’t take advantage and it seems like their whole side was clueless in how to match up to us, let alone beat us.
How many times were our players doubling up on theirs? is the one thing I noticed.
And then, where so many of us talked about how Young would be taken advantage of, how often did that happen? Not much in the earlier two thirds of the game.
Our play was mostly on the left side and Moreno proved to be excellent, in combining with Ramsey. That was tactics.
I’m cutting it short, because I have things to do, but I could keep praising that performance all day.
I said this was a game that will show us what we’re all about.
I knew I was right to think that this was sort of a decider for us going forward.
I’m now totally convinced.
Emery has these players working as hard as they can for him.
We have the right owners.
We have a top, top manager, at last.
All the building blocks are in place.
Anyone who’s too young to remember should be considering that us older ones are seeing the late seventies being played out again.
I envy you.
Except us oldies might get to see it being played out for a second time.
UTV!
I don’t have enough superlatives.
I have to go out, so will be back later.
Yes Badger. We are back! UTV
To the rotten owners: Ellis, Lerner and Zia who picked second-rate or worse managers; to the clowns themselves – including, incredibly, Lambert, Macleish, and Garde. This is what a top drawer manager can do with a 95% inherited team, 11 of whom played the 90 minutes. Thank you WE & NS and Unai.
Ollie was unplayable today and horseface will undoubtedly comment that he needs to leave Villa to become an England regular. The BT sport pundits couldn’t help themselves suggesting a big club would be interested in signing him.
For the first time though in a long long time and possibly since Sir Ron, we have an elite manager who makes players better. We also have the best owners in possibly our entire history. A new North stand coming soon and 🤫 maybe European football next season. Just don’t mention it to anyone else 🙂
Today’s game has saved some of them players jobs in football, I’ll go as far to say that even the football league has woken up to the fact their is a team in the midlands to be frightened of and it’s Aston Villa. In the past we have given away good home grown players because we was going nowhere, but now we are back and believe it Horse-face. We had the players and now we have the manager not forgetting the owners, up yours beaky Southgate Blinders we are Back .
1981 here we go again I thought I’d never see villa challenging the top six ever again what a manager what owners
And all this with same players but one and that’s moreno and who got him but unai he’s even got martinez distributing the ball with some good passes out from the back,instead of just booting it up to Watkins to chase
Brilliant I’m even liking the passes back and sideways now.
Best performance in years. (Or maybe since the 7-2 Liverpool thrashing.) But the big standout for me was that there was no tedious tippy tappy sideways keep ball at the back. It was more ‘old fashioned’ direct, adventurous football. How refreshing was that. And look what came of it. Long may it last.
Looks like villa now playing as a team instead of a load of individuals running around like headless chickens.
It’s similar to Saunders side where everyone knew their jobs and they all stuck together helping each other and unai seems to be getting villa playing for each other as a unit
And when they don’t have the ball they hunt it down in pairs
Best performance in years. (Or maybe since the 7-2 Liverpool thrashing.) But the big standout for me was that there was no tedious tippy tappy sideways keep ball at the back. It was more ‘old fashioned’ direct, adventurous football. How refreshing was that. And look what came of it. Long may it last.
I would now take us to beat any team in the league, with our form.
Very reminiscent of the Saunders era, Moreno overlapping like Gibson, Williams, Gidman and Swain
etc.
Every player knowing what is expected of them, how the system works and their role within that system.
As the program used to say in Sir Ron’s column…
With 110 %.
Happy days, good to have them back.
I’ve just been looking at the run in, looking at the teams above us ( none of which are in any sort of form) we could (given our present form) and with a favourable wind make champions league.🤞
Especially with Rashford and Martinez thankfully injured at ManUre.
There’s not one game I’m worried about.
Was yesterday a deam????
I don’t Martinez is a big miss (no pun intended 😂) but Rashford is massive.
Happy days.
Fabulous result and performance. The most telling thing for me was that it wasn’t totally unexpected. The difference a good manager makes with mostly the same players is incredible.
In the cold light of day, another thought came to me.
We didn’t just beat Newcastle. We absolutely spanked them and it could very easily have been 5-0.
I see Eddie Howe has described Newcastle’s performance as the worst of the season, inferring that it was that which caused them to lose.
No mate, we just destroyed your lads.
Considering he was wearing the armband when Villa last won 5 consecutive EPL matches, Southgate’s miserable expression in a box of smiling Villa execs was remarkable. Yes he was watching Pope, Trippier and Wilson being outplayed, but on the flip side by Mings, Ramsey and Watkins, all of whom he could add to his current England squad.
Perhaps he was reflecting that the fluid mobility of Buendia McGinn and Douglas Luiz wasn’t open to him. However he thinks he has one Belllingham who could play like that (I have a doubt). Henderson and Maddison cannot. What Emery has instilled is a thought process amongst the three, (i) can I get forward before a challenge, (ii) can I thread a pass for the strikers to run on to, (iii) if not, I play a one touch give-and-go to another midfielder. Such unselfish play is alien to England regulars.
Southgate realised he has a big problem – how to explain NOT picking quality players because they’re at Villa – hence the long face.
Hitch, I highly recommend you watch the full re-run of the game, if you can find it, so you can truly appreciate how good we were.
Shame you had to miss this one.
I did find a replay Badger but had problems with it stopping and starting and then jumping forward 10 minutes!
Anyway I think I saw enough to give me a good understanding of how well we played.
Just going on now> Villa Ladies 0-0 with Chelsea at half time in the Womens FACup semi final. Villa have lost all 10 meetings with Chelsea. Not everyones cup of tea it seems. So mayby if you have no interest then keep it that way and say nothing. Pretty aggresive stuff and Villa giving plenty. Man Utd in the final at Wembley for the winners.
To think the pundits said Gerrard was unlucky.
Laughable
Oh stop it Badger my sides are hurting 🤣🤣
Come on Forest! Do yourselves and us a favour!!!
Sadly the Villa Ladies lost 1-0. Such a tough game and they were unlucky.
Have any of us mentioned yet another clean sheet yesterday!?!?!?
So VAR didn’t think Maguire handled the ball. What a surprise. It’s a farce how obvious they are favouring the Sky 6. If that had been a Forest player I’m certain it would have been a penalty.
Same old same old Holte.
Just looking at Brighton’s next few games and their fixture list is shocking. Their next 3 games are all within 6 days!!!! They don’t actually have a week between games until halfway through May. They should be all regards be bloody knackered and be prone to a few injuries – nothing major obviously! 🙂
Spurs is similar too. Can’t wait to have them back to Villa Park on the 13th May.