[Jeffthered]

We are a team that is so reliant upon the individual... v fragile. It was a good game of football, I expected an even contest.
What we have is some cracking attacking/ creative talent. Pogba, Rashford, Cavani, Greenwood and Fernandes are better than the vast majority of Premiership attacking units. They give us the edge, as they are simply better than who we are frequently up against. Look at the earlier game, Everton and West Ham.. no real attacking edge at all. Villa are a good team, but again, Watkins? El Ghazi? They aren't going to cause many problems to anybody really, the odd goal here and there.

I still think we lack in terms of defensive/general midfielders. Bailly makes a huge difference when he plays well. He's v v fast, v strong, and naturally decent on the ball. Maguire surely must prefer playing alongside him.

Jack Grealish and Paul Pogba were the best footballers on the pitch. Easily.

 

[VP89]

Bailly and Pogba are joint MotM for me. Tough tough game

 

[TMDaines]

Good game. Nice to feel like the league matters for something other than just avoiding complete failure.

Looking forward to City on Wednesday.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Great 3 pts, happy with a win but i am sorry, dont care what anyone says, performance wasnt that great nor it wasnt great when it comes to Ole.

Thats just not good enough from manager PoV. From start of 2nd half you could see it was coming miles away, he didnt react to it, Fred and McT were awful through whole game and whats worse they were bigger danger to their own team than some AV players.

Not first time when it comes to subs and Ole, he just doesnt react, no subs nothing, he just lets the game passes and then they score, which wasnt surprising, luckely we get a pen, score from that and suddenly he can sub McT right after that ( oO ), Fred should be hooked off right after that as well.

He literally made a sub which changed the flow of the game when be brought Matic on, you absolute weapon.

 

[holdsteady]

Dont let Grealish get on the Villa bus

 

[sport2793]

Pheww a proper nail biter! Immense 3 pts, even though we didn't play all that well, but that's what big clubs do, win even when not playing well.

Fck that shiny cnut Grealish, if you look at him the wrong way, he goes down. Also double fck that abhorrent mega cnut Oliver!

I would be careful criticizing Grealish as I feel you may have to buy his jersey in the near future.

 

[Chief123]

4 point gap between us and teams below now. Nice.

 

[JustinC00]

ok now rest Bruno, Rashford, Bailly, Maguire and AWB the next 2 matches (mickey mouse cup and FA Cup 3rd round)

 

[fps]

Exciting match good win!

 

[hellhunter]

Grealish is a twat, but I'd love him to be our twat.

 

[Siorac]

Tactical fouls not dirty.

Wait till we play Burnley. The very definition of dirty

Tactical fouls are dirty as feck. A blight on the game.

But half the things Oliver blew for were incredibly soft.

 

[YAMS49]

Funnily feel the same in a joking way of course! This is not good for the heart, been a while I've felt like this!

I guess it's a good form of exercise, panic.

 

[tomaldinho1]

Bailey MOTM
AWB, Pogba, Fred and DDG excellent

 

[Berbasbullet]

Tactical fouls not dirty.

Wait till we play Burnley. The very definition of dirty

I look forward to it.

 

[paulscholes18]

Big 3 points, was worried when Bailly went in first thought was he was going to get a red. Replays showed that a yellow was correct

 

[Jazz]

It’s on, mates.

One game at a time....... it's boring but we need to stay grounded.

 

[FatherWolff]

Thought we played very good in the first half. A bit more shaky in second. But a good game of football!

 

[Inigo Montoya]

Could he have been any less interested

You should have heard Smith-Rowe after Arsenal ~Brighton. Makes AWB sound like Stephen Fry

 

[Stevondo8]

To badly misquote pirates of the Caribbean, we best start believing in title challenges lads, we’re in one!

 

[Hugh Jass]

Tough tough match although we should have been ahead by more come the last ten minutes.

They had a good 15 minute spell after half time, but we hit back after.

I would ring in the changes for City.

 

[Desert Eagle]

Baily pogba and martial were great. Maguire shaw and ddg also solid. Great win and the spirit in the team looks good. Let's keep winning then it'll be all to play for at anfield.GGMU

 

[OLLY ORANGE]

Fair play a decent game and hats off to villa for a decent effort from a strong side.
Rest up boys.

 

[Judas]

Pogba was class, has to be said, if we got that every week for the rest of the season I'd be very happy.

 

[Blake's 7]

Note to Ole - never put AWB up for a post match interview again.......EVER!

 

[Robert]

That was a thrilling game, took me back to the Macheda Villa game all those years ago, whilst obviously different stage of the season it felt like we was really grinding for those 3 points.

 

[MonkeysMagic]

Great win but watching Utd should come with a health warning! Edge of the seat stuff most games and I would be very confident of us lifting some silverware at the end of the season IF we could be more clinical in front of goal and defend better.

 

[R'hllor]

What’s the point of crapping on the club after a truly great result? No, it wasn’t a perfect performance but the positives way outweighs the negatives, no?

Crapping on the club? Are you mental you lunatic? Just saying what actually happened on the pitch, if you cant take the reality scroll down.

 

[thepolice123]

Crucial win today. Very wasteful but we managed to see out the game. Thank feck for that Bailly block towards the end!

 

[Crackers]

Huge win. Fantastic.

 

[arthurka]

Pogba and Bailly were great..

This.. Also have been really critical in Shaw I thought he was great tonight. Both our backs were great. That goal was shit to concede but feck me we are grinding now.

 

[SirAnderson]

Bailey MOTM
AWB, Pogba, Fred and DDG excellent

Fred started well but didn't do better as the game progressed, got more and more sloppy and didn't have the composure we needed, but still, decent game all around.

 

[Fully Fledged]

No MOTM tonight Sky?

Pogba putting on a clinic probably didn’t fit their agenda tonight!

Martínez for me

 

[Slevs]

To be fair, after he came on Matic literally just ran around kicking them.

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed
Mourinho personified

 

[GDaly95]

Dont let Grealish get on the Villa bus

This. The guy is amazing.

Great win a great a really good side who played out of their skin. Villa are so impressive and this win should be really celebrated.

Seriously though. Get Grealish.

 

[Fracture90]

I would be careful criticizing Grealish as I feel you may have to buy his jersey in the near future.

I'd rather wipe me arse with that money than spend it on getting that cnut's shirt.

 

[Nick7]

We played a very good team, who have beaten most of our rivals.

We deserved to win a very good game, between two form teams.

Yeah, sure and they tore through us easily and could have scored a hat full of goals.

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Note to Ole - never put AWB up for a post match interview again.......EVER!

I have just heard him on MUTV. He'd make a fortune as a cure for insomnia.

 

[R'hllor]

He literally made a sub which changed the flow of the game when be brought Matic on, you absolute weapon.

Yea after we got lucky penalty and scored from it, you clown. Them scoring, everybody could see miles away and he didnt nothing about it, Fred and McT kept giving it away, their passes were intrecepted, learn to read what was written.

Go check 2nd half replay before you flap your gums.

 

[simplyared]

Great 3 pts against a team with quality throughout. Grealish frightened me to death everytime he was on the ball. Fred makes me nervous. Not convincing but a win just the same.

 

[Catt]

Awesome!
Villa are a good team.