Match Day Thread Aston Villa v QPR

What I watched on that twitter feed we looked good just unable to get a break in the box

 

That's all she wrote, 1-0 Villa

 

Fellow on sky just said "late equaliser for Queen's Park.... "

I started cheering

Then he says "...against Albion Rovers"

 

Good night!

 

Maybe in another dimension?

 

So given the other results, in spite of ourselves, status quo maintained in the depths.

 

As I said, it's just as well there's a lot of **** below us.

Ollie is getting it wrong imo.

 

Only 5 attempts on goal 1 on target with 53% possession they had 11/3

 

A tough week with three games in 8 days; but find the five changes only affecting the front half of the team baffling from Holloway.
We certainly became more effective with Washington and Smith on - but seem to have lost our edge up front again.
Who knows what Holloway will do this Friday!

 

No change at bottom & cant see other than Blackburn or Bristol city & they both need to win 4games to get in front of us, not a chance.

 

6 days actually

 

It says something when even Birmingham with only 3 wins since the beginning of December will probably be safe!

 

In the end I couldn't be arsed to drag myself 25 miles for this. Result!

 

Safeish, but not very impressive is it?

 

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
That's eight days to my counting Kilburn

 

Very frustrating. We dominated the ball for about 2/3 of the game and did very little with it. Whereas we can be too direct, here there was lots of passing for the sake of it. Apart from the first five minutes Villa offered nothing but our players didn't seem to realise until about 65 minutes in.

MOM - Luongo by some distance

Smithies - n/a- picked the ball out the net and should have been made to pay to watch the rest

Furlong- 5- harsh perhaps but Amavi was **** on their left and still got the better of him a bit too easily and his crosses were really poor.

Bidwell- 6- Bidwelly performance from Bidwell. Fine in his own half. Forgettable going forward.

Onuoha- 5.5- bleurgh

Hall- 7

Goss- 6- quite neat but quite forgettable

Freeman- 7- just didn't quite come off for him but had lots of the ball and probably our main threat

Yeni- 5- bleurgh

Mackie- lots of running, did his best but quite well managed by Hutton who unfortunately was sober

Sylla- 4- just not a good footballer

Washington- see Mackie above

Smith- 6- no real service

Petrasso- odd choice at RB- didn't really work

Ref- 6- lenient for both teams but bought every dive as they wound the clock down

Villa fans - 4 - horrible ****s from a horrible **** place. Stupid accent, all obese.

QPR fans- 6- decent noise, I'd guess 900 there.

Pie - 8- chicken balti, excellent crust

 

Thanks! You must of been pissed off Perch didn't get a game.

 

Actually thought he played well at Derby (relatively). Would like to have seen him with Onuoha maybe to allow Hall to compete with Jedinak and Lansbury who looked like a bad Henri Lansbury impersonator.

 

Just back in my hotel. Happy to get out of the cold and get myself a nice cold beer. Agree with most of Watford said. Luongo was brilliant. Best game I have seen him play for us. Runner up man of the match for me was Jamie Mackie. He is so easy to criticise but boy he tries. I don't agree with the criticism of Onouha. I thought he did ok. Very unlucky not to at least get the draw. The 12 year old Villa fans beside the away end are highly annoying at best. I enjoyed the game and was very happy with the effort the team put in.