Match Day Thread Aston Villa v Newcastle United - Official Build Up / Match Day Thread

So, the rhetorical question of today, were Villa's dirty ******* tactics the most disgusting thing to watch, or was it the mentality of our team after half time(for the nth time this year)?

Hopefully a couple of them will have suspensions coming their way with Jasper Carrot clearly distracted. Can anyone tell me why it doesn't count as a foul if you take someone out in the penalty box when they've just taken a shot? Surely you've missed the ball and fouled them?

Perch should have given a second penalty away if this was the case, but it isn't and I don't understand it. The ball may or may not be dead, but surely attacking someone off the ball would yield a free-kick anywhere else? Keepers routinely catch players after they've taken a shot as well, so I think that needs to be looked at in the game.

Overall, Sissoko looks invincible and sexy, Gouffran decent, let's skip over clumsy Debuchy and focus on three points over the team I'd most love to see bankrupt.

 

WTF!
Why do we never do things the easy way!
My nerves are shredded!

Still, nice to add to Villas woeful week!

 

Great win, heart was going late on though. I have to say Villa will be kicking themselves they didn't get a second because after they scored we were there for the taking for large parts of the second half.

Thanks **** its over!

 

Villa should have been down to at least 10 men but the fact remains that Pardew needed to change things after Villa did and as usual made things 10 times worse.

 

WTF!Why do we never do things the easy way!My nerves are shredded!Still, nice to add to Villas woeful week!

 

Lmfao

 

By the way attendance was only 30k at villa tonight. That is piss poor for such a big game for them.

 

villa fans leaving after 31 minutes. shocking

 

Yeah like I said at half time Pardew still has 3 subs left!!!! I knew he'd make things worse I think we all knew.

 

seriously?

 

yep showed them on tv. only a few tho

 

Only a few because there weren't that many to begin with...

Let us toast the long awaited 3 points and road to recovery

 

Mr Tiote... Is that you?

 

They are vile ****ers mind

 

Expected though.

 

Not the best of games and the ref didn't help any, but some decent football played and we held on well near the end. Got no finger nails left of course.

Once again Pards made some rather strange substitutions.

 

Most dubious substitutions from Pardew yet – but I can guess he was just bloody nervous and tried to just batten down the hatches to land the points.

By putting Shola on he obviously wanted the height for defense whilst retaining the balance of attacking players. But these are desperate tactics that invite pressure and send negative messages to the team.

HOWEVER substitutions only get you so far. There HAS to be a more collective approach to retaining possession and taking the sting out of a match.
I understand we'll be really nervous, anywhere will do all that – but we've done it all season, even last season when closing games out.

I would rather we just shift the ball across the defense and goalkeeper for the best part of 5 minutes (a la Liverpool in the mid-1990's) than hoof it forward to switch possession so cheaply.
Its just wave after wave of pressure and you just get deeper and deeper surrendering chances/goals by just percentage of play.

Pass the ball out of defense and run the thing into the corner if need be!

 

I wonder who their next Messiah is going to be?

 

Well, glad I missed that one!

 

What's the bright idea about bringing Shola(who's ****e and unfit) on , and shifting Cisse anywhere else?


Jonas is ****e yet gets to stay on...

In the end Shola plays CB, and NOT Mbiwa. Cisse at RM,