Merry Christmas all!
I watched most of the Leeds game and I was absolutely livid at the way we threw the game away at the final whistle.
I thought the ref was shocking and seriously wonder how paid officials can get so many calls wrong.
Regardless, I thought Leeds were probably the better side overall.
Did they deserve the win?
I don’t know.
But it is what it is. We’re going to lose some games, simple as that. A 94th minute goal conceded still remains disappointing though.
So gutting that I just didn’t fancy posting anything about it at the time.
That said, I think given our defence, we’re doing quite well.
To keep things in perspective, we gave Leeds a pretty good game. If you accept that they’re looking favourites to win the title at the moment, we have much to look forward to, if Dean Smith can get the right players (read defenders) in.
Surely we have to recall Elphick and then add a decent left back, meaning we will look better?
What’s important, is that I thought the team ran their guts out for the manager and that bodes well.
Our promotion hopes aren’t over for a moment, in my opinion.
Which is why I’m extremely confident that we can beat Swansea.
Squad news and Grealish is out.
Hands up, as much as I thought we wouldn’t miss him, we have.
He definitely adds creativity and we look slightly lacking without him.
Yes, we can still score goals, but we still lack that added clever pass, which Grealish brings at times.
Tuanzebe is out too and that’s probably currently a bigger loss, as he’s really started to look the business recently, in the way he’s played so calmly and without fuss. He also plays out too, something else we lack.
On Swansea’s part there’s still a bit of doubt about Wilfried Bony, who’s still on the recovery trail after an anterior cruciate jobby.
Oli McBurnie and Bersant Celina are available, as is Daniel James. I’ve never heard of any of them.
While we haven’t quite been getting the results we want lately, I’m still optimistic that we can out-score the opposition.
As Smith said, Leeds are probably the best team we’ve played under him.
Hence I don’t see Swansea being so tough.
A nice 2-1 win for us, I reckon.
What we can well do without is yet another draw.
We need the points.
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103 responses to “Brief thoughts on the Leeds game; We move on and will beat Swansea”
Bolasie long range pile-driver. Saved.
HT 0-0
Definitely better in the second half of that.
I see the Scum are winning, in fact so are others above us.
Getting better, all we wants a goal, we seem to be able to string a few passes together now, couple of goal mouth incidents for them. hotting up now.
Hourihane header.
1-0!
Nice cross from Hutton and decent header from Hourihane.
A beautiful goal that.
What would we give for a clean sheet?
We could do with some fresh legs on here.
They are putting fresh legs on why don’t we? come on Villa please.
Adomah coming on for Bolasie.
Don’t blow this now Villa
Kodjia coming on for Abraham.
El Ghazi gives a penalty away.
Unbelievable,
Nyland saves!!!!
Bjarnason on for Hourihane.
YeS! FT 1-0
Told ya Bill, keep your pecker up mate.
Leeds done it again scored in injury time to win 3-2 we won though hard game that.
Find it hard doing that Badger at 80.
Lol, I’m sure you know what I mean 🙂
Don’t be sorry Badger I still have my moments…
Hard fought win – hard to criticise really. Much better second half.
Need Grealish back and January reinforcements. Hard to criticise Nyland but he just doesn’t command his box.
Leeds to win the league; Norwich May hit a wall but play offs remain our best chance; now 3 points off. Every game massive and have to win at Preston.
Off to have a few bevies – UTV
Just what we needed. Although the three teams above us also won we’ve made ground up on Boro and Derby who both lost. Now just three points from a play-off place.
Three points at Preston would finish the year nicely.Some new faces and we could really start to climb up the table.
Happy New Year
You know what lads, I see The Scum in play offs with the Villa, shit it would be like the old days murder in the city. Jammy gits Leeds 94th again . I’m has happy as Larry the Lamb.
Was just having a similar discussion Bill, where I’d expect it to be the Baggies over Blues, because of the squad.
The thought of beating either of them in the playoff final is great.
The same as losing would be horrendous.
No post today.
I’ve got the family over.
Poor performance today, but we were due some luck! Nice save from Nyland and great goal from Conor. Lets hope we play a lot better at Preston.
Leeds and Norwich will also run out of luck at some point.
Well… a header from Conor Hourihane manages to see it through for Aston Villa. The promotion hopes are definitely not out of reach. I think we can gain at least Play-Offs or even 2nd, not quite 1st (believe Leeds have got that in the bag).
Think we were a bit lucky but Alan Hutton redeemed himself with the assist and Elmo didn’t do to bad either. I think it was an even game, Swansea ruling the first half but Villa outclassed Swansea in the second.
Now, the Nyland debate: I think we may as well terminate Moriera’s loan deal as he has played once throughout the entire season (against Yeovil) and he played shocking in the match that he did play. Most pointless signing/loan in Aston Villa history.
Lovre Kalinic will have his first game in the FA Cup versus Swansea according to Dean Smith, and this will be good to see as Nyland didn’t do too bad versus Swansea today… so what can Lovre Kalinic do? He must be able to gain a clean sheet, or can he? This will show how they do against the same team, will be interesting won’t it. Don’t think Nyland had to do much in the penalty but a respect and a well done comes from me.
Overall we managed to break the deadlock and our promotion hopes are nowhere near over 🙂