Villa’s defence 2 – Chelsea 1
By: Ryan | October 17th, 2009Goals from Dunne, Collins and Drogba for Chelsea.
Well there it is, not quite my original prediction of 2-0 but certainly a fantastic scoreline, and thoroughly deserved. I ventured up to Villa Park with my best mate Nick, and I’m still smiling now watching Match of the Day. Was a cracking game, I’m really pleased with our new look defence, we are really working as a team, we defend as a team, attack as a team, its fantastic to see. Dunne and Collins play like they’ve been playing together for years!
We worked hard, very hard, especially Abonglahor, Petrov and Milner (as always!) they all covered a lot of ground and helped out the defence a number of times. My only gripe with the team today is with Ashley Young, tremendous last season but lacking in this one. Countless times he either lost the ball, failed to cross, failed to shoot when on the edge of the box in acres of space and even failing to back up the attack a couple of times, once I remember Warnock pushing forward with Young walking in his own half. But saying that, he did put in a few great balls, and of course assisted both goals from the corner flag, just a little bit more effort needed Young, take a leaf from Milner’s book. Carew should always get a mention, but I should be writing about Villa’s third goal here, because he should of buried a brilliant move from Young to Milner to Carew, but it went straight over Cech’s goal.
Not taking anything away from Chelsea, they played some fantastic football, and really put the pressure on us in the second half, this certainly wasn’t an easy win, but that just makes the victory that little bit sweeter.
This result proves we are genuine Top 4 contenders, but looking at the table, there are a few more contending for that spot, its gonna be a close one. But bring it on, we’re ready for ya!
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Fantastic match, so impressed with the team’s work rate and as you said; looked very solid at the back. Even up against the likes of Drogba, Lampard and Anelka I think Villa mostly looked quite comfortable, with the exception of one or two moments where Brad came into action brilliantly!
Agreed that being top four contenders could be a reality this season, although unfortunately there are plenty of other teams trying to push for that too! Just have to hope Villa are the ones that make it (at Liverpool’s expense?!)
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I was surprised how ordinary most of Liverpool’s team looked when Villa played them early in the season – they’re as dependent on Gerrard and Torres as we were last year on Barry and Laursen, and that’s dangerous 9as everyone saw today.) At the moment they’re definitely the team the appears most vulnerable.
Great win today; always fantastic to take all three from one of the usual suspects, especially Chelsea… they’ve made a habit recently of breaking our hearts just when we all thought Villa were ready for the big stage.
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