20 Jan 2018 18:08:00
How can you win 3-1 and make such hard work of it . First half brilliant, be interesting to how many chances we made . Hogan took his goals well, his movement, work rate and effort was great . Thor had a good game, looks better suited in the middle . The second half was dissapionting, we still looked good going forwards . But we also became very sloppy, giving the ball away, all over the park . Againet a better side, we could have been in trouble . Albert had that RB in his pocket, but looked very tired when he went off, I reckon an accumulation of knocks have started to tell on him . Onoma didn't do his self any favours, when he came on, he plays on his heels, never looks ready to receive a pass . Over all the result we needed, puts us up amongst them . Next game got to keep that energy going for 90 mins . Onwards&Upwards Villaforever.


1.) 20 Jan 2018
20 Jan 2018 18:28:44
I have to agree with the first part of your post Davedean, we did make hard work of it for sure.
They had 21 attempts with 6 on target, we had 13 attempts with 6 on target
Possession was 56% Villa 44% Barnsley.
We cannot keep giving teams that amount of room at home.


2.) 20 Jan 2018
20 Jan 2018 18:40:07
Really pleased for hogan he desrved to get his hatrick, we played really well first half allowed them to come at us more in the second. We could of had more goals, although barnsley fair play to them woud, nt lie down. Forest did us favours and slowed wolves pursuit down, not so lnvincible after all. we are positioned well now and need to push on without to many errors onwards and upwards VILLA FOREVER!


3.) 20 Jan 2018
20 Jan 2018 19:49:27
Think the added man they brought on in the middle at half time stopped us dominating and stopped grealish getting on the ball as much, he was unplayable first half and really makes us tick. Towards the end of the first half today was the best I think we’ve played all season, we didn’t score no but we didn’t let them have the ball, the passing was seamless and you could see come straight off the training ground, players knew where everyone was without even looking, we was switching the play when necessary and really looked brilliant. Second half we took our foot off the gas, I think it was that and their sub that changed the flow of the game, still should have scored another 2 in the second but I think they were trying to reserve stamina and be comfortable, Barnsley had chances but I was never really nervous that we’d throw it away. The only concerning thing from today was that they won nearly every set piece they had, sometimes with free header, which is quite unlike us.


4.) 21 Jan 2018
21 Jan 2018 08:46:01
Great result and good first half performance
Worried about the number of balls that went into our area and Barnsley won most in the air,
But pleased about Hogan doing his stuff and a special praise for Thor,
He was really good and Bruce has finally found out where to play him,
Grealish ran the game,
We are looking the business now let's keep it up,