Ratings & Reactions: UCL1: Young Boys v Villa

[The Fun Factory]

The swiss rolled over. Routine win in our first match in the Champions League. I didn' t think I would ever be writing that when we were knee deep in the championship barely half a decade ago.

[LxYoungAVFC]

1 hour ago, It's Your Round said:

Albert Einstein, Heidi, watches, cheese, Roger Federer, Carl Jung, Chocolate, Sepp Blatter, Chapuisat, CERN and neutrality. Your Young Boys took one hell of a beating tonight.

Chapuisat is so random. 

[TRO]

Is it me being a biased Villa fan?…..or is all our goals forensically scrutinised, to find fault.

It seems every goal, is a target for questioning.

Edited Tuesday at 20:09 by TRO

[Brumstopdogs]

 

[It's Your Round]

6 minutes ago, LxYoungAVFC said:

Chapuisat is so random. 

He was the only Swiss footballer I could think of at the time

[Powehi]

Worth getting up for at 4am here in NZ!

Player ratings:

Martinez - Best game for us so far this season. He thrives so much on the big occasion. 8
Bogarde - Not really seeing what Unai is seeing here, quite rightly taken off. 5
Konsa - Quiet and effective. 7
Torres - Quiet and effective, but needed that more than Ezri did. 7
Digne - A constant threat down the left, crossing not quite up to his usual standard. 7
Onana - What a player we have here. Reminiscent of Yaya Toure at this moment in time. 8
Tielemans - Absolutely ran the show, and a very good goal to boot. MOTM. 9
McGinn - Grew into the game and did a lot of unselfish tracking back. A good alternative to have to Bailey on that side. 8
Ramsey - So pleased for him to get that goal. Did well otherwise. 7
Rogers - Not quite clicking for him at the moment, and don't rate his performance as highly as some others have done on here, but its coming. 7
Watkins - Should have had a goal, but otherwise pretty quiet. 6

Carlos - I think we looked more solid overall when he came in for Bogarde, but still dropped a clanger. 6
Duran - Agent Chaos strikes again. Played some really nice stuff apart from the excellent disallowed finish. 7

[tomav84]

1 hour ago, NorthEastVillan said:

Someone posted earlier it was £2.5m. So the same as winning the League Cup

you don't get anything like that for winning the league cup

[TDR V2]

Our away clean sheet is looking more impressive as the night goes on

[sidcow]

Guys. 

We just won an away Champions League match 3 nil

 

[AJG23]

Comfortable away win in the opening CL game, clean sheet and could easily have won by more. All on artificial pitch.

Can’t really ask for much more than that.

[Jareth]

Just need liverpool to stay at 1-3 and we're the best english team in UCL

[flamingsombrero]

Piece of piss this Champions League 

[beasley14]

I assume you can watch the replay on TNT through Amazon?!

[TheMelvillan]

1 hour ago, alreadyexists said:

I’m watching Real vs Stuttgart now and if you squint, it looks like Leeds vs ‘Boro  

Well I've just watched Scotland play Borussia Dortmund so who knows

[Marka Ragnos]

7 minutes ago, Jareth said:

Just need liverpool to stay at 1-3 and we're the best english team in UCL

Not looking likely. Milan falling apart.

Edited Tuesday at 20:38 by Marka Ragnos

[flamingsombrero]

Has here been another angle, anything, to justify that Ollie handball decision? Not only the call but why it also never made to the ref? The Onana referral was comical after that.

Edited Tuesday at 20:41 by flamingsombrero

[TheMelvillan]

Did Duran just get booked for celebrating? Seems a bit cheap. Also should have reminded it once they disallowed the goal

[DJ_Villain]

34 minutes ago, It's Your Round said:

He was the only Swiss footballer I could think of at the time

Senderos?

[rjw63]

Bayern next is it?

Lets hope they don’t get as many penalties as they’ve had tonight.

[flamingsombrero]

1 minute ago, TheMelvillan said:

Did Duran just get booked for celebrating? Seems a bit cheap. Also should have reminded it once they disallowed the goal

Genuinely concerned if he had put another one in he'd have got himself sent off