Ratings & Reactions: UCL1: Young Boys v Villa

[jim]

Amazing return to Europe's top table

[sidcow]

 

[LondonLax]

1 minute ago, tonyh29 said:

I think the ref was excellent to be honest , look at the Ramsey goal , he had his whistle ready to give the pen but held off blowing 

the Watkins hand ball might be his only black mark , but presumably VAR directed him on that ?

 

The Watkins hand ball was the correct decision according to the rules. 

The ref was ok.  

Edited Tuesday at 18:48 by LondonLax

[NorthEastVillan]

Pah piece of piss this CL lol

MotM very hard tonight. Rogers classy, JJ very dangerous, Onana great battle and a good goal. Finally decided on Tielemans, fantastic in the centre, so comfortable and scored our first CL goal. Great performance overall.

Edited Tuesday at 18:48 by NorthEastVillan

[Farlz]

Young Boys were really quite bad once we had scored but still that was an excellent performance from us, probably should've had even more than 3. A rare clean sheet very nice as well.

Brilliant start to this Champions League season. 

[striker]

Very slick and professional performance from the Villa and were robbed of a good goal.

 

[trekka]

Take note Europe, we are Aston Villa.  We are back and hungry.

(oh plus...)

[Villadevon]

Never a doubt.

[Hobsons Choice]

I was quite excited for kick off, and I'm very happy despite Young Boys and VAR doing absolutely everything they could to irritate the living sh*t out of me. 

Rogers motm for me. Mainly for the first half where he ran the show. 

Lovely Onana screamer.

[ThunderPower_14]

Feel for Watkins having a Champions League goal taken away dubiously. Hope his ankle is okay. 

Absolutely dominated them, very assured performance. 

[Bizzzle]

Lovely stuff! Nice and easy

[OutByEaster?]

Tough start with the plastic pitch, but once we settled we were calm, controlled and creative. 

Put the ball in the net five times and created plenty of other chances - Ollie will be disappointed not to have scored from his, but I think the whole group will be delighted with that performance.

3-0, completely deserved and we made it look straightforward.

A great start, three points on the board and a lot to look forward to.

[Pinebro]

Can't win anything with kids

[Beastmix]

Professional performance.

Did what we needed to do and you have to think Unai's "No excuses" ethos psychologically helped them deal with the artificial pitch.

Yuri was on another level.

[Davkaus]

2 minutes ago, AvonVillain said:

We know. You keep telling us.

I mean, I made the point twice across two threads, if you don't like it, **** off and use the ignore button, problem solved. 

[srsmithusa]

2 minutes ago, jim said:

Virginius the young boy playing in the Wankdorf.

Males also played.

[Lichfield Dean]

Man, we are so going to struggle at this elite level that we've never played at before because the teams are so amazing and...

Oh

[Pez1974]

Beautiful that a Villa #8 scored

Beautiful that 'one of our own' scored

Also - and for those still upset - Tielemans is, and always was, the Luiz replacement. And on the form so far this season - he's better. Assists, goals and running the game better.

[TDR V2]

Bring on Bayern at a rocking Villa Park

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