Sadly Villa missed the chance to go third twice in a week and a damp (to put it mildly) day at Villa Park didn’t help lift the spirits.
Sadly/happily (depends which way you look at it really!) I wasn’t well enough to get down but my mate deputised for me banging the boardings in my absense and Wiggy said:
Not much to say about the match yesterday, I actually quite enjoyed it up until Sidwell`s cock up, it was end to end football and both teams were playing some nice stuff considering the conditions. I do have to question the substitutions again though Hokey Cokey was having a very average game but he will not take him off. There was booing when he made the subs, first time I have heard that.
Player Ratings
Friedel – 7
A couple of good saves
Cuellar – 6
Average but poor distribution
Shorey – 6
As Cuellar
Davies – 7
OK
Laursen – 7
OK
Young – 7
Some good skill going forward
Barry – 6
Not his best game looked tired
Hokey Cokey – 5
As Barry
Sidwell – 5
Took his goal well but did not do much else apart from lose us the game.
Milner – 8
Good skills and ran his heart out, covered every blade of grass.
Agbonlahor – 6
Some good touches but missed Carew
Harewood – 6
OK when he came on, not enough time
Manager Rating
Martin O`Neill – 5 Very suspect substitutions!!
Crowd – 6
Very Quiet
