Villa 0 Chelsea 3 – The Verdict
There’s no point me telling you what happened in yesterdays game as Im sure if you haven’t watched the game, then you would of read about it elsewhere by now.
Apart from the Police, the result and maybe possibly the referee I had another fantastic day out at Wembley and was proud to be one of the 32,400 Aston Villa fans there on the day.
In the end we ran out of steam and you can’t do this against teams like Chelsea, as they proved a few weeks ago at Stamford Bridge.
Never the less, I am proud of the lads for getting to Wembley twice in one season, I’m proud at them for how they really gave it a go yesterday and maybe, just maybe If a few decisions went our way we could of been going back for a third time.
Now we must learn from our experience’s and build on this for the rest of the season, and then next and I have a feeling despite this loss hurting the players we will learn a great deal from them.
Apart from the game yesterday I will have a moan about the local forces on patrol yesterday evening after the game. Especially in and around the Green Man Hotel. These are the people we pay our taxes to protect us and there behaviour yesterday was a absolutely disgrace.
They caused trouble amongst local people and Aston Villa fans when neither were doing anything wrong apart from waiting to get back to there homes or back on there coaches.
They say football hooliganism is going away? To be honest I don’t think the Police want this to happen.
FA Cup Ticket News
Villa today announced news about tickets for the Semi-Final against Chelsea at Wembley on April 10th.
Tickets will be available from as cheap as £20, rising upto £60 depending on who you are, and where you want to sit.
They will be sold much in the same way as the League Cup Final tickets were.
To read more be sure to check out the official website.
Villa vs Chelsea in FA Cup Semi Final
Aston Villa managed to beat Reading today at the Majedski Stadium to ensure there name was in the hat for the FA Cup Semi Final draw.
Villa joined Portsmouth and Chelsea in the hat and one of Tottenham or Fulham, depending on who wins in the replay at White Hart Lane.
The FA Cup Semi Final Draw:
ASTON VILLA vs Chelsea
Portsmouth v Tottenham/Fulham
We are going to WEMBLEY again.
Boring boring Villa? I like to think we entertain the watching fans and we didn’t disappoint this afternoon when we took on Reading in the quarter final of the FA Cup.
An upset looked like it was on the cards when Reading went two-up just before half time.
Reading took the lead on 27 minutes when a corner from Howard was headed on by Mills and Long was free at the back post to head past Friedel.
The home side soon doubled their lead when Sigurdsson found Kebe who outpaced Warnock and he cut the ball back across goal for Long to make it 2-0.
I will admit that I gave up hope of any comeback. We looked down, and out after last week’s defeat at Wembley but how wrong could I have been. Martin O’Neill deserves credit for whatever he said in the dressing room because Villa comes out in the second half on a mission.
In a thrilling first ten minutes in the second half Villa completed turned this tie on its head.
On the 47th minute Downing passed to Carew who was in the box, he then chipped a little ball across goal only for Cuellar to mis-kick the ball. But coming in at the back post was Ashley Young and he fired the ball into the back of the net.
Villa was back to their normal selves. Milner found Downing in aches of space on the wing, who then swung in a beautiful cross to reach John Carews head, and Villa are back on level terms.
And then to complete the turnaround of the tie Warnock over lapped Young on the wing and then cantered the ball for John Carew to make it 3-2.
The days’ scoring was complete when John Carew was brought down in the area in the last minute of the game. The big Norwegian stepped up and booked Villas place in the Semi Final.
I know it seems so far away after last week’s result, but guess what lads.. WE ARE GOING TO WEMBLEY AGAIN!!
FA Cup Preview: Reading v Aston Villa
Forget about what happened in the past, and let’s look forward to now. Villa head down to Reading tomorrow in the Quarter finals of the FA Cup and we want to go back to Wembley.
A lot is being made of this theory that Villa haven’t won in March under Martin O’Neill but I fully expect this voodoo, or whatever you want to call it to be broken, and broken in style as Reading face the backlash of last week’s result.
Villa will be backed by a strong 4,000 travelling fans as Villa sold their whole capacity for the game earlier on in the week.
The FA Cup is known to be the romantic cup, they cup that allows the giant killings and Reading is proof of this. With a massive victory over Liverpool under their belts they are going to want to repeat that result against Villa.
Reading will be without on-loan Blackburn defender Zurab Khizanishvili (Cup Tied), Jobi McAnuff (Suspended), Jem Karacan (Hand Injury), and Kalifa Cisse (dead leg). However, the good news for the Royals is Shane Long should return to the bench.
Villa should have a full side to pick from as long as non on the International stars have returned with injuries.
Reading won’t just roll over and die in this game and they will put on a battle, but I fully expect Villa to win here simply because we are the better side.
Avillafan.com Prediction: Away Win.
