Wolves 1-0 Aston Villa: Verdict Thread

[Wilf Wolf]

Apart from the goal, where I suspect everyone in the ground was watching McGinn try to wrestle Dawson to the ground and were only half watching the corner come in, my abiding memory will be leaving the Billy Wright seats. A woman in her fifties, who looked like she’d blush if she so much as burped in company, was singing “Shit on the Villa” at the top of her voice. I love how football can bring out the inner person occasionally.

 

[Charlie Wolf]

We had our own chances too. Cunha edge of the box and middle of goal with a free shot, Costa clean through, someone should have scored off the Neto cross towards the end.

I am also sure it was NOT a foul when Neto would have been clean through in the first half, Ramsey (I think) was going down quicker than a Ladbaby single on Boxing Day. But that's Attwell for you, you will always get bizarre calls all the way through every game.

Yes a special mention for todays ref who was single-handedly trying to give Villa every possible advantage with such feeble free kicks which beggared belief.

Particularly liked the one in the second half when, me thinks it was Douglas Luiz went down just inside his own half under relative little pressure with Mings advancing and presenting Hwang the ball and a clear run only for it to be pulled back….from my view in the NB Hwang was at least 1m away and made no contact at all…basically cuz Hwang weren’t fast enough.

Yes an absolute joke of a referee

 

[The Bear]

I went on VillaTalk earlier and they also slated the ref, with plenty of "homer" remarks and that we were constantly stopping the game in the second half with cynical fouls.

 

[Alan]

I didn't think Attwell was all that bad, he was far too stingy for my liking but he seemed mostly consistent with both sides IMO.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

He was poor for both sides.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

He was poor for both sides.

He always is. Batshit calls that make no sense, all the time.

 

[Alan]

He was poor for both sides.

He certainly has a way of talking to players as if they're a toddler who threw a hissy, I'll say that.

 

[Charlie Wolf]

I didn't think Attwell was all that bad, he was far too stingy for my liking but he seemed mostly consistent with both sides IMO.

Hi Al, he awarded Villa 20 free kicks where about half of them were contentious. He also played on when Neves was taken out about 25 yards out which was in a promising position. He wasn’t good mate

 

[Tredman]

He also allowed villa to take an off side kick from our half ffs

 

[PuntsWolf]

Standard Atwell performance. Blows up for everything which just makes his job harder. If he just let things go he’d make his job easier.

 

[Tony Towner]

He doesn't understand the ebb and flow of a game, never has, never will. That said Villa's falling over wasn't what you'd expect from a team that was trailing. As frustrating as it was to watch it took momentum out of their own attacks

 

[Lycan]

I think one of the other officials has had a word with him at half time. 1st half he might as well have been wearing claret & blue, he was giving them everything they wanted. 2nd half he was much fairer.

 

[Aikiwolf]

Atwell was appalling without making any specific, horror, decision. He continually blew up for nothing fouls and spoilt the continuity of the game.

Special shout out for when he blew up to give Villa a foul and after some complaints gave it to us (spoiler, there was no foul it was just two players challenging for the ball).

We were solid but unspectacular today, Dawson is my motm but there wasn't a Wolves player who was below a 7/10. We made Villa look very ordinary and forced into lots of pointless possession and sideways passes.

 

[Alan]

Maybe the bar has just gotten that low for me!

 

[Wolvensam]

Today is also the first time since June 2020 where we’ve kept four home clean sheets in a row. And we have more home clean sheets than any other team in the EPL this year (which is mental)

 

[Kenny]

Keeping the local pizza places in business if nothing else

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

They're very bitter

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[BillyDee]

They're very bitter

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This was a cracker:
"This is why it's easier for Brighton to make Europe.

Teams will raise their game against us because of our name, it makes it harder."

 

[Lupo]

I was reading VT before the game and the amount that described the game as our (Wolves) 'cup final' was truly astounding from the deluded cunts

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Ridiculously high opinion of their own standing. They're about to finish in the top half of the Premier League for the first time since 2011. Well done, a decent season. Not that it's likely to actually yield anything in itself.

We've done that three times since they last did and we've also been in League One during that timeframe.

Maybe we didn't make a special effort against them and we're just actually quite good at home since we got a proper manager, and maybe we celebrated (which was nothing OTT) because we're not arrogant enough to just shrug away wins at this level?