Villa v West Brom

Your Man of the Match vote please...

I am not keen on Guzan, but he made a couple of good stops yesterday to be fair!

I'm kind of torn. I thought Amavi did well (apart from the tackle that led to the goal), Richards was mostly excellent (again) and Guzan had a good game (and was blameless for the goal) but I'm going with Gil. He made some great runs but Sinclair and Gabby kept standing in the middle waiting, surrounded by defenders, so he had to pass sideways or out to the wings. He and Grealish are waiting for a striker to go out and have fun with. Whether that's Ayew or Kozak I don't know, but Gabby's always been static in the middle and Sinclair needs it drummed into his head he needs to move.

Gabby is ok when we're on the fast break and he can chase the ball. The shot he set up for Gil was an example of this.

But when we're trying to break down the opposition with a bit of clever movement (as Foxy has pointed out), our flair players are just waiting to thread thru that magic pass.

Anyway, Gil got my nod. A shame he can't last 90 mins.

IAgree Gil An Geralish were crying out for a intelligent runs from the front men which never came. Time for Kozak or Ayew to have some game time for me.

Richards is an absolute steel, guy is class defensive as well as coming forward.