Aston Villa 0 Sunderland 1: insert pithy observation here

And the hits just keep on coming.

Honestly, outside the first 20 minutes or so, I don’t think we were too bad (although I was expecting a little more vibrancy), a bit nervy here and there, but far from being second best. Houllier named an unchanged side, they created chances, they had control of the game for the most part, but made life difficult for themselves with frustrating mistakes.

Emile Heskey was superb in the outfield, bringing exactly what we’ve missed so

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Aston Villa vs Sunderland preview: blah blah blah, must win

A great deal of confidence was undoubtedly restored at Stamford Bridge and our slide toward oblivion apparently halted. At least for a while. Tonight, with Sunderland coming to Villa Park, we’ll see whether there’s enough fire burning in this team to launch an ascent back up the table.

The CEO’s backed the manager, the assistant manager has backed the team, now it’s up to the players to show that they really do care.

Results last night weren’t the most favourable

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Statshack – Aston Villa 1 Sunderland 1

My personal feeling about this game is that MON gambled. He rolled the dice on Richard Dunne and James Milner’s fitness and neither looked like they should have started this game. Richard Dunne was caught off guard on a number of occasions and it was clear he was off the pace. James Milner struggled to make any impact in this game and it was little surprise that he left the pitch in the 77th minute. I

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Aston Villa 1 Sunderland 1

Well, another game, another draw at Villa Park.  1-1 this time and with City getting beaten at home 2-0 by Everton it’s a chance to go 5th that I think we’ll look back on at the end of the season and rue.

I can’t find too many faults in the performance, Craig Gordon had to make a couple of game saving saves in the first 10 minutes.  I mean, real top quality saves that reinforce why Sunderland paid so much money

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