f***ing come on, have some of f***ing that. Adebayor I f***ing said he would come good, I f***ing said it. When others have criticised him recently tonight he was f***ing brilliant. He worked his absolute nuts off and his header was so good. We were'nt at our best today, but it's games like this that win Championships. We saw United do it last year when they won at Fulham and Liverpool when they weren't at their best and once Hleb came off we were awful. But we had enough to come through and battle on to victory.
The first half we were by far the better team and deserved to be in front at half time. The goal we gave away was awful, we had a free kick inside our own half and Flamini gave it straight to Villa. They got lucky with the deflections and Clichy should have been watching Gardner and by the time he took a second look Gardner was firing it into the back of the net. It was good play from Gardner, as our own wide players imo don't do what he did enough, but Clichy and Flamini should have done far better. After that I just thought oh shit here we go, but we battled back superbly and just played Villa off the park. The equaliser was great play from Ade and Eboue, who put a good ball into the box. The ball fell to Flamini who fired it home, a wonderful finish and you could tell it really meant something to him. The second goal was brilliant, as it's a goal we never usually score and something that we need to add to our game. A great ball into the box from Sagna and Ade had the determination to climb above Knight and Mellberg of Laursen can't remember which one. We looked threatening all half and looked like we could score more.
Hleb was absolutely outstanding in the first 60 minutes he was on the pitch. Villa just couldn't handle him at all. He played in the hole and they just didn't know what to do with him. Carew's tackle on him was a bad tackle, I don't think he intended to hurt him, but we've now lost him for Wednesday and it's a big blow. Once he came off we just got worse and worse. He has become such a key player for us and maybe more important than Cesc in terms of the passing football we play.
Once Hleb came off Villa absolutely battered us. They controlled the game and we just couldn't get near it. They would punt it up to Carew and he won every single header. I don't think there was one ball he didn't win in the air, it was ridiculous. Young couldn't get the better of Sagna who was superb and Clichy did well on the other side. Toure made a vital tackle on Maloney and did well winning some of the second balls. Rosicky and Theo were awful and some of the passing from Diarra was disgraceful, but his tackling was immense and him and Flamini battled superbly.
Carew had Villa's only real chance and was very unlucky not to score and Villa were worth a point after their second half performance, but I don't care to be honest we won and are now 6 points clear at the top of the table I will also point out people that moan our foreigners dive, watch Ashley's young dive in the 87th minute. Was a f***ing disgrace and the ref did superbly to book him.
Overall it was a great win and the type that we didn't last season. We now move onto Newcastle and will hopefully compound more misery on them