Salifou debuterade när Aston Villa krossade Chelsea med 6-0
Aston Villa vann ikväll reservlagsmatchen mot Chelsea med förkrossande 6-0.
Reservlagsmatch:
Aston Villa - Chelsea 6-0
Mål:
Marlon Harewood 3, Patrik Berger 1, Chris Herd 1, Självmål 1
Varningar:
Jonathan Hogg, Shane Lowry.
Moustapha Salifou debuterade äntligen ikväll.
Salifou passade till 2 av målen och gjorde en bra insats. Matchotränad var han dock.
Marlon Harewood gjorde 3 strutar och närmar sig A-Laget igen, då Luke Moore sviktat.
Patrik Berger var tillbaka efter skada och var planens gigant.
Ett Mål blev det från honom.
Härligt att han är tillbaka, då vi behöver nån som kan hålla i bollen på mitten.
Zoltan Stieber lämnade planen haltande efter en ful tackling av Hutchinson i den 39 min.
Hur allvarlig skadan är vet jag inte ännu.
Längst ner har jag klippt in spelarbetyg från Villatalk.
Värt att veta är att Nathan Delfouneso och Harry Forrester är och spelar U17 Landskamper för England, så de kunde inte vara med ikväll.
Aston Villa ställde upp med följande lag:
Thomas Sörensen
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Erik Lund
Shane Lowry
Curtis Davies
Stephen O´Halloran
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Moustapha Salifou
Isaiah Osbourne (Chris Herd 80)
Jonathan Hogg
Zoltan Stieber (Danny Earls 39)
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Patrik Berger (Tobias Mikaelsson 80)
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Marlon Harewood
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Övriga Avbytare:
David Bevan (GK)
Damian Bellon
Ratings:
Sorensen (7) – Didn’t have anything huge to do, but made the kind of saves you’d expect your keeper to make, handled well, organised pretty well and kicked reasonably.
Lund (8.) – Did really well against the very quick Sinclair and added a great deal to our attacking play too. This was a very mature performance.
Davies – (8.) – Won everything in the air and led a very impressive back four very well. At times he looked very classy and at others a bit more ragged, but he looks an excellent athlete and a very talented defender on this showing.
Lowry – (7) – Sometimes a bit anonymous, but then that’s no bad thing in a centre half, he’s not one of those players that does things that have you on the edge of your seat, but I can’t remember a mistake he’s made all season.
O’Halloran – (8.) – Blondes have more fun it would seem, and the newly blonde O’Halloran looked like he was enjoying himself tonight. It wasn’t just about aggression; he was playing the ball nicely and getting forward. He looks a little quicker this season than last term too.
Salifou – (7) – Oi! Don’t start here, read it from the top! Oh all right then, well he’s not as big as I thought he’d be and he started slowly. He looked like a man who hadn’t played for a bit and who needed more time and space than he was being afforded. As the game went on he got better and showed some neat touches and nice link play. He’s got the happy habit of finding a bit of room, but doesn’t quite look sharp yet. An interesting debut, but I reckon there might just be a whole lot to come. If we can get his fitness up he could be a prospect.
Hogg – (8.) – Another all action performance from Hoggy, got stuck in from the word go and thoroughly deserved his booking. He’s non-stop from the first minute to the last and can play a bit too.
Osbourne – (8.) – Does what Gareth does for the first team, only where Gareth passes the ball thirty yards, Isaiah carries it. He’s intelligent, strong, big and still only nineteen. I think he’ll feature in one of the next few first team games.
Stieber – (7) – Good with the ball, but not the most influential half hour for young Zoltan. It was a bad challenge that put him out of the game. I don’t think it was anything serious and certainly hope not, but his ankle looked very painful.
Berger (9) – He was majestic, a class apart. He has the ability to absolutely dominate games at this level, and he was excellent tonight. His passing is fabulous; he worked hard, could have scored more than one and looked pretty much match fit too.
Harewood – (7) – Like a male Anne Robinson, he looks terrible but somehow manages to do ever so well for himself. He was awful at times in the first half, his first touch was poor, he wasn’t making runs, his anticipation and awareness were poor, but once he scored his first goal a different animal started to emerge. After his second he came on another step and a confident Marlon Harewood is a dangerous creature indeed. By the time he scored his third he looked a proper striker again. I don’t know what to make of him.
Subs.
Earls (8.) More high tempo, high energy darts up and down the left side by the bandy legged swashbuckling full back extraordinaire. If I were a footballer I’d want to play like Danny Earls.
Herd & Mikaelsson (8.)- In ten minutes, Herd and Mikaelsson took Chelsea apart with some lovely short passing and movement, both could have scored and Herd thoroughly deserved his.
