Aston Villa 2-1 West Brom

[BBC Sport]

Aston Villa put questions over manager Gerard Houllier's nascent tenure to bed with a hard-fought derby win over impressive local rivals West Brom.

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[GodCubed]

Looooveee yooouuuu Marc, Stewart, Emile, Ashley, Barry. Very pleased with the result, needed the points. Now with our firing Heskey back, we can push on. UTV!

 

[Frutty]

Aston Villa needed this win as air.

 

[Ben]

Great result for Villa. Reckon Di Matteo will be slightly dissapointed with this one.

 

[Alex]

Massive win for Villa. Am happy for them

 

[Ride The Walrus]

Good, hopefully things will look up for Gerard.

 

[Thefreeman]

I think both teams were poor. But a victory for villa is a victory, and they could do with the 3 points.

 

[ChippyLowe]

Albrighton is the one. Sign that kid up for life.

 

[.Jack]

****, I do with Marc Albrighton couldn't have played :/ We were unlucky, we terrorised them first half an hour, but our heads went down after the first goal and we just couldn't get back into gear, partly due to the ref stopping us for silly things and partly because we had that lazy piece of **** Fortune up front.