Holman must've been frustrated. Should've had an assist but Benteke's shot was weak. Should've scored too.. he had acres of space in the box but Weimann put it in row Z instead of a simple pass.

Some positive reviews from goal.com

Adam Federici
Looked superb under the high ball and made a great save to deny Benteke in the first half and enjoyed another solid evening for the Royals.

Brett Holman
The heartbeat of Villa’s attacking play, Holman covered virtually every blade of grass showing a superb range of passing that helped spark much of Villa’s forward movements before being taken off in the second half.


http://www.goal.com/en-gb/match/80951/aston-villa-vs-reading/player-ratings

Some positive reviews from goal.com

Adam Federici
Looked superb under the high ball and made a great save to deny Benteke in the first half and enjoyed another solid evening for the Royals.

Brett Holman
The heartbeat of Villa’s attacking play, Holman covered virtually every blade of grass showing a superb range of passing that helped spark much of Villa’s forward movements before being taken off in the second half.


http://www.goal.com/en-gb/match/80951/aston-villa-vs-reading/player-ratings

Any word on how Triosi played

Just watched the Dusseldorf - Dortmund game, a few impressions.

Dortmund were clearly the better side, and completely dominated the first half without creating a whole lot of chances. Their lead was well deserved though. Kruse, playing up front rather than out wide got few opportunities and when he did he tended to lose the ball quite a bit.

Second half Dusseldorf improved and played more football than in the first. The goal came from Dortmund turning over possession, Kruse managed to get back onside (he was offside a lot during the game) in time to get the ball, and, unmarked, put over a great cross for the finish.

Kruse did some other decent things with the ball but wasn't that much of a factor tbh. His workrate was excellent.

In a side that came to defend Kruse did a good job overall and was one of the very few Fortuna players who looked somewhat dangerous when they got the ball in attack. In a defensive team performance against a superior opponent I'd give him about a 7/10.

If he has a couple of seasons like the one he's started he could go to a bigger club IMO.

And his improvement is awesome for the NT, he is now one of our most influential players.

Watched it on setanta.

Thanks for summary, very interested to seeing Kruse develop. Wish we could see the Bundeslise (spelling sorry) here in OZ.

I'm assuming he did ok because he played the full game but nothing spectacular as he wasn't mentioned in the match report I saw

Holman just scored a cracker of a goal from outside the box for Villa. Herd also starting.