Aston Villa (A) | PL | Post-Match Thread

citymad said:
I take it you mean Kyle. How bad is the injury? Does anyone know ?
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Worrying signs with Walker this season. It does appear that he MAY have lost a yard of pace. And without that he is nowhere near good enough for our team. Hope that it isn't the case as he signed a long term contract last season I think.
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
I always fear the worst when the opposition get behind our flanks, especially as our full backs make no attempt to block the cross.
As ever, this will be more of a concern in the latter stages of the CL.
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I genuinely thought Cancelo was awful defensively. I do wonder whether he would be better on his natural right side and Gomez could give us some pace and width on the left. Walker has started the season awfully.
 
HelloCity said:
What a strange point of view.

‘Gloss merchants’? We’ve won the league 4 times out of 5 seasons and are one of the greatest teams in the history of English football. Not only that but it’s our best start to a season since 2017. I thought we were as shit as anyone else yesterday but I also understand that bad days happens to every team, no matter the season. Just look at Liverpool, they’ve only won 2 matches and were extremely lucky to win one of them. I’d take our start in the league over any teams considering Arsenal haven’t had a tough fixture yet.
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More eggshell.
 
GaudinoMotors said:
I take it the gloss merchants will have been out by now. "Arrogant", "spoilt", "we'll still win the league", "could be an important point" etc Whilst the last 2 may hopefully have some validity - that was poor yesterday and showed a fragility we need to address.
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If the last two points have validity, I don’t get your point? A lot of our fans now ARE arrogant. Successful teams all have this problem. Some of our fans have only treated success so ARE spoilt. Human nature I suppose. I don’t see it as being a gloss merchant to say we are ok and are going to win the league. Is obvious that should and will if we avoid long term injuries to our man players - although I’m aware that sounds arrogant haha
 
west didsblue said:
Fair result. A few average performances from us but good to see Haaland score and get two shots on target that MOTD ignored. Cancelo should have done better with their goal.
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Cancelo had Bailey in his eyesight and should have sensed the danger. He was unmarked on the edge of the box.
 
GaudinoMotors said:
I take it the gloss merchants will have been out by now. "Arrogant", "spoilt", "we'll still win the league", "could be an important point" etc Whilst the last 2 may hopefully have some validity - that was poor yesterday and showed a fragility we need to address.
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We haven't got a fragility, the problem we have is we can't defend without the ball. The only fact on the table is Villa literally had one shot on target and they scored it. It was the same against Newcastle although they took the game to us at times and created far more chances so we conceded even more.

We seem to have this every year but it's a product of how we play and it can't be fixed. We aren't going to harden up at the back and change how we play with the risk of conceding 1 shot on target.

On another day we'd take our chances and batter Villa 3-1. 4-1 or 5-1. It's just the way it is and last year we finished top playing that way. This year if we draw a few of these type of games but win the rest then we'll win the league. I'd be more concerned if we were losing and playing badly but that isn't happening.
 
Poor decision making was accountable yesterday

Walker should have passed to Haaland
Stones should have headed back to Eddie
Mahrez should pass across the goal or put laces through it and not hesitate
Pep should have brought Alvarez on who shows more urgency than Mahrez

Still 1 point is better than 0
 
paulchapo said:
They both have a tendency to dawdle on the ball. We aren't very good at stopping crosses either, particularly on Cancelo's side.
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Sometimes it looks like they want to show they can hang onto the ball, no matter who is trying to take it off them. Like, their ego kicks in. When an easy pass is on. It's frustrating.
 
Should have won. But then could have lost. That's the way it goes sometimes. Collectively we seemed a bit off it and yet we didn't do too much wrong, passing a tad sluggish ....it happens. Perspective is all, keep the longer term picture as to how we will perform - especially in a season like this with the World Cup in the middle. No doubt we'll be there come May.
 
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN said:
Poor decision making was accountable yesterday

Walker should have passed to Haaland
Stones should have headed back to Eddie
Mahrez should pass across the goal or put laces through it and not hesitate
Pep should have brought Alvarez on who shows more urgency than Mahrez

Still 1 point is better than 0
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All true I don't disagree.. But as my dad used to say..."if the dog hadn't stop to shit it should have won the race". Hindsight is a great thing....and I wish I'd had it with the Euromillions numbers on Friday night! ☺
 
Rubbish until the goal. Then we were playing like 5 up until it went 1-1. From 1-1 i thought we didn't do enough to win.
 
D'Silva said:
Why Bernardo started over Mahrez and Alvarez? I really cannot remember a time Bernardo was ever great as an RW. Put a proper forward there instead of trying to shoehorn one of our midfielders. I honestly do not like to see Ilkay, Bernardo and KDB on the field at the same time.
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I don't think we can play Kevin and Ilkay in the same team. Ilkay is so good at arriving in the box unnoticed but he can't make those runs because Kevin has free range. We leave ourselves exposed in central midfield. Bernie should play there, certainly away from home.
 
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