Aston Villa (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

Burtonblue said:
Let’s be objective, difficult as it can be on this forum!
Against the dippers, chelsea and spurs we were by far the better team and did more than enough to win. Luck was most definitely against us in those games. We dominated the ball and had the upper hand.
Last night we came up against a team full of running and confidence on a great run of form. Bailey was virtually unplayable whereas he’s been poor every other time I’ve seen him. The crowd were super up for it and hugely intimidating. We were missing key players and (dare I say it) were tactically not set up to deal with their midfield.
For me last night was our only truly poor performance this season. It’s a blip and the evidence is that we bounce back when needed.
Talks of a crisis are truly unfounded.
Have some faith fellow blues.
We are still the team to beat.
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Good post and I too was fairly positive before last night. I just feel the response was really shit despite injuries and probably wrong team picked.
I too thought we did pretty well v the dippers, chavs and Spurs.
But this season we were shite v Villa but also away to Arsenal and Wolves. So that's 20% of our games when we were not average but downright poor and of course Rodri was missing for all 3
 
argyle said:
So he came off the bench once.

He still knew at the weekend he'd get booked for kicking a ball away. That's what's fucking nonsense and I bet Pep wasn't best pleased with him for it.
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Yet Spuds player kicked the ball away early doors yet didnt get booked!

Refs are quite happy to book our players and we usually get the first yellow!
 
Stiff Little Wingers said:
Good post and I too was fairly positive before last night. I just feel the response was really shit despite injuries and probably wrong team picked.
I too thought we did pretty well v the dippers, chavs and Spurs.
But this season we were shite v Villa but also away to Arsenal and Wolves. So that's 20% of our games when we were not average but downright poor and of course Rodri was missing for all 3
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I think that’s our biggest problem.
Rodri is by far our most important player and we always struggle without him.
It’s incredibly difficult to find an alternative to him but that has to be our priority.
Nunes and Kova are excellent players but not able to do his job, nor is Stones.
Another issue for me is LB. Ake is better than Guardiol for me but I guess Pep needs to justify the outlay for Josko. I would v much like to see him play at CB with Ake at LB.
The elephant in the room is Dias. His form has been well below his norm and I think he needs a rest. Love the guy but there’s definitely something not right with him atm.
 
Burtonblue said:
Let’s be objective, difficult as it can be on this forum!
Against the dippers, chelsea and spurs we were by far the better team and did more than enough to win. Luck was most definitely against us in those games. We dominated the ball and had the upper hand.
Last night we came up against a team full of running and confidence on a great run of form. Bailey was virtually unplayable whereas he’s been poor every other time I’ve seen him. The crowd were super up for it and hugely intimidating. We were missing key players and (dare I say it) were tactically not set up to deal with their midfield.
For me last night was our only truly poor performance this season. It’s a blip and the evidence is that we bounce back when needed.
Talks of a crisis are truly unfounded.
Have some faith fellow blues.
We are still the team to beat.
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Agree, and you know something

If we had won those previous 3 which we should have really, then last night's shit nervous performance would not have happened.

May still have lost but we were so bad last night anyone would have beat us.


I bet PL HQ are having a huge fucking party today, what with their "random fixture computer" and PGMOL VAR outcomes of the last few games!
 
Burtonblue said:
The elephant in the room is Dias. His form has been well below his norm and I think he needs a rest. Love the guy but there’s definitely something not right with him atm.
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A couple of weeks ago I’d have strongly agreed with this, but he was much better against Spurs and our best outfield player by some distance last night. He’s getting there.
 
OB1 said:
The problem is the team are not creating enough good chances for him, IMO, and we are not attempting enough through balls.
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He's missed the most 'big chances' in the league by a wide margin and is underperforming his xG as it stands. He's getting plenty of good chances.

I agree we should try playing it through to him more but I feel like he's almost stopped making those runs. Although, probably due to a lack of them ever coming.
 
Burtonblue said:
I think that’s our biggest problem.
Rodri is by far our most important player and we always struggle without him.
It’s incredibly difficult to find an alternative to him but that has to be our priority.
Nunes and Kova are excellent players but not able to do his job, nor is Stones.
Another issue for me is LB. Ake is better than Guardiol for me but I guess Pep needs to justify the outlay for Josko. I would v much like to see him play at CB with Ake at LB.
The elephant in the room is Dias. His form has been well below his norm and I think he needs a rest. Love the guy but there’s definitely something not right with him atm.
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Burtonblue said:
I think that’s our biggest problem.
Rodri is by far our most important player and we always struggle without him.
It’s incredibly difficult to find an alternative to him but that has to be our priority.
Nunes and Kova are excellent players but not able to do his job, nor is Stones.
Another issue for me is LB. Ake is better than Guardiol for me but I guess Pep needs to justify the outlay for Josko. I would v much like to see him play at CB with Ake at LB.
The elephant in the room is Dias. His form has been well below his norm and I think he needs a rest. Love the guy but there’s definitely something not right with him atm.
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'Nuna and Kova are excellent players" ..Not sure how you arrive at that conclusion.
 
nellyonthewing said:
'Nuna and Kova are excellent players" ..Not sure how you arrive at that conclusion.
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They don't look anywhere near good enough even when I wear my bluest tinted glasses.

If he thinks they're "excellent players", I'd love to hear what the bloke thought of Gundogan and Fernandinho.
 
Eccles Blue said:
We are Manchester City the BEST TEAM IN THE LAND AND ALL THE WORLD and we’ll be fine and normal service will be resumed very soon.





I do wonder how some people would have coped in the really bad days of yore though. ;-) We’ve been down and we’ll be back up.
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What Eccles ?, Granada land or the second division ;-)
 
Shuffs said:
We need to go back to basics. There are teams playing "Peps Way" way better than we and there are too many players getting caught or making the wrong choices.

It'd been glorious to watch, but we don't have the personal to pull it off at the moment.

Let's trying something different; like knocking it long and picking up 2nd ball, actually trying to play Haaland through when he's made his umpteenth run behind the line and crossing the fucking ball instead of turning back (that was so frustrating by Kova in the last minute)

Not "Peps Way" but at least we'll become less predictable.

Full faith we'll turn this around, but some resetting and tactical thought are needed.

CTID.
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Kovacic had to turn back because he has no left foot.
 
Lavinda Past said:
They don't look anywhere near good enough even when I wear my bluest tinted glasses.

If he thinks they're "excellent players", I'd love to hear what the bloke thought of Gundogan and Fernandinho.
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2 players some thought weren't good enough when they first arrived you mean ?
 
Unfortunately i do not envisage Villa playing at the same level against the Goons , great teams do it week in week out and Villa are not a great team , it was a one-off performance and the celebrations by by their fans and players looked like they were in dreamland.
If Villa can play to the same level against the Goons then they could be considered challengers but they have just come back off a lucky last minute draw at Bournemouth , Emery is a decent manager and they could get top four but i wouldnt be surprised if the Goons beat them this weekend.
 
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