Aston Villa (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

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 don’t think we are great away from home.
jimmygrimblesboots said:
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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Villa were excellent last night. I was really impressed with them and had we lost 3 nil we couldn’t really have complained.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
I don’t think we are great away from home.

Villa were excellent last night. I was really impressed with them and had we lost 3 nil we couldn’t really have complained.
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5-0 and we couldnt have complained , the first time a Pep team has been dominated since the 0-4 defeat at Everton in his first season , the point i am making is Villa cannot do it every week , just like the Dippers they save their best performances of the season for games against us.
 
For what its worth it's all down to Inter for letting those Knights out on the piss and wearing dusty armour!
Come on Inter clean the buggers up and have them back, this is on you ;-)
 
Last time I voted "Win" in the pre-match thread was vs Brentford (a). We lost.

Since then every time I voted, I voted "Lose" - regardless of how preposterous that appeared.

For the Villa game I decided to change it up, and voted "Win".

Soz.
 
We have changed the way we play to suit Haaland. When he is playing well and taking his chances we’re all happy. This year he’s missing plenty and good teams know how to starve him.
When we had Mahrez, KDB, Bernado, Jesus, Sterling, Gundogan and Foden to choose from alongside Rodri we had plenty of goals and options with a fluid, irrepressible but consistent style of play.,
EH is not skilful, agile or mobile enough to play that same style. Alvarez is.
Pep has the dilemma of having the finest finisher in world football who does not suit his ideal of “a team of 10 midfielders “
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blueparrot said:
2 players some thought weren't good enough when they first arrived you mean ?
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Maybe in your opinion. Certainly not in mine. Both were exceptional signings who added value from day one but who took a while to convince some of our supporters.

Nunes is no different to Kalvin Phillips, i.e. well out of his depth at elite level, and Kovacic is very much yesterday's man.

Two desperate last-minute signings in a very poor transfer window.
 
Lavinda Past said:
Maybe in your opinion. Certainly not in mine. Both were exceptional signings who added value from day one but who took a while to convince some of our supporters.

Nunes is no different to Kalvin Phillips, i.e. well out of his depth at elite level, and Kovacic is very much yesterday's man.

Two desperate last-minute signings in a very poor transfer window.
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In quite a few peoples opinions. Myself I long ago learned not to jump to conclusions based on 10 or less games, because Pep improves most players. I’ll wait and see.
 
Sadly that was our worst performance in many a year, took me back a bit blues falling out with one another behind us freezing bastard cold was still shivering when I got back home. The Red cartel getting all giddy again thinking our dominance is over, can’t put my finger on what’s going wrong last few weeks but I bet Pep can. Let’s await May that’s when we’ll see.
 
jimmygrimblesboots said:
5-0 and we couldnt have complained , the first time a Pep team has been dominated since the 0-4 defeat at Everton in his first season , the point i am making is Villa cannot do it every week , just like the Dippers they save their best performances of the season for games against us.
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I don’t think they will win the league but they have having a cracking season. 14 home wins on the bounce is really impressive.
 
i kne albert davy said:
Sadly that was our worst performance in many a year, took me back a bit blues falling out with one another behind us freezing bastard cold was still shivering when I got back home. The Red cartel getting all giddy again thinking our dominance is over, can’t put my finger on what’s going wrong last few weeks but I bet Pep can. Let’s await May that’s when we’ll see.
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It's only really last night it went disastrously wrong

We should have beaten Chelsea, Liverpool and Spurs and if it wasn't for last gasp equalisers and appalling refereeing decisions in two of those matches, we would have beaten them all as well
 
chaddblue said:
It's only really last night it went disastrously wrong

We should have beaten Chelsea, Liverpool and Spurs and if it wasn't for last gasp equalisers and appalling refereeing decisions in two of those matches, we would have beaten them all as well
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Not sure about Chelsea thought they matched us and draw was about right though to be in front so late and drop points, spurs and Liverpool we we’re certainly the better side. Hoping last night was a one off.
 
Fordyboy46 said:
Is this our weakest squad we've had for years?. We can't cope with a few injuries to key players now, we could've managed quite comfortably even a few seasons ago when our bench was full of quality. Last night's bench was awful, eight on it with two keepers present, how has it got so threadbare?. Three players on it who do virtually the same job ie Nunes, Phillip's, and Kovacic and all three haven't got a goal in them, absolute rubbish.
Nunes for 53m could be even worse business than Phillip's, why we paid that for someone who had a shit season at Wolves is beyond me. Still early for him though, do hopefully he can produce something.
I think we see big changes again next summer
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Never understood the Nunes transfer. Seemed a good technical player but when you looked at his goal involvements at wolves it was stuff all, even for a holding midfielder. Paqueta made sense but to switch to Nunes when that fell through made no sense whatsoever.
 
Absolutely galling when we go away, give our all, play well and, but for a combination of bad luck and the usual ineptitude of the officials and corrupt wankers at Stockley Park, we come home empty handed.

Not on this occasion though. Far from our best and beaten by an excellent Villa side on the night.

"Crisis" lol.
 
We'll come back from this.
We were battered and extremely lucky to just lose 1-0
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
Funny how the meedya today are full of how good Villa were. Had they beaten MANUre 1-0 with a deflected goal the story would have centred on the Rags and how poor they were, and what needs to be done, and a list of twenty things that could be done to reverse the shitty performance. Villa wouldn't have got two sentences!
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That's because we're the worlds best team. To have beaten us Villa had to play the best they had ever played in many years. Still took a deflected shot.

Doesn't take much for the rags to lose.
 
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