Match Thread | Aston Villa vs. Man City (21/12/24)

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Grealish doing well apart from finishing and crossing bar one time.
He should be doing far better at shooting and crossing.
 
Pep stapporn and does not learn. We don't have our full squad, why to continue to play high defence? Why playing 50 passes and side passes? Why can't we adjust our playing style to recognise our current weaknesses?
 
CatMan said:
In all seriousness now, how, when he continues to set us up as we are, can anyone continue to support Guardiola?

Morgan Rogers, a player that didn't fit the Guardiola mold (just like all the others he never tried who are now ripping up trees) is making our midfield of Lewis, Gundogan, Kovacic, Foden, and Bernardo look like 8 stone wet weaklings. The goal we conceded was like a knife through butter and just pathetic. We offer nothing but sideways, sideways, backwards. Despite having over 70% possession, we generate less than nothing.
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fucks sake short memory or what
 
Every team in the league knows we don't have the quality to even run a back 10 ragged anymore let alone score so everyone plays the same way and knows they'll catch us with too many men forward and they can do us on the break. It's insane how little we create for the number of men we commit forward.
 
Ric said:
I think we're actually playing reasonably well in the circumstances. The problem is we don't really look like scoring, whilst they look threatening every time they break. Never really thought we could win this one, but there are glimmers of hope though that might be slowly turning the corner once we get a few more players back. Grealish has been really bright on the left hand side.
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I agree to an extent Ric but still think Rico is a big issue for the way we want to play - it's not that he's a poor player but when I see him running without the ball he leaves tons of space and when he has it his only thought is to give it short - often he will play a pass and then like a young kid playing will follow the pass line by running into the space we need to create. He's not good enough to be our playmaker especially with the lack of strength and control from Kova and Gundo who have both been poor again. We have to find a way of getting more from Erling who looks lost and not engaged today. Play fast and go for it and we can win this, carry on playing slow rondo style and we lose.
 
Gundo was brought back to play the last 25 in games where we could take Rodders off, unfortunately he's had to play every game because of injuries. Not his fault or Peps. Man is a legend who has won us titles. Far too many short memories in here.
 
mexico1970 said:
I hope you're right mate, one thing is for sure some of the players playing on the pitch today have run their course here.
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Yep. A season too much for them.

Although made to look worse without the best player in world in midfield.
 
CatMan said:
In all seriousness now, how, when he continues to set us up as we are, can anyone continue to support Guardiola?

Morgan Rogers, a player that didn't fit the Guardiola mold (just like all the others he never tried who are now ripping up trees) is making our midfield of Lewis, Gundogan, Kovacic, Foden, and Bernardo look like 8 stone wet weaklings. The goal we conceded was like a knife through butter and just pathetic. We offer nothing but sideways, sideways, backwards. Despite having over 70% possession, we generate less than nothing.
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The recruitment in the last 2 years has been bad. This doesn't mean that the manager who just won his 4th title in a row is now deadwood.

Best case scenario is that this serves as a wakeup call to Pep and the higher ups. They've adapted to bad runs before (everyone was shitting bricks here when we were 8th in 2020 and when we lost to Brentford in 2022 before the World Cup) and they've earned enough capital to get an opportunity to turn this around.
 
argyle said:
Down to injuries.

Can't cope with a bad run?

Some if you need to learn how to deal with moments like this.
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Sorry but thus is not a moment...this is the rnd of the cycle for this team. It's not even about the poor result's..its about the performances and some players being finished.....
Gundo is finished
Rico Lewis isn't good enough
Grealish has got away with the team carrying him for years - he offers zero attacking threat
Kdb can't be relied on anymore to play consistently or at the top level
Walker is finished
Ake and Stones are perma crocks which puts pressure on other players
No back up for rodri

None of this is sortable this season without significant investment in new players....the season was done weeks ago and this team is finished... we don't finish top 6 let alone top 4th...infact unless we go into the transfer market in January and get the right players ( and Bruno G is another Grealish size mistake) we will struggle to finish top 10
 
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