Chi-town blues
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Aston Villa (A) | PL | Post-Match Thread
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stonerblue
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Here’s a tune for all you ‘believers’ ;-)
And PS, as a pre 2008 supporter, can you let me know how many points we have to drop before it becomes not embarrassing to make a critical comment or two? What would your trigger point be?
Personally I’m not sure there’s always a direct correlation between result and individual player performance anyway. Some players can have great games when we don’t win, and others subpar performances even though we’ve won.
Choon....
big gaz
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But 700 of those passes was Stones to Rubens and back to Stones ;-)There is no point in complaining about the time added-on. We had 73% possession and made 750 passes in that game. That's sufficient enough for 3 goals.
He hasn't looked fit to me in his defense (?) but obviously it's impacting his performance and the team aswell. Yeah this new position really isn't bringing the best out of him but like I said I don't think our midfield is giving our defence much protection at all. The system is all wrong, hopefully Pep can address it. Kyle has apparently got a minor injury so maybe a little break is what he needs to come back to form.Walker is being asked to play a role he isn’t familiar with and doesn’t really match his skill set. He proved his worth (to any doubters) when we didn’t have him for the whole of the Real Madrid tie. He’s brilliant at defending his side of the pitch but is obviously finding it difficult having to come more inside and play the ball out more often. Not sure he deserves to be ‘dropped’ for an inferior player because of it.
I didn’t really want Bernardo to go off. But he was getting kicked every time the ball went near him.That Alvarez didn’t get game time was shocking. Mahrez is totally out of form so to take Bernie off for him was baffling. Anyway, bad day at the office, we move on
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Walker is being asked to play a role he isn’t familiar with and doesn’t really match his skill set. He proved his worth (to any doubters) when we didn’t have him for the whole of the Real Madrid tie. He’s brilliant at defending his side of the pitch but is obviously finding it difficult having to come more inside and play the ball out more often. Not sure he deserves to be ‘dropped’ for an inferior player because of it.
He's also very good at hugging the touchline, and bombing up it to overlap Mahrez or Bernardo to give them the option of an outside ball — or a defence-splitting ball between opposing full back and centre half — for Walker to pop over and into the box, and generally create chaos. He may have lost pace but we can't really judge at present. He is not a midfielder, and doesn't have a midfielder's ability or vision to spray the ball around. Has Pep asked him to perform this inverted full back role because of what he's seeing in training? I just don't know. But Walker doesn't look comfortable with it.
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Leicester got 81 points.
No way that’s enough this season to win it.
In 68 we won the league with 58 points! True, there were only two points for a win at the time. But 42 matches to play!
We lost fully ten games that season.
But I take your point. Different times. Nobody will win the league without at least 85 points, very possibly more.
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Shit, completely forgot that we also went ahead against Newcastle. Not gonna lie, feeling a bit more disgruntled than I was.
Don’t need to tell me mate, I was at about a dozen games that season.In 68 we won the league with 58 points! True, there were only two points for a win at the time. But 42 matches to play!
We lost fully ten games that season.
But I take your point. Different times. Nobody will win the league without at least 85 points, very possibly more.
Different times now, despite how good mid table clubs are getting, the elite Prem teams are just so good compared to even 15 years ago.
Foden wasn’t poor. In fact, the team as a whole were well in control until we give them something to cheer.No but he could have come on for foden who was poor.
Bernardo was getting kicked off the park and I think that was why he was hooked
Last fifteen we lost control of the game. We were anxious and indecisive.
And doing random bizarre stuff. Booting it long and aimlessly.
Gerrard called a time out with fifteen to go. So that may have had a bearing on the way we responded.