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

madloaf said:
XG is the most american garbage the world has ever seen.

The invention of XG as an actual thing that people care about along with VAR is slowly turning the greatest sport in the world into a fucking dumpster fire.
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Depends on how you read it though.

Our xG is so high because we had so many point blank shots that were hit right at the keeper. Haaland did it twice, Foden did it, Walker skied one, Kev got into a couple of good positions.

We were shit but still should have won.
 
IcriedwhenTueartleft said:
Disappointing performance, not often we go ahead and end up dropping points.
Talking of "dropping"...Foden was poor again. See if Grealish was churning out these types of performances week in week out, imagine the abuse he'd be getting, well actually, I don't have to imagine because he was getting that stick last season.
Stones just needed to head that ball back to Ederson but instead headed it back into play, then failed to clear it a 2nd time. Not sure what was wrong with their 2nd either, we got a bit lucky with that one.
Gundogan's worst performance for quite some time too.
Thing is, if brain of Britain Walker squares that in the 1st 5 minutes then we are one up, away to a side bereft of confidence, with a very nervy home crowd...instead he tries the glory shot.
Some staggeringly poor decisions today that cost us 2 points.
Aside from the great cross, KDB was a bit erratic with his passing too.
Ah well, we take the point and move on. we've struggled a bit recently at Villa Park with some nervy 1 goal wins, couldn't manage it agaib today unfortunately.
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I’d agree Foden and Walker (along with our other full back) were sub-par today, but I think the other players you’ve named in there and the rest of the team were assets to us today.

We needed Kev or Erling to put us 2-0 up in that purple patch we had before they equalised.

Sky seem to love putting us on at 5.30 Saturday away from home, hoping it’ll be a bear pit, or maybe that’s just me imagining it.

Onwards we go.
 
wattle said:
I have never been so sure that we’ll win the league. We are miles better than anyone in this league this season. Erling stays fit for 80% off the season and we win by 15 points
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I’m with this. We’ve had to look at mid to high 90s to see Liverpool off most seasons lately. From what I’ve seen so far, anything mid 80s will be enough this season and I’m ultra confident we’re capable of that.
 
They’re wilfully ignoring the blown whistle that stopped everyone playing. The decision was wrong but it wasn’t a disallowed goal, the decision happen long before the shot. Stones was stood there throwing his arms in the way - just because he was more worried about the ball hitting his head than any possibility of a goal. Play had stopped.
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
Whats his workrate? I mean stats. I saw him running and chasing and back for corners when he wasnt try to position himself for an attack. Have youi got stats or is it your intuition?
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It’s not quite that simple. If you look at CR37’s stats last season, his numbers for sprints and distance were decent.

He didn’t join in their press though and made them easy to play against.

Haaland needs to adapt to our press better. His goals change games, but our poorer press can change games too.
 
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