Stoned Rose
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Thank fuck for that.
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Aston Villa (A) | PL | Post Match Thread
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Lovebitesandeveryfing
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I think the effort is there but confidence is absolutely shot to pieces.
They’re playing on the back foot as a result.
The defensive frailty is a consequence of the constant injury problems for all our centre backs and is exposed by a midfield that gives no protection as we lack a proper enforcer there. There’s no nastyness in the middle of the park.
I’ve always been against making significant signings in January but a quality dm is desperately needed asap…
Ok, I'll tell you something weird I've been noticing. It's not that they're not running, but they're running to no purpose, and sometimes to disastrous purpose.
Look back at the highlights of the United match. United winger overlapping, he's up against Walker. Walker's jockeying him, slowing him up, doing his job as a full back in fact. About ten to fifteen yards away is Bernardo. Now Bernardo's man, a few yards away from him, is Fernandes. Suddenly Bernardo takes it into his head to race over to back up Walker (who doesn't actually need him at that point). Winger sees it, puts the back inside to a now perfectly free Fernandes. He puts the ball inside to the one skilful player still left in that team, he's got all the time he needs to tee it up, and to be fair, he duly puts over a perfect cross right to the head of a United player in the box. Watch any recent game, slow it, pause it, and you'll see that this kind of thing has been happening a lot. It's as if they don't trust each other any more, even as if they don't know each other any more.
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Running but almost no one dare or capable to make a real physic challenge.Ok, I'll tell you something weird I've been noticing. It's not that they're not running, but they're running to no purpose, and sometimes to disastrous purpose.
Look back at the highlights of the United match. United winger overlapping, he's up against Walker. Walker's jockeying him, slowing him up, doing his job as a full back in fact. About ten to fifteen yards away is Bernardo. Now Bernardo's man, a few yards away from him, is Fernandes. Suddenly Bernardo takes it into his head to race over to back up Walker (who doesn't actually need him at that point). Winger sees it, puts the back inside to a now perfectly free Fernandes. He puts the ball inside to the one skilful player still left in that team, he's got all the time he needs to tee it up, and to be fair, he duly puts over a perfect cross right to the head of a United player in the box. Watch any recent game, slow it, pause it, and you'll see that this kind of thing has been happening a lot. It's as if they don't trust each other any more, even as if they don't know each other any more.
Most teams in the league have improved their ball playing ability and will no longer be scared by only cutting their passing lanes.
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Just out of interest, what are our running stats like currently. They monitor things like this don’t they? Where can it be found.Ok, I'll tell you something weird I've been noticing. It's not that they're not running, but they're running to no purpose, and sometimes to disastrous purpose.
Look back at the highlights of the United match. United winger overlapping, he's up against Walker. Walker's jockeying him, slowing him up, doing his job as a full back in fact. About ten to fifteen yards away is Bernardo. Now Bernardo's man, a few yards away from him, is Fernandes. Suddenly Bernardo takes it into his head to race over to back up Walker (who doesn't actually need him at that point). Winger sees it, puts the back inside to a now perfectly free Fernandes. He puts the ball inside to the one skilful player still left in that team, he's got all the time he needs to tee it up, and to be fair, he duly puts over a perfect cross right to the head of a United player in the box. Watch any recent game, slow it, pause it, and you'll see that this kind of thing has been happening a lot. It's as if they don't trust each other any more, even as if they don't know each other any more.
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Just out of interest, what are our running stats like currently. They monitor things like this don’t they? Where can it be found.
Good question. They sometimes in passing mention running stats for the two teams in the BBC write-ups of matches, so they must refer to some site for that.
Stoned Rose
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Watch Villa 2nd goal again we had plenty of chances to challenge Rogers or at least put the body across him but no one wanted to do so. unbelievable...
Soft as shite.
Yes and YesWe can afford it but it might mean we struggle to get our targets and will Haaland hang around?
Yes, it does.Does anybody know if all the prize money counts with PSR rules
If you think the City machine will be out of the CL for 2 seasons you're deluded.You are assuming it would only be 1 if it was to happen.
Once you drop out it's not that easy getting back in.
It ain't in our owners playbook.
Yes, it does.
Sorry, what I meant was can it go on the amount of money we can spend