The_Steve ponders the new season.
Is it me... Or is there a renewed sense of togetherness in the squad? After the departure of Kersa and Culverhouse. Lambert giving the squad a clean break and bringing some leaders to the squad, we are seeing the fruits of that labour.
When our senior players like Guzan/Senderos reassure or celebrate at full-time with our younger players (e.g. Baker/Grealish) it makes a world of difference from last season.
For a squad often bereft of confide
With the relegation battle in full swing, both Aston Villa and Crystal Palace will be desperate to put real distance between them and the pit of abyss floating menacingly below them. The pair are locked on 34 points, seven clear of Fulham in 17th, with a win for either side practically ensuring Premier League survival for another year.
For that reason, this weekend's match is one of the most important for both sides, and you can be sure it'll be a close encounter. Villa have been struggling i
Premier League leaders Chelsea will travel to Villa Park on Saturday, with Paul Lambert's side out to avenge their controversial defeat to the Blues back in August.
Villa went down 2-1 at Stamford Bridge in a feisty encounter that left the players feeling mightily aggrieved following a number of questionable decisions from referee Kevin Friend.
Now with only 6 points separating them from the relegation zone, Villa need to keep up their good form following the 4-1 win over Norwich at the be
Watching back the replay two things seem to happen
one Emi is clearly asking for a ball , as there wasn’t one on the field of play at the time , an appeal would succeed on that basis I should think , he wasn’t booked for the sush motion to the crowd so I don’t think they can factor that into the decision
the other thing is the ref makes a motion like they often do after Var to suggest that he has nulled the yellow card … has the second yellow definitely been confirmed ?
Yes. I mean there's two points really, first that 75% is not 100% (as you say), but then also secondly that people were acting and talking as if the number mattered more than the reality of the fixtures. I don't know what the number of games is where looking at a statistical average of a dataset would be more useful to just predicting who would win a group of matches, but it's far more than the 5 ties that happened.
It is three bookings in the last 16/last 8 games combined for a suspension I think. The ones mentioned were already on two before the game, but Emi was only on one (from the first leg). The two tonight took him over the limit.
I think it's different to McGinn and Cash -- Emi wasn't mentioned by the commentators as amongst the players who needed to avoid a booking (I'm fairly sure), and they certainly didn't mention that he was now suspended when he got his yellow card in the first half. McGinn, Cash and the others were facing suspensions because they had accumulated multiple yellows, I assumed??
Months ago the media was tugging themselves off over The Jurgen Farewell Quadruple. What a shame that the Quadruple fell almost immediately.
Then the treble was gone.
Now the double.
They're probably not winning the league.
Hope Klopp fistpumps his way off into the horizon without winning a thing in his final year and we never see the prick again 👋