This is an ongoing blog which will look at each area of Aston Villa’s squad of players that are contracted to the club at the end of the 2016 season. The first post will go through all the Goalkeepers at the club, looking at whether the club should attempt to keep them on, or try to offload them out of the club. After a season of failure, following years of near misses, it is easy to suggest that the entire squad should be ripped up, so the aim is to look objectively at every player.
1 - Br
This is off topic really but I absolutely LOVE how a few months ago some of the media were talking about Liverpool trying for a Treble to give Klopp a good send off… ha ha ha! That’s not worked out quite so well has it!? 😂
I was going to say you're not quite right but it seems that every time I check the current totals the guy finds some more points for Germany down the back of the sofa:
Current Totals: England 17.375. Germany 17.928
But, Villa win both legs in the SFs, draw the other, go through and win the final => (2 + 2 + 1 + 2) = 0.875 points.
Leverkusen draw both legs, ending the season technically unbeaten, but go out on penalties; Bayern lose both legs; Dortmund also lose both legs => (1 + 1)/7 = 0.286 points.
Final Totals: England 18.250. Germany 18.241
OR
Villa win one leg in the SFs, draw the other, go through and win the final => (2 + 1 + 1 + 2) = 0.75 points.
Leverkusen draw one leg, lose the other; Bayern lose both legs; Dortmund also lose both legs => 1/7 = 0.143 points.
Final Totals: England 18.125. Germany 18.071
CoFC goes marching on!
Tbf to the lad, he’s played a ton of football recently. Dougie and McGinn have had their suspensions but since Kamara got injured I think he’s played pretty much every game.
But it also says that “all yellow cards and pending yellow-card suspensions expire after the group stages”. It doesn’t say that about after the QFs, therefore if he has a pending yellow-card suspension which is immediately activated upon receiving a third yellow card then that is not wiped. Hence why they were saying that there were other players already on two yellows who could get banned.
He was played out of position again, covering the right side.
He needs to play through the middle. He plays better there and those alongside him play better too. Teilemans had his best game in a villa shirt alongside McGinn at Arsenal.