R.Bear

Just now, vreitti said:

Does Diaby ever know what to do with the ball?

No. Looks clueless everytime he gets it.

Best keeper in the world. No debate.

Ben White looks **** ridiculous. Looks like he's wearing more fake tan than someone off Jersey Shore.

We're getting bullied. Could be a hammering this.

9 minutes ago, BG_Villa_Fan said:

So the Villa win a european quarterfinal and instead of celebrating it I’m feeling horrible because Arsenal, Liverpool and West Ham couldn’t win.

What has football turned into these days..

That says more about you than anything else.

It's hard to analyse that performance. I would have taken a win of any kind before the match. We have more than enough to take care of this away from home but it's going to be nervy.

WATKINS

COME ON VILLA!!!

2 minutes ago, Mark Albrighton said:

Which is of course typical of sides who are mentally weak, going on historic winning runs.

How has our home form been since that game?

Just now, Kiwivillan said:

We scored perfectly legit opening goal that was ruled out that changed course of the game. 

Oh give me a break. We were on a 15 game home winning streak and had just beaten Man City and Arsenal back to back. We were playing a side who have 16 points after 31 games.

That's an embarrassing excuse.

5 minutes ago, Pongo Waring said:

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Spurs Fixtures:
Newcastle (A)    
Arsenal (H)    
Chelsea (A)
Liverpool (A)
Man City (H)    
Burnley (H)    
Sheffield Utd (A)    

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Villa Fixtures:
Arsenal (A)    
Bournemouth (H)    
Chelsea (H)    
Brighton (A)    
Liverpool (H)    
Crystal Palace (A)    

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Who Picks up more points and grabs 4th?
 

The only game I'm confident of us winning of that lot is Bournemouth home. We havent won a game against a decent side since Arsenal in December. Our record against the top 8 since then is this

LLLLDL

2 minutes ago, Keyblade said:

Wasn't this the second time all season we've dropped points from a winning position? We're literally the most resolute team in the league in this regard.

We had a chance to go top at Xmas and failed to beat bottom of the league at home, scraping a last minute draw we didnt deserve.

We had a chance to make a statement win against Spurs at home and got thrashed.

We had a chance to put the pressure on Spurs by playing before them and bottled a 2-0 lead.

We're mentally fragile in big games.

3 minutes ago, Hev said:

Well we are almost where the media want us now - not quite  though because plucky little Aston Villa surely should not be qualifying for the CL. If not one of the so called big 6, surely it should be everyone's supposed second team Newcastle. . They will be so thrilled to see Spurs in 4th though. Sickening.  They all love big Ange so much too

Sorry but this is absolute bollocks. The media have been praising us all season and have constantly ridiculed Spurs for years because they wont win anything with talented teams.

But by all means play the victim card if you like. Everyone's out to get Aston Villa. We're turning into Liverpool fans it seems.

2 minutes ago, Mr_Dogg said:

If Arsenal were to draw 0-0 against Bayern twice and go through on penalties, what does that mean for the coefficient?

Why not just wait until it's decided? Get some fresh air or something.

Haven't people got better things to do with their weekends than watching and stressing over another team's result with 8 games to go?

My priority, as it has been all season, was to win the Conference League. We are the best team in the competition and we have a better chance to win it even at this stage than the finals we've reached in the last 15 years simply because of the opposition we will face, if we reach the final, won't be as good as Man Utd, Arsenal or Man City.

I don't get giddy about the thought of Champions League football as much as most on this forum do. I know it would be something new and exciting but a trophy is a memory that will last forever, especially a European one. Ask Newcastle fans how good reaching the CL was for them. I mean, they've gone from strength to strength 

I would take winning the Conference League even if we fell to 6th in a heartbeat. Quite frankly, I would question anyone who says otherwise why they even support a team in the first place.

Really poor today. Final ball was shocking all game. Wasn't effective cutting in either as they seemed to read him.

Bailey's final ball has been horrendous today.

If we lose this, it's one of the very worst games in Villa's Premier League history. Make no mistake.

This is about as typical Villa a thing as you will ever see. Dominating a game only to throw it away in 2 minutes.

ROGERS

3 minutes ago, Keyblade said:

A point would be amazing. When was the last time we got at least a point at the Etihad? Has to be 2009 at the latest. Probably more like 2007. Which is crazy.

2007. 13 losses in a row in the Premier League. 8 of them we didnt score in. In that time we also lost an FA Cup tie, also with scoring.

We did win a League Cup tie there in 2012 against a second XI. For what it's worth.

He caught that rather well.