M_Afro

44 minutes ago, Tom13 said:

Skilful, can dribble, clever, good passer, strong, natural finisher. Looks pretty damn good to me. Only time will tell.

Hasn’t got the physical attributes to be effective at PL level. Ollie is a couple of levels above him but both Duran and Archer are also a level above.

32 minutes ago, OhioVilla said:

Don't we get a bit more from it now because they are staying up?

Hopefully 

1 hour ago, DakotaVilla said:

The solution is very simple.

we buy a proper striker and Ollie can be one of our wing forwards 

Hmmmnnn. I think we’ve been there. In my view, Ollie is a Championship wide forward. He is a decent premiership centre forward. He either plays 9 or doesn’t play at all. I think he will still be our 9 next season.

If we win today, we are practically there. COYVBs

Brentford are still well in this game. They are solid at the back and always carry a threat from set pieces. A draw here is very possible and it would be a great result for us. Still plenty to play for guys. This is going to go right to the end of the season.

1 minute ago, Steero113 said:

Toney was injured and unlikely to be back for Spurs anyway. Brentford beat West Ham 2-0 without him. 

Chill. Not everything is a conspiracy. 

That’s fair enough but just take away any controversy by waiting until the end of the season. You’re probably right and I was only being a bit mischievous to be honest but the football authorities really don’t help themselves. 

Ivan Toney banned just before the Spurs game. It’s almost as though the powers that be are desperate for Spurs to finish above us! That can’t be true……can it?

5 minutes ago, MaVilla said:

for those who might remember.......

 

 

They’re bringing it back…..topical.

6 minutes ago, Pinebro said:

Can say the same thing about Keinan Davis.

Just like Davis he will need to be able to score goals if he's gonna make it.

He’s got loads more class than Davis. His goals will come.

You can see that he has all of the necessary attributes to be effective and he is absolutely massive! He could easily be our main man in a few years. He’s only just turned 19!

Good assist and showed some flashes. I think we are a better balanced team when he plays. Not sure how he missed that chance in the first half though. It looked easier to score.

Emi is our best player by quite some distance. He has been really good again this season for Villa whilst, just for good measure, become the first current Villa player to win the World Cup and becoming fifa Gk of the year. Quite remarkable. He wins us so many points. Our POTY and probably always will be whilst he remains at the club. 

40 minutes ago, Zatman said:

Even when Bailey and Coutinho were fit and Ings/Sanson were here then Buendia still started regularly

He has started every league game except one since Unai came in and he scored from the bench that game

Yep but I’m not sure how many he would have started had we had other options to pick from for all games. Unai may love him. We just don’t know.

Time will tell but in my view he’s always been most effective as an impact sub. He rarely dominates games. He does some good things and some bad things but his consistency is patchy. I think Unai will want better. I think the regular starters most at risk are Konsa, Young/Cash, JJ, Buendia and Bailey.

I know it’s been a couple of disappointing weeks but if we beat Spurs on Saturday, this race is very much still on. Liverpool are very beatable at home and Brighton will be on their last legs come the last day of the season. We can still do this.

For perspective, people were still talking about us potentially getting relegated as recently as mid Feb. We have three games to go and a reasonable shot at Europe. We’d all have taken that after we lost to Arsenal in Feb. Villa Park will be rocking on Saturday and I think we’ll get the three points.

9 hours ago, macandally said:

 

Only lately, Buendia was first choice for the games when those players were fit? 

We’re just going to have to wait and see mate. In my view, Emi will become a useful squad player. Unai is an absolute perfectionist. Some of Emi’s traits as a player will really get on his nerves. I think he will be ruthless and if you’re not playing exactly to his plan, then you’ll be out.

1 minute ago, macandally said:

Semantics, if Unai felt he wasn’t worthy of playing, he wouldn’t be playing 

It’s not though is it? What other options do we have? Coutinho has been injured. As has Bailey and Boubs. He obviously does think he’s worthy of playing under the circumstances but these circumstances are not of his making. Let’s see what happens when Unai is picking from his own squad. I just don’t think that Emi will be a regular starter then. 

1 hour ago, macandally said:

He is a regular in an Unai team?

Nope. He’s a regular in someone else’s team that is currently managed by Unai. It’s going to take a few transfer windows to turn us into a real Unai team. Buendia will need to be much better if he wants to still be starting in 12 months.

1 hour ago, macandally said:

I believe the more the threat around him, the more space he will have to play.  Our main threat is Watkins, centre halves nullify that and the midfield can swamp Buendia.

Need that second striker, wide threat.  It’s not any individual, it’s the collective that needs fixing and the individuals will thrive 

Maybe. A bit certainly but he really needs to cut down on the sloppiness and the petulance. Until he does he will never become a regular in an Unai team.

12 minutes ago, macandally said:

De Bruyne said the other day that for his position pass completion is irrelevant, as if he is hitting high numbers he is not doing his job.

Buendia is the same for us, he should be trying those passes inside the full back and in between the centre half’s.  Ergo, he will give it away more.

I am not going to argue his stats can improve, that goes across the team but it’s always the same handful of people targeting him.  As before, boring now  

This argument only stacks up if it’s only the  difficult passes that are dragging your percentage down. The annoying thing about Buendia is the amount of times he misplaces a simple pass or gets easily dispossessed, often through lack of awareness. You rarely see KDB falling foul of those things.

He really divides opinion Buendia which normally means his real value falls somewhere in the middle of the extremity views. I think that he will be a squad player next season. He is a useful option to have around but he has rarely been consistent enough to continue as a guaranteed starter.