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trevor

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  1. Poor first half all round, too many petty fouls in positions that didn’t even invite attack from set pieces. Lots of tired looking performances which together make it tough to get anything at this level. Bad dismissal in terms of killing the rest of the game, wearing out players for 10 minutes added on time (where did that come from?) and not being available for three games starting the last 10 run in. It was a horrible challenge, but it looked fast and clumsy rather than any bad intention, a Man Utd player would probably have got a yellow. Nevertheless it was stupid to give the ref a decision to make, very poor judgement from a team captain. At least there is not much time to dwell on this with the potential for an unforgettably brilliant night on Thursday before the next league match. UTV
  2. It’s always been the same with them, right back to the eighties in my memory. Presumably they were known to be away fans because they made it obvious. Most supporters of away teams in the home stands, watch the game and shut up, but not this lot and it’s not restricted to Villa Park.
  3. Didn’t deserve to lose that. Sky got the result they wanted. Fail to comprehend how the same offence results in a yellow for us and nothing for them. They even wasted two minutes of injury time with subs and he added on 30 seconds. If it’s an even playing field, I would still back us over them to finish higher. Their defence is garbage. We just need Konsa and Torres back quickly!
  4. Channel Islands, managed to get over 3 times so far this season.
  5. It might make a noticeable difference as the dB scale is non linear. For every increase of 3dB, the noise level doubles and vice versa.
  6. Bottlers, story of our season. Pathetic coverage from Sky, cutting away to a meaningless Spurs goal while we scored the second. Three strong substitutions helped them out, never mind, they will be able to make five next year.
  7. The VAR was a joke, is he offside? No. Anything else can we look at? Did Watkins touch the ball? No. Anything else? Did Ings handball it? No Anything else? A block? That looks questionable. A technology that is not being used in every tie of this competition for errors that are Clear and Obvious, I despair. Otherwise happy with the performance and hope we do them on Saturday. One other negative is that they hardly created most of their own chances, they just waited for our midfield to give the ball away needlessly and counter attacked us.
  8. A reminder that only goals matter in football, have as much possession as you like but if you can’t create much in the final third it counts for nothing. Don’t usually single out players but Traore was wasteful and as much as I love Trezeguet that dive was embarassing. Expect Gerrard to rip into them after this.
  9. Indeed, turnarounds of that magnitude do a lot of damage. The draw with Stoke when 2-0 up under O’Neill did a fair amount, but the reversal when 2 up at Leicester was significant that season. We went down (I know there were many other factors too), they won the League. That Wolves game could be season defining.
  10. Smith need not worry about playing 3 at the back again, it will become unsustainable with all the bookings we pick up. Hourihane got subbed in the first half when Jokanovic saw his formation was wrong on Tuesday, Dean should have also been as brave and made a change before half-time His subs were correct though. Referee set the tone for his abysmal performance and licence for Arsenal to play the way they did by booking Watkins in the first minute for simply giving as good as he got. Sky commentator was appalling, another clown that means the mute button gets hit next time. Arsenal ‘supporters’ treatment of Martinez was extremely classless.
  11. villalad21 worked that out easy enough, I’m sure you can too.
  12. Next week Chelsea will more than likely take a full first team into a Champions League fixture. We don’t have a fixture.
  13. Try Watford’s official website, audio commentary is free, as it ought to be.
  14. As long as we spend the money wisely, it won’t be the massive blow it currently seems. I don’t begrudge him the move with the opportunity to test himself against teams in Europe, but if he was to go, I’d rather he went to Chelsea I have no interest in watching Manchester City, it’s just soulless football, so I’ll only be interested in him as an England player. Personally, I’m sad because I don’t remember seeing another Villa player like him in 50 years down at VP, and probably never will again. This is a really big test for us in terms of recruitment and integration of new players and I expect that we will rise to that. Unfortunately we have no choice but to become expert in this respect, because while that Champions League remains a closed shop, we are going to experience this sort of thing with the likes of Watkins and Martinez in the future.
  15. Not sure that a World Cup Semi-Final and a Euros Final is mediocrity BUT if Jack was fit he certainly under used him. I watched Mount closely last night (and I do rate him) but I could not see where he offered anything better than Jack. Then we get the ‘master tactician’ done by his own overthinking. First half Harry Kane doing a great job, England on the front foot, second half I thought Steve Bruce was in charge, roll wor sleeves up and dig in. No outlet to get England up the pitch with the ball going back to Italy cheaply and no attempt to disrupt the tempo. It must have been blindingly obvious at that point that the ideal candidate to affect this was Jack. But by then Southgate had become a victim of his own no risk philosophy. Penalties in training with your mates ain’t the same as penalties in front a crowd in the biggest game in a generation. I never expected Jack to be in the first five, but then again I never expected Saka either. I did expect Stirling, Phillips or Shaw though. Saka had a great tournament, shouldn’t have been put in that position, think he has a brilliant career ahead of him. Last night though Jack should have been on before him.
  16. 6:32 Shrink match day screen to size of a matchbox as Villa take a corner to show Liverpool coach arriving
  17. So apparently young people are losing interest in football according to one of the pro ESL voices. Well that was a complete and utter borefest. I said it before a few years ago when we were away at Spurs under McLeish, again we looked like one of those demonstration teams that used to go out annually on the court at the Empire Pool Wembley in the 60s and 70s in order for the Harlem Globetrotters to strut their stuff. A May Bank Holiday treat for BBC1 viewers alongside Disney Time. It’s a good job we got points in the board cause this is currently relegation form.
  18. Neither of them three were as wasteful in possession as Luiz and Traore Defended too deep, inviting them on much too often. Why do all this playing out from the back possession nonsense when we are happy to give the ball away time after time?
  19. Another soft give away for the first goal, I’m not certain but it feels like matches are more dependent on who scores first in this odd season. Sanson subbed as soon as he started to have more of an effect. Strange? Never a penalty, man had no control of the ball. Toothless up front, could still be playing now and not score.
  20. Looked like he was about to get involved more on the left and have an effect like where Jack creates, then got subbed, ridiculous decision to take him off.
  21. Although, I have been supporting Villa for nearly sixty years, I spent 20 years of my life in Sheffield and I can assure you up that you couldn’t be more wrong. The Blades are by far the classier football club by a mile and their fans are on the whole brilliant. Watching matches at Bramall Lane is electric, going to watch Wednesday is most certainly not.
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