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Posts posted by kiltorken
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2 minutes ago, AVTuco said:
Why were we more negative than before?
Well Whelan for Grealish for one but Stoke set their stall up to stifle us and it worked. Probably have to get used to teams doing this.
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Shite performance and fortunate to get a point. Need to be a lot sharper against Leeds.
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Result aside, El Ghazi was a joy to watch, What a performance, himself and Bolaise will terrorise teams this season.
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I suppose it shows how far we've come recently that we are gutted by an away draw at one of the best teams in the league.
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How did the linesman not see the hand ball (the second one) clearly looking at it.
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Bolllox
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Dwight gayle the cheeky prick leaving the boot in on nyland
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Just now, srsmithusa said:
The ball from el ghazi to tammy’s Head is the stuff of dreams
His end product has been excellent even ignoring the goals, hugely impressive.
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Great delivery again from el Ghazi
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That was an incredible strike
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Great block by Hutton
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Just now, deeps said:
Need to go in at least level.
And two up at the most, don't want to ruin it as a spectacle.
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17 minutes ago, TRO said:
I didn't think we would play like that.....such a complete performance in both defensive and offensive mode.
That for me is a watershed moment in our progress.
awesome display.
Yeah the defensive aspect was equally as impressive as the forward play, how quickly they got into a good defensive shape after losing possession was impressive. Teams must really be dreading having to face us now.
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30 minutes ago, Dave-R said:
Think at some point if he ever leaves villa, deserves a chance to manage England..
Yeah it'll be a good retirement gig for him when he's in his late 60s.
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This was against a Boro side that conceded 10 in their last 19 league games.
Remarkable turnaround, we've got a very good manager on our hands.
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Yes Whelooo!!
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Go on chessie
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Ffs that was a stonewall pen
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Top class save in fairness
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It annoyed me for the last goal how he reacted to the shot going in by his near post, he was so unprepared for it when the only possible shot on was the near post option considering the angle.
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5 minutes ago, NurembergVillan said:
One thing that seems to be happening - and I'm happy to be corrected on this - is that sometimes the full backs are so keen to get forward that Chester, Axel and Hourihane/Whelan/whoever in the centre can only pass the ball in a straight line into the midfield, and more often than not it's being picked off by the opposition.
On Sunday and again tonight, there were several occasions where the central 3 had no wide options without going up and over. The full-backs need to be holding their run until we're further up the field.
I noticed that as well, even on Sunday a lot of the times Chester and Whelan in particular got caught in possession or gave the ball away there was no option given by the full backs to help them out.
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2 minutes ago, romavillan said:
Well he can't fix it by changing the back 4 can he?
I think we could be overreacting a bit, they had 5 shots on target and scored 5. We gifted them goals and we created enough to win 3 games. Abraham should have got 5 himself which is an insane thing to be typing. Looking at how they scored, it wasn't just the back 5 either, Lolley was given way too much time and space every time more an organisational thing and midfielders needing to be more aware I guess. I'm sure Smith will be working on it to sort it out. I think January's transfer window might give him some more tools to do so.
**** great game though.
Totally agree with that assessment
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Just now, romavillan said:
To be fair the previous incumbent decimated the defence and left Smith with ZERO options, the back 5 picks itself and it's not Smith's fault.
I'm a huge fan of Smith and what he's doing but he can't be blameless for the team conceding so many. His system is definitely leaving us very exposed defensively and he needs to sort it out soon.
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He looked very nervous on the ball yesterday, like he didn't want to have it which is a problem when he's under orders to play it out from the back every time.
A mitigating factor though I thought he was left stranded a few times when team mates didn't offer a simple option, Taylor in particular.
Dean Smith
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Great Post, agree with most of that. Just on the last point about blame, I personally think when you play expansive football as we are trying to do at the moment, you are naturally going to leave yourself more exposed and that's the sacrifice with playing this type of football as I'm starting to realise. Even if you have the best players in the league when you're playing offensive front foot football you have to allow for soft goals going against as the team is more exposed, we still only have 11 players afterall. Its easy to have a go at our starting 11 when things don't go right but that back 4 are good by championship standards at least.
Stoke have good quality players for this league and they played well stifling us and that's what they did today and fair play to them. teams in general will also figure a way to stifle us and we need to rise to that.
I think Smith will hopefully get around this. I wouldn't want anyone other the Smith to navigate this season to be honest.