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Villa park really needs a small luxury hotel for meetings, events and match day usage for the rich to spend a wedge in. Would make the venue a much bigger prospect and increase bookings for many events outside the season as well. absolute no brainer to me

That’s because Levy bleeds his fans dry and it’s London prices

This could be a great meme series

You read my mind. This will be one of those niggly games where we can kick on and progress but come up short with a loss or a draw. If we turn up we should be smashing these 3-0 but we know they will be pumped up and Maupay always seems to cause some trouble with our defence.

He needs to play further forward. His jack Russell pressing works a lot better against the defence and DMs. Arsenal were shot today because of it. if he’s pressing too deep in our half I think it loses its value. barkely is playing okay but I’d be looking at McGinn playing a bit further forward as well Somehow

Why not 4-2-3-1 luiz nakamba Traore (McGinn/Barkley) Grealish watkins McGinn needs to be playing further forward than he is today. He is so much better for us pressing higher.

Am sure he will start a game vs the bottom three. He should be, he’s shown he’s good enough

Agree, this thread is no longer relevant to Aston Villa anymore. shows how far we’ve come

This was what I came here to say ”look daddy.... big lady!” Also see; “What do you want to be when you are older?” (After super Saturday London 2012) ”I want to be black” in front of people by the swings. “Dad can’t come to the phone because he’s having a poo” youngest also banged himself on the coffee table (it’s the only time I cannot avoid swearing in front of anyone) “F*club’ hell. Stupid table” in front of the in laws. Very much the Meet the Fokers moment. One thing kids that age don’t know or care for is societal peer pressure. The innocence is great. The world would be better for it if we were all like that.

I wonder if covid is hampering him. He’s not looked right since he returned.

It’s been pretty bad. Apart from Targett and Martinez

Midfield has been shocking tonight.

Game over

West Ham playing very well and pressing us very hard. I feel more nervous than most West Ham fans will be feeling. Martinez has kept us in this. Could be 3-0

That’s what I am getting at with the bench as good as. Trez improved his game and essentially early in the second was our second best wide play after Jack. Then el Ghazi game in with form and then Traore. their spells were as good a return for goals and assists as each other. our bench does not offer that for LB, RB, ST and an extra CB. hause has done great but we have two CB positions, he can’t play twice. we need players who are as good as Cash on an above average day and Target on above average day. This ensures they know they need to be hitting high quality regularly or they fall behind the player behind them. Cash and Targett have zero competition for their place other than covid, same for Konsa and Mings and same for Watkins.

Grealish is the best dribbler of the ball in the PL this season, by some distance. his carries, dribbles, dribbles past players and runs in to the box he is all 1st and some way more than second place.

Well this weekend has been pretty much perfect for us results wise. we win everton lose West Ham lose spurs lose just wanted Leicester to beat Leeds for an ideal week

Well this game for us is the game which will sum up our season. 1) I believe a win here puts us mathematically safe this season. Past two seasons at week 21 it’s been 16-18 points not 14 for relegation at this stage. 2) West Ham are 5th and played two games more than us. A win means we go above them with two games in hand. 3) it’s two wins back to back, something we haven’t done since Boxing Day. 4) It puts us 6 points ahead of the next side below us on the same number of games (Southampton) albeit they are also playing so will remain a game ahead. this game as we know is the same as any other, they’re all worth 0,1 or 3 points, but the next run of games in Feb looks quite niggly and would start a new month off on the heels of the top 4.

For me I think it’s quite simple. The players on the bench need to be as good as the players on the pitch. So we have quality coming off there. I think we do in the wide places but for me we need as good as the first XI in the following places LB RB CB ST For me, to obtain that it needs to average out about £30m a position. you get lucky with a Cash purchase and then use that to say spend £45m on a player who slots straight in. you then can go harder in the cups and Europe knowing each player is as good. we wouldn’t essentially be playing weaker sides by resting people. Just different players. all the big teams have this and Leicester I think are almost there with their bench.

Wow.... that’s not great is it... that’s relegation form. That’s 21 points for a season.... this game is pretty big for the table position.

Looks like it!

Nah replaced Barkley after tonight.

Defensively yes, going forward our midfield is brilliant. McGinn seemed to be missing a bit defensively tonight, going forward he was great, some fabulous passes. our problem tonight was not pressing when they were out wide. Top sides don’t do that. yes letting them have it wide and cross in is easier on the whole to clear but as we proved tonight it’s not the case for us. Top sides like city do just one thing off the ball really well. Just one. they press the man with the ball in their own half constantly and ensure the easy short passes are also pressed incredibly quickly. They force sides to try something fancy or go over the top, they back themselves not to make individual errors to cost them goals and points. If we pressed those wide phases Burnely had for goal 2 and 3, could have nabbed a 2-1 win.

In terms of a loss yeah but we’ve lost points in games where Grealish was our best player and we conceded or drew when we should have done more. West Ham and the other Burnley game examples.