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32 minutes ago, rodders129 said:

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Well? We’re waiting!! 

Seems bizarre to be spending a Sunday afternoon obsessing over the outcome of Spurs v Arsenal. However, it’s going OK so far. VAR has been kind to us this weekend. 
 

Arsenal 3-0 now - let’s hope they get a hatful!

2 hours ago, Sgl said:

Did Ross McCormack encountering his own gates make you think that being a football fan wasn’t for you?

No, but I did change career and retrain as an electronic gates maintenance man. Lots of work around!

1 hour ago, Deano & Dalian's Umbrella said:

 

Thanks for sharing that.

This youtube link skips straight to the Villa bit for convenience:

 

 

Not a bad try, but he didn't mention our xG, which, as everyone knows is the only true statistic, so he has a bit more learning to do. 

8 hours ago, avfc1982am said:

Great character and has had some great games this season but, I think he's been in pretty poor form since he came back from the ban. 

He was bloody brilliant on Sunday. Not too shabby against Arsenal too.

Apart from that, yeh…

14 hours ago, sheepyvillian said:

Does he wear a crombie well.

Yes, a stylish change from his usual zippy-up cardigan (although he makes that look stylish too).

1 hour ago, flamingsombrero said:

https://www.astonvillanews.co.uk/2024/04/21/aston-villa-unai-emery-must-axe-pau-torres-if-he-wants-to-win-v-bournemouth/

LOL

The worth of this article is sort of summed up by the final piece of hot news 

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In other Aston Villa news, Troy Deeney has continued his spat with Ollie Watkins.

Who gives an actual **** about Troy Deeney?

31 minutes ago, R.Bear said:

It is odd that anyone who dares to criticise him is jumped on by the usual suspects. The statistics don't mean much to me because the eye test is far more important. I dont trust him at all in big games or against top opposition. It was mistake to start him last night, even with Bailey carrying a knock. Games like that are not for him. His lacklustre performance was inevitable.

Now the anti-Diaby nonsense has sunk to this level of sloganeering, it’s probably just time to give this thread a rest. We’ve just got through to our first major European semi final in 42 years and all some people seem to want to do is slag off one of the players who has been part of this successful squad and has been regularly picked by Emery to play in important matches both in the conference and the premier league.

That last fact should tell you a bit more than your own eye test.

1 hour ago, OutByEaster? said:

I think that means that the cards are removed, but existing suspensions are still in place.

Oh, yes, I can see that might be true because the second sentence of the rule refers to yellow cards not being carried forward but doesn’t mention pending  suspensions, so by implication they are carried forward.

Not very clearly written if that is the case.

7 minutes ago, Tom13 said:

Awful against Lille, awful against Arsenal. Not writing him off forever but it's like watching a little kid out there at times. Every move seems to end with him.

It’s just ridiculous to say he was “awful” in those games.

This is from The UEFA regulations

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Exceptionally, all yellow cards and pending yellow-card suspensions expire on completion of the play-offs. They are not carried forward to the group stage. In addition, all yellow cards expire on completion of the quarter-finals. They are not carried forward to the semi-finals.

The briefing that Emi is suspended for the semis appears to have come from the club but I think they’re just teasing us.

8 hours ago, Alakagom said:

INJECT STRAIGHT INTO OUR VEINS

I had no idea we had been taken over by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos 

13 minutes ago, Khizzy said:

We won the tie, drew the game on aggregate and lost the game on the night. And our keeper got two yellows and stayed on the pitch. Football is pretty weird sometimes! 

And our coach, the most lovely , respectful, polite man IN THE WHOLE WORLD, got booked for having a go at Fonseca. Didn’t ever expect to see that.

Olympiacos it is! Their goalie saved three penalties in their shoot-out!

3 minutes ago, sidcow said:

Like I said, he's shown glimpses. Not sure what point you're making.  I saw Bernard Gallagher make some good tackles in my time. 

If what I have set out is “glimpses” in your book, we are not disagreeing, you just chose the wrong word. “Performances that helped us win 7 points” would do through.

11 minutes ago, jayEm said:

A rewatch of the penalty shootout shows how bad the commentary was -- both commentators misunderstand the situation with Emi's yellow card (which is fair enough, the rule is obscure) but then make increasingly wild and ridiculous assumptions about what is happening (at one point insinuating that Emi is asking if he's still allowed to be on the pitch) rather than just pipe down.

The commentary was so ridiculously shit this evening that I switched the sound off after 15 minutes and was able to concentrate on the match rather than getting angry at the drivel they were coming out with.

11 minutes ago, sidcow said:

I'm just saying the situation is not the same a Bailey.  He may still come good and has shown glimpses. 

I'm amazed Emery hasn't managed to get him ticking.

Let's see what next season holds. 

4 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:

Currently living off the fact Bailey came good. 

If we took that away, he’d be a right f****** waste of money. 

Needs to do a LOT more. 

What he did in March to get him player of the month was  

Assist for Digne’s winning goal against Luton

Goal against Ajax

Assist for Zaniolo against West Ham

Goal against Wolves and assist for Konsa in same match.

Amazing though that Emery hasn’t managed to get him ticking!

That was nerve wracking. We were pretty much overrun in midfield all match and that made life a lot harder but the defence did a decent job and we did create a handful of really good chances. We probably should have won before the penalties.

Magnificent performance in the shoot out and Emi gets my MOTM award just for those two saves.

Incidentally, just before the final penalty, my Europa Conference League app sent me a notification that Emi had a red card. Did anyone else get this? I recovered from the heart tremor just in time to see him save the last pen. Memo to conference league app: please don’t do this again.

So, next up Bournemouth! What a brilliant season this is!

I hope people asking for Konsa to be moved to RB in place of Cash are at least doing so with a sense of irony (ref. the 7 million posts in the past few weeks asking for the exact opposite to happen).

I actually thought we got more of a grip of the midfield as the game went on and ended up with a couple of decent chances - in particular Douglas Luiz’s. 

Let’s hope we can build on that in the second half. I reckon one goal now will settle this.

I have so much enjoyed the mind-stretching and abstruse discussions here about coefficients and I came here today distraught that last night’s real world results have reduced the issue to irrelevant rubble.

However, I am encouraged that we have now moved on to an exciting debate about probabilities, so this thread can go on helping me to study for my advanced maths A Level. 

3 hours ago, Nicho said:

Thought he was rubbish today, the only positive is that he continues to work hard. 

Really people sometimes post such nonsense on here.

Moussa Diaby rubbish? 

Rubbish!

Excellent game today. Really strong when on the ball and did a lot to blunt Arsenal’s midfield efforts. Super distribution too.

I think we probably have come to expect this of him now so he doesn’t come into contention for MOTM as much as he should..