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Just noticed that 3 people have marked Emery’s performance as “very poor”. That is a truly astounding (and it seems to me very wrong and foolish) judgement of a manager who set up his side to have 23 shots, 10 on target, but who only managed to score once. Not quite sure how that’s his fault. He set up the team well today - and obviously inspired them to greater efforts after half time - but the attacking players let him down. However, I have been waiting for people to start turning on the manager since our form dropped off and I wonder if we are seeing here the green shoots of a movement to drum Emery out of the club?
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Very frustrating. We should really have been good for 3 or 4 goals but we have lost the incisiveness in front of goal that we had earlier in the season and we gave away two soft goals through being outmuscled and poor organisation at the centre of our defence. Disappointed in Ollie Watkins today, if ever there was a time to step up… Fair play to United, they counterattacked successfully and made the most of the few chances they earned. Bit worried about Kamara. Looked like he twisted his leg very awkwardly. At least there were some positives to take from this, not like the capitulations to Newcastle and Chelsea. But we have to find a way to improve conversion of chances created or we are going to have a comparatively disappointing end to the season.
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To be fair, didn’t some journalist just ask him if he would like more playing time and understandably he said “yes”. How would we have felt if he had said “no”?
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I am very happy with the media thinking it’s a three horse race. Means we are back under the radar and Emery and the players can just concentrate on improving our football and trying to get a good run of results. I don’t think Emery has ambitions to be a media celebrity/darling and we Villa fans should certainly pay no regard to what sports journalists and pundits say. They rarely have anything of value to add. I still think we could get our “horse” up there making things a bit uncomfortable for the other three so let’s just keep our heads down and see where our football gets us.
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Marked the referee as poor, unlike most people voting, because he allowed Sheffield to establish a pattern of petty fouling of Watkins early on with no attempt to control them, issue warnings etc.
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This the team that had a game plan just forty something days ago that enabled them to take a point away from Villa Park Is it just possible we learnt from that and adjusted personnel, tactics and game plan accordingly? Nah. .
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Hopefully this will quieten the moaners for a while
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Fact: every game we have lost this season we have come back and won the next one.
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Think you will find that is not the approach Emery takes. Sounds more like Gerrard.
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Ha ha, it’s obviously not our (I.e. fans’)“job” to get him back into form. Don’t even know what that means. But it is the head coach’s job and when I read posts like this I thank the Lord it is Unai Emery in charge and not people on VillaTalk.
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That is just so wrong.
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By a “long time“ I assume you mean the 8 games that have followed us beating Man C, Arsenal, and qualifying for the next round of the conference. And in that spell we have won 3, drawn 3 and lost 2 - which is form our recent managers would mostly have dreamed of. Anyway, good to hear of your challenge to Emery. How has it been communicated to him?
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I like them. Don’t get to see them otherwise. Keep on. @Jas10
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Welcome Morgan. Please help get our top 4 ambitions back on track, no pressure…
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I get the impression he gets downhearted when things din’t go so well, so Unai’s words are helpful and wise. he needs building up and encouraging, and a bit of patience. Let’s hope he doesn’t read Villatalk.
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Sorry, but if you don’t know that almost all football teams go through spells of less good form from time to time, you are going to have a bad time supporting any club. The key point for me is if you support a club you go on supporting them even if they are not doing well. Not turn on them after a few matches and start calling them “shit”.
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A few pages ago many people wanted him sold off.
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These things happen in football. Deal with it.
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Was at the theatre this evening so only periodically able to check progress on phone. At one early point in the first half I noticed we had about 30% possession and only 1 shot on goal, while Newcastle had about 10. Just watched the briefest of highlights, not a pretty sight. Looks like the 2nd half was a bit better but we have (I hope temporarily) lost that ability to slice through defences and create scary shooting angles around the box. So the slump we all hoped wouldn’t happen has now well and truly set in. We will soon be looking over our shoulders at West Ham and maybe even Newcastle challenging us for 5th place. It’s going to be a slog to get back to better form after these recent setbacks. Hope we can manage it. I wonder what would have happened if he had started Bailey this evening?
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This has probably been said before but this is the team with the best home record in the premier league vs the one with the 2nd worst away record. Let’s hope things go to form.
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Feels like we’ve got to the point like haggling in the market on holiday abroad where you walk away saying “OK no deal” and they come running after you begging you to buy. From what little I have seen of Middlesborough’s financial position they probably need our money.
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Well, we live to fight another day. Let’s get them back to Villa Park and smash them. Let’s hope no-one from the Villatalk match thread goes to the replay though - there is enough negativity here to put the club into administration.
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You do know we don’t get any points from cup matches?
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Good to see the match thread is the usual rampant festival of fun and positivity. Disappointed no-one has yet told us how far behind we are on xG.
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I bet he has trouble sleeping at night knowing this.
