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He did OK. Difficult performance for him to come on as sub. I think he will be fine with Emery’s support.

Think it may be a matter of chance whether I have a stroke  or Villa seal a CL slot first. These last two matches have sent my blood pressure into new uncharted territory.

Sublime first half but I would like to know if Emery instructs them to play slow, passive football at the start of each second half or if the players have made this up by themselves. It just invites teams to score against us. 

Great performances from Watkins and McGinn, OK from everyone else, think Emery should have taken Moreno off sooner, he isn’t made for an ultra defensive game.

Worst performance from a referee I have seen in a long time.

Why didn’t Barkley ever play like that for us?

Great stuff, Lucas. Always love it when a VillaTalk whipping boy does well.

Very simple really. If you sit back and let a team attack you persistently for 30 mins, they are likely to score. 

Particularly against our own copyrighted brand of chaotic defending.

7 minutes ago, GingerCollins29 said:

Cannot believe their centre half not been booked for throwing ollie to the floor 3 times

He should bee off by now in my book.

We can’t be relying on teams like Palace to secure us a Champions League Place, now , can we? 

Fourth place us still ours to lose and the 10th March beckons!

4 hours ago, OutByEaster? said:

Oddly, although the notes don't give that impression in so far as I can tell - those at the meeting reported it as being conducted in quite a positive way and with a pretty open approach. 

In that case, it is an achievement of sorts to have produced meeting notes that seem entirely free of either positivity or openness.

12 minutes ago, Adam2003 said:

On the Football Ramble podcast they said if he moves it would be as the next £100m footballer - don’t want him to move but glad people are talking in respectful numbers about him 

£100m should be the starting point for the bidding war, not the conclusion.

On 25/02/2024 at 18:25, mjmooney said:

Yeah, what's the Basque for: "FFS, what is it with you **** ing fullbacks?"? 

 

Believing passionately that every question deserves an answer, I put this through Google translate, which came up with

Zoritxarrez, zer gertatzen da atzelari madarikatuekin?

However, when you translate this back into English, it comes out as 

Unfortunately, what about the damn defenders?

So I think we may not quite have got to the meat of this. 

Not sure how well my blood pressure is doing after that but in the end a clear enough win. That fourth place is starting to look like ours to lose.

Remedial classes needed in defending corners. Apart from that, a satisfactory performance. Looking forward to the Luton game.

Man U 1-Fulham 2

1 minute ago, stewiek2 said:

Commentators talking of 10-11 minutes added time in or game. How!? Seriously they are taking the piss now, especially as there's shitloads at Manure.

Long VAR check for the Man U goal

8 minutes ago, est1874 said:

The real stat we need to change is points gained from a losing position, as I'm pretty sure we're still closer to the bottom of that particular table.

We’re actually 5th best in the premier league on that one - 12 points gained from 12 deficits. Won 3, drew 3,  lost 6. Brighton, Spurs, Man C and Liverpool have done better.

Sanity restored (I hope).

4 minutes ago, matteyp said:

Why is our #6 listed 8th?

For that matter our #8 is listed 10th 

22 minutes ago, Lerner's Driver said:

Obviously ideal, but their attack is the their strength and our defence is our weakness, so it is likely they will score. This game will have goals in it. Score first and we should win. 

We have the fourth best defensive record in the premier league* so let’s not talk ourselves down too much.

(*4th= actually - Everton have conceded the same as us but we have scored nearly twice as many goals ) 

Wonder why he’s being treated in Lyon? Doesn’t this make it harder for the club’s medical specialist to keep in touch with his progress?

Ajax are away to AZ on Sunday, so that should be a chance to assess how strong they are compared with a team we have already despatched. 

1 hour ago, The_Steve said:

Every contentious VAR call for goals should come with a clear explaination at full time - I’m still confused about the offside. 

I think all VAR decisions should be explained as they are made, over the PA system, like in Rugby Union and Cricket.

Great to get back to winning ways. This continues our season record that on the occasions we have lost a premier league game we have always come straight back and won the next one. Let’s hope we don’t put that record too much to the test over the rest of the season.

Good (for very different reasons in each case) to see Torres and Tielemans getting starts and Tielemans’s assist for the second was superb - Emery ball at its best. Also of course great to see Ollie back in scoring form.

There was a helpful (for us) set of results for the teams scrambling up the ladder behind us.

All in all lots to be happy about, might even overlook the shite refereeing.

19 minutes ago, Jas10 said:

 

Absolutely love this. 

1 minute ago, Farlz said:

Emi saving us christ 

Isn’t that his job?

15 minutes ago, stewiek2 said:

No high line please Don. That back line lacks serious recovery pace.

Has it not been shown a few times that Villa haven’t played a particularly high line under Emery? jMaybe just an urban myth that commentators like to gab on about….?

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.