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  1. briny_ear
    Great stuff, Lucas. Always love it when a VillaTalk whipping boy does well.
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    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.
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    He should bee off by now in my book.
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    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!
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    In that case, it is an achievement of sorts to have produced meeting notes that seem entirely free of either positivity or openness.
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    £100m should be the starting point for the bidding war, not the conclusion.
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    Unai Emery

    briny_ear replied to PeterSw's topic in Villa Talk

    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.
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    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.
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    Man U 1-Fulham 2
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    Long VAR check for the Man U goal
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    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.
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    Sanity restored (I hope).
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    For that matter our #8 is listed 10th
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    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 )
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    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?
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    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.
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    I think all VAR decisions should be explained as they are made, over the PA system, like in Rugby Union and Cricket.
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    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.
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    Absolutely love this.
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    Isn’t that his job?
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    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….?
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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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