Danishlad

6 hours ago, lapal_fan said:

Thought he did some pretty good things yesterday.  He miscontrolled one pass but got back on it and squared a good ball for a chance in the first half. 

Had a really good touch  when the ball came into his feet with back to goal and defender behind him, he opened his body go one way and then lost his defender going the other way.

Was never gonna miss the penalty.

He's a scapegoat for a lot of things, but I'll always appreciate him.

Matty Cash and Ramsey also had a few bad touches and lost the ball etc, but the reaction is never as vehemently negative as when El Ghazi does it.

We have some strange and shitty fans.

problem is that balls skills are supposed to be his strong side. He doesn't read the game well, press well or defend well. He isn't a creative player. He doesn't particularly pass well either. So when he takes his poor touches he seems a poor footballer

1 hour ago, Kiwivillan said:

I didn't mind last Dutch mid we signed but most thought he was crap

bacuna?? he was champions league level

2 hours ago, KevinRichardsonsMoustache said:

I wonder how much a player like Jacob Ramsey would cost in today’s market? 

maybe there is a release clause

We should be playing a lot more through the centre of midfield. There is so much space to play cheeky slide balls. 
Cash needs to stop hoofing the ball down the line. Someone tell him we don’t have Gabby anymore.

Just now, villalad21 said:

Prediction 1-1

optimistic

1 minute ago, OLDVILLAIN said:

Im hoping AEG has one of his Quarterly wonder games today..god knows we need him to be on it today.

I must have missed those

2 minutes ago, Steero113 said:

No, this is an average line up...

yes very poor, maybe we can beat them

2 minutes ago, Wainy316 said:

Are we assuming Buendia is on the right?  That’ll be interesting to see at least.

yes , look forward to seeing that

Just now, HanoiVillan said:

Trying not to be a negative nancy in here, but I have to say I agree, it doesn't look like a great side to me

it isn't , it is very weak

6 minutes ago, DCJonah said:

Gutted no Bailey. 

 

he is probably shit.

48 minutes ago, Big Salad said:

Even with the players we have out, we are still the better squad. Yes i understand in the grand scheme of things, that doesn't mean much if our guys don't show up and play to their ability. However, I have a good feeling about this one. First game at home and the squad should want to put that performance at Watford behind them.

3 points to us.

I like your optimism but I don’t agree. Watford and Stoke performances are bugging me. I don’t think we are as good as people think.

anyone care to put his stats up from last year

im worried about this one, I saw nothing good at the Watford game. Im usually optimistic too.

38 minutes ago, Mantis said:

We need him badly.

wouldn't have made any difference

will be worth twice as much in a couple of years

I was really disappointed. There seemed to be absolutely no team cohesion against Watford. And also no team cohesion in the friendly matches. Even Stoke beat us the same way. 

I really could t see what we were trying to do- apart from long balls forward. Added to the fact that we don’t look dangerous from set pieces at all. I think we are in for a long season. I hope I’m wrong. 
It doesn’t look like the team has improved since last year. In fact it has got worse.

If Smith keeps us up , he will have done well.

He wants to play champions league. He will be watching it from the bench. He isn't a city player and he looks a right tit with the kit on. He should never have left.

Played well yesterday, looked strong and confident. Well done.

We picked the wrong team yesterday. Though hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Where Watford had pace on the wings we were weak and slow. 

We didn't have any pace to counter them, or creativity to open them up. 

We fielded a poor side. Why Ashley Young played winger I don't know.

ElGhazi has been poor his entire villa career, but does score an occasional goal. He played as I expected.

Lumping long balls to Ings isn't going to work. It was like Matty Cash was trying to score a field goal.

We probably should have played a 3-5-2 or 5-3-2 set up. Where we cancel their wide threat and give them hell with two up front.

I thought Smith got it hugely wrong, and Watford were actually very poor. Even though we have only played one game I think it showed that we are a lower mid table team right now.

8 hours ago, MrBlack said:

I don't get the point in saying we're not after anyone else. The second we approach a club about a player, they know we're after them.

The only reason that could end up being a lie is to raise the fans spirits higher if we do sign someone.

If its not a lie, I think we're going to about match last season... so 8th/9th if we get lucky with injuries,  which so far we have not, or 11th if we don't. 

11 th , id take that.

We may need two new full backs. On the back of today’s performance.

Just now, VillaFaninLondon said:

Watford are genuinely awful. This is a shocking result.

Yes very poor. We have given the ball away and been hammered time after time on the counter attack. 
Wrong tactics. Playing with two wingers, who. We had none match fit. 
hopefully we won’t see this line up again.

Target, Cash and ElGhazi, Ings awful today. 
everyone else ok.

Poor from Smith. Starting line up not good enough. 

1 minute ago, villa4europe said:

Cash again 

worst I’ve seen him

Yes and he will be a bag of nerves playing like this in front of fans

We are going down- get ready for a long season.