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His body language and demeanour is worrying me a bit, just doesn’t seem fully invested at the moment which is both worrying and encouraging at the same time.

I mean, if we can get him back firing on all cylinders on top of what the rest of the team is already achieving that’s a scary thought for the opposition.

Fingers crossed that goal settles him down now, because he really needs settling down

Shame for him how it’s panned out, I recall us all largely being in agreement that he was a very shrewd signing for free when he first came in and was playing really well, I remember a volleyed assist in a home game and that cracker from the edge of the box in the 3-0 win away to Leeds. 

But then we started signing better players, got a manager in who knows what he’s doing and more importantly plays a style that just doesn’t suit Chambers.

Captain Holt, what a character, very sad indeed.

On 07/12/2023 at 21:22, Follyfoot said:

Squeaky, Eddie is prepared to have a £50 bet with any Villa fan for charity that we will not win the league. Again, very very salty and talked just about us and nothing else.

I hope his next cruise is on HMS Titanic

That ship has sailed 

We have a lot of players in their prime years which is helping I think, most of the team are in that 26-30 year old sweet spot so whilst Emery has inherited the majority of our players he’s inherited them at a great time, obviously still miraculous to have turned us into what we are.

21 hours ago, KevinRichardsonsMoustache said:

I think McGinn’s comment about subs who hadn’t got many minutes of late was directed at Donck. JJ and Moreno haven’t been available, but Donck has been in the bench week in and week out. He had an impact yesterday and helped us see out the game. A good professional performance. 

Definitely aimed at Dendoncker, and great captaincy too to namecheck him without namechecking him and to hopefully help give him a boost.

Definitely played his part on Saturday, that cross-field pass showed his lack of game time I think but that double tackle he put in on the halfway line got the crowd up.

15 minutes ago, VillaJ100 said:

The closest thing was a 3 game losing streak to Leicester at home, man city away, arsenal at home.

And we shouldn’t have lost two of those really, we were the better team against Leicester but gifted them the win and at 2-2 against arsenal Bailey hits the bar and a few mins later arsenal get lucky with a shot hitting the bar and then Martinez before going in.

I didn’t think his body language was great at times, may be struggling with settling in / homesickness or something but he’s not quite right in my opinion at the moment.

Jesus H Christ.

What is going on? 
 

Wanted to give Carlos MotM, thought he probably had overall the best game but McGinn just embodies everything that is Aston Villa right now and it’s a sight to behold.

We looked leggy, for sure, so did they from around 70 mins onwards, which I think helps illustrate the benefit of a days extra rest. We had little to no control of the game after the first 10 minutes or so but occasionally still looked threatening. Arsenal will rightly count themselves unlucky to have not gotten on the scoresheet to be fair so we were somewhat fortunate today, but that was earned luck.

Feels like we’re in some kind of parallel universe right now.

I’m hoping we were hanging back a little to conserve some energy for the second half, other than that it’s been pretty solid, most of their opportunities have either been offside and/or have been products of us making an error.

If the game continues as is we’ll need to score again to get a result, hopefully we come out firing a little more, obvious to say but next goal is huge.

1 hour ago, rjw63 said:

Unfortunately the bottom three are horrendously bad and will save them

Not necessarily, QPR showing signs of recovery under their new manager

39 minutes ago, Pinebro said:

Might sound like an odd comment but this felt different even from the 7-2 win over Liverpool where we had a very spesific tactic which worked which was playing  it long over their line.

This felt more like going toe to toe and absolutely hammering them. We suffocated them out of the game with relentless pressure. I've not seen anything like it in my lifetime as a Villa fan.

It wasn’t even toe to toe, we fully stepped on them.

Oozing with confidence now, would love to see him belt in a 20 yarder on the weekend.

That was just something else.

We battered them at times, they’ll think themselves fortunate to only have lost by one. 
 

Magnificent performance, magnificent team, majestic Manager.

We have to set up differently, if we go with the usual approach I worry we’ll be picked off easily with their quality and in particular Haaland up against Torres and Konsa who I think are both slower and weaker physically. Mings vs Haaland was a decent matchup, perhaps Carlos can play that role but he wasn’t great yesterday.

We have an excellent record away at Middlesbrough

The way they’re coping with a serious set of injuries and still being competitive is quite impressive, it pains me to say.

Kessler-Hayden with an assist for Plymouth.

Have to think this is the end for heckingbottom unless they pull off a miracle comeback 

1 hour ago, Brumstopdogs said:

That gave me flashbacks of the 2015/16 Villa side trying to defend!

Hmm, pushing for promotion in league 2, FA Cup probably just a distraction…..nothing to see here

21 minutes ago, turvontour said:

It's difficult to know what are aims are anymore. Do we want to be one of the best teams in Europe, or is 4th to 6th acceptable as a target. I suppose the results dictate a lot of that. 

It feels fine to me to beat Bournemouth and then only get a point v Arsenal and Man City, but what is the aim? Interesting ten days ahead. 

Gonna throw a wild thought out but perhaps the aim is to try and win all three? Much the same as the aim would be to win any game……..

I’ve just flicked on to ‘Saturday Social’ on sky sports for the second time since it’s replaced Soccer AM.

Now I get it’s not really aimed at me, it’s obviously meant to be for kids but still, it’s a total joke. The first time I put it on some months back they were ranking goalkeepers in the PL and didn’t even have Martinez on the board. Now this morning they’re ranking young English players and apparently after one appearance Mainoo (United) is world class. What a joke of a show.