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    Cash and Moreno should be the full backs. Blades will park the bus and we’ll need to stretch the width a bit. Diaby, Bailey, Watkins up front.
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    Have a feeling Diaby will get a goal today.
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    New baby.
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    I actually fell asleep.
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    I’ve never noticed how one footed he is. He’s playing like he has an in-grown toenail. Was it his left foot that played that awful cross-field pass at the weekend?
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    https://x.com/AVFCOfficial/status/1735336360351821856?s=20
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    Filip Marschall

    Enda replied to lexicon's topic in Villa Talk

    Big day for the young man. Starts in Bosnia for us tonight. Best of luck out there, Filip.
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    Very good post, Tom. Implicitly you’re assuming there’s no chance of a disaster, a patch where we are worse than we’ve ever been with Emery. This is fair enough based on past experience, but it’s not that hard to imagine a scenario where we revert to 1.0 ppg (or worse) for a patch. A straight red card and three match ban for Martinez would do it, for example. An injury to Boubs would hurt us. And obviously a dry spell for Ollie would do it too. We also need to expect one of the teams behind us, Spurs or Chelsea or Brighton for example, to go on an extended unbeaten run and catch right up with us. I still think Top 4 is more likely than not. At this stage I think we’ll finish exactly fourth. But 6th wouldn’t surprise me a bit. There might only be a few points between 4th and 6th, and that’s definitely in the range of possibility.
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    Birmingham-gitis.
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    I think the world is much more uncertain than some others. I put the probability of Top 4 at about 60%. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if we came 5th or 6th. And 5th or 6th would still represent an excellent season for us. Best in years, especially considering the added European games. Hope I’m wrong. But a little bit of sober judgement will make it easier the next time we get turned over by Forest or whoever.
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    If you’d offered me six points from these last two games, I’d have taken it.
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    Does anyone know if City usually face this many shots in one half?
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    What a half. We are going toe-to-toe with the best team in Europe, and have been the much better team. I am very proud of us as a club right now.
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    We’re just giving our actual assessments of reality. Sober judgment of the facts on the ground. Would you prefer willfully biased, blind optimism??
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    We haven’t kept a clean sheet in about 5 years. Of course I’d take a draw. I expect us to get at them though. We’ll probably score too. But realistically they’ll likely just score a bit more more than us. 3-1 loss is my prediction. They are the best team in Europe, after all. (Prove me wrong, Ollie.)
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    How much would the Greek number 9 for AZ cost? £20m? He impressed me.
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    Bournemouth scored twice today. One from an awful mistake/pass by Carlos, and an excellent swivel and finish for their second. But they should have scored at least four. The ref bottled it. Should have sent at least Semenyo off. And he didn’t and that changed the game. But let’s be honest Bournemouth should have scored at least four and that’s not the ref’s fault. Cash needed a rest and so the back line was disjointed. A new RB would be preferable to playing Konsa, a top top centre half, out of position. Martinez man of the match. Watkins with a very impressive finish. Zaniolo looked like a lost child. Tielemens very inconsistent, sometimes excellent (one tackle around 60 mins was pure class) but sometimes muck (loose passes). Overall we were lucky. Two moments of excellence from our attack, and marvelous saves, earned us a point from an otherwise daily turgid team performance.
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    The question asks which we'd prefer this season. I'd love us to win the FA Cup this season. I'd rather that than access to the Champions League cash cow just so we can win the FA Cup a year later All in due course. We're about three players short of Top 4 imho* and we'll be better able to push on next year. * We'll get an injury. The drop-off in quality in GK, RB, CM, and Ollie means we'll have a tough patch sometime between now and March. Imho.
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    Famous Villa Fans

    Enda replied to sidcow's topic in Villa Talk

    Historian Tom Holland (from The Rest is History podcast, not the actor) is a Villa fan.
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    In a continuing series of Brexiteers having very little idea about international relations, we now have this all-time classic from Steve Baker MP.
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    The EU can’t do business with these clowns.
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    My reading was: - The “shot” is cleared off the line. By this point Bailey is offside because the keeper had strayed a yard out. - The “save” is by the defender who never gains control of the ball, so it’s like a keeper pushing the ball away. - Bailey receives the ball, as if he’d been offside from a shot and scored from the rebound. We’d all call that offside. On the one hand, it’s madness. On the other hand, you have to hand it to the linesman. That’s US Supreme Court level of argument right there.
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    Behind the keeper though, wasn’t he? I’m going to be Mr Unpopular here and say our offside goal was a bloody fantastic call by the linesman. I never would have reached his conclusion. I always think of “last man behind the ball” as the last defender but, in this specific moment, the keeper and the defender on the line have essentially switched places. Very good officiating to notice that, even if it’s a decision against us.
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