It's Your Round

6 minutes ago, Tom13 said:

I saw that earlier, but I see him now!

Took me a few watches to spot him. He proper loves it but still keeps himself in the background, unlike a certain donkey toothed scouse manager who would almost certainly be on the pitch muscling in on the action. 

I love this man so much and I think he loves Villa too. Can’t see him wanting to go anywhere else any time soon, he’s not achieved his goals with us yet. The wave he’s riding has nowhere near peaked. 

I’m not worried about Tottenham’s extra rest, it doesn’t always guarantee success in the first match back. How many times have we seen teams’ form drop off after an international break, for example.

Like Emery has said, he prefers us to play twice a week as it keeps the intensity up and we can implement changes quickly. Villa are in good form right now, I’d rather play Bournemouth while we are still buzzing than have a week off to potentially go off the boil. 

It’s primed for an Emi winning save in the shootout. 

We can do this, just needed to get to the break and let Emery work his magic now. Football is boring when it’s easy, and we’re making this as hard as possible. Let’s get it done now, UTV.

Much better that 

Martinez saves with his cheek, he’ll be fine but will also give us a breather. We need to wake up now 

Feel like Digne could have done more there. Time to step up again now Villa, back to square one. 

Oh bollox 

Good atmosphere, I’m confident our boys led by Emi can handle it and embrace it. 

That shirt looks good with Acorns on the front.

It’s nice to hear the TNT pundits being so complementary to Villa, I know it’s Hutton and Sidwell who both have a lot of time for us but the presenter is openly wanting us to win. I don’t think you’d get that from Sky tbh.

I know we should probably keep it tight and absorb Lille’s attacks early on, we have the lead and should protect it. However, I hope we come out all guns blazing and blow them away by half time, be much better for the nerves.

45 minutes ago, Talldarkandransome said:

Did you misbehave

Absolutely! 
 

If eating six meals a day and falling asleep by midnight counts

I can’t wait for this tonight, it promises to be great game and I don’t care what people say about the Conference League, it’s a European semi final that awaits the winner. The standard isn’t that much below the Europa League, and it would be an honour to win it, and great experience for this team in actually getting silverware over the line. 

I’ve just come back from Athens and having spoken to an Olympiacos fan I would say it’s only the plastic fans of the super league suckers that dismiss the ECL, because elsewhere in Europe, people are loving it. The Olympiacos lad is confident they will do the job in Besiktas, and really wants Villa in the next round. With a bit of luck Villa will get two trips to Athens, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to go back again but if you get chance to go and support Villa there I can only imagine how good it would/will be. 

I couldn’t watch the game but having seen the score just want to say Up The F***** Villa!!!! 

Im away on holiday and not really following life back home, but **** me, tottingham!

Hopefully that eases a few jitters. There’s plenty of twists and turns to come but this puts us right back in it. 

What a finish!!! 

Villa Park looks beautiful

This thread has taken a glorious turn for the better this last week 

I’m still not 100% confident they will go, just need one final plunge to get it round the bend now. Then we get to witness small heath’s rise to the top to claim the biggest club in town, the 60k £3bn seat master plan, but in League One

Really looking forward to this, Lille are a decent side and we are somewhat short on numbers, but we still have quality throughout the team. Lille are no mugs and playing well in Ligue 1, but we are also 5th in a much stronger league. We are no mugs either. I hope we go for it tonight and look to blow them away. I’m not expecting anything from the Arsenal game so if prefer we give this rare European QF our full attention. 

Casemiro should have been sent off for that. Liverpool really f******d that up, they should have been clear and free by half time. Seems it’s not just Villa who can mess things up when in cruise control. 
 

Man U now 11 points behind us, the same number of points between us and Arsenal. They won’t be catching us. 

Go on Salah la! 

Flukey clearings in the woods again!!

I didn’t get to watch the game, but have seen the goals now. The defensive collapses are concerning for sure but we’re still in a good position overall. I’d have preferred to have not lost Dougie for Arsenal away, and I can’t see us getting anything there, but you never know. We need a reaction and we need to cut the lapses out. Great to see Watkins get two and a nice finish from Rogers.