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  1. juanpablosaliceband
    Brilliant win. The level McGinn is playing at is just incredible. I’d written him off 12 months ago. He’s everywhere and involved in everything. I felt we were vulnerable all second half and Fulham could have scored at any moment but we did enough. Fulham are not a bad side. Hopefully we get some rest during the internationals.
  2. juanpablosaliceband
    Couldn’t agree more. It’s the referee’s job to know the rules. It shouldn’t be that difficult, especially now that they have VAR at their disposal to take a second look. We had armchair supporters calling foul because the defender deliberately headed the ball.
  3. juanpablosaliceband
    Ironically, that Mings incident was a catalyst for another tweak to the rule at the time with a focus on whether the defender deliberately plays the ball or not.
  4. juanpablosaliceband
    Brilliant for Emi. Brilliant profile for the club.
  5. juanpablosaliceband
    I think Unai is combining Zaniolo and Bailey perfectly. They’re both getting opportunities. Coming off the bench doesn’t seem to be doing Bailey any harm. He’s having an impact. And I don’t think Zaniolo has been bad at all. He has a presence and gets involved. He was unlucky not to score today.
  6. juanpablosaliceband
    Really? I thought it was going into the middle of the goal. Maybe it’s because the defender played it on purpose.
  7. juanpablosaliceband
    Should that not go down as a Diaby goal? Like a shot on target that was deflected?
  8. juanpablosaliceband
    I’d get cash off. He’s making some rash lunges.
  9. juanpablosaliceband
    Surprised we are so late to make some changes.
  10. juanpablosaliceband
    Brilliant, brilliant play from Bailey. He’s like a different player.
  11. juanpablosaliceband
    Ok. Thanks. I didn’t actually know that. I assumed it was just a normal top two qualify where 9 points can be enough and 10 points is almost always enough. I just can’t help myself from having tunnel vision on the league at the moment. We can and should be looking to win all of our next three games. That would leave us on 28 points from 12 games, which would be a huge platform to take a champions league spot from. I’d be willing to take a chance with some rotation tonight.
  12. juanpablosaliceband
    I would gamble and rest some of our most used players tonight. Even a point from the two games against AZ would leave us in good shape to qualify, with two easier games to finish the group.
  13. juanpablosaliceband
    There may be plenty of lazy pundits out there but what I witnessed today from the media was an absolute Villa Love Fest.
  14. juanpablosaliceband
    I feel like we paid Wolves too much respect today with our lineup. I’d have fancied us if we’d taken the game to them. We had very little going forward. Ref was appalling. Constantly ignoring fouls and inconsistent in decisions. Push on Watkins was the clearest penalty you will see all season. Heavy push in the back as the player was shooting. It’s the definition of a foul. Disgrace it was let go. Good goal by Torres but for our marquee defensive signing, he’s poor defensively and scarily slow. He’d be third choice behind Carlos and Konsa for me. Feels like two points dropped.
  15. juanpablosaliceband
    He’s been a disaster defensively. Exposed every time he has some proper defending to do.
  16. juanpablosaliceband
    I know but he’s a major defensive liability.
  17. juanpablosaliceband
    Torres is a serious liability. Can’t run and can’t defend.
  18. juanpablosaliceband
    Watkins is asleep today.
  19. juanpablosaliceband
    Good experience for this squad getting through games like that against an unknown quantity. Hopefully it’s the type of learning that will serve us well in years to come. I don’t really understand the A team versus B team divide some are pushing. We had at least seven regular premier league starters in our starting line up tonight. We need to utilise the squad. We can’t compete on all fronts by playing the same players for 90 minutes twice a week. Otherwise, we might as well just release about five players if we don’t want them contributing. Positives to see Carlos and Lenglet getting a game under their belts, and Bailey getting through the 90 minutes after injury.
  20. juanpablosaliceband
    If we have an option to buy him next summer, I don’t see any upside in doing it earlier in January. It would probably hit our FFP earlier than it needs to and, dare I say, eat into the time whereby he might get injured and we can send him back.
  21. juanpablosaliceband
    He was in the wars today and put in a shift but he’s a major defensive liability. He got caught out by the ball in behind countless times in the second half. He was too slow and weak to get to the ball first, even if he had a head start.
  22. juanpablosaliceband
    Very lucky Digne wasn’t badly hurt there.
  23. juanpablosaliceband
    Clear red. Ankle breaker.
  24. juanpablosaliceband
    No sponsor on the jersey?
  25. juanpablosaliceband
    He seemed to get two yellow cards for separate incidents in the last few minutes against palace but the ref didn’t give him a red with the second. Did anyone else notice this? It looked odd.
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