ChicagoVillan1983

44 minutes ago, Follyfoot said:

Lucky lady 

She is - she’s dating a Villa fan!

53 minutes ago, av1 said:

Depending on your branch of engineering, 10mm is a very small tolerance 

Ha... I’m in finance, and we shorted millions to mm!

Agree that he is gone whatever the outcome - but staying in the league gives us way more leverage on the up front price plus add ones.

Easily could be a 10mm difference here.

Just now, deeps said:

It’s Bournemouth who really worry me. Plus, you just cannot trust arsenal. Wish they were both playing Chelsea, Utd, Wolves or Leicester. 

I agree. Players at WTF-ord have lost all interest in playing for this owner after the crazy sacking. Pearson will walk into another job after a month into the new season when someone is struggling.

I’m in a hotel in Milwaukee (weekend break from Chicago), and am going to sit and watch this in bed before checkout at noon.

Given the ownership, I think this is Villa’s new spiritual home in the US!

The Mrs can just lay around in the nude waiting for me to celebrate on her after the game.

Our hands are pretty tied up with FFP. This is sensible. He will put in a shift and his the second/ third choice striker.

2 year contract might be being a little hopeful, but let’s say max 3 year.

On 07/10/2019 at 14:52, mikeyp102 said:

Why would you knock 3 off? They all count. 

Well actually not every goal is equal... Routs inflate your goal tally.

Three 4-0 wins with three losses without scoring has the same number of goals as six 2-0 wins. I’d take the latter!

Don’t if this racist chanting crap is going to continue!

Forgive me for being naive... but we are tied for 6th in terms of goals scored (even if you knock off 3 goals from that tally given the rout on Saturday, we are top half).

Feels to me like we are doing more than enough up front to stay up. The real question for me is what is missing that we’ve been unable to maintain leads. Is that just experience and time - I think so?

4 in 8 for Wes, is 19 goals a season pace...

Yes please...

Penalty aside, he did his job. It doesn’t need to look pretty, or composed. He just needs to thread the ball in from 6 yards...

In fact, he should’ve had an assist if AEG could’ve scored that sitter...

18 minutes ago, brummybloke said:

Oddly after scoring 5 I feel a bit deflated

Only got to see 2nd half but marvelous was marvelous.

Some proper strikes went on today, it's a team we have been asking for, what a difference 2 attacking defenders make.

 

Fitting CH into the team and having just 1 winger looked good, EG starts over trez for me. Trez just seems unfit compared to everyone else. 

JG most attacking game yet, looks far better in that position than in the centre and stayed further forwards, in fact he was often more forwards than wes.

Didn't see either wes goal, didn't look great 2nd half, no better than of late if I'm being brutal.

Mings ? Seriously, give your head a wobble, gone off the boil since his england call up.

Just hope engels is just precautionary.

DS must have heard everyones criticism about subs timings, 1 forced and 2 were timed. We are a team rather than individuals and nice to see others scoring other than McGinn.

Well done guys

Mings was immense in the first half - sounds like you missed that.

Marvelous is the silent assassin in midfield. The guy is a sponge - anything sloppy he’s there to suck up the moisture. It could be really easy to miss him in a game, but felt like the majority of attacking plays come from him mopping up the ball and playing out a simple but purposeful pass.

Mings was behind every ball in the first half. I think we go in 2-1 or even 2-2 without him. He’s deserving of an England cap at this rate.
 

Defending seemed far better in the second half. 

Villa absolutely bossed the first half, really creative - looked solid middle table/ top 8 team. Second half they (again) sat back and tried to cushion a 1 goal lead. Lost all the creative spark except for Jack/ John. Burnley basically scored almost every chance they had. Marvelous is everywhere in the middle of the park without doing anything other than a 5 yard pass (he’s a boss). But we keep putting in second half shifts like that and we’re relegation fodder.

That’s a first half performance by a top-8 looking team. Dominant.

Is Wesley shit now???

I honestly didn’t feel at any point (other than one time where the ball floated down to Taylor to clear) that we were likely to concede a goal during that game. Marvelous really added to the solidity, and he seems like a real ball winner, midfield boss.

The other end of the pitch, 2 could’ve/ should’ve gone in the goal. I perhaps feel like we are having a bit of bad luck at late with decisions going against us, or the ball just not falling right.

Still nothing to be concerned about for me yet.

Was as the game. Felt like 2 points lost than a point gained. Inches away from a clinical goal. Didn’t feel at any point that West Ham were going to score... Was worried every time the ball came near Taylor.

Think Villa were unlucky not to convert a chance, although I feel they got worse when WH went to 10 men.

Got my bets on:

Tenner on Villa to win

Fiver on 3-1 Villa

Fiver on Mings to score anytime

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Don’t panic, don’t panic!

Let the system play out. By rights, we shouldn’t even be in the PL this season - Purslow basically said it himself. We’ll be fine. There’s so many new faces to settle in. Give them at least until New Year’s Day before saying we’re getting relegated...

Nowhere near time to panic. Trust the process, trust in Dean. It’s 4 games into the season. I’ll be at the West Ham game in full voice, and doing the only thing I can as a fan - shouting them on.

Game that a point will be a good result, and the off chance of a win. Just looking for more progression in performance from the last game. Feel as if there has been a notable step up in performance in every game so far this season. Unlucky against Bournemouth, defended well against Spurs. I’m expecting 1-1.

I think it would be a strange input into their mathematical model to include the height and weight of players when running their regressions - the stats on the pitch would be far more relevant! So I’m really not sure why people are getting concerned by it.

At the end of the day, it’s just a model, and a way of trying to place every player on a level playing field and objectively assess performance - the model will have its biases! 

Long time lurker, finally time to join the site! Villa fan since a kid. Originally from Cannock but now live in Chicago. Happy to finally see the team doing well, and have not been so excited about Villa since the mid 90s.

Hoping to get home and see a game this year - although tickets seem impossible. Fortunately US TV allows me to watch all the 3pm games live!