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  1. JPJCB
    I do think there’s a lack of people paying attention to what Emery has actually done. Neville there talks about us finishing top 4 in the same way someone who’d not watched football for 18 months and then was asked about us finishing the top 4 would- “oh it’s Villa who aren’t a traditional top team so probably they won’t finish in the top 4 but wouldnt it be nice if they did” If you look at what has happened under emery where we’ve been consistently a top 3 level team in terms of points per game, plus the fact we already have a head start, it’s gonna take a relative collapse in our form under emery for us to drop out of top 4. From that perspective I’d be “surprised” if we didn’t finish top 4 at this stage
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    But…but…didn’t he tackle Mbappe once in the World Cup?
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    I don’t know what you mean…
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    Title race 2023/4

    JPJCB replied to Jareth's topic in Villa Talk

    Also, Manure’s main (of many) weakness(es) is their non existent midfield so it’s not quite as bad as losing him against a similarly ranked team but with much better midfield (e.g spurs, Brighton)
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    Title race 2023/4

    JPJCB replied to Jareth's topic in Villa Talk

    “Tell us then Pep, how bad is the injury to Haaland?” ”we’ve got the medical report in and it’s the worst we could have all feared: a 24 hour stomach bug. It’s a tough one but we’re all here for Erling and we know he’ll come back stronger” ”and what about KDB?” ”oh that’s just a broken leg. I’m sure he’ll shake it off within the next 18 months and we’ll be happy to see him back”
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    They’re having a worse season in the league than last year though where they were in the top 4 consistently all year. Plus their CL performance is worse than they’d have hoped. Unless they win a domestic cup this season will have at best been treading water for them at this rate rather than progressing which their owners may be unhappy with
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    Title race 2023/4

    JPJCB replied to Jareth's topic in Villa Talk

    I thought it was your bed time?
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    Title race 2023/4

    JPJCB replied to Jareth's topic in Villa Talk

    See you later mate- you won’t be missed
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    Schar goes off injured. Howe will claim it’s terrible luck but it’s a hamstring injury and therefore just as likely caused by him overworking his players
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    Arsenal

    JPJCB replied to PieFacE's topic in Other Football

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    The fact neither of the CBs got in there despite keeping two clean sheets against arguably 2 of the best teams in the league is criminal
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    Such a relevant clip- thanks for sharing. Even if VAR has removed the point about them only taking decisions in 5 seconds, it’s done nothing to remove the pressure that they face or the risk that if something goes wrong their names will be trashed in the media - arguably it’s made that worse
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    I thought the whole discussion was a microcosm for how we’ve ended up in the mess we are now with officiating. The media relentlessly focusses on refereeing decisions in their punditry- they literally cannot resist talking about them even when there’s far more exciting things going on in the game. And, as shown by linekar above, a lot of the time the pundits themselves don’t even know what’s actually going on. And so we end up with an endless cycle of refereeing needing to “improve” even to the extent of pilots coming into advise VAR officials (which sounds like a huge waste of their time) and it’s all driven by pundits who have barely a braincell between them
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    The big question is how their squad is so dogshite after all the money they’ve spent
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    I used to think the big (positive) difference between him and Bailey was that diaby was far less selfish and would inevitably pass at the right times while Bailey ran down blind alleys. I actually think that selflessness is becoming a weakness of his game. Too many times when he’s got yards to burn in front of him he becomes ponderous looking for a pass rather than driving on
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    Aside from anything else we didn’t “benefit” from that call to “stay third”. If they’d given the goal the game would have likely ended in a draw in which case we’d still be third but with a 3 point rather than 5 point gap on city. Youre right that it all feeds the narrative that we’re desperately hanging on by our fingertips to stay among these dizzy heights
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    Why have we got no big chances when we scored from a central shot just outside the six yard box?
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    Dean Smith

    JPJCB replied to Demitri_C's topic in Other Football

    He’s too good for an MLS job. he needs to go to a championship club which are on the way up, not on the way down. One where the manager has just been poached for a bigger team rather than sacked. That then gives a more stable platform to do what he does best rather than firefighting which I don’t think is his strength
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    They had more chances than us but I don’t think any of them were sitters or wonder saves. Martinez put in a very consistent professional performance but i couldn’t pick out a save that he really shouldn’t have made. Put it another way, we had by far the best chance of the game and we scored it. How many times in years gone by have things been the other way round and the big teams have taken their one big chance while we’ve huffed and puffed? As for Arteta moaning about the ref, I kept a running tally of his decisions and reckon that, by the letter of the law, both rice and havertz should have been sent off. Rice cynically blocked one of free kicks in the first half which this season has resulted in bookings; then he got a deserved yellow for pulling a player’s shirt. Havertz pulled back a players shirt in the first half and then tackled Martinez late in the game while he had both hands on the ball. Bizarrely he got no booking for either. Meanwhile Luiz got booked for something as innocuous as kicking the ball away and saka gets nothing for doing the same thing two mins later. And yet artetta’s complaining about a goal disallowed for a genuine handball?!
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    I’ve got a city mate who doesn’t even think he’s city’s best player (Rodri and KdB both better) and yet he’s finishing second in the ballon d’or. That suggests to me he is overrated by the broader footballing world
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    Indeed- thanks for the patronising explanation! My original point was that the situation you refer to at the end of your post happens to be the exact relevant one in this case
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    I know the stats technically do that but it’s not actually a fair reflection of the game. Had Haaland scored, it would have been ruled out by VAR for offside so it was an attempt on goal with no value/chance of success Theres a more general point here in my mind that other teams’ XG/shot stats are potentially systematically overstated as theyre more likely to include chances which would have been offside given our high line. The Chelsea game this year comes to mind where the MOTD highlights included a load of chances which would never have counted had they gone in
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    *1 shot (Haaland header was offside) …I’ll keep correcting this fact until the day I die
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    I’ll reiterate again- that’s only 1 shot on target. He’s offside for the header
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    I remember the first time I saw a guardiola team play in the late noughties. It was like watching football from the future. Teams like ferguson’s united, mourinho’s Chelsea (albeit under Grant) and wenger’s arsenal, who were used to bullying PL teams, were thoroughly bullied by a Barca team that gave them no time on the ball and dominated in all areas of the pitch. Now admittedly, the City side we played last night were not as good as that Barca side, not least cause of the number of injuries. But it still blows my mind to think that we completely dominated them last night
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