It's selectively post the Arsenal defeat, but it's still ridiculously impressive.
Especially for a European team coming knowing that the last 6 to come didn't leave with anything.
Teams must be setting up differently now as the odds are stacked against them.
We've now won 26 of our last 33 games at Villa Park, in all competitions.
So 80% of the time that a team comes to Villa, they leave with nothing.
We don't discriminate whether you're top or bottom of the league either. The average league place of those 7 games we didnt win is about 12th.
Actually we do discriminate against european teams, they don't get anything at Villa Park.
Brighton team is always so odd.
It's a combination of players that I've never heard of and then a load from my childhood.
Baleba, Montana. Sessagne etc.
Mixed with
Milner, Lallana, Wellbeck, Hamann, Wiltord.
Wow, could it have been that if the English teams had done well in Europe, we could have potentially qualified for champions league tonight, depending on Newcastle and Man U scores.
I think it's the case that we won't be signing big names, as in current top regarded 20 to 30 players out there, but more that we sign talked about players who are on an upward trajectory and have the scope to grow further and improve. Which is the model for the majority of our last 25 signings.
Big name players rarely work, Coutinho arguably our biggest named signing and possibly the one of the few you could consider a flop.
No word of this on talksport or sky sports social media. Can't run their daily "why Emery will leave Villa for a big club" phone in today. They'll restart it tomorrow.