villaglint

Why do they let him commentate on their games it’s so annoying for 50% of the people watching the game.

I often think this but am too afraid to say it because…you know…

Yeah I’ve often wondered why he doesn’t do that more as he has a decent strike on him and remember him getting a few goals outside the box for Brentford. I think it’s mainly because for us he is usually arriving on the end of things. I don’t remember him refusing that many long shots.

At least if you ever end up in prison you’ll be able to satisfy two tough guys in the showers at once so not all bad.

30 g/a is 35 games this season. Not bad, not bad at all. Started panicking a little when that big lump trod on his foot.

I've had that before its probably because you are buying it in an area where they dont do concessions seats. So you pay full wack or find somewhere else in the ground to sit.

Putting results aside and just looking at performances how do we explain going from Newcastle > Sheffield Utd > Chelsea > Man Utd. Sheffield Utd I get as they are toilet but we still executed really well. The rollercoaster nature of our performances must be driving Unai crazy.

Hello statistics meet Aston Villa…

I understand your point and felt the same in the game most of our best moments seem to fall to him and he couldn’t capitalise. But even though it was frustrating it’s also kind of encouraging (if I can hold back the terrible bubbling anger at losing to this mob AGAIN). It’s encouraging that he was in those positions time and again, we played much much better today overall and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that JJ was a part of that. He’s off it but not by miles in my opinion and nearer to being back on it than Diaby, and Zaniolo in respective order. Whoever decides to show us what a brilliant player they are first. I hope they do it sooner rather than later.

Fixed that for you.

This, my biggest disappointment of the whole evening is that he (and many others) clearly went missing after giving the ball away a few times in a row. They clearly didn’t want it and that lack of effort to demand the ball and want to get on it just narrows the space for everyone else. As I say he wasn’t alone in that but it was the first real sign of our mental fragility. We’ve not been good for different reasons for a while but I felt like last night was the first time we didn’t believe we were the better team. Lots for Unai to work on.

You beat me by a whisker!

You’ve opened a can of worms here @OutByEaster? We drive and the traffic is horrendous and only seems to get worse year on year. Driving in from M6 we tend to park in area around Upper Sutton street. There is always a huge queue stretching back to M6 all along A38 and around the round about. This is nearly all caused by cars turning right at the traffic lights where Upper Sutton Street crosses Victoria Road. It means only 1 or 2 cars move in each set of lights and it clogs everything up for miles back. If you stopped people turning right for an hour or two on match days this huge queue of traffic would be magically resolved. And for people who need to turn right there are plenty of streets they can take further down the road. Simple change - huge result exactly the kind of win Andrew has been brought in for. Been wondering why club doesn’t do something about this for years it’s so obvious.

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Not to worry, Unai will play McGinn right back and he’ll be surprisingly brilliant at it.

Jokes aside what is your working on the maths here? If Utd beat us next week they are 5 points behind with 14 games to go. Seems like plenty left to play for to me.

We are Aston Villa - however unlikely you think it is we’ll give it a damn good go.

Even though Butler will have a heavy influence it’s Bailey ultimately making the decision. He has seemed very happy here ever since Unai came in, even when he wasn’t starting every game. Boy knows a good thing when he sees it. No better place and no better manager to help him fulfil his potential.

Thought he was outstanding yesterday. After the Newcastle game I felt the one saving grace was Ollie scoring so he would go on another run. So it shall be.

De Bruyne will be watching that tonight thinking I wish I could do that.

19 G/A in 31 games - not all of them starts. Drink it in.

A lot has been made of our form since Arsenal game but this is first time that side of City/Arsenal games has played since then. Interesting. Most of the side have played and set up has only been slightly different but seemed to click a bit more. That said thought Sheffield were toilet. For sure thought Tielemans looks better as a ten.

Bournemouth?

That is a hell of a cameo. Shame it was wasted.

Yeah my thought too, feel like he must be carrying something because he’s been our best attacking player in recent times and it was more than a little odd that he didn’t come on until 89th min or something against Chelsea. Can’t be too bad otherwise he wouldn’t be on the bench but must need some rest.