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The mad thing is this Matty Cash beef they’re trying to create. You’d think he’d Ben Mee’d half their squad the way they bang on about it

8 hours ago, VillaJ100 said:

Definitely hoping the Newcastle away, arsenal Liverpool city quad puts paid to them. Maybe even Chelsea away they'll want to do over a London rival. We have to play four of those still but at least with a gap

They’ll get some points out of those games probably, but yeah it’s a tough run of fixtures. If we can beat them next weekend they will be very deflated

Actually played well today, which makes it funnier 

20 minutes ago, holteend1982 said:

I think currently it's 5th europa and 6th conference as one of the 2 europa league spots goes to winner of the FA Cup

If both FA Cup finalists have qualified for CL / Europa via their PL finish (which is fairly likely based on recent history), then they go on league position for the next Europa place.

48 minutes ago, Mantis said:

A draw would be fine. Obviously won't be as comfortable as a win but it will still leave us in a very good position.

Probably yes, although that would leave us 5 pts ahead (with an extra game played) with the run ins looking like this:

Villa: West Ham (A), Wolves (H), Man City (A), Brentford (H), Arsenal (A), Bournemouth (H), Chelsea (H), Brighton (A), Liverpool (H), Palace (A)

Spurs: Fulham (A), Luton (H), West Ham (A), Forest (H), Newcastle (A), Man City (H), Arsenal (H), Liverpool (A), Burnley (H), Shef Utd (A), Chelsea (A)

Have highlighted the "Sky 7" (inc Newcastle) in red. I think Spurs have easier fixtures from the other games - Luton H, Forest H, Burnley H, Shef Utd A are the 4 relegation battlers.

We could really do with Spurs dropping points against Fulham or West Ham, who should be well up for it in London derbies.

IMO it'll go right down to the wire. Main thing is we both need to keep Man Utd out of the mix.

Edit: added in the postponed Chelsea A game for Spurs, thanks @WHY

Just now, NurembergVillan said:

I've always thought he lacked consistency.

Not the consistency of scoring every single week - very few in the world are at that level. The consistency of striking the ball, even in the same match. Sometimes a good hit, other times scuffed, dragged or mistimed.

The last few weeks he's been hitting the ball incredibly true. Away at Fulham he absolutely cracked one past the keeper. Against Forest he struck one beautifully but just wide. His second today wasn't a pure instep shot, he curled it beyond the keeper with accuracy and pace.

We know he tends to have "streaky" form, but I wonder if this is less to do with a streak and more to do with hard work. If it IS the latter, the streaky form will disappear too and he'll be scoring like Harry Kane.

And if/when that happens, he'll have to be in that top bracket of strikers with the likes of Haaland, Kane and Salah. Which is **** incredible when you look at his journey compared to theirs.

Go on son!

I don't think his form is any more "streaky" than any other striker. It's just natural that goals will come in clusters. Even the Haaland / Messi type strikers will have purple patches where they get 2 or 3 goals per game.

If we beat Spurs next week we will be very strong favourites for 4th or higher, and we should have buried Manure with that.

If we lose or draw, it will be a very squeaky bum run in, but we should still get 4th / 5th = probably CL next season.

He’ll get there with one more season in a Villa shirt. I liked his post match interview talking about Champions League fixtures at Villa Park

Would like to see more of him, he is clearly a very dangerous attacking threat and was one of our best players early in the season. Hopefully these good performances off the bench are earning him a chance to show what he can do in a key game

Just now, tinker said:

I didnt look at stats , I watched the game.

Same, but hard to argue the point without mentioning the stats. What can I say if you think that an obvious battering was in fact an unlucky defeat for Palace?

2 minutes ago, tinker said:

What game did you watch,  Spurs had possession but to say they battered them isn't a reflection of the game I watched,  Spurs struggled to break down a resolute Palace team who lacked the quality up front to make the break away chances they had stick. 

Hit the post, scored 3, had 6 shots on target vs 1 from Palace, and as you say dominated possession.

We’d be livid if we’d done that and not walked away with all 3 points.

Spurs deserved that win tbh, absolutely battered Palace. Will be a very good game next weekend

The order on MOTD is so irrelevant these days anyway 

Think this guy gets too much credit when we score off a set piece and too much blame when we concede. Ultimately he’s probably doing a decent enough job to still be in Unai’s team, but he’s never going to be worth more than a few points a season.

A lot of promise. Wouldn’t hold him responsible for the game getting away from us at one point. Would def like to see more of him.

22 minutes ago, rodders0223 said:

Yes he's 4th choice. Yes he was a last minute to replace Mings. Yes we would have been screwed without him.

But my God he's terrible.

Literally 90%+ of the threads on this forum it’s the same take. Boring (and bullshit in this case)

5 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

The first half we absolutely breezed through - if you were looking for a dictionary definition of 'in control' that first half was it. It feels like three weeks ago because we were so bad in the second half, but I can't go along with 'never'.

Disagree, even when we clearly had the upper hand in the first half, their press was causing us problems and we were conceding stupid free kicks in our own half

Never looked in control of that game. Individual player quality shone through in the end, but Luton went toe to toe with us and probably deserved something out of that 

Can’t be doing that on a regular basis

Be lucky to get a point here

**** anal sex

Aids

Michael Oliver definitely setting things up for a red card here

Great half though. Lenglet has been excellent at the back, great to have Konsa back

I think Luton will tire if they keep trying to press like this, we just need to be patient

Watkins superb 

Liking Rogers so far

Where has that 7 mins come from?

The way all the journos laugh at Big Ange’s jokes like they’re eating ice cream out of his splayed crack