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    Jhon Durán

    The_Rev replied to PieFacE's topic in Villa Talk

    It’s got ‘part of the pre match video montage of amazing goals’ written all over it. I suspect we’ll be seeing it on the big screens at Villa Park for years.
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    The team is worse with Pau in it than we were last season with a fit Mings and Konsa.
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    Basically the same week as he joined Villa. (source) He’d done the dual role thing with Midtjylland and Northern Ireland before he did it with Villa and Scotland so clearly he’s comfortable in working that way. As for the game? Men against boys. Big wake up call for Scotland who might have found out they aren’t as good as they thought they were. Hopefully we see the back of Henderson and Maguire from the squad now but I’m still fully on board with this team.
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    Sourness reminiscing about the time when Scotland won 0-0 at Wembley during the Euros.
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    Losing 4-1 at home to Japan will do that for you.
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    He’s gonna do the dirty on Katie Price?
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    Ah. That’s Hajj which is on a prescribed date every year (it moves by 11 days because lunar calendar) and the biggest hassle in getting that is getting a visa from Saudi Arabia because they need to control the size of the crowds, which are roughly limited to two million. This was umrah, a minor pilgrimage, and probably no more difficult to organise than a long weekend in Dubai or The Caribbean.
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    How do you mean? Going to Mecca would be pretty straightforward at short notice for someone of El Ghazi’s means. He could decide the day before and jump on a plane from Amsterdam.
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    Darwin is having a field day vs Pau. We should totally have scored though.
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    High line isn’t the way you play here.
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    Liverpool’s era of dominance probably goes under appreciated by some football fans. In the fifteen years between 1975/76 and 1989/90 they were Champions of England ten times, Champions of Europe four times (and banned from Europe for five years within that period!) FA Cup winners twice, League Cup winners four times and UEFA Cup winners twice. I’ve omitted trophies from the list too, including a league title a couple of years earlier and an FA Cup a couple of years later because that 15 year spell was just ridiculous. Manchester City can do something similar but they’ll need to sustain what they are doing until about 2030 and pull their socks up in Europe.
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    Just adding to the consensus but we tilted that day. The injury to Buendia two days before we traveled would have affected our preparation, the injury to Mings would have messed the players up on the day yet we were still in the game until Konsa’s individual error for 3-1 which deflated us. Everything that happened after was just a case of them kicking us when we were down. Now they are perfectly entitled to do this and of course the result was emphatic but at the time some of us (smug mode activated) said there was no reason to throw the baby out with the bath water as we were doing a lot of things right and it was more of an ‘on the day’ thing rather than a systematic failure. Newcastle would have felt the same way after the 3-0 at Villa Park.
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    Not their style. More likely they’ll cut his head off and stuff the body into a suitcase.
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    There's probably an embargo for the highlights. They're up now: https://youtu.be/OraULZ4h7TM?si=CbKslpu4KO1RiOYS (and you don't know how tempted I was to Rickroll you here)
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    Can’t really add much to what’s already been said. The biggest threat to our goal all night was an almost comedic half stumble by Olsen. Pau still looks vulnerable physically but his range of passing is exquisite, the ball for Duran’s goal is something a prime David Beckham would have been proud of. Thought the midfield were just on a different level to Hibs even I thought they were all playing with one eye on Anfield this weekend. Duran looked excellent and I had to pinch myself when I remembered Kellyman is still only 17. Hibs fans probably the best I’ve seen in 30 years of going to Villa Park.
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    Newcastle in the group of death. Seems appropriate.
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    He's not going to displace Saka or Foden is he?
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    Too fat. He needs to be Solly Lighter to get in the squad.
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    Clément Lenglet

    The_Rev replied to Tom13's topic in Villa Talk

    Welcome to the internet!
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    I thought Burnley sold Ben Mee?
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    Harry Kane has hit the ground running in Germany then. Three goals and an assist in his first two Bundesliga games. Loving the ball they're using in Germany this season too. Proper Adidas Telstar style design.
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    I think that’s a fair point if Neil Maupay is running through on goal but literally anybody else?
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    So you can take someone out who is clean through on goal as long as it's fairly early in the game? Do you propose a minute where a RED card should be given? Second half? After an hour? If it's already 3-0 or something? It was a professional foul. Van Dijk took out the man because it's all he could do to prevent Isak shooting, and that's a red card whether it's after 27 seconds, 27 minutes or in injury time at the end of the second half.
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    Agreed, but it's one of those where I completely get why he shot. Two minutes into his debut, game is (probably) already won and he's clean through on goal? Should have squared it, but I forgive him. On a wider point, towards the end of last season it felt like a bit too much was going through Watkins. It was great watching him score so frequently but we were in danger of becoming one dimensional. Stop Watkins and you stop Villa. Bringing in players like Zaniolo and Diaby should give the opposition a lot more to think about as we've got a few players in the squad who will be aiming for double figures this season.
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    It's clear we miss Mings, I don't think that 15 minute wobble in the second half happens with him (and Martinez) on the pitch. Torres still needs time to adjust to the Premier League, he's going to get targeted by the opposition a lot in forthcoming games but enough of the negatives, we looked sensational for long periods in the first half, comfortably holding Burnley at arms length and cutting through them at will. Cash gets the headlines but I felt McGinn was our best player again, he's just brilliant at the moment, he uses the ball so well and he just doesn't make mistakes. I didn't think he was good enough for a team looking to break the top six of the Premier League but he could probably hold down a spot in a Champions League team on current form.
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