Feyenoord Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Did Groningen even get out of first gear? Their best player Filip Kostic wasn't even playing (Chery is good as well) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daweii Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Maybe it's about time we had a dodgy pre-season. The last few years bar a shock result we've had a very comfortable and encouraging pre-season that amounts to nothing. Maybe having a bad pre-season will have the opposite effect. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 beyond dire, and very worrying. That was as good as our first team out there, and they looked risibly bad. Stoke will batter us. hmmm, I wouldn't say it was - Give, Senderos, Baker, Clark won't start against Stoke and I have a feeling CNZ and hopefully a new defensive midfielder will replace Weimann and Gabby. I can see us lining up against Stoke as ..................Guzan Hutton(!)Vlaar, Okore,Richardson ...Westwood, New DM, Delph Bacuna..............................CNZ ....................Bent Yep. That's my starting XI as things stand (Okore will play right side though). If Cole is fit, maybe put him in behind Bent, but that's about as good as we have at the moment (not saying much I know). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumstopdogs Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Lambert out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heid3ster Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 I thought this game was tomorrow and slept through it. From the sounds of it, so did many of our players? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted August 2, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted August 2, 2014 Heh, 4-1 and I didn't see any of the goals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted August 2, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted August 2, 2014 I watched about 15minutes of this and turned it off. Typical Lambert football. I appreciate it's a friendly, and I appreciate the game ultimately means nothing.... but aren't these the games where we should be experimenting? Aren't these the games where we should be trying to implement tactics which we've been learning in training? Shouldn't we be trying to work on the things we're bad at, ball retention and attacking movement? But no, still it looks like none of this has been worked on at all. Tough season ahead me thinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 All about fitness these matches, the score isn't all that. Groningen are way ahead of us in match sharpness and fitness as they have played several qualifiers for the Europa League. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villianusa Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 All about fitness these matches, the score isn't all that. Groningen are way ahead of us in match sharpness and fitness as they have played several qualifiers for the Europa League. Well they did plenty of running because they were never able to keep hold of the ball. This is now late pre-season and the coach should have them tactically ready for a season that starts in two weeks. We're not ready and I struggle to see how we will be with Lambert in charge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 O'Leary out! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 (edited) perhaps we should play all our football in the USA Edited August 2, 2014 by TRO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feyenoord Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Heh, 4-1 and I didn't see any of the goals. Here are the highlights for ya. http://foxsports.nl/video/222072-samenvatting-fc-groningen-aston-villa.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted August 2, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted August 2, 2014 Heh, 4-1 and I didn't see any of the goals. Here are the highlights for ya. http://foxsports.nl/video/222072-samenvatting-fc-groningen-aston-villa.html Thanks! I think.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Heh, 4-1 and I didn't see any of the goals. Here are the highlights for ya. http://foxsports.nl/video/222072-samenvatting-fc-groningen-aston-villa.html You can only watch that in the Netherlands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Pre-season results means **** all in the grand scheme of things. More about blooding younger players an boosting fitness. To have a scoreline like this in a meaningful game is not excusable but in a pre-season game, it's permissible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GENTLEMAN Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 That was woeful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted August 3, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted August 3, 2014 Pre-season results means **** all in the grand scheme of things. More about blooding younger players an boosting fitness. To have a scoreline like this in a meaningful game is not excusable but in a pre-season game, it's permissible. Steve, I don't think anyone disagrees with pre-season results being meaningless. But the way we played, and how our guys looked like in this game was clearly worse than we expected. It was an eye-opener. Not that we needed any more of it, but it is what it is. And mind you, I like to be positive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 No highlights on AVTV? Wonder if this will be discreetly written out of the Villa record books? Makes me wonder why I bother with the annual fee for that flakey flakey flakey "service". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 The results dont matter obviously, but we never put in a decent performance thats the worry. Yes they are ahead of us in terms of fitness and boy did it show. They have played Europa League qualifiers too, but who knocked them out? Aberdeen!! Lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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