DJ_Villain Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 If you're watching motd....just note how few goals come from slow sideways passing.... If the other team doesn't have the ball, they can't score. I used to believe that too... Until Mellberg threw the ball to Enkleman.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OutByEaster? Posted January 10, 2015 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2015 We've the fourth best team in the league at not conceding goals. We've conceded twice as many as we've scored. 1/4 of the league has scored more than three times the number of goals we've scored. The league leaders had scored the amount of goals we've scored now before the end of August, it took them three games, it's taken us twenty one games. The worst team in the league had scored the amount of goals we've scored by the 4th October, it took them eight games. Our goals scored column really does take a bit of getting your head around, it's not just bad, it's freakishly, unusually bad. The lowest total in Premier league history was Derby in 2007-08; they scored 20 - we're on for a similar total. They conceded 89 goals that season, at current rates, we'll concede about 42. They were a very poor side, we're a poor side, but our deficiencies are so peculiarly one sided that it's bizarre. We're not a side that does nothing, that doesn't compete, we just don't score goals - and we don't score goals better than any other team in Premier league history. We really shouldn't underplay just how freakish a team we are at the moment. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 This says it all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanO Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Score Villa score once you get one you'll get more.................. I guess Lambert isn't listening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pooligan Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 I struggle to get my head around how a manager whose team has failed to score in 12 out of of 21 games and just 11 all season continues to play the same way and pick the same players game after game. He continues to play with two defensive midfielders ,in fact i would go as far as to say it is three as i dont see Cleverley as a attacking midfielder.He refuses to play a winger,so we have no width to give one of the best headers in the league any service at all.He insists on playing Gabby and Wiemann although both have proved time after time they just cant score Why bring Robinson back from Preston and then not give the kid a single minute on the pitch. I have watched him many times in the youth and reserve teams and the kid scores goals and he had started to score for Preston just before he was recalled. He may not be good enough for the Premier,but we will never know unless he is given a chance.Besides,he could hardly do any worse could he. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 After Lambert's first season where, I believe, Gabby, Benteke & Weimann all got into double figures, didn't Benteke and Weimann both get awarded new deals? Gabby also got one this season and since then his performance has dropped too. I can't help but feel that those three have become too comfortable for their (and ours) own good. Maybe a couple more attackers coming in, together with those being dropped here and there, will create enough competition to give them the kick up the arse they all need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Now I want us to be a team that survives in the PL without scoring, just because we're cool Scoring is overrated anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straggler Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 We've the fourth best team in the league at not conceding goals. We've conceded twice as many as we've scored. 1/4 of the league has scored more than three times the number of goals we've scored. The league leaders had scored the amount of goals we've scored now before the end of August, it took them three games, it's taken us twenty one games. The worst team in the league had scored the amount of goals we've scored by the 4th October, it took them eight games. Our goals scored column really does take a bit of getting your head around, it's not just bad, it's freakishly, unusually bad. The lowest total in Premier league history was Derby in 2007-08; they scored 20 - we're on for a similar total. They conceded 89 goals that season, at current rates, we'll concede about 42. They were a very poor side, we're a poor side, but our deficiencies are so peculiarly one sided that it's bizarre. We're not a side that does nothing, that doesn't compete, we just don't score goals - and we don't score goals better than any other team in Premier league history. We really shouldn't underplay just how freakish a team we are at the moment. I just love the phrase "we don't score goals better than any other team in Premiership History" There is a small part of me that is absurdly proud that we are so rubbish at scoring goals, I kinda want us to get the record. I suppose it is a type of gallows humor that if we are going to be awful we may as well be remarkably awful. The really scary thing is that if you look at the goals we have scored a decent proportion of them have been gifts from the opposition and very little to do with our own attacking flair. I know you would expect a few like that in a season, but our main attacking threat seems to be under hit passes from the opposition defense. In other goal related news the following players all have a better goals to matches played ratio than Aston Villa: Aguero Costa Cisse (Papiss) Austin Sanchez Sakho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Stevo985 Posted January 13, 2015 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted January 13, 2015 Now I want us to be a team that survives in the PL without scoring, just because we're cool Scoring is overrated anyway. 38 games of 0-0 The perfect season #purist 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted January 17, 2015 Moderator Share Posted January 17, 2015 14 teams have now scored more than twice as many goals as us - two of the five that haven't have got a game in hand. We need to score 10 in 16 games to beat Derby's record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 I was going to describe our record as 'simply indefensible', but perhaps that is the wrong choice of words... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 We've the fourth best team in the league at not conceding goals. We've conceded twice as many as we've scored. 1/4 of the league has scored more than three times the number of goals we've scored. The league leaders had scored the amount of goals we've scored now before the end of August, it took them three games, it's taken us twenty one games. The worst team in the league had scored the amount of goals we've scored by the 4th October, it took them eight games. Our goals scored column really does take a bit of getting your head around, it's not just bad, it's freakishly, unusually bad. The lowest total in Premier league history was Derby in 2007-08; they scored 20 - we're on for a similar total. They conceded 89 goals that season, at current rates, we'll concede about 42. They were a very poor side, we're a poor side, but our deficiencies are so peculiarly one sided that it's bizarre. We're not a side that does nothing, that doesn't compete, we just don't score goals - and we don't score goals better than any other team in Premier league history. We really shouldn't underplay just how freakish a team we are at the moment. Not meaning to seem arsey OBE but what does this say different to other posts regarding the same problem? We lack a goal threat but look relatively solid in defence. The final table will show just what that means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted January 17, 2015 Moderator Share Posted January 17, 2015 Nope, nothing different - just trying to make sense of how freakishly bad we are at scoring (and failing to make any sense out of it) - it's absurd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Nope, nothing different - just trying to make sense of how freakishly bad we are at scoring (and failing to make any sense out of it) - it's absurd. Fair play mate, nobody can argue with that! Just for the record, what's our lowest ever league goals for tally? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Nope, nothing different - just trying to make sense of how freakishly bad we are at scoring (and failing to make any sense out of it) - it's absurd. You know, Villa players should read your last post and absorb the frustration within it. If only only they could understand the pain it feels to be a Villa fan right now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted January 17, 2015 Moderator Share Posted January 17, 2015 In Premier league years (since 1992) it's 37 in 2011-12. I'll check further back later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 37 is our lowest ever. Another club record we will break this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted January 17, 2015 Moderator Share Posted January 17, 2015 37 is our lowest ever. Another club record we will break this year. It's not you know. In 1969-70 we scored 36 in 42 games - that's the worst I've found so far. One less than 2011-12 in four less games. We were in the Championship (old Division 2) and we were relegated to Division 3. Now that one was bleak. I went back as far as WWII (I'm bored now) we've been under 40 goals four times since the war - two of those in the last three seasons - it's officially the worst scoring period in our post war history. We finished bottom in 86-87 and still scored 45 in 42 games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smetrov Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 We've the fourth best team in the league at not conceding goals. We've conceded twice as many as we've scored. 1/4 of the league has scored more than three times the number of goals we've scored. The league leaders had scored the amount of goals we've scored now before the end of August, it took them three games, it's taken us twenty one games. The worst team in the league had scored the amount of goals we've scored by the 4th October, it took them eight games. Our goals scored column really does take a bit of getting your head around, it's not just bad, it's freakishly, unusually bad. The lowest total in Premier league history was Derby in 2007-08; they scored 20 - we're on for a similar total. They conceded 89 goals that season, at current rates, we'll concede about 42. They were a very poor side, we're a poor side, but our deficiencies are so peculiarly one sided that it's bizarre. We're not a side that does nothing, that doesn't compete, we just don't score goals - and we don't score goals better than any other team in Premier league history. We really shouldn't underplay just how freakish a team we are at the moment. Not meaning to seem arsey OBE but what does this say different to other posts regarding the same problem? We lack a goal threat but look relatively solid in defence. The final table will show just what that means. Solid in defence ? - we handed Liverpool at least 3 gilt edged chances today - and Leicester missed a hatful last weekend - we look far more likley to receive a drubbing than give one out.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisagg75 Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 37 is our lowest ever. Another club record we will break this year. It's not you know. In 1969-70 we scored 36 in 42 games - that's the worst I've found so far. One less than 2011-12 in four less games. We were in the Championship (old Division 2) and we were relegated to Division 3. Now that one was bleak. I went back as far as WWII (I'm bored now) we've been under 40 goals four times since the war - two of those in the last three seasons - it's officially the worst scoring period in our post war history. We finished bottom in 86-87 and still scored 45 in 42 games. in all fairness tommy doc said he would get us out of the division(2,or championship as it is now),he was right as well.just we went down instead of up. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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