VillaChris Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 His record v 10 men must be one of the worst around at top level. Norwich will probably go on another losing run if they get beaten tonight. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Really struggling against 10 man Newcastle. Was a real problem when he was here too. So strange. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thug Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 He has no idea what to do against 10. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Smiths worst nightmare. Playing against 10 men. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 (edited) Villa’s struggles against 10 men go further back than just Smith. Edited November 30, 2021 by Wainy316 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanBalaban Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, Wainy316 said: Villa’s struggles against 10 men go further back than just Smith. But Smith's struggles continue beyond Villa. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turvontour Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 13 minutes ago, VillaChris said: His record v 10 men must be one of the worst around at top level. Norwich will probably go on another losing run if they get beaten tonight. This is pretty much like us away at Sheff U last season. Lose one nil with them down to ten men. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuwabatake Sanjuro Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 The Lees-Melou for Tzolis sub at half time was an atrocious decision, no way of justifying it either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuwabatake Sanjuro Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Equaliser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwi1890 Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Norwich up to 18th , Newcastle rooted to the bottom love it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciggiesnbeer Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 (edited) Good result for us. Hopefully a confidence smasher for Naaarwich and Toon to keep em down there. Love Dean and all but sooner Norwich gets relegated than us. It is uncanny how Smiths flaws have followed him. Poor subs and didn't adjust against 10 men. Very familiar. Edited November 30, 2021 by ciggiesnbeer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 (edited) Took them up 2 places in 3 games. Quite impressive since it was called a suicide mission by some Worrying part for them is they could and probably should have 9 points from 9 Edited November 30, 2021 by Zatman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hong0311 Posted December 1, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 1, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, VillaChris said: His record v 10 men must be one of the worst around at top level. Norwich will probably go on another losing run if they get beaten tonight. The only good game I can recall when we had 10 men was the game vs Crystal Palace last season. The game was arguably one of the best performances in history of a team playing in 10 men. xG was close to 5, which is only accomplished by none other than City in the history of Premier League (if I recall correctly), and we played 45 min with 10 men. Edited December 1, 2021 by hong0311 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 4 hours ago, Zatman said: Took them up 2 places in 3 games. Quite impressive since it was called a suicide mission by some Worrying part for them is they could and probably should have 9 points from 9 It’s also a good sign in that they are in with a chance of winning games…he still has 5 points from 3, and still within touching distance of Watford and Southampton. Norwich are a poor quality squad but if he can get Gilmour, Cantwell and Rashica going and gets goals from Pukki they have an outside chance of surviving. Some positives, like they haven’t conceded a goal from open play for 266 minutes. Considering they were fair game conceding 26 goals for the first 11 games, it’s a good building block. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 4 of those points from a losing position too 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 I think they were missing some of their better players yesterday, still must be frustrating to concede against 10 though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 The Clark red card changed everything. Stupid stupid player. I really believe Newcastle would have won that if they had 11 men all game. Norwich I wasnt very impressed with. The keeper gifted them the equaliser and didnt really create much until the final few minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 Same interview as when he was with us. Basically need to move the ball quicker against 10 men. We know that. You know that. They know that. Why cant you implement that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 1 minute ago, rodders0223 said: Same interview as when he was with us. Basically need to move the ball quicker against 10 men. We know that. You know that. They know that. Why cant you implement that? Definitely more difficult to do with Norwich than Villa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentVillan Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 12 hours ago, ciggiesnbeer said: Good result for us. Hopefully a confidence smasher for Naaarwich and Toon to keep em down there. Love Dean and all but sooner Norwich gets relegated than us. It is uncanny how Smiths flaws have followed him. Poor subs and didn't adjust against 10 men. Very familiar. I don't know why some on here are fixating on teams below us doing badly. We aren't getting relegated. Smith wasn't getting us relegated, and Gerrard won't get us relegated. Far too much quality in the squad, and we have money to spend in January. I'd love to see Norwich stay up. That was a 2 points dropped game in the end for Smith. Possibly the issue Smith's teams have against 10 men is the reluctance to play very aggressively on the transition. I noticed they were knocking it around the back 4, when a more aggressive pass from a defender into midfield would have probably seen them in a lot of space. If you don't play quick on the transitions, then the man advantage disappears, because the 10-man team can just drop into defensive shape, and the lack of an extra man up top doesn't really cause them problems. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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