VillanousOne Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, villalad21 said: Good today. No mistakes. More of that please and i will stop criticize. No mistakes that were punished, at one point he passed it back to a saints player in the area. Overall thought he was good though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Dominant in the air Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Excellent. One slightly dodgy back pass but a key player for our clean sheet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted January 30, 2021 Moderator Share Posted January 30, 2021 I've been critical of times this season and I maintain rightly so, he was excellent tonight though. I often think he is at his best when it is back to the wall defending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jono62 Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 I've noticed he's started hoofing the ball into the stands more 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villan-scott Posted January 30, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 30, 2021 Very very good tonight. Never really threatened and dealt with everything. Some fantastic blocks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-R Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Very good tonight from him, no pissing around, just sorting it out, well done Mings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughable Chimp Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Did people miss the backpass he sent to Martinez that almost put Ings through or are we blaming that on Martinez? If Martinez hadn't gotten there, it would've been business as usual in this thread. That is a semi-serious question. My first intuition is that it was Mings's bad but I didn't really see the scenario enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avfc1982am Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 He gets criticised enough, even by myself but I thought he was superb tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Just now, Laughable Chimp said: Did people miss the backpass he sent to Martinez that almost put Ings through or are we blaming that on Martinez? If Martinez hadn't gotten there, it would've been business as usual in this thread. That is a semi-serious question. My first intuition is that it was Mings's bad but I didn't really see the scenario enough. that was a bit of a hospital ball, but Martinez was a bit slow getting to the ball, i think it was a 50/50, poor-ish backpass but Martinez took his time a bit (almost looked like he thought he had more time than he did). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted January 30, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 30, 2021 6 minutes ago, Laughable Chimp said: Did people miss the backpass he sent to Martinez that almost put Ings through or are we blaming that on Martinez? If Martinez hadn't gotten there, it would've been business as usual in this thread. That is a semi-serious question. My first intuition is that it was Mings's bad but I didn't really see the scenario enough. pass was fine, martinez was far too casual coming for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilko154 Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 6 minutes ago, Laughable Chimp said: Did people miss the backpass he sent to Martinez that almost put Ings through or are we blaming that on Martinez? If Martinez hadn't gotten there, it would've been business as usual in this thread. That is a semi-serious question. My first intuition is that it was Mings's bad but I didn't really see the scenario enough. Do you just go around all of the players threads criticising them after a win? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughable Chimp Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 4 minutes ago, wilko154 said: Do you just go around all of the players threads criticising them after a win? No, nowadays usually only the ones who I think usually get more praise than they deserve since I find people often get carried away whenever they have a good game. Which is usually Mings and Luiz in my book. Should I not criticize players for what I think are their mistakes just because we won? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilko154 Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, Laughable Chimp said: No, nowadays usually only the ones who I think usually get more praise than they deserve since I find people often get carried away whenever they have a good game. Which is usually Mings and Luiz in my book. Should I not criticize players for what I think are their mistakes just because we won? It's all well and good criticising mistakes, but sometimes the good a player does is overlooked in the process. Mings played a slightly dodgy back pass tonight (it was possibly Martinez' casualness that made it look worse than it was) Mings made multiple blocks in the area, and mopped up a Targett error that could have lead to a goal I just don't understand why people choose to concentrate on the back pass and forget the rest of his game. 10 clean sheets this season from this Villa side. Mings must be doing something right. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claretman Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Great tonight, no fancy Dan stuff, remembered his job and where row Z was. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrow1988 Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 (edited) Like probably 99% of defenders he's at his best when defending. We were under pressure for most of the game today and he was immense. The backpass was 50-50 between him and Martinez I thought. It wasn't the best but Martinez should have been out quicker. EDIT: Oh and even though we were backs to the wall for most of the game. He still snuck in a Cruyff turn on Ings in the first half. Edited January 30, 2021 by sparrow1988 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bose Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Brilliant tonight. Won everything in the air and made a couple of important blocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlack Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Exceptional tonight. Due a run of these levels of performance as his error rate has been higher than normal of late, but glad to see he stopped the tide and hopefully he keeps it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughable Chimp Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Just now, wilko154 said: It's all well and good criticising mistakes, but sometimes the good a player does is overlooked in the process. Mings played a slightly dodgy back pass tonight (it was possibly Martinez' casualness that made it look worse than it was) Mings made multiple blocks in the area, and mopped up a Targett error that could have lead to a goal I just don't understand why people choose to concentrate on the back pass and forget the rest of his game. 10 clean sheets this season from this Villa side. Mings must be doing something right. Because everyone else in the thread had already been praising him for having a superb game. What was the point of me joining in that? I just felt like it'd be better to criticize him and give an opposite viewpoint then to the one prevailing. You could say that it's being contrarian for the sake of it, but its my own honest assessment of his performance. For the record, I thought he had a good game but I just didn't feel like saying that when everyone else was already saying that and more. If people here had come in and focused on only that backpass I would've come in here and praised the fact that otherwise he had a good game. However, since I usually find the praise of Mings to be a bit overkill and his mistakes often excused away its usually the other scenario that happens more often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 (edited) 51 minutes ago, tomav84 said: pass was fine, martinez was far too casual coming for it It wasn't "fine", he got barely got enough on it, would usually do it better. Martinez made me poo my pants but I think he was comfortable...it just didn't look it. Mings was absolutely fantastic tonight. A rock. A leader. Huge. Edited January 30, 2021 by Tomaszk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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