foreveryoung Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 From watching in the Championship last season, to watching Premiership football now, it seems its all about the pressing and the speed the game plays at. As well as tactical style ofcourse, it's alot to do with fitness levels. I believe we are struggling as we are not at those levels as yet. The Man City vs Tottenham game the weekend was ridiculous. To me the Wolves don't play great tactical football, but the fitness is another level. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderball Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 6 hours ago, Vive_La_Villa said: I’m just watching best goals from 2000/2001 season and I’m sure the standard is so much higher now. Some of the defending is abysmal. You don’t see that anymore. Definitely. It’s a much higher standard since we were last here too. Management/tactics/player standard at all clubs is higher every season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 Have Smith confirmed who our designated penalty kick taker is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 2 minutes ago, villalad21 said: Have Smith confirmed who our designated penalty kick taker is? Not what I've seen, sure the players know thou. McGinn perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted August 23, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted August 23, 2019 36 minutes ago, villalad21 said: Have Smith confirmed who our designated penalty kick taker is? Wesley in preseason but that doesn’t mean much. I think probably him though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 We are above Wolves... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 My opinions of the player performance versus Everton (23.08.19). Wesley was a monster, bullied them, some excellent play, his run and finishing for the goal was great, he played a critical role in the second, taking it down, holding it up and laying it off, we scored 2 passes later. Jota was class, excellent assist and some lovely passing. Engels was class, didnt put a foot wrong. Mings was class also, just needs to cut out some of those holywood passes, just needs to find his man sometimes. Guilbert was great, bombed up and down, really helped us going forward, and defended really well. Heaton was steady, didnt have much to do, tbh. Trezeguet was quiet but worked hard, you could see taylor really hindered him, no support. Taylor was gash for me, did ok defensively, but some terrible passes and he had a great chance to hit a low cross in and we would have prob had a good chance, but he ballooned it, need targett imo, Taylor really hindered Trezeguet. Was close for MOM for me, gave it to Wesley, but Jota wasnt far behind imo, but some really good performances overall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 (edited) Everton fans really are salty looking at their forum. Apparently were awful, a limited side and not going to win another game before Christmas. Edited August 23, 2019 by AshVilla 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted August 23, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted August 23, 2019 Starting to like this league a bit... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_Afro Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 I am away on holiday with the family so had to make do with watching the match on the iPad. The thing that really stood out to me (and was also commented on by Sky) was the support. The crowd were unbelievable. We haven’t had support like that for years and you could really see it lift the players. I really believe that we are potentially on the cusp of something special. What we really need is to just stay up this season. If we can do that then we can/will really kick on. The crowd can really play their part with that. Well done to all who attended tonight. The atmosphere was electric. I actually felt pretty emotional watching it. It really was special. I thought Gary Neville was gonna rip his Oxford cotton shirt off and reveal a Villa shirt underneath, such waS his enthusiasm for the club. Really fantastic. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaAlex Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 32 minutes ago, AshVilla said: Everton fans really are salty looking at their forum. Apparently were awful, a limited side and not going to win another game before Christmas. Well if we don't they're in big trouble too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermon Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 Only 3 point off Liverpool...keep touching distance and we'll be there or thereabouts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avfc1982am Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 6 minutes ago, supermon said: Only 3 point off Liverpool...keep touching distance and we'll be there or thereabouts Is that you Steve? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stratvillan Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 It's where we are when the daffodils come up that matters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 Baggies and wolves fans probably crying in they're sleep. End of the world for them that villa won a football game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 Early days and not the easiest start but I think all the players involved have done well without excelling yet. Good competition and attitude among the players. Others could have sulked for being dropped but El Ghazi came on hungry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 If we beat Palace we can consider renaming this thread to "Title Race" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 11 hours ago, AshVilla said: Everton fans really are salty looking at their forum. Apparently were awful, a limited side and not going to win another game before Christmas. I did exactly this with Southampton when they turned up - it's complacent premier league smugness. I don't blame them, it's what happens, but there is nothing like relegation and promotion to make you value this league. And if fans feel it, you can just imagine how seriously the players are taking this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilko154 Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 If's and But's And we're off! What a result and performance to go with it. 40 is the magic number of points we need to beat relegation. Last season this would have achieved 15th place in the league. To achieve this we would require 4 points per month. If we are to better this and achieve 6 points per month we would beat Wolves last season with a haul of 60 points, 7th. For now let's aim to beat relegation. August Tottenham - Loss Bournemouth - Loss Everton - Win Crystal Palace - Predicted Win Predicted Points - 6 Current Points - 3 We now have the chance to make August a solid month and set ourselves on course to pull away from a relegation battle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 The win makes all the difference, you can hear the sadness in all the articles on Grealish breaking his losing run and Villa getting their first prem win in 3 years, they all wanted it to continue. Instead we can look at Spurs and Bournemouth as warm up games and look forward to Palace with some confidence throughout the team - honestly think we'll win that because we won this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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