villalad21 Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Ancelotti agrees deal with Everton so it's safe to rule Everton out of any relegation battle now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 8 minutes ago, villalad21 said: Ancelotti agrees deal with Everton so it's safe to rule Everton out of any relegation battle now. They were never going down either way but nice marquee appointment for them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughable Chimp Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 (edited) 5 hours ago, PussEKatt said: And out of those 8 times that we hit the post,how many of those times was Wesley the player that hit the post ? My guess is zero. Well you'd be right. Grealish has 1 El Ghazi has 2 Trezeguet has 1 Hourihane has 1 Not sure who has the remaining 3. Edit: Removed Elmo. The 1 he had actually came from a prior season. Edited December 17, 2019 by Laughable Chimp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 I do think the relegation battle will be a 4 horse race. - Norwich - Soton - Watford - Villa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 1 hour ago, Laughable Chimp said: Well you'd be right. Grealish has 1 El Ghazi has 2 Trezeguet has 1 Hourihane has 1 Elmo has 1 Not sure who has the remaining 2. Im sure Wesley hit the outside of the post vs somebody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughable Chimp Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Zatman said: Im sure Wesley hit the outside of the post vs somebody Well if it did happen, understat doesn't list it unfortunately. Edit: Actually, understat lists the total amount of shots on post as well and it puts us at 5. That's odd, considering I believe I've counted more than that individually from their own site. Edit 2: Oh I see the issue. Elmo's shot on the post came at a prior season. So yeah, it should be 5 just for this season. A possible explanation for the different numbers is that understat doesn't count shots that hit the post and then entered the goal. It just considers that as a goal. Although I'm struggling to think of a goal we've had this season that hit the post and went in. Edited December 17, 2019 by Laughable Chimp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 5 hours ago, villalad21 said: I do think the relegation battle will be a 4 horse race. - Norwich - Soton - Watford - Villa Someone else will drop into the group. Last season Brighton were about 10th on 25 points at end of January and then won about two games in the run in and were very close to going down in the end. I'd say it will balance out for Newcastle and they'll drop back into the group over the next 10 games. Not saying they'll be bottom 3 but can see them being in the shake up in last few weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 3 points adrift and we are getting worse every week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 Last two weeks we've been very lucky not to drop into bottom 3. Now we're not just in 18th but 3 points adrift. Very worrying if Southampton sort out their home form as above it dosen't really like there's an obvious team who'll drop. Everton are reguarly picking up points now and that will surely continue with Ancelotti. Likes of Burnley, Newcastle and Palace already at 25 points and can shake off winless runs by grinding out wins. Only obvious one to me is Bournemouth and they beat Chelsea away just las week. I'm still confident we'll finish above Norwich and Watford but that dosen't keep you up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ100 Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 Unless we spend £150 million on 2-3 World beaters, we're gone. Pathetic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 Today's result comes as no great surprise to me, people have been too dismissive of this run of bad form we've been on, with the excuse being the difficulty of the opposition but six losses out of eight and one win shouldn't be acceptable regardless of who we're playing, I doubt any other club in the league will have worse set of results from the same fixtures, but for some strange reason a lot of our fans seem to think it's okay to lose to teams as long as they're not near the bottom of the table, well us not being able to beat any of the better teams has come back to haunt us, as like I said we aren't just going to conveniently beat our relegation rivals as it suits us, you need wins from a wide range of fixtures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farlz Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 For the first time this season I've fully accepted we're very likely to go down. Worrying thing is we're just getting worse and worse. I don't understand what's happening because we certainly weren't this poor at the start of the season. To get absolutely smashed by Southampton today is gutting. Struggle to see where we go from here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 3 minutes ago, Farlz said: For the first time this season I've fully accepted we're very likely to go down. Worrying thing is we're just getting worse and worse. I don't understand what's happening because we certainly weren't this poor at the start of the season. To get absolutely smashed by Southampton today is gutting. Struggle to see where we go from here. I started to accept it when i realized Wesley will play every week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuffolkVillan Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 6 minutes ago, Farlz said: For the first time this season I've fully accepted we're very likely to go down. Worrying thing is we're just getting worse and worse. I don't understand what's happening because we certainly weren't this poor at the start of the season. To get absolutely smashed by Southampton today is gutting. Struggle to see where we go from here. Couldn't agree more, Only glimmer for me is we looked better with 2 strikers and if we competed more, won the occasional battle and cut out the suicide passes we might have a chance but Dean has got to fire something extra from here on in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 (edited) I'm at the point where i'm not looking forward to games anymore. But i will still see them, love this club too much. Can't turn away. Edited December 21, 2019 by villalad21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoMkali Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 16 minutes ago, useless said: Today's result comes as no great surprise to me, people have been too dismissive of this run of bad form we've been on, with the excuse being the difficulty of the opposition but six losses out of eight and one win shouldn't be acceptable regardless of who we're playing, I doubt any other club in the league will have worse set of results from the same fixtures, but for some strange reason a lot of our fans seem to think it's okay to lose to teams as long as they're not near the bottom of the table, well us not being able to beat any of the better teams has come back to haunt us, as like I said we aren't just going to conveniently beat our relegation rivals as it suits us, you need wins from a wide range of fixtures. We got **** over by the fixtures. They sapped our confidence and has made it so our last few performances have been dismal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 1 minute ago, MotoMkali said: We got **** over by the fixtures. They sapped our confidence and has made it so our last few performances have been dismal. That's no excuse. Saints lost 0-9 to Leicester at home and managed to regroup and keep fighting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 Vardy's story is amazing. Can't believe how good he is. Watching him makes you realise we don't play with a striker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 15 minutes ago, villalad21 said: That's no excuse. Saints lost 0-9 to Leicester at home and managed to regroup and keep fighting. Newcastle also lost 5-0 to Leicester and they've had loads of good results since. Since we beat them comfortably they've picked up 10 points. Just the one for us. It's been like that for years at this level. Lambert seasons would have the odd good run when we started to look half decent then we've be trashed in a game and go into a 3 month winless run. Last good mentality we had was in the MON years and even that had a long winless run in all his seasons. Still until we get that again running through the squad we simply won't do more than making up the numbers at this level. In the early reign of MON we signed likes of Petrov and Carew so desperately need that sort of standard of signing next month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 4 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said: Vardy's story is amazing. Can't believe how good he is. Watching him makes you realise we don't play with a striker. To me he's the best one on one finisher in the league. Never expect him to miss when he's through on the keeper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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