andykeenan Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 Friday Chanpionship Charlton v Millwall SS Main Event Saturday Premier League Norwich v Brighton 12.30 BT Sport 1 Leicester v Palace SS2 Man Utd v Bournemouth BT Sport 1 Wolves v Arsenal 5.30pm SS2 Chelsea v Watford 7.45pm SS2 MOTD 10.30pm Championship Derby v Forest 12.30pm SS3 Blackburn v Leeds Brentford v Wigan Bristol City v Cardiff SS3 Fulham v Small Heath Huddersfield v Preston Luton v Reading Stoke v Barnsley EFL on Quest 9pm Sunday Premier League Southampton v Man City 7pm BBC 1 Super Sunday Burnley v Sheff Utd 12pm SS2 Newcastle v West Ham 2pm SS2 MOTD 2 10.30pm Championship Swansea v Sheff Wed 12pm SS3 Middlesbrough v QPR 2pm Albion v Hull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 3 minutes ago, andykeenan said: Friday Chanpionship 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted July 3, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted July 3, 2020 Blimey so League 1 doesn't exist then? Didn't take us long to get back into Premier League mentality. For a moment I thought Fleetwood were sponsored by the Queens Bank until I realised that Coutts was one of their players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 Bournemouth staring into the abyss.. meanwhile Leicester vs Palace is a turgid dog turd of a match Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 Aye, Bournemouth have gone. Poor results, contract disputes and the hardest run in (on paper at least) so it's goodnight Vienna for them. Pretty pleased we don't have inferior goal difference anymore, but how long will that last? Last spot is between ourselves, Watford and West Ham. Other results keep going for us, and the points dropped vs Sheffield United and Newcastle might prove fatal. West Ham still have to play Watford before they play us, so someone is dropping points there but I'm still really worried we will get spanked by Liverpool and an in-form Manchester United. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 This might come as a shock to some, but Bayern Munich completed the league and cup double in Germany today. That's the 11th time they've done it*. *since the year 2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbcuk Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 Bristol City manager Lee Johnson has been sacked after a run of poor form that culminated with Saturday's 1-0 defeat at home to Cardiff City. Couldnt have happened to a nicer bloke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 Someone here last week commenting we should be after players like Pulisic. **** me. The guy is an outrageous talent. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 Watford now only 1 goal better than us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Really proud we managed to get a goalless draw at home to this INCREDIBLE Sheff U side. Well done Deano. Incredible demands and aspirations set right from the restart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 15 hours ago, rodders0223 said: Someone here last week commenting we should be after players like Pulisic. **** me. The guy is an outrageous talent. Hes got to be by far the best talent to come from the USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreeVillan Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Now West Ham are beating Newcastle I think the teams we're competing with in relegation are getting fewer and fewer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dom_Wren Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 1 minute ago, TreeVillan said: Now West Ham are beating Newcastle I think the teams we're competing with in relegation are getting fewer and fewer. Did you see the goal? Wont see a worse piece of defending all season........Almiron just ties it up!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreeVillan Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 2 minutes ago, Dom_Wren said: Did you see the goal? Wont see a worse piece of defending all season........Almiron just ties it up!!! I'm hoping I jinxed it and that I haven't just reversed the jinx by saying this. I'm genuinely scared that we're falling behind more teams. Don't want to go into the race with just Watford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieZ Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 1 hour ago, PaulC said: Hes got to be by far the best talent to come from the USA He is at the moment, certainly, but there's a core of promising young players coming through that bodes well for the future. Gio Reyna (son of Claudio) at Dortmund is showing signs of that level of natural talent and certainly as good a pedigree as possible for an American; Timothy Weah has shown glimpses when not injured (but he's almost always injured); Weston McKennie and Tyler Adams (at Schalke and Leipzig, respectively) have adapted seamlessly to the Bundesliga and will be the core of the American midfield for a decade; Sergiño Dest at Ajax is being scouted by the heavyweights (Barcelona, PSG, and Bayern) at left back; and we have a mix of experience (like John Brooks at Wolfsburg) and emerging talent (like Chris Richards coming through at Bayern) at centreback. But in terms of world-class talent and the ability to take the game by the scruff of the neck, Pulisic is definitely preeminent among American players at the moment. He's special and will get better. As an aside, I can't see any of these players coming to a club like Villa, as much as I'd like to see it, except perhaps McKennie, who would be a huge coup if we were to stay up. He lacks a certain amount of discipline at the moment (he's been played as everything from striker to centreback at Schalke, while his natural position is as a box-to-box midfielder), but he has the grit and hustle to grow into the centrepiece of a strong midfield. Schalke are anticipating a firesale due to financial difficulties as well as an on-field implosion since the new year, and McKennie has expressed a desire to move to the Premier League. I've seen him linked to Newcastle, but no one else just yet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 55 minutes ago, TreeVillan said: Now West Ham are beating Newcastle I think the teams we're competing with in relegation are getting fewer and fewer. Hopefully in it when they play Watford and out of it when they play us 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Chavvy Che Adams has finally scored a goal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 5 hours ago, JamieZ said: He is at the moment, certainly, but there's a core of promising young players coming through that bodes well for the future. Gio Reyna (son of Claudio) at Dortmund is showing signs of that level of natural talent and certainly as good a pedigree as possible for an American; Timothy Weah has shown glimpses when not injured (but he's almost always injured); Weston McKennie and Tyler Adams (at Schalke and Leipzig, respectively) have adapted seamlessly to the Bundesliga and will be the core of the American midfield for a decade; Sergiño Dest at Ajax is being scouted by the heavyweights (Barcelona, PSG, and Bayern) at left back; and we have a mix of experience (like John Brooks at Wolfsburg) and emerging talent (like Chris Richards coming through at Bayern) at centreback. But in terms of world-class talent and the ability to take the game by the scruff of the neck, Pulisic is definitely preeminent among American players at the moment. He's special and will get better. As an aside, I can't see any of these players coming to a club like Villa, as much as I'd like to see it, except perhaps McKennie, who would be a huge coup if we were to stay up. He lacks a certain amount of discipline at the moment (he's been played as everything from striker to centreback at Schalke, while his natural position is as a box-to-box midfielder), but he has the grit and hustle to grow into the centrepiece of a strong midfield. Schalke are anticipating a firesale due to financial difficulties as well as an on-field implosion since the new year, and McKennie has expressed a desire to move to the Premier League. I've seen him linked to Newcastle, but no one else just yet. You rate Josh Sargent much? Scored a couple for Bremen this season although still got lots of development as a forward to gain. Does seem a promising batch coming through for US now. Home world cup in 2026 so should be capable of a good showing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieZ Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 4 hours ago, VillaChris said: You rate Josh Sargent much? Scored a couple for Bremen this season although still got lots of development as a forward to gain. Does seem a promising batch coming through for US now. Home world cup in 2026 so should be capable of a good showing. Yeah, I think the jury's still out on Sargent. He's definitely shown glimpses, but Werder Bremen are essentially the Villa of the Bundesliga, so he's been starved of service and has had to go in search of the action whenever he's been on the pitch. He's industrious for sure, and he's got plenty of time to grow as he's only 20, but I'm not sure we've seen enough of him and under the right conditions to know whether he's capable of becoming a consistent scorer at the highest level. I have high hopes as an American as we're in dire need of a reliable striker, but that means we're also quick to anoint anyone who shows a bit of potential as "the one". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 Remember Bobby Wood being talked about a few years ago due to him scoring a few goals in Bundesliga but hasn't progressed from that. Surprised he's still at Hamburg as haven't seen him in any of their recent line ups. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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