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  1. 1. Who was your Man of the Match?

    • Martinez
      1
    • Cash
      21
    • Konsa
      36
    • Mings
      17
    • Targett
      0
    • McGinn
      96
    • Luiz
      0
    • Hourihane
      0
    • Trézéguet
      4
    • Watkins
      6
    • Grealish
      60
    • Ramsey (Hourihane 77)
      0
    • Traoré (Trézéguet 84)
      0

  2. 2. Manager's Performance

  3. 3. Refereeing Performance

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rjw63 Grand Master

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9 minutes ago, The Fun Factory said:

 

 Its about time as a club we opened our legs and showed our class to the footballing world again.

 

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I could get used to this fifth in the table lark. And it's a day of several broken jinxes: our first PL win in London since 2015, our first clean sheet away in the PL since January 2016 and best of all... the first time we've won our first two league games of the season since 1999! Great! 

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MrSmirch Experienced

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i would have also liked to have seen us have more of the ball but that was probably the plan.

Mcginn was excellent, the best he's played since the championship.

Liking Cash more and more, saw a lot more of his defensive side and didn't look shabby at all.

Also i don't care that Watkins missed a few chances, the main point is that he's actually getting chances. Last year Wesley would get one chance a game maybe two.

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KMitch Grand Master

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Great performance.  Can't complain at all about that first half

  • Martinez - Oozes class...  This guy is special.  Could be the Premier League signing of the season.  If any other Villa keeper on our books played tonight instead of him, we would not have kept a clean sheet.
  • Cash - Still a bit raw, but he's shown glimpes of being quality.  Looking forward to seeing him progress throughout this season.
  • Konsa - I don't rate him as much as most Villa supporters, but he was solid tonight.
  • Mings - Fantastic today.  Narrowly missing out on my man of the match award to McGinn
  • Targett - Mediocre performance.  Made some mistakes, but they were targeting him (no pun intended) all night.
  • Douglas Luiz - An off night for him.  Was lucky to get away with that little swipe with 15 mins left in the game, but otherwise was a bit below his usual level tonight.
  • McGinn - Man of the Match!  He must have read some of the comments on here after last week, declaring him shit and not Premier League quality.  Was everywhere and picked up two assists.
  • Hourihane - I thought he showed both the best part of his gameplay tonight (getting forward and free kicks) and his worst (consistency with free kicks and defensive skills).  RLC/Barkley would be a huge step up, still.
  • Trez - I still think he's shit, but he put in a shift defensively.  Offensively, he showed his limitations again.  Many attacks stopped with him.
  • Watkins - His off the ball movement and hold up play is fantastic.  Even if he doesn't get on the scoresheet himself, he contributes far more to our attack than any other striker has for us under Deano. I think he'll relax a bit after he gets off the mark in the Premier League.
  • Grealish - Brilliant for the first twenty minutes, then a mediocre performance (for his standards) for the rest of the night.  

I know it's only Fulham, but it was a complete performance.  This is the time to play Liverpool and see just how far we've come in the off season.  I don't know why, but something tells me that we can go toe to toe with them next weekend.  Deano's system is taking hold in the Premier League and we finally look threatening on the counter.  

 

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est1874 Grand Master

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1 minute ago, Rodders said:

Is it possible to be a bit underwhelmed with a 3-0 away win in the league?

Fulham are shit. Job done comfortable I guess but we didn't play that well with the ball. A but uninspiring.

This is so churlish and nit picky given the result I know. 

It's certainly nothing to get carried away with, but 6 points from our first 2 games vs 0 points from our first 2 games last season... signs of progress.

Now, that progress will probably be modest, and of course we play Liverpool next in the league, but still we have plenty of reason to be positive.

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7 minutes ago, Lerner's Driver said:

Did you honestly think we played poorly?

Yep - we were really weak in our pressing and poor in possession. A better team would have caused us all sorts of problems.

Of course, I also think we played quite well at times.

Strange game.

 

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Pez1974 Proficient

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Great result.

Being 2-0 after 15 minutes basically meant this became another pre-season game for us. The stats might show them having possession, but we just let them have the ball where we wanted, and it killed the game. No need to rush on Traore, just get him a few minutes and let him build fitness further on Thursday.

The fact that we've coasted, and (hopefully) after Thursday will be in the quarter's of the league cup; undefeated in the league, players are fighting for places, our new signings are looking the part, we have no new injuries and we have defensive confidence is an amazing start to the season.

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