Follyfoot Posted February 9, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted February 9, 2021 1 hour ago, Demitri_C said: The last great European night we had was ajax Ill never forget that year with atheltico madrid when collymore scored and the roof almost came off villa park. Imagine we scored again and went through? There would be no roof left at vp Really 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermon Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 That Ajax game was amazing, the atmosphere was buzzing. Didn't laursen score a header. Was that then followed up by that abysmal Celta Vigo performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pintpotvilla Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 22 minutes ago, supermon said: That Ajax game was amazing, the atmosphere was buzzing. Didn't laursen score a header. Was that then followed up by that abysmal Celta Vigo performance No Ajax was a group game We beat Slavia Prague away next but then lost at home to Zilina (Delfouneso scored for us) and Hamburg away but qualified in 3rd place We then famously lost to CSKA Moscow over 2 legs in the last 32 round 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul514 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 We are going to need at least 60 points I think to get into the Europa League, I don't see it happening personally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post pintpotvilla Posted February 9, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 9, 2021 17 minutes ago, paul514 said: We are going to need at least 60 points I think to get into the Europa League, I don't see it happening personally. That would mean 25pts from 17 games. Doesn't sound outrageous to me 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul514 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 19 minutes ago, pintpotvilla said: That would mean 25pts from 17 games. Doesn't sound outrageous to me It isn't outrageous, I just don't think we will do it and it's the absolute minimum needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pintpotvilla Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 53 minutes ago, paul514 said: It isn't outrageous, I just don't think we will do it and it's the absolute minimum needed. For instance maybe: Wins Brighton a Wolves h Newcastle a Sheff Utd a Fulham h WBA h Palace a Draws Leicester h Everton a Chelsea h spurs h Defeats Leeds a Liverpool a Man City h Man Utd h Spurs a Everton a Obviously results may be way different to that but it is a nice sign of how it could turn out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 16 hours ago, VillaChris said: Wasn't it a special euro kit, we played in it aswell at home to Steaua Bucharest. Prefered it to the awful Blue away kit we had in the prem that season. I loved that run, Bilbao finished 2nd that season and Bordeaux won french league in 98/99 so we knocked out some strong teams. Full match is here: This wasn't broadcast in the USA so sadly I couldn't watch it until it was uploaded on Youtube. Great stuff. I noticed the announcer said "Formerly the Holte End, now called the Holte Stand". WTF I forgot how many small players we had- Nelson, Wright, Joachim, Hendrie. Yorke, Collymore and Milosevic upfront, wowzers. The roar of the crowd whenever we drove forward is something to behold. That goal must be Stan's career highlight. Great goal. Why the away white kit at home? John Gregory was the man 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 3 hours ago, pintpotvilla said: No Ajax was a group game We beat Slavia Prague away next but then lost at home to Zilina (Delfouneso scored for us) and Hamburg away but qualified in 3rd place We then famously lost to CSKA Moscow over 2 legs in the last 32 round Cska we played a full team at VP. Not sure what idiot MON was trying to do 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, paul514 said: It isn't outrageous, I just don't think we will do it and it's the absolute minimum needed. We just need to keep beating most of the bottom half and then getting a win or two off teams around us which we've been doing most of the season. Whichever 2-3 teams do that for rest of the season will finish 5-7th. Start dropping points to likes of Fulham and West Brom and task becomes far more difficult. Only thing I worry about now is season ending injury to key player but then we're due some good luck continuing on that front after the bad hand we were deal in December and January last season. Edited February 9, 2021 by VillaChris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 23 minutes ago, maqroll said: This wasn't broadcast in the USA so sadly I couldn't watch it until it was uploaded on Youtube. Great stuff. I noticed the announcer said "Formerly the Holte End, now called the Holte Stand". WTF I forgot how many small players we had- Nelson, Wright, Joachim, Hendrie. Yorke, Collymore and Milosevic upfront, wowzers. The roar of the crowd whenever we drove forward is something to behold. That goal must be Stan's career highlight. Great goal. Why the away white kit at home? John Gregory was the man Hendrie had an amazing second half, the potential clinching third he nearly scored would've topped off his MOTM performance. He had a good career for us but when you see him play like that at 19 or 20 it could've been better. Pearce couldn't stop going on about how good Dwight Yorke was in second half even though he missed a pretty easy chance from six yards when he headed against the crossbar. Think that was game though that convinced Man. United to sign him. Bad miss from Kiko aswell last 5 minutes which I hadn't seen before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Just now, VillaChris said: Bad miss from Kiko Shocking miss. Open goal from 5 yards out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pintpotvilla Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 (edited) 55 minutes ago, Zatman said: Cska we played a full team at VP. Not sure what idiot MON was trying to do Well to be honest we got played off the pitch at VP and were dead lucky to draw 1-1 so the chances of getting through on a plastic pitch in Moscow even with a full team was pretty slim. We had a home game with Stoke on the Saturday which I should think M'ON prioritized However as we know we threw a 2 goal lead away then too and fade away from the prized top 4 place Edited February 9, 2021 by pintpotvilla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsworthvilla Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 1 hour ago, maqroll said: This wasn't broadcast in the USA so sadly I couldn't watch it until it was uploaded on Youtube. Great stuff. I noticed the announcer said "Formerly the Holte End, now called the Holte Stand". WTF I forgot how many small players we had- Nelson, Wright, Joachim, Hendrie. Yorke, Collymore and Milosevic upfront, wowzers. The roar of the crowd whenever we drove forward is something to behold. That goal must be Stan's career highlight. Great goal. Why the away white kit at home? John Gregory was the man I loved that team so much. The period of around 96-99 was my favourite time supporting Villa. Just so many characters in the team 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 5 hours ago, paul514 said: We are going to need at least 60 points I think to get into the Europa League, I don't see it happening personally. Our current ppg would see us land on 63. Bare in mind, we have also had a mini slump, so to speak. We SHOULD get better from here. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-Reacho Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 2 hours ago, maqroll said: This wasn't broadcast in the USA so sadly I couldn't watch it until it was uploaded on Youtube. Great stuff. I noticed the announcer said "Formerly the Holte End, now called the Holte Stand". WTF I forgot how many small players we had- Nelson, Wright, Joachim, Hendrie. Yorke, Collymore and Milosevic upfront, wowzers. The roar of the crowd whenever we drove forward is something to behold. That goal must be Stan's career highlight. Great goal. Why the away white kit at home? John Gregory was the man I thought Little was still manager at that stage - it must have been one of Gregory's first few games. Was disappointing that Little couldn't keep things going. The 90s were strange - we were flipping between relegation and the title in the space of a season or two and then back again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 We will need to go on a similar run like we did at the start of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post darrenm Posted February 9, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 9, 2021 Not sure of the best place to put this. It's a fascinating read. Give yourself 10 mins to read it. Nothing in there that will shock anyone (everything through Grealish etc) but it explains why we do what we do. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doaflip Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 (edited) 37 minutes ago, darrenm said: Not sure of the best place to put this. It's a fascinating read. Give yourself 10 mins to read it. Nothing in there that will shock anyone (everything through Grealish etc) but it explains why we do what we do. Thought this was an outstanding read - really interesting. Lots of stuff I hadn't noticed and I found the section on our 1st, 2nd, 3rd passes etc particularly fascinating. We feel so well drilled this year, a really well coached side. So exciting. Edited February 9, 2021 by doaflip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GENTLEMAN Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 43 minutes ago, darrenm said: Not sure of the best place to put this. It's a fascinating read. Give yourself 10 mins to read it. Nothing in there that will shock anyone (everything through Grealish etc) but it explains why we do what we do. Cheers! Interesting section on Barkley. Quote That leaves the ever divisive Ross Barkley, who has been extremely Barkley-esque in his in his first season as full-time attacking midfielder since his Everton days. He can thread through nice passes from that number 10 spot and has already built up a healthy rapport with his fellow attackers. But, you know, at 27-years-old you're locked into a certain player with him at this point. The iffy shot choices, the alternating between brilliant dribbles through the middle of the pitch and losing the ball in bizarre ways - it's all part of the Ross experience. All rather spot on to me. For me, Ross is more worthy of the sublime to the ridiculous tag than Bert (that some like to label him with). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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