VillaJay Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 Early days, we won't win every game, but the performances are there and we're winning games we deserve to win, which feels more sustainable than some of our wins even last season. Its interesting that the arsenal and spurs fans celebrate Utd getting beat by us, the truth is they are miles away from challenging at the top and we should be looking to usurp both of those sides this season, which would be another huge step forward for the club. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messi11 Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 Does 7th place get you europe? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferguson1 Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 We’re really in the mix now with the likes of Arsenal, Spurs, Leicester, Everton and West Ham, which is amazing really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MNVillan Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 8 minutes ago, messi11 said: Does 7th place get you europe? That’s a great question, I honestly have zero clue what gets you into the conference league Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rightdm00 Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 Looking at Spurs and Arsenal's starting lineup and it's amazing how fast we have closed the distance from a talent perspective. Only a couple from either side would I want in our team. If we can get this injury bug behind us every spot below 5th is in play. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enda Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 Top 4 is already fairly clear imho. I don’t see anyone catching them. I don’t think we’re as good as Leicester or Spurs. But Arsenal? Everton? West Ham? We could beat any of those. 7th is the top “reasonable” target. Would be a 10 out 10 season But lets not lose the run of ourselves. Coming 9th, up two spots on last year, having lost our best player, would be very good, more like an 8 out of 10 season. Anything below 12th would be disappointing. So 7th-13th for me, with the upper parts of that being a good year and the lower parts being fairly poor. The good news is if we all agree 7th-13th is the range this year, then we can just enjoy the football. No massive consequences to either end of that. No “must win” over dramatics. Just enjoyable football 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoMkali Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 46 minutes ago, messi11 said: Does 7th place get you europe? Yes, but only European conference. So qualifying for europa league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 Didn’t want Spurs to lose this. They’ll be really up for it against us. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 4 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said: Didn’t want Spurs to lose this. They’ll be really up for it against us. Not much chance of that not happening now. They look a shambles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 2 minutes ago, PaulC said: Not much chance of that not happening now. They look a shambles They do but can’t see them losing 4 in a row. We’ll get chances against them though that’s for sure. I still don’t get how Dier plays for them. What are the managers seeing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 9 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said: Didn’t want Spurs to lose this. They’ll be really up for it against us. Look at how Arsenal are playing through their midfield, we'll create plenty v them next weekend. Can see Nuno recalling likes of Harry Winks and Skipp to the midfield and neither are better than McGinn or Luiz. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 3 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said: They do but can’t see them losing 4 in a row. We’ll get chances against them though that’s for sure. I still don’t get how Dier plays for them. What are the managers seeing? Could look at it another way. They will have zero confidence. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Condimentalist Posted September 26, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted September 26, 2021 26 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said: Didn’t want Spurs to lose this. They’ll be really up for it against us. Time to lose the small club mentality. Spurs can be up for it all they want but on current form they are an inferior team, and aside from Kane (who is unmotivated) and Son lack any real standout players. We have nothing to fear. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWARLEY2 Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 12 minutes ago, PaulC said: Could look at it another way. They will have zero confidence. Used to think that about teams ending their bad runs against us. But now i cannot think of a worse team for them to play than villa as we are organised , tactically aware and have options all over the pitch. Our press against a team with a lack of confidence will be incredibly difficult to deal with . Plus a striker that genuinely doesnt give a shit at the moment as he is still sulking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 3 minutes ago, Condimentalist said: Time to lose the small club mentality. Spurs can be up for it all they want but on current form they are an inferior team, and aside from Kane (who is unmotivated) and Son lack any real standout players. We have nothing to fear. Not small club mentality at all. Teams just don’t often lose 4 on the bounce unless they are a Norwich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 38 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said: Didn’t want Spurs to lose this. They’ll be really up for it against us. Was thinking the same, goes 1 of 2 ways, you either get them fragile, and there to be rattled early, or you get the " reaction " where they put on their best performance of the season. We usually get the latter. lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 17 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said: Not small club mentality at all. Teams just don’t often lose 4 on the bounce unless they are a Norwich. We beat them well end of last season so don't think playing them is an issue anymore for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted September 26, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 26, 2021 24 minutes ago, MWARLEY2 said: Used to think that about teams ending their bad runs against us. But now i cannot think of a worse team for them to play than villa as we are organised , tactically aware and have options all over the pitch. Our press against a team with a lack of confidence will be incredibly difficult to deal with . Plus a striker that genuinely doesnt give a shit at the moment as he is still sulking Bit harsh on Watkins 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yayoboy Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 1 hour ago, Vive_La_Villa said: Didn’t want Spurs to lose this. They’ll be really up for it against us. I think we will Smosh um! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 I think we’ll draw personally. Everyone getting too excited. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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