HanoiVillan Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 4 hours ago, Leeroy said: We're playing very poorly. XG for in last three games just 2.12 which is very poor indeed. XG against 8.97. It's not a fluke we've lost the last three games, it's been thoroughly deserved. Wide open defensively and creating very little going forward, although we've managed to score five goals in that time so our finishing has clearly been good. We need a win against Everton and a dominant performance really to show we're an actual good team. We're playing like a team in the bottom 3 currently, not a midtable team. We've just played the best 2 teams in the league. Most bottom half sides will lose to Arsenal at home and at City this season. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 7 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: We've just played the best 2 teams in the league. Most bottom half sides will lose to Arsenal at home and at City this season. Most top half teams too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wict01 Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 1 hour ago, Delphinho123 said: Yeh, maybe. Maybe we will get 3 from the next 6. I think it’s a possibility given how fragile we are. Unlikely, but a possibility yes. I don’t think we’ll go down, I’m just saying we’re nowhere near as good as people on this forum want to believe. We could very well be pulled into this relegation fight. Yes. We were poor because we gifted them goals. Generally, if you gift the opposition goals, it means you’re poor. Agreed. We can be comfortably the better side every week if we like, but if we also continue to gift 3 or 4 goals to the opposition each time then we won’t win many games at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 3 hours ago, Mark Albrighton said: There already is one in essence. However it hasn’t got the ambitious sex appeal for the optimists that populate the European thread and equally it doesn’t exude the required brooding bleak romanticism of Edgar Allan Poe that this relegation thread does for the pessimists. Here it is, in all it’s <shrug shoulders, yeah whatever> glory. No top half is just too damn sexy. I am looking at a solid 45 to 48 points to get 12th sort of thread. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galway Lion Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 4 hours ago, Delphinho123 said: Let’s see at the end of the season. Happy to be wrong. I doubt it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted February 19, 2023 Author Share Posted February 19, 2023 Reading this thread since the defeat to Arsenal has been interesting. Seems a few more people are getting nervous now after three dreadful defeats in a row, conceding 11 in the process - including one poster who was against the possibility of relegation and opted to call people names has backtracked on his own position Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 8 hours ago, Galway Lion said: I doubt it. Of course I would be. If we finish in the top half, great. I’d be very happy with that. But we won’t, because we’re not very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted February 19, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 19, 2023 10 hours ago, Zatman said: Most top half teams too Yeah, my lad was really down on the way home. I asked him which teams would have lost to both Arsenal and Citeh this season. Answer is nearly all of them, we just had the misfortune to play them both on the bounce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted February 19, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 19, 2023 11 hours ago, Leeroy said: Just need to get to 40 points quickly. The team just isn't very good. the first 11 is fine. it's the depth that's still not good. we went luiz - dendonker, coutinho - ramsey and buendia to bailey yesterday. those are big downgrades IMO we still have games to play this season which you'd expect us to be 2 or 3 up by the time we make those changes. we'll be fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wurzel Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 Until we have enough points of course we are in the mix. The Everton game is critical now. Lose that and that will be four on the bounce and that starts to become the habit. Emery is not a miracle worker too many of this squad are bang average. We need to replace both centre backs desperately, hopefully come the summer that will happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post markavfc40 Posted February 19, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 19, 2023 There had been pretty much one page of posts in this thread from early Jan until early to mid Feb. In the last week, since we lost to Man City, it has though been a pretty popular thread. Did people really think we would take anything from the two best teams in the country, arguably the best side in Europe who we played away from home. At best I hoped for a point from our last two. For me under Emery in the league we have had one really disappointing result, the loss to Leicester and a slightly disappointing one against Wolves. To balance that we have had some unexpected positive results at Brighton, Spurs and at home to Man Utd. Performances have been mixed with some really good, some average, some below par. We have though, aside from Man City away, been really competitive in every game we have played. The biggest positive though is that I can see what Emery is trying to do. See what style of football he is trying to implement. What I don't see under him is a side that is going to be in danger of going down. Absolutely no chance. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted February 19, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 19, 2023 We got lucky a few times in Unai's first few games, and now we've been unlucky a bit. We're not going down, but we need to get a grip. Especially our defence is abysmal, which is weird because our tactics and shape are good. You have to conclude that many of our players just aren't all that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osmark86 Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 6 hours ago, AVTuco said: We got lucky a few times in Unai's first few games, and now we've been unlucky a bit. We're not going down, but we need to get a grip. Especially our defence is abysmal, which is weird because our tactics and shape are good. You have to conclude that many of our players just aren't all that. When it's usually down to brain farts or blatant mistakes and not tactics or the setup, then this is what you ultimately have to conclude. If we want more out of the current coaching setup then we need higher quality players too. But we're getting there imo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted February 20, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 20, 2023 8 hours ago, osmark86 said: When it's usually down to brain farts or blatant mistakes and not tactics or the setup, then this is what you ultimately have to conclude. If we want more out of the current coaching setup then we need higher quality players too. But we're getting there imo. You're right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsky_11 Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 On 18/02/2023 at 18:20, VillaChris said: Our worst losing run under Gerrard was four straight defeats wasn't it? Worst losing streak of Emery's entire career is 3 games... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WallisFrizz Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 2 minutes ago, tomsky_11 said: Worst losing streak of Emery's entire career is 3 games... Oh dear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 6 minutes ago, tomsky_11 said: Worst losing streak of Emery's entire career is 3 games... It's ok, Villa are great at ending anyone's losing streaks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 1 hour ago, tomsky_11 said: Worst losing streak of Emery's entire career is 3 games... Thats mad he’s already achieved it, especially after 16 points from his first 7 games. Spoiler Link here for a purchase for all the true Villa fans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 It's just a quirk of fixtures sometimes. Interestingly Spurs have also lost in last six games to Man. City away, Arsenal at home and shipped four against Leicester and they're back in 4th. We need three wins before the international break. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_avfc Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 I hope anyone posting seriously about us going down recently feels suitably stupid today. Three losses in a row when two of them are the top two teams in the country and people overreact. At least this thread can be locked soon enough. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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