Guest av1 Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 32 minutes ago, NurembergVillan said: Finally, a proper manager. Started 433, raced into a 2-0 lead; changed to 4231 to solidify, concede a jammy goal on half-time; come out at 442 to be able to counter-attack, score again; back to 4231 to see the game out. And he's got that into them in less than a week. There are some good players at Aston Villa Football Club. Under Unai Emery, we're about to find out just how good. And I wasn’t just the formational change. The approach throughout. The front foot attacking to start, the counter attacking when needed and then the game management for a brief spell in the second half when it looked like UTD maybe gaining a bit of momentum. Im not exaggerating, that was the most complete performance I’ve seen at VP for as long as I can remember. Stunning, absolutely stunning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post messi11 Posted November 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted November 6, 2022 1 minute ago, Delphinho123 said: Only just catching up ffs. How did we set up today? Was it a 4231? Buendia on the right? Cant believe I missed this! 4-4-2 Watkins Bailey Buendia- Luiz- Dendoncker- Ramsey Digne- Mings- Konsa Cash Cash stayed back. 2 CM's played a lot deeper. Buendia come in the middle a lot, Watkins and Bailey pushed wide a lot. Floating but most of the time it was a 4-4-2 Like seen in video I posted below. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillanousOne Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 Impressed by the movement all over the pitch and how we managed to play out from the back effectively, just to see the players know their roles and fit into the right shape, incredible. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messi11 Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 Just now, VillanousOne said: Impressed by the movement all over the pitch and how we managed to play out from the back effectively, just to see the players know their roles and fit into the right shape, incredible. Konsa made some great runs going forward! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strog Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 1 minute ago, messi11 said: 4-4-2 Watkins Bailey Buendia- Luiz- Dendoncker- Ramsey Digne- Mings- Konsa Cash Cash stayed back. 2 CM's played a lot deeper. Buendia come in the middle a lot, Watkins and Bailey pushed wide a lot. Floating but most of the time it was a 4-4-2 Like seen in video I posted below. That vlog by Tifo gave a really good explanation as to how Unai will set us up. The flexibility of this system is very interesting. At last we have coach who knows what he’s doing and can adapt the style during a game. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Davkaus Posted November 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted November 6, 2022 18 minutes ago, Villaphan04 said: What he can do in the job is obviously the most important thing, but I am delighted to have another manager who I think is a thoroughly nice and decent man. 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avfc1982am Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 5 minutes ago, av1 said: And I wasn’t just the formational change. The approach throughout. The front foot attacking to start, the counter attacking when needed and then the game management for a brief spell in the second half when it looked like UTD maybe gaining a bit of momentum. Im not exaggerating, that was the most complete performance I’ve seen at VP for as long as I can remember. Stunning, absolutely stunning. I agree. It was a much stiffer test than Brentford in all fairness and there were periods where concentration levels need to be high. For the first time in a long time we can honestly say more than anything, concentration did not drop throughout the game. Even their goal was fortunate. I think apart from individual performances the collective performance from back to front was tip top. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dudevillaisnice Posted November 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted November 6, 2022 Always had the feeling Gerrard felt we were lucky to have him, this seems different. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 2 things I took from that. 1) The players have been underperforming and they are still underperforming - We’ve just beaten UTD 3-1 and he still wants more. 2) I’m a privileged man to be here - No mate, we’re bloody privileged to have you here. Absolutely elite manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewiek2 Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 2 hours ago, Morley_crosses_to_Withe said: Would it be weird to make love to his photo? You wait your turn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post troon_villan Posted November 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted November 6, 2022 22 minutes ago, av1 said: Stunning, absolutely stunning. Like a young Burt Reynolds! 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
May-Z Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 2 hours ago, ferguson1 said: Far too purple. When will the club get claret right? Also, we need to forget about the star and leave it out. Yellow just bleeds around the edges anyway. Oh wait, wrong thread... 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 Credit to him and also the players for picking up what he wanted them to do so quickly. Things can only get better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 41 minutes ago, rbcuk said: What a waste it was keeping that fraud in charge for how long we did, was nice to see a proper manager in the technical area dishing out instructions and one that actually used all 5 subs, superb start long may it continue Sometimes you have to take a step back to move forward. Gerrard failure was all part of the process! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastie Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 Onwards and upwards from here - the journey has began Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TheStagMan Posted November 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted November 6, 2022 (edited) I initially thought that having the world cup in Qatar was an absolute disgrace, and the move to have it in the winter and therefore disrupt the domestic football season was scandalous. I am quite happy to about turn on that now and be a huge hypocrite as it does us a massive favour. A couple of games beforehand for Unai to get a good look at the squad and then a month to work with them to get his ideas across, figure out how he wants to play them and identify where he needs players in, then into Jan and the window opens. We sit 13th, 2 wins off 8th place. After a pre-season whilst the WC is on, we will have well over half the season left. All of our injured players will be back (or should be), we will have very few at the world cup so the squad should be well rested to kick on in the second half of the season. A decent top-half finish is very achievable. The mid-season break with a lot of the squad not going to Qatar can also help us at the end of the season when other squads are starting to tire. It's early and we should not start to dream yet, but there is still an outside chance of a minor European place. A bit like the Covid shutdown helped us avoid relegation under Smith - I think this shutdown could turbocharge our season. Edited November 6, 2022 by TheStagMan 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jas10 Posted November 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted November 6, 2022 6 hours ago, sidcow said: Right, I'm off to the match. I look forward to getting back and finding this thread boosted by 20 odd pages of people waxing lyrical about his genius. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHY Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 Think we have only gone and bagged ourselves a proper Manager lads. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Spoony Posted November 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted November 6, 2022 1 hour ago, bose said: This is too good. Good things dont happen to Villa. It’s uncomfortable. I’m still excited. Emery will do his ACL next game, be out for a year then get a job in Turkey on loan 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jas10 Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 2 hours ago, ChicagoVillan1983 said: He’s no Sean Dyche, but glad for the nice average start to his career as Villa manager. To those who called for and would have been happy with Dyche… 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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