Stevo985 Posted April 16 VT Supporter Share Posted April 16 28 minutes ago, JPAngel said: It's just dawned on me that Man Utd haven't been above us in the table since matchday 1 after we lost to Newcastle. That is staggering. I don't think they've been within 5 points of us for about 6 months but people were still shitting themselves about them. Maybe even 8 points 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Stevo985 Posted April 16 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted April 16 14 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said: If we hadn’t have had some silly results where we threw it away we’d still be in title race as stupid as it sounds If we didn't have those silly results we'd have had other silly results. Or we wouldn't have beaten Arsenal etc The butterfly effect is real. I think we're doing about as well as could be expected 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 25 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: If we didn't have those silly results we'd have had other silly results. Or we wouldn't have beaten Arsenal etc The butterfly effect is real. I think we're doing about as well as could be expected I suppose what I’m trying to say is that we are not far off the top , but I realise we are still a long way off the really good teams. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 16 VT Supporter Share Posted April 16 4 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said: I suppose what I’m trying to say is that we are not far off the top , but I realise we are still a long way off the really good teams. Oh of course. It's madness that we've got 5 games left and we're still mathematically in the title race. Absolute madness 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jareth Posted April 16 Popular Post Share Posted April 16 Hard to compare clubs in the top 4 - you have Liverpool and Arsenal with relatively healthy squads and are challenging as expected, City who have financially doped for a decade and who have no excuse but to challenge, and then us who have x3 ACLs and then some to deal with, and a squad nobody expects to challenge when the season kicked off. I'd mention Spurs but they have no excuses either without any midweek european games to contend with. If Villa gets UCL this season it will be a magnificent achievement, pound for pound as good if not better than any other team has done this season. 13 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duke313 Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 18 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said: I suppose what I’m trying to say is that we are not far off the top , but I realise we are still a long way off the really good teams. You only have to look at the table to see the difference, the goal difference alone for City, Arsenal and Liverpool is way ahead of us and Spurs. We're not at their level, we're just the level below though, which I'm fine with, we're still a working project under Unai. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MrBlack Posted April 16 Popular Post Share Posted April 16 10 minutes ago, Jareth said: Hard to compare clubs in the top 4 - you have Liverpool and Arsenal with relatively healthy squads and are challenging as expected, City who have financially doped for a decade and who have no excuse but to challenge, and then us who have x3 ACLs and then some to deal with, and a squad nobody expects to challenge when the season kicked off. I'd mention Spurs but they have no excuses either without any midweek european games to contend with. If Villa gets UCL this season it will be a magnificent achievement, pound for pound as good if not better than any other team has done this season. Pre season I expected is to either challenge the top 5, or have a run in a cup. I absolutely didn't expect genuine top 4 form and a run in a cup. Then we lost Mings and Buendia. Then we lost Ramsey and Kamara. And my expectations dropped further. It's unreal what Emery and the team has achieved. It's crazy that we're at this stage and favourites to get top 4 from the teams chasing 4th spot. A little bit more and we're there. But even if we don't, this season has massively exceeded all my expectations. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tubby Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 (edited) 8 minutes ago, duke313 said: You only have to look at the table to see the difference, the goal difference alone for City, Arsenal and Liverpool is way ahead of us and Spurs. We're not at their level, we're just the level below though, which I'm fine with, we're still a working project under Unai. Only because our defence has been porous at times, and that's only because we've suffered injuries (Ty, Cash, Moreno, Pau, Carlos, Ezri) across the back four and with Bouba. We don't have an issue scoring goals, so if the defensive structure had stayed injury-free, our goal difference would be much improved. Edited April 16 by Tubby 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pintpotvilla Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 With FFP the way it is I don't think there will be mass spending in the summer by any club. We have 3 players out for a long period of time with ACL injuries. With them back next season it will be just like 3 huge new transfers in. ALL of them will be massive for us and will help to bridge the gap between us and the likes of Liverpool and Arsenal. Next season could be an even better one for us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyAnty Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 11 hours ago, Kingman said: Nice to see sky already awarding us a 2-0 win against Bournemouth 3-1 i heard 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villarule123 Posted April 16 VT Supporter Share Posted April 16 If only Pep would leave City this summer, we might have half a chance of being in a proper title race then. Hopefully we can keep Emery for a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 1 hour ago, Stevo985 said: If we didn't have those silly results we'd have had other silly results. Or we wouldn't have beaten Arsenal etc The butterfly effect is real. I think we're doing about as well as could be expected I think we’ve overachieved personally. Amazing effort by the squad. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 5 minutes ago, HeyAnty said: 3-1 i heard Oh man im gonna have to bet on this as well now ! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted April 16 VT Supporter Share Posted April 16 3 minutes ago, villarule123 said: If only Pep would leave City this summer, we might have half a chance of being in a proper title race then. Hopefully we can keep Emery for a long time. I feel like next year will be tougher, with Chelsea getting back on form, Liverpool likely challenging for the lower CL/Europa places post Klopp, and possible Newcastle resurgence if they can spend this summer. Plus teams like Luton and Sheff will be replaced by, in all likelihood, stronger teams. This season has been incredible, loved it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted April 16 VT Supporter Share Posted April 16 2 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said: Oh man im gonna have to bet on this as well now ! I’m going to go for the “2-up” boost just to be sure 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichW Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 (edited) 10 hours ago, VillaChris said: We looked fresher second half on Sunday than Arsenal did and they had 48 hours extra recovery. Bit of flexibility with the team aswell given we had success with 4-2-3-1 so with Luiz returning on Thursday one of the attackers probably drops out, maybe two with Bailey starting and they can start again v Bournemouth. Lenglet and Cash also options for that game. Before games people sometimes debate trying to say x team has an advantage over y team because they had a game mid- week/extra days rest etc but I don't usually buy it much. Seen plenty of times where Villa have played against a team who had Europe mid-week yet when the game comes the other team looks fresh and we looked knackered. Arsenal had 2 days extra rest last week yet second half they looked tired and we played like we had a full weeks rest. Not convinced this 2 week break is good for Spurs tbh. Edited April 16 by RichW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 5 minutes ago, alreadyexists said: I feel like next year will be tougher, with Chelsea getting back on form, Liverpool likely challenging for the lower CL/Europa places post Klopp, and possible Newcastle resurgence if they can spend this summer. Plus teams like Luton and Sheff will be replaced by, in all likelihood, stronger teams. This season has been incredible, loved it!! I think it was only 3 or 4 weeks ago Chelsea fans wanted Poch gone .. they've just had a lucky run of penalties and playing crap teams like United , so I still think they have one more season of being a basket case club Liverpool hopefully go down the Moyes type route United took Arsenal will get to mid season and finally realise Arteta is the Spanish Sherwood that leaves us v Citeh for the title .. and they will have a 20 points deduction so we might be able to nick it by a point 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turvontour Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 Is it better for us to have Man U, Chelsea and Newcastle in conference and europa league next sesson, as it adds to their schedule. Or better for them to flop the end of this season and finish 8th to 10th? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 17 minutes ago, pintpotvilla said: With FFP the way it is I don't think there will be mass spending in the summer by any club. We have 3 players out for a long period of time with ACL injuries. With them back next season it will be just like 3 huge new transfers in. ALL of them will be massive for us and will help to bridge the gap between us and the likes of Liverpool and Arsenal. Next season could be an even better one for us Those 3 players might not be the same as they were before their ACL injuries though. I hope they are but we still need to add quality in the summer get rid of the deadwood and build on what has been a massive season otherwise we will go backwards and be out the CL with a whimper. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 Our record after European games is pretty good. Played 11 | Won 6 | Drawn 3 | Lost 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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