TrentVilla Posted September 12, 2014 Moderator Share Posted September 12, 2014 I don't think the first XI will change for Saturday personally Neither do I. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted September 12, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted September 12, 2014 (edited) Bacuna in the middle, no way...he's done nothing to suggest been ahead of either Delph, Westwood, Sanchez, then there's Cleverley too. He has more energy than Westwood, will get up and down the pitch more which will be needed in this game. In my line up he'd be playing aslong side Delph, Sanchez and Cleverley. IMO you pick players who's abilities can match your opposistion, not on current form. But then I guess everyone is different. Westwood has some great attributes and I really rate him as a player, but he wouldn't start every game. Edited September 12, 2014 by PieFacE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Ian Wright on Twitter: Morning all. With all the names being mentioned for the England squad I wonder if Roy's gonna have a look at villa's Ashley Westwood ? That's a joke. Westwood is a decent player, but he is nowhere near International quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunnski Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Bacuna in the middle, no way...he's done nothing to suggest been ahead of either Delph, Westwood, Sanchez, then there's Cleverley too. He has more energy than Westwood, will get up and down the pitch more which will be needed in this game. In my line up he'd be playing aslong side Delph, Sanchez and Cleverley. IMO you pick players who's abilities can match your opposistion, not on current form. But then I guess everyone is different. Westwood has some great attributes and I really rate him as a player, but he wouldn't start every game. Bacuna takes way too long on the ball for me and his distribution is hit and miss. We would suffer badly if we dropped Westwood for Bacuna imo. I see Bacunas future out wide or maybe at RB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted September 12, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted September 12, 2014 I have a feeling we won't see much more of Bacuna at Aston Villa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunnski Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Ian Wright on Twitter: Morning all. With all the names being mentioned for the England squad I wonder if Roy's gonna have a look at villa's Ashley Westwood ? That's a joke. Westwood is a decent player, but he is nowhere near International quality. I watched the last England game and Wilshire played in Westwoods position and was terrible again. Westwood shouldn't be too far away from getting into that squad, if he has a solid season this year I'd expect him to be in the squad or very close to making it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted September 12, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted September 12, 2014 I have a feeling we won't see much more of Bacuna at Aston Villa. Certainly not in Central Midfield ahead of any of Cleverley/Westwood/Sanchez/Delph Joe Cole would probably be ahead of Bacuna too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted September 12, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted September 12, 2014 Bacuna in the middle, no way...he's done nothing to suggest been ahead of either Delph, Westwood, Sanchez, then there's Cleverley too. He has more energy than Westwood, will get up and down the pitch more which will be needed in this game. In my line up he'd be playing aslong side Delph, Sanchez and Cleverley. IMO you pick players who's abilities can match your opposistion, not on current form. But then I guess everyone is different. Westwood has some great attributes and I really rate him as a player, but he wouldn't start every game. Bacuna takes way too long on the ball for me and his distribution is hit and miss. We would suffer badly if we dropped Westwood for Bacuna imo. I see Bacunas future out wide or maybe at RB. I agree his distribution can be hit and miss, but I dont think were going to see much of the ball to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GENTLEMAN Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Ian Wright on Twitter: Morning all. With all the names being mentioned for the England squad I wonder if Roy's gonna have a look at villa's Ashley Westwood ? That's a joke. Westwood is a decent player, but he is nowhere near International quality. He is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunnski Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Bacuna in the middle, no way...he's done nothing to suggest been ahead of either Delph, Westwood, Sanchez, then there's Cleverley too. He has more energy than Westwood, will get up and down the pitch more which will be needed in this game. In my line up he'd be playing aslong side Delph, Sanchez and Cleverley. IMO you pick players who's abilities can match your opposistion, not on current form. But then I guess everyone is different. Westwood has some great attributes and I really rate him as a player, but he wouldn't start every game. Bacuna takes way too long on the ball for me and his distribution is hit and miss. We would suffer badly if we dropped Westwood for Bacuna imo. I see Bacunas future out wide or maybe at RB. I agree his distribution can be hit and miss, but I dont think were going to see much of the ball to be honest. Yeah but when we do have the ball it's important to have a reliable passer over a hit and miss passer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted September 12, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted September 12, 2014 Ian Wright on Twitter: Morning all. With all the names being mentioned for the England squad I wonder if Roy's gonna have a look at villa's Ashley Westwood ? That's a joke. Westwood is a decent player, but he is nowhere near International quality. I don't think he's far off Delph's standard and Delph has had a call up, and performed very well. I'm not saying Westwood is good enough right this second. But continue improving and I wouldn't be surprised if he's number 73. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 If Colback can get a call up to the england side then Westwood can 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted September 12, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted September 12, 2014 Bacuna in the middle, no way...he's done nothing to suggest been ahead of either Delph, Westwood, Sanchez, then there's Cleverley too.He has more energy than Westwood, will get up and down the pitch more which will be needed in this game. In my line up he'd be playing aslong side Delph, Sanchez and Cleverley. IMO you pick players who's abilities can match your opposistion, not on current form. But then I guess everyone is different. Westwood has some great attributes and I really rate him as a player, but he wouldn't start every game. Bacuna takes way too long on the ball for me and his distribution is hit and miss. We would suffer badly if we dropped Westwood for Bacuna imo. I see Bacunas future out wide or maybe at RB. I agree his distribution can be hit and miss, but I dont think were going to see much of the ball to be honest. Yeah but when we do have the ball it's important to have a reliable passer over a hit and miss passer. Quite, I know what you're saying. I do have a counter argument to that but it would be going way off the topic of Westwood 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 If Colback can get a call up to the england side then Westwood can 2 different types of players, can't compare them. Westwood compare against the likes of Henderson and Wilshere. Westwood is not better than any of those players in current time. Might be in the future, but not now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunnski Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Bacuna in the middle, no way...he's done nothing to suggest been ahead of either Delph, Westwood, Sanchez, then there's Cleverley too. He has more energy than Westwood, will get up and down the pitch more which will be needed in this game. In my line up he'd be playing aslong side Delph, Sanchez and Cleverley. IMO you pick players who's abilities can match your opposistion, not on current form. But then I guess everyone is different. Westwood has some great attributes and I really rate him as a player, but he wouldn't start every game. Bacuna takes way too long on the ball for me and his distribution is hit and miss. We would suffer badly if we dropped Westwood for Bacuna imo. I see Bacunas future out wide or maybe at RB. I agree his distribution can be hit and miss, but I dont think were going to see much of the ball to be honest. Yeah but when we do have the ball it's important to have a reliable passer over a hit and miss passer. Quite, I know what you're saying. I do have a counter argument to that but it would be going way off the topic of Westwood Yeah I get what you're saying and Bacuna would offer more energy and be a bit stronger for when we don't have the ball, just comes down to personal preference I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swerbs Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 If Colback can get a call up to the england side then Westwood can 2 different types of players, can't compare them. Westwood compare against the likes of Henderson and Wilshere. Westwood is not better than any of those players in current time. Might be in the future, but not now. Delph is more comparable to Henderson and Wilshere IMO. More comparable (obviously not as good) to Carrick and late Gerrards and Lampards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 I have a feeling we won't see much more of Bacuna at Aston Villa. Thought the same thing after the Stoke game, We put together a great move with a string of passes to lay it off for Bacuna. When we returned to the coach park the ball was on my seat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Bacuna will be back up rb and a sub player for certain games. I don't agree that Westwood is close to delphs standard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted September 12, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted September 12, 2014 I have a feeling we won't see much more of Bacuna at Aston Villa. Thought the same thing after the Stoke game, We put together a great move with a string of passes to lay it off for Bacuna. When we returned to the coach park the ball was on my seatI've never thought he's been good enough on the ball. He's done really well at times for us and I can't fault his effort. I like the guy. I just don't think he'll be more than an occasional sub from now on, and probably sold in the summer. Anyone expecting him to feature regularly on our midfield is going to be disappointed IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heid3ster Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 I have a feeling we won't see much more of Bacuna at Aston Villa. I think Bacuna is a great utility guy to have on the bench in case of injuries since he can play in the center or anywhere up and down the left and right hand sides. His dead balls are a good threat too, we don't have a lot of set piece specialists (although Westwood is improving and N'Zogbia is back now, so even there we have more options than we did). I don't think we'll see Leandro start very much but he's a good squad option to have around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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