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He's 100% yanked him down there

20 minutes ago, VillaJ100 said:

Think his goal to win the Bundesliga in 2007 was just extraordinary and for how important it was one of the best goals ever. If some mug like Rooney scored it the Sky melts would still be banging on about it today

Wow, didn't realise/had forgotten he'd won the Bundesliga with Stuttgart!

Benteke away at WBA is one of my favourite goals ever, and I've always thought it goes a little under the radar. Out of absolutely nothing, gets away from the defender and absolutely buries it:

Lowton away at Stoke was just a phenomenal strike:

Sorry for bad quality, amazes me how much video quality has changed in the last few years.

Also, it was Thomas Hitzlsperger's birthday yesterday and Villa FB shared a few of his goals...he scored some crackers for us.

24 minutes ago, Mantis said:

Even under the very best of circumstances (a completely fit, full squad) we'd struggle against City away, as indeed most teams do. The simple fact is that we gained more for the next two games by resting some key players/giving them less minutes than what we lost for the City game. Even if Tielemans, Bailey and Torres had started, our chances of winning or getting a draw would've only been marginally better, while ensuring that our chances against Brentofrd and Lille took a much bigger hit.

Now of course we could still lose those upcoming games, but on balance it was clearly the right thing to do. Emery knows what he's doing.

Oh I don't doubt that he does. It's just hard for me to compute as I believe every game is winnable.

But, our injury/suspension issues have been insane, so I am starting to get it.

13 minutes ago, Captain_Townsend said:

Yeah, he's proper crap isn't he 

No

28 minutes ago, Pinebro said:

Beat Brentford and the decisions against Man City will be looked upon as a master stroke

Not really, could have taken 4-6 points from the two games.

10 minutes ago, alreadyexists said:

As you say in the other post it’s totally on Zaniolo (and Luiz for giving the foul away in that area) but yeah it’s day one of goalkeeper school, sort your wall out and then only cover the half of the goal the wall isn’t covering.

I get that, but still...keepers do make saves that side.

More on Zaniolo/Konsa though for sure, just winds me up to concede such a pathetic goal. It should have been a shit free-kick instead SSN are wanking over how good a strike it was. Cringe.

Olsen may have played well but every time I see that free-kick from the angle of behind Foden, he could make much more an effort to try and save it.

8 hours ago, Pinebro said:

Was very sensible to do what he did last night.

People won't like to hear it but we were very likely to lose regardless if Bailey and Pau started.

It was a free hit and an ideal game to rest some players.

Have to prioritize Brentford.

That's the spirit that's got us top four!

Dunno about that, McGinn's had plenty of criticism for that red

16 minutes ago, VillaChris said:

The half he had v Forest as a CB was alright, that's far more of a game to judge him on than last night when he was on at 3-1 down and game over.

I say this in the nicest sense but hopefully he doesn't play a single more minute this season as that would mean all our defenders stay fit for the run in.

Does he still have another year left after this season? I'm not really sure why we gave a guy in his late 20s who was completely out of favour at Arsenal a three and a half year deal. A year less and we could just release him on a free in the summer.

I'm judging him on his time at Arsenal and all his time at us, not last night! He's not good enough, nowhere near.

58 minutes ago, LondonLax said:

He’s not superman. He would have been covering the other side if the goal like any keeper. 

Watch it again. Olsen isn't that far from it.

Just now, VillaChris said:

We conceded 4 v Spurs with him in the backline so he's not an automatic clean sheet barometer. 

People could say the same about Emi but that was easily Olsen's best game for us, saved what he could save well and caught the crosses no problem.

Problem was last night simply just having two CMs out there.

Emi would have saved the FK though.

22 minutes ago, omariqy said:

I don’t know. It’s not the same city side and the fans and the players were getting nervous I sense. This was a must win game for them. They have difficult fixtures left and they need to win every single one to stand a chance. 

City need to win every single game to stand a chance of winning the league? They're one point behind Arsenal and level with Liverpool (albeit Liverpool have one game in hand).

1 minute ago, Mantis said:

Let's be realistic here. Pau, as good as he is, wouldn't have made a whole lot of difference last night.

He always makes a huge difference with his calming presence and ability to start attacks.

1 hour ago, smg said:

How was he poor for the free kick ? He set up the wall to guard that part of the goal. He then has to trust those in the wall to do their job. They didn’t how can he be blamed for Zaniolo reacting like a small boy in his first game of football ? 

Still very saveable, it was a weak strike.

3 hours ago, Stevo985 said:

He was terrible, let’s be honest. 
 

Very promising player and I’m looking forward to him developing, but he’s not ready yet. Thankfully McGinn is back now

Read this in a Dutch accent (Grolsch advert).

How did he do last night? Only caught the last 20-30. Did Rodri dominate?

1 minute ago, lapal_fan said:

To be fair, all of their goals were avoidable  

We just didn't try hard enough.  

There weren't any beautiful passages of play.  Fodens second was alright, but even Rodri got lucky when the ball bounced of X and into his path so he could lay it off to Foden. 

I guess that means the secret is:  you make your own luck   

Yeah, I wasn't able to catch the game in full last night - only the last 20. Watching the highlights now - that free-kick was absolutely pathetic to concede. Zaniolo had a shocker but I also think Olsen could have got there (someone else said this can't remember who). Such an average strike and we let it go in just before half time. Pathetic way to concede.

19 minutes ago, lapal_fan said:

A couple of things I'd like to get off my chest. 

A wall is designed to block an area of the goal, he was in the wall.  

Phil Foden isn't aiming for what he thinks will be a hole in the wall, he's trying to go around the wall. 

Zaniolo isn't jumping "out of the way", he's jumping and turning his back (which IS a mistake, just take a ball to the nuts/face), causing himself to "open up" a hole in the wall. 

The free kick was shit really.  It was bollock high and going somewhere between Zaniolo and Konsa.  An awful effort in any other game, as it just bounces harmlessly away. 

It was just unlucky, albeit if the hole doesn't open, its not a goal.  

So he's at fault slightly, but that goal was pretty shit. 

I also think Foden's third was a lucky strike. I mean he fell over as he hit it ffs. Really annoying to let him score those three goals.

10 minutes ago, MWARLEY2 said:

He is basically a mix of Ramsey and Buendia. Without the defensive nous ( as yet) . Which is a great thing. 

With more skill than both of them.

21 minutes ago, cheltenham_villa said:

Agree, the intent was there. Does anyone know where his best position is though, we're using him from the left, I wasn't convinced that he was a left sided player when we signed him 

Right wing

1 hour ago, CVByrne said:

Only once in our last 7 PL games have we won on xG. That was against Forest. Unlike the season up to that point where we were winning games on xG and on scoreboard

We will be found out soon if we don't improve our performances. 

The Konsa goal was something like 0.07xG wasn't it? Ruling out how easy it would have been for Duran to tap in? That's why I can't take it seriously.