Lerner's Driver Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 The sixth placed team has 6 points, which is one win away. Admittedly, we were cack today, but it's early days. Worried about playing more physical sides because until Davis came on we showed nothing and nothing stuck. Wesley somewhat Jekyll and Hyde. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 Our problem remains final third. Even against Everton when we were playing well we weren't getting many on target. Nothing I've seen from our first 4 is telling me we aren't at least one attacking player light in the squad and that will stop you getting wins in premier league. Still defensively we are far from the easiest team to score against in general play. We've conceded six, Norwich have conceded 10 so that might count for something at the end of the season perhaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 2 minutes ago, VillaChris said: Our problem remains final third. Even against Everton when we were playing well we weren't getting many on target. Nothing I've seen from our first 4 is telling me we aren't at least one attacking player light in the squad and that will stop you getting wins in premier league. Still defensively we are far from the easiest team to score against in general play. We've conceded six, Norwich have conceded 10 so that might count for something at the end of the season perhaps. Yes, that's the biggest worry for me. That front group do not look like they have enough goals in them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 Jota just shouldn't be playing away games unless it's in a 4-3-2-1 in the 2 with Grealish. We need pace on the break not a weak creative type who only plays well when we're on the front foot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lerner's Driver Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 West Ham should be fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 If Everton beat Wolves 2-0, or 3-1 or by an even bigger margin tomorrow then we'll come out of the relegation zone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 Is no one boosted by that? We will still have lost three games out of four, but if we're not in the bottom three over the international break it will give us a psychological boost. Just need Everton to win by two goals now, and for Wolves to not score more than two themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave_jW Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 3 hours ago, Mantis said: I think some of the extreme doom and gloom is a bit misplaced. Defeat at Spurs - was always going to be a tough game but we defended well for most of it Defeat to Bournemouth - were the better team on balance but undone by a couple of stupid errors, and the officiating didn't help Win over Everton - played well and won deservedly Defeat at Palace - played poorly, but literally the only reason we didn't get a point here is because of corrupt or incompetent officials It's a long season, but so far I've not seen anything which suggests we're not capable of staying up. I would echo that. Corrupt officials are at all levels of football, even the Prem imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kurtsimonw Posted August 31, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted August 31, 2019 People like to underestimate this league. But my God, the step up in quality from the Championship is massive. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 The next four are against West Ham (h), Arsenal (a), Burnley (h), and Norwich (a), really need to improve on the three points we've got from the last four games, written down and reading it back doesn't look like a bad set of fixtures, but then neither did Spurs, Bournemouth, Everton and Palace. If we can get ten points from those then things will be looking an whole lot better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 46 minutes ago, useless said: The next four are against West Ham (h), Arsenal (a), Burnley (h), and Norwich (a), really need to improve on the three points we've got from the last four games, written down and reading it back doesn't look like a bad set of fixtures, but then neither did Spurs, Bournemouth, Everton and Palace. If we can get ten points from those then things will be looking an whole lot better. We're not going to get ten points from those fixtures. Nothing about our performances suggests 'a four match unbeaten streak'. If we can get six or seven out of them that would be a start. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 Getting outplayed by Palace won't do their confidence any good. West Ham game will be a huge mental test testing their mentality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 2 hours ago, useless said: Is no one boosted by that? We will still have lost three games out of four, but if we're not in the bottom three over the international break it will give us a psychological boost. Just need Everton to win by two goals now, and for Wolves to not score more than two themselves. Wolvesalona are brilliant though.....(actually would expect Everton to win although maybe by a single goal as Wolves are good at the back). Thing is for me though as much as I'm mad about football as many on here....I can't get too worked up whether we're 16th,17th and 18th at this stage of the season. I'll watch the games tomorrow as they're two pretty good games, I won't be fretting every time Wolves break forward. Remember that first season under O'Leary? Think we were in the bottom 3 until xmas, then had a really good run into new year and climbed the table enough to finish 6th. We obviously aren't going to do that this time but shows you stuff like winning a few games in December can suddenly change the dynamics of the season. We could do it again looking at who we have around that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 7 hours ago, dudevillaisnice said: I think Nakamba needs to be involved away from home For Luiz is the way to go for away games, Hourihane for Luiz in home games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MNVillan Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 7 hours ago, Mantis said: I think some of the extreme doom and gloom is a bit misplaced. Defeat at Spurs - was always going to be a tough game but we defended well for most of it Defeat to Bournemouth - were the better team on balance but undone by a couple of stupid errors, and the officiating didn't help Win over Everton - played well and won deservedly Defeat at Palace - played poorly, but literally the only reason we didn't get a point here is because of corrupt or incompetent officials It's a long season, but so far I've not seen anything which suggests we're not capable of staying up. I agree with pretty much all of this, especially that we are capable of staying up. My worry is that we can see all the encouraging signs we want, but soon they’re going to need to turn into points or it means nothing. I am slightly concerned right now. You’re right, it’s a long season, but out of 4 games this year we have only come away with something in 1 of them. Until we start tallying points on a more consistent basis I won’t be comfortable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 The championship was more fun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 What worries me is how many chances our opponents are creating. Don't know the stats but wouldn't surprise me if we are the team who concede the most chances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilko154 Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 7 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: We're not going to get ten points from those fixtures. Nothing about our performances suggests 'a four match unbeaten streak'. If we can get six or seven out of them that would be a start. Why would we need 10 points from our next 4 games? Thats top 6 form. Are you saying you'll be disappointed if we don't finish in the top 6? 4 points a month is the target to beat relegation. We have taken 3 this month, we have one to make up. If we can take 5 points in the next 4 games we are on track, any more than that is a bonus. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilko154 Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 People are getting a bit carried away with the doom and gloom already. The league table right now means nothing, it's all about the points we can get on the board. Yesterday was a joke, the referee was against us from minute one. We went into half time after playing fairly well with 4 bookings, the red card was always coming and we couldn't play our natural game after that. Bournemouth we made early mistakes and struggled to make it back. Tottenham we were outclassed in the last 15 minutes. We'll be fine, it was always going to be a struggle in the first month with the amount of new players we have brought in. The last 5 minutes were the most important yesterday, we didn't give up, we pushed for the equaliser and players started doing what they were doing in the Championship. Grealish finally started running at the defence, took on the midfielders head on, as did McGinn. We now have two weeks to sort ourselves out and go again at a packed Villa Park. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_Afro Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 Why are people moaning so much about our performance yesterday? Deano summed it up really well in my opinion. Good start, followed by a ridiculous period before half time when the ref starting dishing out cards, followed by a decent start to the second half, followed by a red card. From that point, away from home against a decent side, it was always going to be difficult. We stuck in and but for a criminal decision would have taken a point. We are finding our feet and in my opinion should have more than the three points on the board. Refs and bad luck have cost us badly so far but that cannot continue. Maybe, following the high profile nature of Friend’s massive mess up, the refs will be a bit more reluctant to give us poor decisions. We need to stick together and get behind the team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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