Leeroy Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 11 minutes ago, birdman said: Why wasn't Ollie involved today anyone know? It’s a mystery. He was back in training this week. The journos will be I interrogating Unai about it so I’m intrigued to hear what he says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicRic Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Buendia looks good too and im guilty of forgetting about him so often Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post VillaJay Posted August 10 Popular Post Share Posted August 10 Happy clappers.... We've just finished 4th and qualified for the champions league, a pretty poor pre-season, granted. How about bed wetters, or doom mongers, etc etc., We've got the best manager we've had in 20/30+ years and he's barely put a foot wrong. Early days, I back him to get it right. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted August 10 Popular Post Share Posted August 10 Just now, DaveAV1 said: Almost like we have an elite manager pulling the strings. I legit think he hasn't cared about these results and has been determined to just get players minutes and try things. Not saying he wouldn't have preferred if it was all clicking and winning obviously. However I think he will have learnt alot We'll see the best team against West Ham. I do have a slight fear it could be a slow start to the season for us though before it clicks 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 I'm confused by the extend of the reactions, game doesn't mean anything, it's a pre-season friendly, we will have such games in the seaosn proper, as we do every season, and so does every team, those games won't mean much in isolation, we haven't suddenly turned into world beaters just because we finished fourth Last friendly of 2019 we beat beat RB Leipzig 3-1, they had just finished third, so they had had a better season than Dortmund have just had, and they also finished third again the following season, whereas we only survied on the last day Also are people forgetting we only just beat Bilbao 3-2, who last season had just as good a season in La Liga as Dortmund had in Bundesliga, Bilbao actually won the Copa Del Rey as well, but not too much can be read into either game It was always going to be hard to follow up last season, but pre-season tells the least about how we will actually fare in reality 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdman Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 1 minute ago, Leeroy said: It’s a mystery. He was back in training this week. The journos will be I interrogating Unai about it so I’m intrigued to hear what he says. Cheers. Weird not to be involved in any pre season games. Concerning ngl. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frodo Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Think we should just wait till the season starts first, you add Ollie to our starting line up & things will be better, alot better everybody got plenty of minutes & most of all no injuries through pre season. Dortmund are amongst the best teams in the world at pressing ... & yep think we struggled today, but let's not forget Dougie has gone & Kamara is still injured so it's players stepping in to learn how we play & it will take time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinebro Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 33 minutes ago, Monkeypuzzle said: I'm surprised how hostile the Dortmund fans are being. Booing our players all the time. Any particular reason? Creating a hostile atmosphere for the opposition. Quite normal in european stadiums 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 I feel like Unai is the type of manager who will gain far more from some pre-season defeats than wins. He's not a streaky manager who relies on high confidence and putting long runs together. And at the end of the day we're still dealing with two crucial injuries (Mings and Kamara). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentVillan Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 I see people are reading too much into pre season again 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 2 minutes ago, VillaJay said: Happy clappers.... We've just finished 4th and qualified for the champions league, a pretty poor pre-season, granted. How about bed wetters, or doom mongers, etc etc., We've got the best manager we've had in 20/30+ years and he's barely put a foot wrong. Early days, I back him to get it right. Yes. The ones who refuse to allow posters to say anything remotely negative about the team. It hasn’t been a convincing pre season. We were poor for a fair amount of the second part of last season. And, this transfer window (so far) hasn’t seen us improve the starting 11, really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponky Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Pretty ridiculous to have to go through an entire preseason without our first and second choice strikers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macandally Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Onto Wet Spam, was a friendly nothing more so no point getting all wrapped round the axle. The season starts next week 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaAlex Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 20 minutes ago, Tayls said: Tough for the happy clappers to back today’s performance. One week until the league starts and we look bloody awful. This season I get the impression we are going to concede a lot of goals and struggle to score… not a great recipe for success. The saving grace at the moment is that we haven’t played what should be the main starting 11 yet. So there is still hope that we can actually play well. We also need to shift players and recruit. Quickly. Most weeks last season in our race with Spurs you were saying we wouldn't finish 4th, so sorry your judgement is off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCollins29 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 35 minutes ago, Awol said: Okay, we’ll just have a different opinion then Just debating your opinion. That's the point of the forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Villa got schooled. Good job it was just a friendly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robtaylor200 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Good job these friendlies don't matter, or I would be getting worried Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCollins29 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 The result doesn't matter, but it looks unlikely we'll suddenly turn into a different side and blow west ham away. Lopetegui also is a thorn in Emery's side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Yes the result doesn’t matter, but you have to look at the manner in which we are defending as a team. We look clueless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 25 minutes ago, DaveAV1 said: Not at all but the result is. Unai and the team will learn plenty. 25 minutes ago, DaveAV1 said: Not at all but the result is. Unai and the team will learn plenty. 25 minutes ago, DaveAV1 said: Not at all but the result is. Unai and the team will learn plenty. I would also point out that whilst I agree about momentum going into the season has value, how many times have we had a good preseason amd people have got overly excited about the up coming season, only to see it all come tumbling down once the season starts for real? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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