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Re: Villa Style, Tactics & Formations 2018/19
« Reply #90 on: September 30, 2018, 08:01:47 PM »
Last time I enjoyed watching us weekly was under Sherwood (before Southampton and the cup final). On the front foot, our flair players creativing havoc to the opposition, all the things I want to see us do under the current manager and it's never looked likely bar the odd game in the last two years.

We talk a good game but we've never really looked the giant at this level we should have on the pitch at this level since we've came down.

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Re: Villa Style, Tactics & Formations 2018/19
« Reply #91 on: September 30, 2018, 08:03:38 PM »
I must've nodded off for the good football bit.

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Re: Villa Style, Tactics & Formations 2018/19
« Reply #92 on: September 30, 2018, 08:18:44 PM »
What's good about effectively describing the relegation season?



I missed the bit where we played good football. I thought we were awful.

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Re: Villa Style, Tactics & Formations 2018/19
« Reply #93 on: September 30, 2018, 08:22:05 PM »
I must've nodded off for the good football bit.

Villa 2-1 West Brom
Sunderland 0-4 Villa
Villa 3-3 QPR
Spurs 0-1 Villa (sweet one given our hopeless results against them under Lambert)
Cup semi final.
Villa 3-2 Everton
Villa 1-0 WHU

All good games in which we took the game to opposition and the likes of Grealish, Delph and Benteke were a joy to watch. I'm sure the match threads at the time would support that and not my memory playing tricks. That two month period was a breath of fresh air after the dismal last year of Lambert. Shame things became a car crash from Southampton away.

At least that shows what a new manager with fresh ideas can at least initally do so we still have hope if SB is put out of his misery in next 7 days.

Edit: Apologies if you were actually replying to Ads?!

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Re: Villa Style, Tactics & Formations 2018/19
« Reply #94 on: September 30, 2018, 08:25:13 PM »
I was. That bit under Sherwood was brilliant. The relegation season itself wasn't.

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Re: Villa Style, Tactics & Formations 2018/19
« Reply #95 on: September 30, 2018, 08:32:28 PM »
Even though we lost the 2-3 at Man City was a great performance as well.

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Re: Villa Style, Tactics & Formations 2018/19
« Reply #96 on: September 30, 2018, 08:37:08 PM »
Even though we lost the 2-3 at Man City was a great performance as well.

Well remembered. This was all in a 2 month period after our endless goal droughts aswell. Don't want this to turn into another Sherwood debate as I concede he became well out of his depth when entertaining games like Leicester started going against us, just stating a new manager can quickly make a team exciting again after following a dour one.

I've enjoyed games here and there under SB, who wouldn't enjoy Bristol 5-0 or the Wolves game, but we simply haven't done it often enough considering all the investment and our standing in this league. It really shouldn't be beyond the next one to get us dominanting more games and acting like the Dogs b**ll.. down here.

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Re: Villa Style, Tactics & Formations 2018/19
« Reply #97 on: September 30, 2018, 09:18:23 PM »
I'd settle for dreadful football if the trade off was endless winning.

The problem is that style will never give you endless wins, you'll get streaks where you win a decent amount because you're not conceding goals and you've got 1-2 players who have everything going for them. It's when the defence is't working or the attacking players lose form that you fall apart and it's almost inevitable that it will happen.

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Re: Villa Style, Tactics & Formations 2018/19
« Reply #98 on: September 30, 2018, 11:43:55 PM »
What's good about effectively describing the relegation season?



I missed the bit where we played good football. I thought we were awful.

We were but he describes getting turned over every week which is what happened.

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Re: Villa Style, Tactics & Formations 2018/19
« Reply #99 on: October 01, 2018, 04:57:33 AM »
Its difficult to watch. We have good players but they all seem like round pegs in square holes. We don't have a style to dominate teams like Fulham, Wolves and Cardiff did last season..

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Re: Villa Style, Tactics & Formations 2018/19
« Reply #100 on: October 01, 2018, 08:40:21 AM »
My point is that we went out of the Premiership without a whimper.  We were unprepared in every way for the Championship and have floundered plying negative anti football.  My case is that given the choice between failing in the Premiership and failing in the Championship with our tail permanently between our legs I would be less unhappy if we actually tried to play attractive winning football.  Playing well and losing is infinitely preferable to playing badly and losing.

WHY?

Because if you play well there is the certain hope that you can start to win again.

If you play badly there is the certain expectation that you will start to lose games.

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Re: Villa Style, Tactics & Formations 2018/19
« Reply #101 on: October 01, 2018, 12:30:07 PM »
The best the back four looked all season was Blackburn.

Who’d have thought playing players in their correct positions would have led to this.

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Re: Villa Style, Tactics & Formations 2018/19
« Reply #102 on: October 01, 2018, 03:42:06 PM »
The best the back four looked all season was Blackburn.

Who’d have thought playing players in their correct positions would have led to this.

Shocking wasn't it.

And we were so well prepared we had Jedinak to counter Dack..hmmmm.

So frustrating, a bit of thinking about who we're playing both in terms of opposition and our own 11 would go a miss.

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Re: Villa Style, Tactics & Formations 2018/19
« Reply #103 on: October 01, 2018, 04:01:24 PM »
How the hell has this thread reached 7 pages?

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Re: Villa Style, Tactics & Formations 2018/19
« Reply #104 on: October 01, 2018, 04:34:25 PM »
I'd rather win 1-0 every game than lose 4-5 every game.

I'd rather lose 4-5 every game and be entertained than 0-1 every game being bored shitless waiting for a mistake.

And I'd rather we played good football and won most of our games and at least had given it a go in the games we lost than just trying to scrape results based on individual brilliance.

It's dull, boring, pedestrian football at the moment that clearly isn't very successful. Its testament to just how average this league is that we're as close to the top as we are; and that bodes well for the new manager

 


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