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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: Toronto Villa on October 22, 2024, 09:53:03 PM
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Piece of piss this CL. 9 points no goals conceded. Easy
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WE ARE TOP OF THE LEAGUE
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Feels like a really professional performance. Kamara is back, clean sheet, Tyrone on the bench, another goal for Duran, Rogers is turning into something special, three wins on the trot. Great time to be a Villa fan.
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Really good performance. Everyone did well apart from Bailey. Even then it was good to see Philogene come on and look lively.
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Bologna are decent, not like last year but still gave us a battle, but when we stepped it up it was a different game. Some of that play, honestly...what Unai Emery has done to this team, this club, it's astonishing really.
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top of the table clash v Monaco at this rate
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Impressive albeit the opposition weren't great.
Should have had 2 or 3 more goals.
Got to say the ref was the best i've seen for a while too
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A great effort from so many tonight - proud of the boys.
UP THE VILLA
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I missed the first half an hour, but everything I saw was bloody brilliant.
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That'll do nicely. Another routine home win in the European Cup.
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Fantastic performance.
Brilliant from Maartsen and so many others but I thought Rogers was outstanding.
And the best thing? It felt a little bit routine at the end....
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I thought that, as a team, we were excellent tonight, 5-6 goals wouldn't have flattered us at all, Rogers and Maatsen were immense.
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I mean as good as tonights been id rather be playing in league on and beat bolton wanderers
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As someone said on pre Match thread, people are gonna look at us and think 'I don't want to play that lot' - hope they are someone else's problem.'
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That was as comfortable a win as you get at this level. Rogers and Maatsen were very sharp I thought. Great use of the squad, thought Kamara was good too in his cameo.
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What a performance! We are at the top of Europe.
Thank you boys and Thank you unai.
Utv
Good night everyone.
It is a Great Time to be a Villa fan.
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Cigars out at the end, OLE..OLE..OLE playing keep ball in the CL...we've been through the mill for a number of years but the good times are here at last. Unbelievable tonight
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Some of the football we played tonight was stunning, I could barely keep up just watching. Brilliant stuff. I just want to soak up every bit of this - Villa top of the Champions League, playing like continental superstars. This was a distant dream just a few years ago.
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Some of the football was simply brilliant. I thought Rogers and Maatsen were particularly outstanding.
We need to work on our finishing a bit though, we left some goals out there.
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A wonderful time to be a Villa fan. As said on commentary I think we are capable of beating anyone in any competition. Not felt such a positive vibe around our club in a long, long time.
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Very pleasing, as thought we might drop points tonight. The good times keep a coming.
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I really think Europe suits us. Great performance. Unai Emery got everything right again tonight.
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Pissed off. Only six goals.
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Some good football tonight. Bailey doesn’t look fully fit. Defence looked pretty solid.
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Love this
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Could've been worse, I suppose.
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Some of the football was simply brilliant. I thought Rogers and Maatsen were particularly outstanding.
We need to work on our finishing a bit though, we left some goals out there.
We did but it’s coming.
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Excellent all round. Only real complaint is we should probably be a bit more clinical. That's been a bit of an issue all season. We're not converting some pretty good chances we're carving out. But, we are still scoring a lot of goals. That room for further improvement is mouth watering.
Defensively very good today as well. A run of games is doing Carlos the world of good seemingly too.
Rogers is a joy to watch. Great to see Kamara back. Bailey will get there. Not tonight (albeit he was better than Saturday) but he'll get there.
Duran was due a goal. It's probably been a full 90 minutes since he last scored. Close to a goal drought for him. lol
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Really good performance. Everyone did well apart from Bailey. Even then it was good to see Philogene come on and look lively.
Bailey really struggled again but this Villa side has a ‘One for all, all for one’ mentality and he is starting regularly in a regularly winning team.
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Did Duran come back out from the tunnel or has he gone off in a sulk?
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Job well done , perhaps should have been more emphatic. Bologna were niggly dirts sorts like classic Italian teams . Rogers was fantastic as was Carlos again . MOTM Rogers for me , what a talent .
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Did Duran come back out from the tunnel or has he gone off in a sulk?
He came back...toilet break..
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Did Duran come back out from the tunnel or has he gone off in a sulk?
He came back...toilet break..
Excellent.
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I mean as good as tonights been id rather be playing in league on and beat bolton wanderers
Stay classy.
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Did Duran come back out from the tunnel or has he gone off in a sulk?
He came back out and was fine.
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I mean as good as tonights been id rather be playing in league on and beat bolton wanderers
Any need? Really?
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Did Duran come back out from the tunnel or has he gone off in a sulk?
Yeah he did. Was even seen talking to rio
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Superb, just superb. Everyone of them deserves praise but I thought Maatsen just edged it for MOM followed closely by Tielemans. Arguably our best performance of the season I thought. Some of the football tonight was fabulous
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Denial still.
wolvesnl
Groupie
What's mad about the Villa situation is I still don't think their 11 tonight is much better than ours: McGinn, Rogers, Bailey, Tielemans, Onana, Maatsen, Carlos.
Emery is absolutely brilliant at building a system that's worked for them. With Martinez, Torres, Watkins/Duran he's got real quality.
It's reminiscent of Nuno IMO. Their collective has far outweighed their individual quality. But fair play. ****s.
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Very telling that Unai is happy switching the entire front 6 around, apart from one player - Rogers. He plays. And we win.
He has the tools to be one of the very best players in the world - the X factor that will take us to the next level - Arsenal, Bayern, he’s been the best player on the pitch in every single game this year.
The only weakness right now (22 years old!) in his game is his finishing.. when that clicks I fully believe he could take us to trophies, and I think Emery believes this too based on how he is basically building the team around him at this point.
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Hearing of some bother by the Rat Pan, not between fans but traffic related.
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I don't know what they were whinging about on the first one. Konsa caught him but he'd already made the fair tackle, it was just a coming together.
Also, only 3 mins injury time? I mean, I welcomed it but that would have been 10 in the Prem.
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Denial still.
wolvesnl
Groupie
What's mad about the Villa situation is I still don't think their 11 tonight is much better than ours: McGinn, Rogers, Bailey, Tielemans, Onana, Maatsen, Carlos.
Emery is absolutely brilliant at building a system that's worked for them. With Martinez, Torres, Watkins/Duran he's got real quality.
It's reminiscent of Nuno IMO. Their collective has far outweighed their individual quality. But fair play. ****s.
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Can someone translate this to English, please?
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Carlos was ace, that pass that led to the second was majestic.
I love how he’s turning it round. Nothing warms a fan’s heart more.
Very good all-round performance, especially second half. I love watching Emery’s Villa.
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Special mention to Carlos, he’s been superb since the Ipswich game.
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I'm getting messages from my French mates with screenshots of the Champions League table.
We are properly back.
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Special mention to Carlos, he’s been superb since the Ipswich game.
Maybe he is a player who playa betrer against betrer oppositioj
Switched on all the time. Always thought Mark Hughes like that.
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Bit bored of this competition tbh, is there a better league we could enter?
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Only the third side ever to win their opening three without conceding a goal.
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Special mention to Carlos, he’s been superb since the Ipswich game.
Pleased for him, he was getting a lot of stick.
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We should fire Emery, whilst Big Sam is available. It's all going too well. It's giving me the fear.
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Special mention to Carlos, he’s been superb since the Ipswich game.
Pleased for him, he was getting a lot of stick.
Carlos today doesn't get turned like the Ipswich game
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Only the third side ever to win their opening three without conceding a goal.
Great stat.
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They were all great, but I was really impressed with Maatsen.
Big fan of Duran shouting 'estoy aqui' (I'm here!) when celebrating the goal.
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Special mention to Carlos, he’s been superb since the Ipswich game.
Maybe he is a player who playa betrer against betrer oppositioj
Switched on all the time. Always thought Mark Hughes like that.
It does seem that way - though he was good against a poor Man Utd side (and one of the few that were)
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Gutted not to be able to go, but eat ned that on TV and we were great in every facet of our game.
Bailey worked, and worked, he was unlucky a few times I thought but it's coming, he will arrive back to I his old self soon and then wow.
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Great team performance, but MOTM has to be Morgan another class display..
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Proud, just so f*cking proud of our club. Worth waiting 40 years for. Have grown a foot in the last two years.
Every player was magnificent. Things didn't quite click for Bailey but we all know it will soon. He was so brilliant last year, didn't go unnoticed and now he is drawing defenders like a magnet. This is creating a lot of space elsewhere. Bailey's presence alone is an asset.
Whoever is responsible for recruiting the likes of Rogers, Maatsen, Duran and others deserves a pay rise.
Many thanks Unai and company.
So proud.
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Brilliant performance. Youri so composed in midfield and he knits everything together, Maatsen gives us a great but different option at left back, Rogers majestic, particularly first half, he’s very skilful but sometimes he just bulldozes his way through challenges.
I thought Bailey showed a bit more promise tonight, it didn’t quite go for him but he was better, imo, than many seem to think.
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I don't know what they were whinging about on the first one. Konsa caught him but he'd already made the fair tackle, it was just a coming together.
Also, only 3 mins injury time? I mean, I welcomed it but that would have been 10 in the Prem.
Konsa had full control of the ball, made a pass and their player ran into him I can't understand for one second what they were moaning about. Pathetic
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I said after the Bayern game we look like a Champions League team. It really suits us. We were terrific.
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Morgan Rogers- just Wow! What a sublime player, this lad has the lot.
The rest weren’t bad either.
Amazing times to be a Villa fan, God knows we’ve waited for this, bloody awesome.
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Just a game we had to be patient in and the goals would come and so they would.
Frightening how comfortable we've looked against Young Boys and Bologna. Perhaps they're two of the weaker teams in the competition but we strolled it tonight and made both look not that much better than what we were facing in the Conference league.
Also did it changing 3/4 of our key players. We certainly have the squad to challenge on three fronts imo as I would expect this type of team to play Palace next week.
Top of the (CL) league!
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Special mention to Carlos, he’s been superb since the Ipswich game.
Pleased for him, he was getting a lot of stick.
He wouldn’t get so much stick if people could remember football matches, count, or correlate.
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Morgan Rogers- just Wow! What a sublime player, this lad has the lot.
The rest weren’t bad either.
Amazing times to be a Villa fan, God knows we’ve waited for this, bloody awesome.
He's great but his shooting is poor. He's like the Brazilian Ronaldo who doesn't score.
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Rogers performances just get better and better , players bouncing off him as he gets and controls the balls and turns into the fast lane . A joy to watch this
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Morgan Rogers, going from Boro in the second flight, to where he is now, starting week in week out, and looking such a fucking good player, what an amazing turn of events.
We just have quality all over the pitch and on the bench, too.
To think, we've achieved the last season without Mings, Kamara and Buendia, too. Mindblowing.
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Excellent night's work. Some of the most flowing football of the season so far.
We are quite a handful.
Onwards and upwards!!
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Are there any highlights online?
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Some of the most flowing football I ever seen us play.
We clicked tonight.
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What a team.
What a squad.
What a manager
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I know we're in a positive place, injury wise, at the moment, but what a luxury it is to be able to make a pile of changes from the weekend, and then make 5 really good substitutions during the match too, and have really good players left over still!
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We are 4/5 odds on to finish top 8.
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Morgan Rogers- just Wow! What a sublime player, this lad has the lot.
The rest weren’t bad either.
Amazing times to be a Villa fan, God knows we’ve waited for this, bloody awesome.
He's great but his shooting is poor. He's like the Brazilian Ronaldo who doesn't score.
Harsh. He’s 22 played a handful of games in the top flight, yes he can improve his finishing, but every indication is he will improve.
There’s not many players in the Premier League I’d swap him for.
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Morgan Rogers, going from Boro in the second flight, to where he is now, starting week in week out, and looking such a fucking good player, what an amazing turn of events.
We just have quality all over the pitch and on the bench, too.
To think, we've achieved the last season without Mings, Kamara and Buendia, too. Mindblowing.
To think emery plucked him when nobody else could see it too is especially amazing
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No game highlights yet but TNT have several post match videos.
Full time scenes
John McGinn interview.
Youri.
The boss.
What McCoist and Fletcher thought.
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Morgan Rogers, going from Boro in the second flight, to where he is now, starting week in week out, and looking such a fucking good player, what an amazing turn of events.
We just have quality all over the pitch and on the bench, too.
To think, we've achieved the last season without Mings, Kamara and Buendia, too. Mindblowing.
It’s miraculous really. Wes and Nas, and Deano and Unai, have made so many brilliant decisions, one after the other, for year after year.
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Highlights finally.
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Brilliant performance. I fuckin love this Villa team!
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We played really well and Tielemans and Rogers were outstanding. I was also really impressed with Maatsen.
Rogers has developed such body strength that he invariably comes out of a challenge with the ball when many others would not.
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We are 4/5 odds on to finish top 8.
They reckon 16 to guarantee a top 8 finish.and 9 needed to guarantee a play off place.
So we need to take 7 points from the next 5 games. That should be eminently doable.
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Anyone else keep thinking "this cannot be our team" I fucking love everyone of them.
Special mention to Barkley, came on and knitted the midfield together...what a signing he is proving to be.
Maatson/ Rogers outstanding, Carlos and Torres superb.
But my motm was Tielemans again.
It will be a complete travesty if this team does not win something this season.
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I sat there tonight wondering how far this team can go.
What an incredibly strong subs bench.
And there's new seats in the DE Upper!
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The 5 that we brought on would start for the majority of teams in the Prem, our squad depth is seriously impressive. Once Bailey gets over his paralysis we'll be fucking imperious.
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I sat there tonight wondering how far this team can go.
What an incredibly strong subs bench.
And there's new seats in the DE Upper!
They've improved the sinks in the Lower Holte bogs, too. We have hand dryers! What a time to be alive.
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Some of that football was up there with the best I’ve seen us play. We were absolutely brilliant. Rodgers is one of the best players in the Premier league and just keeps getting better. Maatsen was unbelievable and isn’t even our best left back at the moment.
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I sat there tonight wondering how far this team can go.
What an incredibly strong subs bench.
And there's new seats in the DE Upper!
They've improved the sinks in the Lower Holte bogs, too. We have hand dryers! What a time to be alive.
Yet this is still the biggest news of the night. Fucking get in!
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My mate said on 75 minutes as Kamara was coming on it was "like fucking Christmas Day"
A perfect evening.
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2 years ago we could rarely win any game. Now a 2-0 win in the Champions League feels like a routine performance.
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Another great night at Villa Park tonight. Thought that was probably our best home performance since we've been back in European competition.
These really are great times to follow the club.
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Who do we play next?
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Denial still.
wolvesnl
Groupie
What's mad about the Villa situation is I still don't think their 11 tonight is much better than ours: McGinn, Rogers, Bailey, Tielemans, Onana, Maatsen, Carlos.
Emery is absolutely brilliant at building a system that's worked for them. With Martinez, Torres, Watkins/Duran he's got real quality.
It's reminiscent of Nuno IMO. Their collective has far outweighed their individual quality. But fair play. ****s.
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Can someone translate this to English, please?
Need to purchase a black country vocabulary book or if you want a cheaper version try the Beano comic
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No game highlights yet but TNT have several post match videos.
Full time scenes
John McGinn interview.
Youri.
The boss.
What McCoist and Fletcher thought.
Thanks mate, great interviews 🙂
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Denial still.
wolvesnl
Groupie
What's mad about the Villa situation is I still don't think their 11 tonight is much better than ours: McGinn, Rogers, Bailey, Tielemans, Onana, Maatsen, Carlos.
Emery is absolutely brilliant at building a system that's worked for them. With Martinez, Torres, Watkins/Duran he's got real quality.
It's reminiscent of Nuno IMO. Their collective has far outweighed their individual quality. But fair play. ****s.
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Can someone translate this to English, please?
Need to purchase a black country vocabulary book or if you want a cheaper version try the Beano comic
I'll try, "Wolves, who currently have just one point all season and currently sit bottom of the Premier League, are just as good as Aston Villa who sit fourth and are currently top of the Champions League group".
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Denial still.
wolvesnl
Groupie
What's mad about the Villa situation is I still don't think their 11 tonight is much better than ours: McGinn, Rogers, Bailey, Tielemans, Onana, Maatsen, Carlos.
Emery is absolutely brilliant at building a system that's worked for them. With Martinez, Torres, Watkins/Duran he's got real quality.
It's reminiscent of Nuno IMO. Their collective has far outweighed their individual quality. But fair play. ****s.
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Can someone translate this to English, please?
Need to purchase a black country vocabulary book or if you want a cheaper version try the Beano comic
Not that I spare a thought for Wolves whenever we're not playing them, but apart from the bollocks about their squad being as good as ours, seems relatively gracious to me?
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I don't watch much of Wolves so can't comment if it's remotely accurate, but it's also not completely outlandish. A large portion of this current squad that's doing so well were at the club 2 years ago when we were utter shit under Gerrard. Sometimes it really is down to the manager. Swap our respective managers tomorrow and there's no chance we're challenging for a CL spot at end of season, or that they are anywhere near the bottom 3 imo.
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Just beautiful
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Morgan Rogers, going from Boro in the second flight, to where he is now, starting week in week out, and looking such a fucking good player, what an amazing turn of events.
We just have quality all over the pitch and on the bench, too.
To think, we've achieved the last season without Mings, Kamara and Buendia, too. Mindblowing.
It’s miraculous really. Wes and Nas, and Deano and Unai, have made so many brilliant decisions, one after the other, for year after year.
Plus a Steve Bruce signing scored tonight and is club captain. Credit where it's due
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Unai Emery's Press conference after #AstonVillaBologna
What pleased you most about that win?
Good evening. I am delighted with how we are facing this competition each match, playing disciplined and serious. I think the experience we had last year in the Conference League was perfect, helping us this year because we can remember against Zrinjski here we won 1-0 in the last minute; against AZ Alkmaar and Legia Warsaw we came back after being 1-0 down in the second half, and those experiences were fantastic. Of course, the Champions League is more difficult, but we are respecting the opponent, respecting the competition, playing mature and responsible. One thing I am always repeating is our strength is the group. They are coming back—some players who were injured. Today was very good news: Kamara is coming back, Emiliano Buendia already did, Tyrone Mings is coming, and I am pleased because we are enjoying here with our supporters as well.
It's three games now, three clean sheets. You're also top of the table—of course, more games tomorrow—but are you surprised at all by how well the players have adapted to the step up?
Of course, it's brilliant in this competition. Young Boys, Bayern Munich at home, and today we kept the same mentality. It's important for the group to keep the same mentality, respecting the opponent—Young Boys, respecting Bayern Munich, respecting Bologna—and then playing, trying to impose our game plan, our positioning, our idea. I think today against a team really not getting the points they deserve, but they are always playing tight results like today, more or less. But we created more chances than they usually concede to the opponent. My summary about the match today is we played disciplined, we played safe, we played mature, and we won because we deserved it.
Bologna went man-for-man when Villa were building from deep. What did you try to do to counteract that?
We prepared the match trying to avoid their man-to-man, trying to play imposing, stopping them, and then getting our position on the field. We did more or less, but 50% was the duels on the field, and sometimes they were winning. But more or less, we won more duels individually, and we could get into the attacking third with a very good position to threaten them, and we created chances after—that was the game plan. But teams like them sometimes are very difficult for us, and we must always improve. Every match we are playing is experience we can use for the next matches because there are a lot of teams, even in England as well in the Premier League, playing like that. Today was a very good experience for us to try to analyze deeply and hope we can face matches like that today.
Top of the league—it might only be for one night—but does that change the aim in the Champions League now? Should the aim now be to finish in the top eight rather than just the top 24? Can the fans dream even bigger than that?
We are going to focus on each match and how we are in the moment we are arriving with the position on the table. Of course, we won the first match away at Young Boys. We played in Munich. We were speaking about the objective to try to get to the next round, but even winning, we could get another objective: to be in the top eight. Today was a challenge again and an opportunity. We were thinking about those three points. We got those points, and of course we are going to try to focus on the next match against Club Bruges, and if we keep repeating the same performances and getting points, of course we can change our objective to be in the top eight. But I want to feel it as something like a natural way we are doing and not a surprise because if we are playing good performances, we can be there. Of course, there are other team contenders for the top eight, but we are being consistent, and we are getting points, and we are feeling comfortable.
Unai, you made four changes today. I just wondered how you felt about the performances of the four players who came in.
We struggled in August and September without some players; they were coming back not fit or injured. We got points, but we were thinking the better moment was with players available to play like today or Saturday as we did against Fulham. Now is a good moment as well to try to be intelligent doing some changes but thinking it's the best thing for each moment, and I did it today after our win against Fulham because it was a really very good moment to do it. The response of the players was fantastic, fantastic. The players that were in the starting eleven like Maatsen—he played a fantastic match. As well, John #McGinn after his injury played well. Jhon #Duran scored his goal and #Konsa played as usual. Then when we needed other good legs or fresh legs in the second half, we did with Jacob #Ramsey, with #Watkins, with #Jayden, with Ross (#Barkley). I think this is the way, and of course Kamara coming back today was perfect, and of course he is another player that can help us with his quality.
Three Champions League games, three clean sheets—that must be very satisfying for you.
Yes, most of all for Emiliano Martinez. He's very happy; he's pushing a lot for clean sheets in these matches. But really, I think this is the consequence. The consequence is we are playing seriously. We are playing being organized and being disciplined tactically as well. In our style, we have to try to get that always.
Obviously a great goal from Jhon again. What do you make of his performance but also his reaction to being substituted?
Fantastic, fantastic. It was his first starting eleven match this year, and he played different moments, and of course it's always more difficult when you start in the match. Every player, they are full energy or they are fresh, but he worked very well, and he scored the goal. When he was watching maybe his change, he accelerated to score the goal, and of course for us, for him, it was fantastic. I think now it's good to try to manage the strikers playing individually, playing both because we did and we will do it, sure, sometimes. When they are getting their performance like today in Jhon Duran and before in the matches he played, and Watkins as well, I think it's the best for the team.
Do you have any issue with how he reacted to coming off?
No, no. Of course, I am managing everything and the reaction of the players as well. But everything—we are sending the message in the dressing room: respect our values and try to be mature and responsible. Sometimes someone, because it's not only Jhon Duran; before as well some players sometimes they are reacting a little bit... It's under our control or under my control, and of course it's not relevant
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Denial still.
wolvesnl
Groupie
What's mad about the Villa situation is I still don't think their 11 tonight is much better than ours: McGinn, Rogers, Bailey, Tielemans, Onana, Maatsen, Carlos.
Emery is absolutely brilliant at building a system that's worked for them. With Martinez, Torres, Watkins/Duran he's got real quality.
It's reminiscent of Nuno IMO. Their collective has far outweighed their individual quality. But fair play. ****s.
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Can someone translate this to English, please?
Need to purchase a black country vocabulary book or if you want a cheaper version try the Beano comic
I'll try, "Wolves, who currently have just one point all season and currently sit bottom of the Premier League, are just as good as Aston Villa who sit fourth and are currently top of the Champions League group".
Wolves in a nutshell. Nuthin ay as good as the one Wolves ave got
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Denial still.
wolvesnl
Groupie
What's mad about the Villa situation is I still don't think their 11 tonight is much better than ours: McGinn, Rogers, Bailey, Tielemans, Onana, Maatsen, Carlos.
Emery is absolutely brilliant at building a system that's worked for them. With Martinez, Torres, Watkins/Duran he's got real quality.
It's reminiscent of Nuno IMO. Their collective has far outweighed their individual quality. But fair play. ****s.
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Can someone translate this to English, please?
Need to purchase a black country vocabulary book or if you want a cheaper version try the Beano comic
I'll try, "Wolves, who currently have just one point all season and currently sit bottom of the Premier League, are just as good as Aston Villa who sit fourth and are currently top of the Champions League group".
Wolves in a nutshell. Nuthin ay as good as the one Wolves ave got
Hang on, you don't like Wolves now, Dave?!
West Brom AND Wolves?
The cuddly doublies?
The 'we day hate nowbudy but aitch uther' twins?
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Just home. What another fantastic Champions League night under the lights. Just how far can this team go under Emery. The positivity amongst supporters is almost scary. The players don't seem to fear
anyone.
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My brother said Emery went spare at Nanny McPhee for quite some time after they hit the post from a corner. Even got back up off the bench to bollock him a bit more. Poor bloke.
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Thought we played some excellent football for large parts of the game. Interesting to see us play with Duran starting. He really gave us a physical presence and occupied them.
• their gk kept them in it.
• I thought they were a horrible, cynical team.
• Onana made loads of good interceptions and played well.
• Tielemens excellent as always.
• Rodgers was fantastic again. What a signing he’s been.
• Carlos has been really good since the Ipswich game.
• Bailey is becoming a concern. Another poor performance.
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We are a bloody good team, with the best Manager we have had since Sir Ron Saunders.
Pau, Maatsen, Rodgers and Tielemans were exceptional last night.
Halcyon days to be a Villa fan.
Also, the toilets that I went into the Lower Holte before the game had been given an upgrade - new hand dryers, urinals etc.. and it seemed as though they are painting the interior of the LH - this is the first upgrade since the days of Doug Ellis, when the Holte stand was rebuilt.
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John McGinn interview.
Thanks mate, great interviews 🙂
I just love this interview with John McGinn. I really like this interviewers style - does anyone know who he is?
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My brother said Emery went spare at Nanny McPhee for quite some time after they hit the post from a corner. Even got back up off the bench to bollock him a bit more. Poor bloke.
That’s made me laugh more than it should
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My brother said Emery went spare at Nanny McPhee for quite some time after they hit the post from a corner. Even got back up off the bench to bollock him a bit more. Poor bloke.
That’s made me laugh more than it should
They showed it on TNT and commented on it.
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Morgan Rogers- just Wow! What a sublime player, this lad has the lot.
The rest weren’t bad either.
Amazing times to be a Villa fan, God knows we’ve waited for this, bloody awesome.
He's great but his shooting is poor. He's like the Brazilian Ronaldo who doesn't score.
What tune are you putting this to? I can't make it scan.
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I don't know what they were whinging about on the first one. Konsa caught him but he'd already made the fair tackle, it was just a coming together.
Also, only 3 mins injury time? I mean, I welcomed it but that would have been 10 in the Prem.
I was ok with that. The less mins the better as have another big game on saturday
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We are watching something very special at the moment. With a fully fit squad I'm really not sure where it will all end...
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As everyone has said superb performance. Some of the football was electric. I thought Bologna caused us a couple of early problems with the long diagonal ball right to left, from which they had a couple of early chances and then hit the post second half, but other than that we totally dominated.
My son was saying on the way down to VP that they’ve had the heart ripped out of last years team, so thats some context, but still our football was superb.
Im not really one for hyperbole, but honestly November feels massive. In the league a good Bournemouth side at home and Spurs, Liverpool and Chelsea away in the league (and Palace at home) and Brugge and Juve in the champions league. With this manager and this squad, if we can come out of November/early December with say one league defeat and say 3 wins and a draw out of five league games, we are in the mix for the league.
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As everyone has said superb performance. Some of the football was electric. I thought Bologna caused us a couple of early problems with the long diagonal ball right to left, from which they had a couple of early chances and then hit the post second half, but other than that we totally dominated.
My son was saying on the way down to VP that they’ve had the heart ripped out of last years team, so thats some context, but still our football was superb.
Im not really one for hyperbole, but honestly November feels massive. In the league a good Bournemouth side at home and Spurs, Liverpool and Chelsea away in the league (and Palace at home) and Brugge and Juve in the champions league. With this manager and this squad, if we can come out of November/early December with say one league defeat and say 3 wins and a draw out of five league games, we are in the mix for the league.
I think the big chance for progress comes after Christmas. Last year, our second half of the season form was 9th. With this squad, there is a chance of a big improvement there.
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Love this
(https://i.ibb.co/xf7vtV3/IMG-4315.jpg) (https://ibb.co/xf7vtV3)
Just stunning. Whoever came up with that idea deserves a pay rise.
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What another great night. Unai and the team are giving us some brilliant memories. We got stuck in the car park for ages after the match, problems on the Lichfield road I guess.
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John McGinn interview.
Thanks mate, great interviews 🙂
I just love this interview with John McGinn. I really like this interviewers style - does anyone know who he is?
Jaydee Dyer.
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Great result and great night I love these Champions League nights.
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Because the final whistle went immediately afterwards, I'd forgotten just how good JJ's chance was at the death - it REALLY should have been 3-0. He'll be kicking himself after that.
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Well that was routine, wasn't it really?
Thought they were pretty toothless, except for the left winger, who looked quite tasty. No idea what the fuss was about for the first goal - if anything, I thought their player actually fouled Konsa, who was in possession of the ball.
Gold stars to Maatsen, Rogers (despite spurned chances - that one at the end of the first half would have been special), Carlos, Torres and Tielemans (once again).
Almost everyone else turned in a good performance.
Prayer mat out for Bailey, obviously. His head just isn't right. I'd rather see him being direct and failing than the dithering he is serving up right now.
Heartening to see Bouba and Mings on the fringes. All of that bodes well.
Priority is on maintaining focus: three points at Brugge allied to the three we'll take from Celtic should see us over the line. Then, who knows what can happen?
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Because the final whistle went immediately afterwards, I'd forgotten just how good JJ's chance was at the death - it REALLY should have been 3-0. He'll be kicking himself after that.
He actually punches the ground and pulls his shirt up over his head to yell in frustration. He knew he should have done a lot better, but then across the board we should have and if that should have been the 5th. Obviously a keeper is there to stop chances but it seems most of ours he didn't have to move for.
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My brother said Emery went spare at Nanny McPhee for quite some time after they hit the post from a corner. Even got back up off the bench to bollock him a bit more. Poor bloke.
Normally what happens the gaffer give a bollocking to his underling and he then passes it down to the other staff,
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No idea what the fuss was about for the first goal - if anything, I thought their player actually fouled Konsa, who was in possession of the ball.
The shape of Barkley's jump makes it look like the ball might have brushed his hand on the way through.
But it didn't, so all good.
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No idea what the fuss was about for the first goal - if anything, I thought their player actually fouled Konsa, who was in possession of the ball.
The shape of Barkley's jump makes it look like the ball might have brushed his hand on the way through.
But it didn't, so all good.
The view they were checking suggested it may have brushed his arm, but after when they showed it from the other side you could see it had missed by about a foot.
It was funny as we'd been discussing handball before kick off and I was saying how stupid the absolute rule about disallowing a goal when it touches the attackers arm is, no matter what the circumstance, and if it had brushed Barkley's forearm on the way past it would have been a fine example.
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No idea what the fuss was about for the first goal - if anything, I thought their player actually fouled Konsa, who was in possession of the ball.
The shape of Barkley's jump makes it look like the ball might have brushed his hand on the way through.
But it didn't, so all good.
That wasn’t what they were unhappy about. They thought Konsa had fouled their player in the build up (he didn’t) and that for the foul that their player got the ball (think he did).
They then did the ridiculous hand ball check after we scored.
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Ah yes, sorry.
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I expect Dave thought Eye was asking about the VAR check which to be honest, so did I on first reading.
But with Konsa, neither player fouled the other. Konsa won the ball with almost a reverse pass back to Carlos and then his knees caught the player who went flying. Because of the almost right angle pass, I think their bench thought it was their player who kicked it forward and then was taken out.
Most of the moaning then was then because the second foul was given when the first non-foul wasn't. I felt that whilst their player nicked the ball, he also took out Konsa who was still favourite to win the ball until brought down.
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My brother said Emery went spare at Nanny McPhee for quite some time after they hit the post from a corner. Even got back up off the bench to bollock him a bit more. Poor bloke.
Normally what happens the gaffer give a bollocking to his underling and he then passes it down to the other staff,
Emery gets very little wrong but thought that was unnecessary. Do it after the game if needs be. It was real teacher summoning you to their desk stuff.
Brilliant freekick from McGinn for our goal. Perfect flight and speed on the ball. We missed a few golden chances last night, Rogers just before half time should have chipped it, Ramsey at end was a sitter really, did we have another one on one in second half?
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No idea what the fuss was about for the first goal - if anything, I thought their player actually fouled Konsa, who was in possession of the ball.
The shape of Barkley's jump makes it look like the ball might have brushed his hand on the way through.
But it didn't, so all good.
That wasn’t what they were unhappy about. They thought Konsa had fouled their player in the build up (he didn’t) and that for the foul that their player got the ball (think he did).
They then did the ridiculous hand ball check after we scored.
Yes, the fuss I was referring to concerned the collision earlier in the move between Konsa and their player, Fabbian. Their manager referred to it in the post-match comments:
Their first goal was a foul on Fabbian that wasn't given.
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Is Delph still playing then.
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Goes down as one of my favourite ever matches.
Had no concerns about my six year old who is an absolute football obsessive, but was a bit worried in the run-up that my 10 year old, whose usual live football experience is having the run of all four sides of the Bath City ground to piss around with her mates wouldn't be interested in sitting still and just watching, but not a bit of it. Enthralled by every minute.
The wonderment on their faces as they came up the steps and out onto the stand will stick with me for a long time.
Great game, should have been more. Can't wait to get back for Bournemouth on Saturday now.
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I take it we all avoided town last night for fear of getting my hunted out?
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Goes down as one of my favourite ever matches.
Had no concerns about my six year old who is an absolute football obsessive, but was a bit worried in the run-up that my 10 year old, whose usual live football experience is having the run of all four sides of the Bath City ground to piss around with her mates wouldn't be interested in sitting still and just watching, but not a bit of it. Enthralled by every minute.
The wonderment on their faces as they came up the steps and out onto the stand will stick with me for a long time.
Great game, should have been more. Can't wait to get back for Bournemouth on Saturday now.
Glad to hear it, Dave.
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I take it we all avoided town last night for fear of getting my hunted out?
No. We got off the bus in Livery Street, walked through the Pigeon Park to had MacDonald’s near there, walked down Corporation Street to New Street and caught the train to well-known Bloser stronghold Marston Green . Didn’t see a single bloser, just Villa and Italians.
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I take it we all avoided town last night for fear of getting my hunted out?
No.
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Some of the football we played was sumptuous and a joy to watch . I'm not sure what level Bologna would be at in the Prem - they seemed very calculated and dirty , classic Italian style antics on the pitch . Scoreline should have been heavier for sure but their keeper played well and we still fluffed some great chances
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What a night. Again. Unai's obsessive nature is rubbing of on the players for sure. They all speak of the need for constant improvement and learning from every game. I thought Tielemans interview was superb. Thoughtful, intelligent and modest. He's becoming a pivotal part of our success and who would of thought that after his first few games when he was blowing out of his arse. Him and Rogers in particular are just fantastic at ball retention. In the heat of battle when there's bodies everywhere they seem to be able to thread a pass to a teammate when it looks for all the world as if they're going to lose the ball. The tenacity of those two lads just blows me away. As for Emery blowing his top at Nanny I really don't think there's any cause for concern. It's just the way they roll.
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Some of the football we played was sumptuous and a joy to watch . I'm not sure what level Bologna would be at in the Prem - they seemed very calculated and dirty , classic Italian style antics on the pitch . Scoreline should have been heavier for sure but their keeper played well and we still fluffed some great chances
Funny, I didn't see them as a typical Italian side at all. They played very open, which meant the game ebbed and flowed, and - yes - the CB marking Duran was pretty uncompromising but there weren't many cynical fouls. In fact, we committed more than they did, even if they picked up 4-5 cards.
They weren't a bad footballing side but simply lacked a touch of quality to compete.
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Some of the best and most incisive football you've ever seen us play. We cut through them so easily, at such pace and precision.
With power and pace everywhere, we're so physically strong. Then with a ridiculous amount of options on the bench.
We are a frightening side.
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Superb performance from all.
I know some have picked out Bailey, I thought he did ok, was certainly on the end of some strange refereeing decisions when blatantly fouled, particularly the one when the guy had his arm and shirt running towards the corner. The way we set up with essentially Torres / Diego & Konsa as 3 centre backs and Maatsen ahead of McGinn for most of the game meant the right side was bare of any support behind Bailey and he had to either try and go alone or cut inside to give it infield…he didn’t let his head drop and kept going so I’m convinced it’ll come, hopefully Saturday with Philogene suspended.
Seeing Kamara back was a huge boost, he’s a Rolls Royce to reintroduce over the next few weeks…almost like getting a January signing in early.
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Who do we play next?
It doesn't matter. These are still our glory days.
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Some of the football we played was sumptuous and a joy to watch . I'm not sure what level Bologna would be at in the Prem - they seemed very calculated and dirty , classic Italian style antics on the pitch . Scoreline should have been heavier for sure but their keeper played well and we still fluffed some great chances
Funny, I didn't see them as a typical Italian side at all. They played very open, which meant the game ebbed and flowed, and - yes - the CB marking Duran was pretty uncompromising but there weren't many cynical fouls. In fact, we committed more than they did, even if they picked up 4-5 cards.
They weren't a bad footballing side but simply lacked a touch of quality to compete.
Yeah, I thought that if anything, they were too “nice” and not really aggressive enough, physically.
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I think we were brilliant yesterday - should have won by at least 4. I think it was a our best performance of the season. I think Mattassan looks really promising. And Morgan looks really special.
I actually thought Bailey looked better yesterday - not at his best but looked more like it - a couple of goals should sort him. Some of our interplay yesterday was brilliant.
We have become really very good. If we have a bit of luck with injuries this could be an even better season then last season.
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We are watching something very special at the moment. With a fully fit squad I'm really not sure where it will all end...
In tears, it usually does.
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Love this
(https://i.ibb.co/xf7vtV3/IMG-4315.jpg) (https://ibb.co/xf7vtV3)
Just stunning. Whoever came up with that idea deserves a pay rise.
Maybe. How liony are we really, though? Not sure it's a bit over-done.
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We're quite liony, IMO, so I like it. Always thought "Lions" was much better than "Villans". Maybe just because we nicked it off Scotland. Scotland being, famously, associated with lions (presumably there because of the ample supply of unicorn meat).
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Some of the football we played was sumptuous and a joy to watch . I'm not sure what level Bologna would be at in the Prem - they seemed very calculated and dirty , classic Italian style antics on the pitch . Scoreline should have been heavier for sure but their keeper played well and we still fluffed some great chances
Funny, I didn't see them as a typical Italian side at all. They played very open, which meant the game ebbed and flowed, and - yes - the CB marking Duran was pretty uncompromising but there weren't many cynical fouls. In fact, we committed more than they did, even if they picked up 4-5 cards.
They weren't a bad footballing side but simply lacked a touch of quality to compete.
Yeah, I thought that if anything, they were too “nice” and not really aggressive enough, physically.
I saw plenty of cynical fouls from them , the ref was quite lenient with them
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Against Juve they’re going to have three convicts all complete with stripey tops masks and swag bags to depict villains.
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Love this
(https://i.ibb.co/xf7vtV3/IMG-4315.jpg) (https://ibb.co/xf7vtV3)
Just stunning. Whoever came up with that idea deserves a pay rise.
Maybe. How liony are we really, though? Not sure it's a bit over-done.
Plus...rather than roaring, the lion in the middle looked like it was building up to a big sneeze :)
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Some of the football we played was sumptuous and a joy to watch . I'm not sure what level Bologna would be at in the Prem - they seemed very calculated and dirty , classic Italian style antics on the pitch . Scoreline should have been heavier for sure but their keeper played well and we still fluffed some great chances
Funny, I didn't see them as a typical Italian side at all. They played very open, which meant the game ebbed and flowed, and - yes - the CB marking Duran was pretty uncompromising but there weren't many cynical fouls. In fact, we committed more than they did, even if they picked up 4-5 cards.
They weren't a bad footballing side but simply lacked a touch of quality to compete.
Yeah, I thought that if anything, they were too “nice” and not really aggressive enough, physically.
I saw plenty of cynical fouls from them , the ref was quite lenient with them
I thought they were mostly fine, tbh. Certainly no worse than we see every week in the Premier League. Then again, I have a soft spot for Bologna so maybe I'm just giving them the benefit of the doubt.
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Excellent piece from Stan Collymore on talksport just. He spoke very well and was spot on in what he said. Worth a listen on 'listen again'.
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We are going to really twat someone soon when all our approach work culminates in goals - bit like Brighton last year.
And Rogers before the season ends will score a goal to match Dalian's at Wimbledon - one day it will just click on a mazy run and end with a goal.
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Some of the football we played was sumptuous and a joy to watch . I'm not sure what level Bologna would be at in the Prem - they seemed very calculated and dirty , classic Italian style antics on the pitch . Scoreline should have been heavier for sure but their keeper played well and we still fluffed some great chances
Funny, I didn't see them as a typical Italian side at all. They played very open, which meant the game ebbed and flowed, and - yes - the CB marking Duran was pretty uncompromising but there weren't many cynical fouls. In fact, we committed more than they did, even if they picked up 4-5 cards.
They weren't a bad footballing side but simply lacked a touch of quality to compete.
Yeah, I thought that if anything, they were too “nice” and not really aggressive enough, physically.
I saw plenty of cynical fouls from them , the ref was quite lenient with them
I thought they were mostly fine, tbh. Certainly no worse than we see every week in the Premier League. Then again, I have a soft spot for Bologna so maybe I'm just giving them the benefit of the doubt.
I agree that they were tough but not unduly cynical.
Great to be in a position where the manager can use his squad without any drop off in quality.
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Just seen someone on the Guardian comments saying Gerrard was our Liz Truss.
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Biased also but strikes me as weird to say they were particularly cynical compared to what you see every week in the Premier League. Also, maybe a team which literally has Emi Martinez is in no position to lecture anyone.
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Just seen someone on the Guardian comments saying Gerrard was our Liz Truss.
that makes Michael Beale - Kwasi Kwarteng
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Just seen someone on the Guardian comments saying Gerrard was our Liz Truss.
Unai is no Sunak
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Maybe. How liony are we really, though? Not sure it's a bit over-done.
We've used the rampant lion for around 145 of our 150 years, so we're pretty liony,
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Yeah, I'm just used to 2D versions and not all this as seen in real life shiz.
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A wise old Hammer at work has just come up to my desk and said: "No wonder you lot won last night. The Bolognese boys heads were gone as soon as they went through Spaghetti Junction."
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I hope you pointed him in the direction of the Fulham-Bologna pre-match thread…
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Did think that one of our residents would have the pun covered but still, for an in real life quip, I doffed the hat.
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Though in Bologna of course, it is tagliatelle and not spaghetti that accompanies the bolognese (ragu).
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It's Penne in our house, I won't be dictated to by anyone wearing loafers.
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It's Penne in our house, I won't be dictated to by anyone wearing loafers.
For a long time we had to use farfalle with everything because my daughter thought it was cute.
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They were in Ragu order when Duran scored..
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Pasta La Vista baby
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I like rigatoni because you get sauce both inside and outside the tube.
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It would have been fitting if Meat Ball had scored last night..
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It would have been fitting if Meat Ball had scored last night..
He did
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It would have been fitting if Meat Ball had scored last night..
erm
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41,847 there last night
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Well - they should call us Heinz - cos the Bologenes is canned
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I like rigatoni because you get sauce both inside and outside the tube.
Greedy fecker
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It would have been fitting if Meat Ball had scored last night..
The big screen had him down for a hat trick last night
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It would have been fitting if Meat Ball had scored last night..
You’re never going to believe it…
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I didn’t go last night but after McGinn scored the camera was concentrating on the celebrations but there were lots of “ole” type cheers, what was that about?
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I didn’t go last night but after McGinn scored the camera was concentrating on the celebrations but there were lots of “ole” type cheers, what was that about?
The scoreboard kept changing from 1-0, 2-0, 3-0 then back again a few times
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I didn’t go last night but after McGinn scored the camera was concentrating on the celebrations but there were lots of “ole” type cheers, what was that about?
The scoreboard went haywire and kept showing 1-0 then 2-0 then 3-0 about 3 times hence the Olé’s.
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A wise old Hammer at work has just come up to my desk and said: "No wonder you lot won last night. The Bolognese boys heads were gone as soon as they went through Spaghetti Junction."
Haha, brilliant!
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I like rigatoni because you get sauce both inside and outside the tube.
Greedy fecker
I'm not here to make friends.
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It would have been fitting if Meat Ball had scored last night..
You’re never going to believe it…
lol..note to self..don't post on here when you're supposed to be concentrating on a dull teams meeting.
Loved it when the Bologna manager was ironically conducting the singing of the SJM song after the goal
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I didn’t go last night but after McGinn scored the camera was concentrating on the celebrations but there were lots of “ole” type cheers, what was that about?
The scoreboard kept changing from 1-0, 2-0, 3-0 then back again a few times
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yes who says we are fickle on entertainment 😳😃
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I didn’t go last night but after McGinn scored the camera was concentrating on the celebrations but there were lots of “ole” type cheers, what was that about?
The scoreboard kept changing from 1-0, 2-0, 3-0 then back again a few times
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yes who says we are fickle on entertainment 😳😃
Ah ok, cheers chaps and AV82EC, I don’t know how to do multiple quotes!
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Watching last night it really seemed as though it was a thoroughly enjoyable game for those at the stadium to just soak everything in whereas the Bayern game was brilliant in a different, nerve wracking way as we were up against a great team and was more holding them at arms length.
Last night was just brakes off, mostly on the front foot stuff. Fantastic that we can do both depending on who we’re up against.
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Going last night, there wasn’t the nerves like the Bayern game . It made me think i never want to leave and if we could make it up to 60000 it would be even more amazing
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I like rigatoni because you get sauce both inside and outside the tube.
Greedy fecker
I'm not here to make friends.
Always felt rigatoni was too big for itself, like the scared chickens Alan Partridge described.
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I didn’t go last night but after McGinn scored the camera was concentrating on the celebrations but there were lots of “ole” type cheers, what was that about?
The scoreboard went haywire and kept showing 1-0 then 2-0 then 3-0 about 3 times hence the Olé’s.
The person who was controlling the electronic score board has been warned to stop drinking a bottle of whiskey before the game
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I didn’t go last night but after McGinn scored the camera was concentrating on the celebrations but there were lots of “ole” type cheers, what was that about?
The scoreboard went haywire and kept showing 1-0 then 2-0 then 3-0 about 3 times hence the Olé’s.
The person who was controlling the electronic score board has been warned to stop drinking a bottle of whiskey before the game
Glitch in the matrix
https://youtube.com/shorts/dsDHFrCudSk?si=4iTi-HskS0swmuLX
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I like rigatoni because you get sauce both inside and outside the tube.
Greedy fecker
I'm not here to make friends.
Always felt rigatoni was too big for itself, like the scared chickens Alan Partridge described.
You ever see canelons? Big shell pasta the Catalans use for a Christmas soup. Anyway they're mutants.
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I didn’t go last night but after McGinn scored the camera was concentrating on the celebrations but there were lots of “ole” type cheers, what was that about?
The scoreboard went haywire and kept showing 1-0 then 2-0 then 3-0 about 3 times hence the Olé’s.
The person who was controlling the electronic score board has been warned to stop drinking a bottle of whiskey before the game
Glitch in the matrix
https://youtube.com/shorts/dsDHFrCudSk?si=4iTi-HskS0swmuLX
You had 1 job barry, 1 job!
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Loved it when the Bologna manager was ironically conducting the singing of the SJM song after the goal
I saw that - not sure what he was doing ;D
At one point i thought he was Maresca on a scouting mission for Chelsea
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Another question for the match going fans of The Upper North Stand, what were the queues like to get in, better than Bayern?
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Did well after a slow start where they might have taken the lead. After that, we controlled the game well.
Thought Rogers was outstanding again but he does need to finish the moves off.
Still don't think we're at the same level we were hitting during the golden run in the first half of last season.