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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: PeterWithesShin on January 26, 2025, 03:15:40 PM
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I'd have played Malen instead of Bailey but happy otherwise.
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Good to see McGinn on the bench.
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Someone needs to put a reducer on that cheating bastard Paqueta early doors.
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May I be the first to say
Fucking Bailey ??
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Cant believe bailey is rewarded with another start after that horror show midweek. Good to see mcginn back
Bench looks stronger
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I know we complain about injuries, but I make that four fullbacks and no strikers for West Ham.
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Is Emery playing with fire a little not giving Duran some starts. I thought maybe Monaco, or at worst today and he’s gone with Watkins every time. Duran was playing really well prior to his suspension.
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Someone needs to put a reducer on that cheating bastard Paqueta early doors.
No question
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Hopefully we see Malen today.
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I know we complain about injuries, but I make that four fullbacks and no strikers for West Ham.
There was talk Bowen might be risked for this one but clearly not and Ings doesn't count as a striker ;)
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Bailey ? Unbelievable
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C’mon Leon. Prove us all wrong.
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Not sure if Emery is trying to make some point with Duran, but surely he needs to start at some point if only to keep his head in the game? We can debate who is the better striker, but throw the man a bone.
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Surely last chance saloon for Bailey. How many chances does he get?
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Id have gone with duran , Malen and Buendia for Ollie , Rogers ( needs a rest) and Bailey ( waste of a player at moment ) but probbaly be 3 0 now with goals from Bailey , Rogers and Ollie ( touch wood)
Good to see 2 new faces on bench tho and Mcginn there who we missed against Monaco .
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Someone needs to put a reducer on that cheating bastard Paqueta early doors.
No question
No sure carrying a yellow for most of the match is a good plan is it?
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Not sure if Emery is trying to make some point with Duran, but surely he needs to start at some point if only to keep his head in the game? We can debate who is the better striker, but throw the man a bone.
The pints been made and sooner people accept reality and also respect Emery and coaching team judgement then sooner can have an understanding.
Unai Emery has said : "But the first requirement is to be a TEAM. And in this beautiful four-lettered word there is no place for anyone that won't be a good team-mate, for anyone that won't understand the meaning of effort, generosity and responsibility."
I hope that completely clarifies why Duran isn't starting
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For me, Duran still isn’t ready to start
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I assume that Bailey starting is punishment for his last performance.
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You can say that again, Footy.
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Good to see McGinn on the bench.
Great, isn't it? Hope he can get some game time before the Celtic game that he's apparently desperate to play in!
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Someone needs to put a reducer on that cheating bastard Paqueta early doors.
No question
No sure carrying a yellow for most of the match is a good plan is it?
Agree that sort of talk is embarrassing and it's 2025.
Let football do the talking . Controling the game and has Emery said use our 5 senses.
I think need to move on with the foul and kick players attitude it's very outdated and could even lead to a sending off for one of our players.
Why not focus on tactics and be more constructive and progressive in how to deal with Paqueta.
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I thought he may start Duran and Malen so that a couple can be rested before the Celtic game, we have gone strong so hope we can have a decent lead after 60 minutes and then make some changes.
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For me, Duran still isn’t ready to start
I think we’re playing it safe because he could be sold
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C’mon Leon. Prove us all wrong.
Yea please
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For me, Duran still isn’t ready to start
He has scored in three of the four starts he has in the Prem and the one he didn't was because a ref couldn't wait to make a decision.
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Disappointed that Unai wants a player in, we get the player in, and he decides not to play him. Especially when Bailey has had multiple chances this season. Surely he has had enough training sessions to know how he is expected to play by now.
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Bailey. Just why…..
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For me, Duran still isn’t ready to start
I think we’re playing it safe because he could be sold
I think he had the shirt but then got a red and a ban and Watkins has played well in his absence so he needs to force his way in again, as it should be.
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Surprised Bailey and Watkins starting as Malen can’t play Tuesday, but in Unai I trust
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No Bowen for them, Cresswell must be quite rusty as he had his first start of the season. No excuses for Bailey on that side.
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Disappointed that Unai wants a player in, we get the player in, and he decides not to play him. Especially when Bailey has had multiple chances this season. Surely he has had enough training sessions to know how he is expected to play by now.
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Because we are competing, respecting the team and the competition being comfort-able in the system.
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No Bowen for them, Cresswell must be quite rusty as he had his first start of the season. No excuses for Bailey on that side.
Cresswell will be playing centre half. They only have Kilman as a recognised centre half. Looks like Potter is going 4-6-0.
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Bailey. Just why…..
No real other real option maybe? It might be felt that Malen isn't quite ready to start just yet and McGinn needs to be eased back in perhaps?
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Very surprised to see Bailey start again .
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Surely Duran should have started to rest Ollie for Wed. Surprised Buendia didn't get the nod over Bailey.
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???Bailey. Just why…..
No real other real option maybe? It might be felt that Malen isn't quite ready to start just yet and McGinn needs to be eased back in perhaps?
Maybe, but can’t see why Malen wouldn’t ’be ready’. Fitness surely wouldn’t be an issue and there’s no way he wouldn’t offer more seeing as Leon has been a complete non-entity all season (and beyond).
In Unai we trust I guess and go on Bailey, play a blinder.
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Hasn't Unai tended to ease all our Jan transfers in rather than starting them in the first few weeks?
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Can't believe Watkins, Rogers and Bailey instead of Duran, Buendia and Malan. What is the point of having a squad. It's Martin O'Neil all over again.
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Unai must like a Bailey before dinner?
2-0 (Watkins and Rogers)
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Can't believe Watkins, Rogers and Bailey instead of Duran, Buendia and Malan. What is the point of having a squad. It's Martin O'Neil all over again.
I think the league is more of a prority than CL now. As i think for the club its vital we get CL again.
But its going to be very frustrating if the teams the same Wednesday night ans we dont win because twams knackered
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Hasn't Unai tended to ease all our Jan transfers in rather than starting them in the first few weeks?
Yep. Jhon still being gradually eased-in after signing in Jan 2023 ;)
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Can't believe Watkins, Rogers and Bailey instead of Duran, Buendia and Malan. What is the point of having a squad. It's Martin O'Neil all over again.
Why would you take Ollie out when he’s hitting some good form? Rogers is our best player and I’d say he hasn’t quite got Malen up to speed yet.
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Bailey. Just why…..
I thought after Unai was so pissed off Tuesday , they he ws certain to be dropped.
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Number 16. Garcia on the bench for us. I guess we dont see him playing today but he is in before Ned then. I m happy about a new RB but question is if someone costing no more then he did can be a regular sterter.
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Unai Emery has said : "But the first requirement is to be a TEAM. And in this beautiful four-lettered word there is no place for anyone that won't be a good team-mate, for anyone that won't understand the meaning of effort, generosity and responsibility."
Is this a real quote from Emery?
It’s very All Blacks and I like it. The All Blacks also have an emphasis on a four letter word with their “No c**ts” rule, regardless of how good the player is.
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Golden opportunity to play Malen today against massively makeshift back four. Don’t understand that one at all.
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Hasn't Unai tended to ease all our Jan transfers in rather than starting them in the first few weeks?
... Other than Rogers ...
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Can't believe Watkins, Rogers and Bailey instead of Duran, Buendia and Malan. What is the point of having a squad. It's Martin O'Neil all over again.
I think the league is more of a prority than CL now. As i think for the club its vital we get CL again.
But its going to be very frustrating if the teams the same Wednesday night ans we dont win because twams knackered
If it is . so why play Bailey and hopefully Rogers doesnt look leggy .
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I know Bailey has been bad but Malen hasn't played in the Premier League before. Look at Man City's new guy yesterday. Quite a lot of games lately we've been crying out for someone to bring on around 60 minutes to run at a tired back line, seems like Malen off the bench, in this game in particular, is a pretty good option.
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need to go at them straight from the off.
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well done JJ
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Just fucking win, Villa.
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Paqueta starts early I see. How many before a yellow?
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Ollie Watkins has been involved in 99 Premier League goals in 168 appearances for Aston Villa (69 goals, 30 assists).
If he scores or assists in this game he’ll be the fastest player to 100 goal involvements since Kevin de Bruyne in July 2020 (155th game) - and fastest Englishman since Harry Kane in November 2017 (128th game).
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cut those lazy passes out TY
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Hasn't Unai tended to ease all our Jan transfers in rather than starting them in the first few weeks?
... Other than Rogers ...
Who didn't start for over a month.
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West Ham look like they are trying to squeeze the midfield to prevent us from threatening their paper thin defence
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thought we was in then
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good energy out the gates
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Really promising start
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played bailey
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Lovely ball from Bailey there
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SCORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRCHIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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goooooooooooalllllllJJ
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Ramsey.
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GET IN! Already a while coming
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SCORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRCHIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I missed this!
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Another assist for Ollie.
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Cracking goal
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JJ!!! Great start!
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we’re back
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Yesssssss JJ !!!!
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That'll do nicely
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Kamara already looking class
and JJ started well
and great goal
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SCORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRCHIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Best 😂
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JJ!!!!!!!!!!
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Class from Ramsey.
Exactly the start we needed.
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Ollie Watkins has been involved in 99 Premier League goals in 168 appearances for Aston Villa (69 goals, 30 assists).
If he scores or assists in this game he’ll be the fastest player to 100 goal involvements since Kevin de Bruyne in July 2020 (155th game) - and fastest Englishman since Harry Kane in November 2017 (128th game).
Didn't take long.
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We want 10, we want 10!
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Really nice bit of play, well taken goal - we’re showing some good movement up front.
Will be good if we ease some of the pressure for goals from Ollie, it’ll help his confidence not having it all on him.
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Fucking get in! Bostin stuff.
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That's a lovely well worked goal
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Made Coufal look like he was about 60 years old
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What a start! Get in Villa!
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starting brilliant here
goal VAR
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Pushing again now. Lovely intensity.
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Ah Ollie, watch the offsides...
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again KAmara fuck me what a player
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That was offside. Sadly. Lovely cutting move though.
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Yay!
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Watkins should not be offside there
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https://x.com/tekkersfoot/status/1883555621150032236
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I'm confused now. Is it JJ's goal being VARd or a second goal?
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Kamara with his cigar out already.
This is the game we've been waiting for months to significantly improve our GD so need to keep this intensity up all first half.
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What a cross by Cash with his left foot just then.
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Bailey with a weak shot, but already better than recent weeks.
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I'm confused now. Is it JJ's goal being VARd or a second goal?
2nd but Watkins was offside sadly.
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I'm confused now. Is it JJ's goal being VARd or a second goal?
A second goal.
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What a cross by Cash with his left foot just then.
Carbon copy of his cross at Arsenal
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I'm confused now. Is it JJ's goal being VARd or a second goal?
Ramsey 's stood. Rogers' disallowed as Ollie was offside for the assist
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"It also brings up Watkins' 100th Premier League goal involvement for Aston Villa. A super player."
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Hopefully a return of the 2023 Aston Villa early goal!
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I'm confused now. Is it JJ's goal being VARd or a second goal?
2nd but Watkins was offside sadly.
Thank you. The delayed reactions of various posters can be very confusing at times.
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When our right side is up for it, we’re really good. Cash and Bailey look like they both know we’re purchasing replacements.
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Bouba. What a player.
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this must be a breather time
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West Ham having a bit of a go now.
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Looking great, let's bag another while we're still on top, they're coming back into it a bit now
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We have eased off.
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Well defended by Mings there
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Gone a bit ragged now after a lightning start
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Their squeezing the midfield is working right now. We need put our foot back on it
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Gone a bit ragged now after a lightning start
Least we had one
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We are letting them back into it
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We have gone back into ourselves, crisp passing gone. Intensity gone.
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Rogers that was so poor
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Rogers, story of his season...can't judge the weight of the ball.
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So poor from rogers
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Rogers using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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Rogers, story of his season...can't judge the weight of the ball.
Yes, that’s the story of his season…
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Beautiful from Youri.
Rogers just needs to calm down when approaching the box. I get passing with pace but he dosen't need to be hitting it at 100mph when Bailey is five yards to his right.
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Cash is playing well
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Beautiful from Youri.
Rogers just needs to calm down when approaching the box. I get passing with pace but he dosen't need to be hitting it at 100mph when Bailey is five yards to his right.
I think he was trying to put a firm ball on Leon’s foot, not play him into space.
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That physio on our bench looks like the twin of Matheus Nunes.
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That physio on our bench looks like the twin of Matheus Nunes.
Probably a better footballer than him too.
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Cash is playing well
He's actually looking to cross the ball. It's only taken 4 seasons but it's still a welcome sign.
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That physio on our bench looks like the twin of Matheus Nunes.
Probably a better footballer than him too.
*chortle*
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Feels like Aaron Cresswell was playing for West Ham against us in 2005.
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Cash is playing well
He's actually looking to cross the ball. It's only taken 4 seasons but it's still a welcome sign.
someone on the bench now thats why
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Mings down.
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Oh shit Mings...
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Mings down !!!
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No.
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Oh shit
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Shit Mings down
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Oh no Mings
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Mucking about with it and now Mings is clobbered
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Bad?
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Please no!
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Bad?
Knee
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Please no.
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And we have no reserve centre back available right now...
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Fucks sake all we need
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Oh no surely no .
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Same knee?
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And we have no reserve centre back available right now...
We have. Bogarde
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How the ref can look at that from five yards away and decide it's not a foul is beyond me.
Let's hope Mings is o.k as that is the last area of the pitch where we need another injury given we're just down to two senior CBs now.
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Mings isn't happy
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Looked like an impact rather than a twist. Hopefully he'll be ok.
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come on Ty please be ok
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Come on Tyrone
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Surely he better go off.
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I think Mings is off with that one. Not worth risking it if it’s minor…
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And we have no reserve centre back available right now...
We have. Bogarde
Showed against Arsenal he's far better as a DM. Is Swinkels on the bench?
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Looks like he's carrying on.
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Bad?
Knee
Twisted his left knee and fell on it in the tackle. Walking off the pitch...trying to run it off
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How the ref can look at that from five yards away and decide it's not a foul is beyond me.
Let's hope Mings is o.k as that is the last area of the pitch where we need another injury given we're just down to two senior CBs now.
That was not a foul; it was a block of the ball.
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Doesn't look good for Tyrone.
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Get through to half time and then reassess then I suspect.
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Mings back on
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quite emotional watching him
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Back on
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Thank the football gods
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Come on big man.
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How the ref can look at that from five yards away and decide it's not a foul is beyond me.
Let's hope Mings is o.k as that is the last area of the pitch where we need another injury given we're just down to two senior CBs now.
That was not a foul; it was a block of the ball.
Looked to me like Kudos caught him with follow through.
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Thank the lord
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Once again, the intensity has dropped since we scored. We should be out of sight by now.
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How the ref can look at that from five yards away and decide it's not a foul is beyond me.
Let's hope Mings is o.k as that is the last area of the pitch where we need another injury given we're just down to two senior CBs now.
That was not a foul; it was a block of the ball.
Looked to me like Kudos caught him with follow through.
Other way round I think. Mings caught Kudus
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Thought that was in then
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Added at least 5 mins at the end of the half then.
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Great effort
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Great to have Ramsey back starting games.
He's a lovely dribbler with close control and can get us up the left quickly, reminds me of how Kuluveski plays for Spurs.
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Mings looks in trouble and going off
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Ollie very close.
Mings moving off sadly.
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Hes done :(
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Bogarde on, Tyrone looks upset.
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Mings off, Bogarde on
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Fuck
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Ah bollocks
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Fucks sake. Poor ty man. I really do feel sorry for him. Devastating
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Hopefully it's nothing serious. Understandable he'd be emotional about it given the previous injury.
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Ian on not Bogarde.
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This is just awful for Ty
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Seems really daft to have left him on for those extra few minutes
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Sorry Maatsen...Digne moving into CB...
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Bogarde on, Tyrone looks upset.
Sigh.
At least Celtic are selling all their forwards and are through so we can get away with makeshift backline for them probably but I was expecting someone ready to come in as soon as we sold Carlos.
Just like we signed Malen hours after Jaden went to Ipswich.
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Mings in tears there. If I only had one massive man hug to give, it would be to him right now. Gutted for him.
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Ian on not Bogarde.
Digne moved inside?
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Seems really daft to have left him on for those extra few minutes
Yep. Just stupid
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Said to my missus 10 minutes ago that we should take Mings off. Don’t risk making it worse as he’s far too important. Sigh…….
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Fuck me man we are fucked for celtic thats for sure
My post of having a youngster like swinkels on the bench now doesnt look so bad now does it 😔
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Horrible for Tyrone, bloody horrible. Hope it's not serious.
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Fuck. So sorry for the big man. He doesn't deserve this shit.
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We need a CB now and it ain’t fuckin Juan Foyth.
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Fuck fuck fuck
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Can we call Badé back?
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Fuck me man we are fucked for celtic thats for sure
Are we bollocks.
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We need a CB now and it ain’t fuckin Juan Foyth.
In theory we need two as Mings plays left side and Bade was in for Carlos who is right side.
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He walked off so hopefully not too bad.
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Selling Carlos without a replacement seems a bit stupid now
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Fuck me man we are fucked for celtic thats for sure
Rubbish.
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Fuck me man we are fucked for celtic thats for sure
Are we bollocks.
Huh ??
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He walked off so hopefully not too bad.
The fact he went back on in the first place you'd hope means it's not worst case scenario.
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Digne at LCB now I assume with Maatsen on.
Probably the next two games we can get away with that as he has height and a decent passer but we need someone decent in for Wolves.
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One fit CB isn't exactly ideal.
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the ref letting them get away with alot
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He walked off so hopefully not too bad.
Hopefully.
But Aston Villa and injuries etc.
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Fuck me man we are fucked for celtic thats for sure
Rubbish.
How is that rubbish? We have one fit 1st choice center back ???
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He walked off so hopefully not too bad.
That can happen with bad ligament injuries.
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Has to be questions over letting Carlos go without a definite replacement lined up.
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Er, how was that not a foul...
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how is that not a fucking foul !!!!!!
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Have we bought a centre half in January?
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We look really rattled.
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That is criminally negligent to leave him on in those circumstances. And not the first fucking time it's happened in recent years. The medical staff have serious questions to answer
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The concern is his reaction, he was acting like he knew it wasn't minor.
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Fuck me man we are fucked for celtic thats for sure
Rubbish.
How is that rubbish? We have one fit center back ???
Celtic selling all their forwards and already through so a game we can get away with it.
Less so Wolves away with Cunha and some of their other pacy forwards so we need established signing in for that game.
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Selling Carlos without a replacement seems a bit stupid now
Yep, we need at the very least one very competent CB now otherwise the rest few weeks could be very painful, both emotionally and financially.
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Need to get to halftime and regroup I think.
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Selling Carlos without a lined up replacement looking even dafter by Monchi now than it did anyway!
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Has to be questions over letting Carlow go without a definite replacement lined up.
Yes, he was dublin the amount of reserve options we had
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Don't Monchi and co. understand how it works at Villa? Selling Diego Carlos in the week leaving us with 2 fit centre halves was a surefire gaurantee that one of them would get injured in the very next game.
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He walked off so hopefully not too bad.
Don't think it means much.
He's done his cruciate again imo.
Okore once played on for ten minutes or so after doing his, as did Mings himself the last time he did it. He walked off then too.
His face said it all.
Season over imo.
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Fuck me man we are fucked for celtic thats for sure
Rubbish.
How is that rubbish? We have one fit center back ???
Celtic selling all their forwards and already through so a game we can get away with it.
Less so Wolves away with Cunha and some of their other pacy forwards so we need established signing in for that game.
And integrate them into the team in 6 days. Should be easy
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Can't be many PL games where between them the 2 sides only have CBs.
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We're determined to make things difficult for ourselves. Terrible!
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Has to be questions over letting Carlow go without a definite replacement lined up.
Yes, he was dublin the amount of reserve options we had
Irish that wasn’t the case…
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The concern is his reaction, he was acting like he knew it wasn't minor.
Probably, but at the same time I'd probably be crying if I thought I'd hurt it at all after such a long lay off.
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We need a CB now and it ain’t fuckin Juan Foyth.
True Mings would still be fitter
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Did Yasin Ozcan ever sign?
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What's Lenglet up to these days
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Has to be questions over letting Carlow go without a definite replacement lined up.
Yes, he was dublin the amount of reserve options we had
Bad typo, apologies!
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Fuck me man we are fucked for celtic thats for sure
Rubbish.
…..and what happens if we lose Konsa to injury or suspension?
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Fuck me man we are fucked for celtic thats for sure
Rubbish.
How is that rubbish? We have one fit center back ???
Celtic selling all their forwards and already through so a game we can get away with it.
Less so Wolves away with Cunha and some of their other pacy forwards so we need established signing in for that game.
Celtic have the weekend off ao they will be more frwsh than us. We have one fit center half in konsa. Dont see how saying we are fucked for celtic game is "bollocks" as another poster put it.
We sold carlos and now i guess its bogarde and konsa at cb Wednesday night
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Do you think it’s his knee again?
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Can add West fucking Ham to the teams that inexplicably get away with shit (not the actual Kudus challenge but the general level of roughness compared to us, which I just don't fucking get).
I just hope it's not too bad for Tyrone.
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Good job West Ham have 4/5 of their forward line injured. Bowen and Summerville would be all over our left hand side now.
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Duran will be CB at this rate.
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How we need a captain in the middle of the pitch to take control of things
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Fuck me man we are fucked for celtic thats for sure
Rubbish.
How is that rubbish? We have one fit center back ???
Celtic selling all their forwards and already through so a game we can get away with it.
Less so Wolves away with Cunha and some of their other pacy forwards so we need established signing in for that game.
And integrate them into the team in 6 days. Should be easy
That's why it needs to be someone experienced and not an 18 year old kid.
Think Foyth will be done now but we need another defender on top of that.
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Fuck me man we are fucked for celtic thats for sure
Rubbish.
How is that rubbish? We have one fit 1st choice center back ???
We could bring in Bogie, Swinkels or even Micah Richards - the 2025 full fat version - and I'd still expect us to turn over that lot.
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Duran will be CB at this rate.
The solution to how to play him and Watkins together.
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Can add West fucking Ham to the teams that inexplicably get away with shit (not the actual Kudus challenge but the general level of roughness compared to us, which I just don't fucking get).
I just hope it's not too bad for Tyrone.
What's weird is that he is giving them free kicks for some really soft stuff.
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Fuck me man we are fucked for celtic thats for sure
Rubbish.
How is that rubbish? We have one fit 1st choice center back ???
We could bring in Bogie, Swinkels or even Micah Richards - the 2025 full fat version - and I'd still expect us to turn over that lot.
Hahhaha that richards comment 😂
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fuck me Luca he needs to come off free kicks
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Celtic have the weekend off ao they will be more frwsh than us. We have one fit center half in konsa. Dont see how saying we are fucked for celtic game is "bollocks" as another poster put it.
Because we're playing Celtic, whose striker wasn't good enough to play for Norwich in Championship mid-table.
And if we play as we should, we could play with ten players and three quarters of a defence and we whould still win.
And maybe they'll play really well and actually beat us. Ot get a point. That sometimes happens. But one thing we're definitely not is "fucked" before the game has even started.
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Digne having a 'mare at the minute.
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Another glorious set piece. FFS.
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Soft yellow for me
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Celtic are 1 point behind us, they're a different prospect to Hibs. And we have a bit of a history of not winning cup matches we should win.
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Cheats should be booked
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Halftime Digne off for Mcginn and Kamara to CB seems the only obvious solution for the rest of this match. God know where we go from here.
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Quick get a priest, Paqueta is dying out there.
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Celtic are 1 point behind us, they're a different prospect to Hibs. And we have a bit of a history of not winning cup matches we should win.
They need no more incentive than to beat an English team.
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Var for what ? If thats a red im done
Paquenta wanker
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Good job it's HT soon to try and calm things down.
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Mr Claypole trying to get Digne sent off
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This ref is hopeless If I remeber
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Paqueta is ridiculous. Was doing this in the cup tie aswell.
Also probably going to get a long ban shortly.
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Celtic are 1 point behind us, they're a different prospect to Hibs. And we have a bit of a history of not winning cup matches we should win.
They need no more incentive than to beat an English team.
And a couple of million quid.
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It’s worse than the Traitors out there in terms of deception
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I'm actually amazed Digne didn't go for that, much more intent than the Duran thing for instance. A farcically, abysmally refereed game.
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Ref has created this for himself.
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Duran will be CB at this rate.
The solution to how to play him and Watkins together.
and goals at corners :)
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What a chaotic 10 mins
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I don’t think Digne at CB will see this game out.
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Tell you what Loic, because I know you're looking at my posts, you would of had some game time now son.
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Feels very next goal is crucial to me.
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Well bizarrely Potter has turned them into annoying cheating twats
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What an appalling referee
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We need to get our heads together we sunk to their level there. Digne has lost it since going to centre half. Hopefully half time with give us the chance to cool.
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Half time at last. Game needs a complete reset.
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Paqueta is ridiculous. Was doing this in the cup tie aswell.
Also probably going to get a long ban shortly.
The guys a corrupt wank.
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Well bizarrely Potter has turned them into annoying cheating twats
And as usual we need some defence against the dark arts.
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What an appalling referee
He's Coote MkII
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What an appalling referee
In a crowded field he's easily the worst this season.
Worse than that blonde bombshell in the Europa Conference League last season, even.
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Whatever happens we are going to get west ham moaning about cheating Villa all over again.
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Ref should have booked Alvarez on the Cash incident.Everything escalated after that
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Well bizarrely Potter has turned them into annoying cheating twats
And as usual we need some defence against the dark arts.
Expecto Paqueta to get booked.
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Yes we need a reset here as players are losing their heads. Come on Unai do your stuff
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Damian left his seat to check up on Ty...Monchi will burn through all his top up cards tonight.
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Ref should have booked Alvarez on the Cash incident.Everything escalated after that
Kudus clattering tielemans and it being waved on was the trigger for me. After that he lost control.
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Lee Hendrie's everywhere on Sky these days. Good on him.
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Tell you what Loic, because I know you're looking at my posts, you would of had some game time now son.
His agent is probably texting him the same thing.
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Ref should have booked Alvarez on the Cash incident.Everything escalated after that
Kudus clattering tielemans and it being waved on was the trigger for me. After that he lost control.
Absolute idiot refereeing.
He was right over it as well.
If he misses those he has no chance.
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Great start to the game, so nice to see us playing with speed and going at the opposition. Tailed off thereafter and the Mings injury looked bad - I hope Ty is ok.
The ref is a twat.
The really good news is that Drury is not on comms on NBC today, yay :)
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Good first 10 minutes after that, shite.
Austin wotshiface can do one as well. When's the last time we executed a decent set piece?
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He walked off so hopefully not too bad.
Don't think it means much.
He's done his cruciate again imo.
Okore once played on for ten minutes or so after doing his, as did Mings himself the last time he did it. He walked off then too.
His face said it all.
Season over imo.
Sitting at the front of the Holte, it happened right in front of me. From the kind of impact it was and where he was holding after, looked more like an MCL injury.
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Fine goal by Ramsey, can he finally kick on for us. So sorry for Mings but we really ran the risk of him breaking down again with the schedule of games.
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I do get the impression that Unai is seriously set on left footers being at LCB and vice versa. He'd probably rather play Bailey at LCB than put Konsa there.
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Well bizarrely Potter has turned them into annoying cheating twats
And as usual we need some defence against the dark arts.
Expecto Paqueta to get booked.
Yes, expel the anus.
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Great first 15 mins been horrid since then. Worried that mings thinks its serious.
I know we’re all bemoaning seeing Carlos going without any necessarily coming in but that’s the challenge that these rules do. Carlos is too expensive on wages and not quite good enough so the club just can’t afford it.
Obviously being Villa we come unstuck but it’s the fine line that needs walking - rather than bad planning
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Austin wotshiface can do one as well. When's the last time we executed a decent set piece?
The one Watkins nearly scored from?
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Good first 10 minutes after that, shite.
Austin wotshiface can do one as well. When's the last time we executed a decent set piece?
You can only lead horses to water, the nags have to imbibe from the troughs themselves.
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great 10 minutes , then seemed to take our foot off the gas and then the Ty injury and put us all over the place a little.
Like posters have said a reset at half time , kind a match we need the thrust and passion of SJM on , a few need to get back into the game and Luca at CB isnt working.
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Feel for digne as all their attacks second half will be targeting him. Strange sub for me. I would have bought on bogarde personally
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Lee Hendrie's everywhere on Sky these days. Good on him.
You can tell he actually watches us.
You'd think it would be a given for a pundit.
But listen to Paul Merson, Richards or Clinton Morrison and it ain't necessarily so.
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He walked off so hopefully not too bad.
Don't think it means much.
He's done his cruciate again imo.
Okore once played on for ten minutes or so after doing his, as did Mings himself the last time he did it. He walked off then too.
His face said it all.
Season over imo.
Sitting at the front of the Holte, it happened right in front of me. From the kind of impact it was and where he was holding after, looked more like an MCL injury.
He was holding behind the kneee just below the knee cap. Is that the one?
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Austin wotshiface can do one as well. When's the last time we executed a decent set piece?
The one Watkins nearly scored from?
They did put a list up saying we was second in the set pieces after Assnal but they have been poor for a while especially the corners .
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Lee Hendrie's everywhere on Sky these days. Good on him.
It's Sue Smith mate.
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They look suspect at the back when we play it on the ground. Hope we stand up to their thuggery
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Not another now
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Digne down injured
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Lee Hendrie's everywhere on Sky these days. Good on him.
It's Sue Smith mate.
Yes! Great shout. Uncanny.
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Digne in pain.. guess who?
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Probably as much of a stamp as Duran's was.
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Vile player that Cheatueta
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Nasty clash of heads, involving Ollie.
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He left one on him there. Snidey player
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Paqueta needs a good, old fashioned, “fuck off” down the tunnel.
What a nasty, niggly bastard of a match this is turning into.
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Paquetta not even booked. FFS REFEREE!!!
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Ollie now down
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Paqueta meant that, the little c**t.
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Ollie seems okay
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He wiill be ok
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Paqueta is a massive ******
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That looked nasty
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There's a lot of game in these stoppages
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Everyone seems ok.
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Nasty nasty head knock for Watkins. That looked horrific.
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ffs ref we had it then
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Is football too dangerous? The amount of time lost to hurt players in this game and our cup match two weeks ago is ridiculous.
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This game will finish at 10pm tonight
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This type of timing feels like American football!
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come on Villa that was shite , get it in the box
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This type of timing feels like American football!
Don’t give Heck any ideas.
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Fux sake Leon
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This kind of ragged game does not suit us at all
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Do we really want to bring Duran into this kind of game?
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Phew!
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Martinez has to claim that.
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oh man
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sitter missed by the cheat
come on villa these are gonna score
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We were sleeping right then. Missing Mings presence.
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Why do we always lose our man when a cross from the right gets pulled back across?
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This is shameful. We are inviting an absolutely shit team to make a game of this
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Come on Villa fux sake!
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This is going to be a long 45 mins
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I’d play Kamara at centre half and bring McGinn on
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Martinez has to claim that.
He had no chance claiming that
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Is Martinez stuck to his goal line?
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When does Alvarez get a card?
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Leon Bailey, a blur of movement, difficult to stop. Not facts.
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has alvarez been booked ? he has done so many fouls
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Dirty, niggly and cheating whamkers
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Now way are we keeping a clean sheet.
Well probably neer 3 to win
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When does Alvarez get a card?
Christmas and birthdays.
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Another quality set piece.
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Get him off the free kicks how many times
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Let's call this what it is. A game we were controlling where the Mings injury has thrown us. Think we need a couple of changes to freshen up mentally more than anything. Would take 1-0 right now in the circumstances.
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Dignes freekicks have been shit all season why the hell is he still taking them?
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That.
That was shite
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Academy of Football looking more like a Remand Centre so far!
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When does Alvarez get a card?
Christmas and birthdays.
Scorchio!
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I'd put Martinez on free kicks.
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Another shite free kick.
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Let's call this what it is. A game we were controlling where the Mings injury has thrown us. Think we need a couple of changes to freshen up mentally more than anything. Would take 1-0 right now in the circumstances.
100%
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Let's call this what it is. A game we were controlling where the Mings injury has thrown us. Think we need a couple of changes to freshen up mentally more than anything. Would take 1-0 right now in the circumstances.
Can't see us holding onto the 1-0 so we do need a second and we have the attacking options on the bench to provide this.
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They took so long telling Digne how high over the bar it was needed that BBC text caught up with the play.
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Rogers has lost the ball I think four times in a row.
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Another let off!
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Rogers looks absolutely out on his feet. Need to change him.
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Need some subs. Bogarde on just for more defensive knowledge probably isn't the worst idea and give Malen a run out FFS.
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Martinez is a having a shocker
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Emi and Cash that was rank amateur
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off the line Konsa ? emi dropped ball
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We look all over the place.
Unai needs to get malen on asap and mcginn
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Konsa has done some really important interventions the last 10mins
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Well done Ezri
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We are dangerously light at CB now.
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We are not keeping a clean sheet here in a million years.
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Duran and Malen coming on.
We need to at least get some counters going.
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Tidy, bold and confident out of the back, though..
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Duran getting ready
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Rogers booked
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Get your bets on now. Duran is guaranteed a card or a goal.
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Rogers picking up so many cheap yellows, his 8th of the domestic season already.
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Silly booking for morgan
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Get your bets on now. Duran is guaranteed a card or a goal.
Parlay
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Malen on for Leon
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Rogers picking up so many cheap yellows, his 8th of the domestic season already.
Sky have it at 7
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how come alvarez dont get booked but our players do
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Once again. Fuck off Bailey and fuck off rogers
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Duran on for Ollie
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Silly booking for morgan
I'll take that one. Bailey unfortunate to be hooked today, thought he was doing ok.
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Tyrone walking back to the bench
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Great to see Ty smiling back on the bench, PHEW!
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Rogers needs to come off.
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Silly booking for morgan
I'll take that one. Bailey unfortunate to be hooked today, thought he was doing ok.
I would have taken rogers and ollie off
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Rogers picking up so many cheap yellows, his 8th of the domestic season already.
Sky have it at 7
7 in league and he got booked in FA cup aswell so not sure if that carries over or not.
10 for two match ban.
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Ty smiling thank god
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Ings coming on.
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Tyrone looked remarkably cheerful as he returned to the bench there.
I will sleep a little sounder seeing that.
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Rogers made a bit of a mess of that
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malen shoots after 60 seconds
and mings looks happy
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Taken 70 minutes to actually book Alvarez, ridiculous.
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Mings walking around and smiling, looks promising
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rogers looks leggy again
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Rogers needs to go off
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Kamara unbelievable there
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I love you bouba
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1-1
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Fucking knew it
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Complete lack of surprise.
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Get mcginn i would say . Need some energy in the niddle
1-1
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Fuck off
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Against the run, that.
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Where was Martinez?
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I don't think we're allowed to make fun of Spurs anymore.
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It's been coming. That is so Villa.
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Martinez ?
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Fucking ******.
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In his own postcode
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EFuck off - we have been dire second half. Jesus what is going on?
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Martinez at fault; should have come for the cross.
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What a shitty afternoon so far.
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shite
and why is Rogers still on
again leaving a leggy player on , buendia shoild be on . defenders no where
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Cash caught there, not sure about Martinez attempt to save it either. They had two free at back post for about 10 seconds. Malen didn't track anybody
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Not brilliant defending, but how it's still 11 Vs 11 I do not know.
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We will lose this now as we can't defend
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Completely predictable.
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Subs far too late
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Absolute shite. Stepping off. Low energy.
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No more subs left
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Why the fuck is Rogers still on?
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We will win
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No need to take Ramsey off.
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Totally fucking predictable.
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should have been on with duran and co , too late
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Martinez has to come and take that
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Martinez at fault; should have come for the cross.
Tough one to come for as it was high to almost the far corner of the box.
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Martinez should have tried to claim the cross, but he bottled it because of his flap a few minutes ago.
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Maatsen has been underwhelming
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We will win
I think the complete opposite is more likely.
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Martinez should have tried to claim the cross, but he bottled it because of his flap a few minutes ago.
this
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Think that cross was just a bit too much of a reach for Emi to claim there.
Duran to score a screamer….and get the win.
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Been garbage after a good first 15 minutes
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We will win
We won’t
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Martinez should have tried to claim the cross, but he bottled it because of his flap a few minutes ago.
Thought it too. He's bottled coming a few times in second half.
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Maatsen has been underwhelming
agreed
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Let us never play Digne at CB again
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And so all this playing around at the back is putting us under pressure
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Another let off
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This is bloody uncomfortable
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And another
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Well we know Digne can't cover centre half.
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That’s all we need to happen with Ings coming on and getting the winner.
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should have gone with bogarde instead of maatsen
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We're a mess at the moment.
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We’ll lose this game won’t we. Awful second half. Shite.
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Martinez should have tried to claim the cross, but he bottled it because of his flap a few minutes ago.
Exactly. Watching it from North stand centre he fuckex that up properly
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so many shite performances lately making them look like real madrid
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I'd take the point if it was offered right now.
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We’ll lose this game won’t we. Awful second half. Shite.
That’s how it’s looking to me
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FFS Villa, we can't lose to this narky bunch of cloggers.
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We’ve gone to self destruct mode now
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I love “must win” games this season.
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We are a fucking painful watch this season
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I get Mings going off and the changes has upset things a bit but we shouldn't be this bad.
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Letting us get down to one fit senior centre-half is starting to look like negligence.
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The thing that bothers me most is we give shit teams the confidence to go for it.
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maatesen shite
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Cash is gassed
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Shit cross Maatsen.
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I get Mings going off and the changes has upset things a bit but we shouldn't be this bad.
We stopped playing before Mings went off.
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Maatsen overhitting
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Kamara has been awesome.
One bright spark on a sea of shite
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I get Mings going off and the changes has upset things a bit but we shouldn't be this bad.
Buendia had a really good game in midweek, why are we only putting him on as soon as it goes to 1-1.
McGinn you can understand a bit more given he's been out for three weeks.
I would say Bogarde is better in midfield than at the back personally going off his Arsenal cameo and can understand not wanting to move Kamara.
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what is wrong with u s? cash then , just loses it
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We need players who have heart and are prepared to get stuck in. We think we can play it fanciful but you can’t in this league until the game is won first.
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Another let off
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maatsen overhit a simple pass
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Making Wan Bisaaka look like Salah here....
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Our delivery to Duran is woeful
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We look poor.
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I can see Chaos popping up here with a winning goal….I just can.
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Shite, this.
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Wiggy going close
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I can see Chaos popping up here with a winning goal….I just can.
It’s been a while hasn’t it?
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I don't think Digne is a future option at CB, which isn't his fault.
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I get Mings going off and the changes has upset things a bit but we shouldn't be this bad.
Buendia had a really good game in midweek, why are we only putting him on as soon as it goes to 1-1.
McGinn you can understand a bit more given he's been out for three weeks.
I would say Bogarde is better in midfield than at the back personally going off his Arsenal cameo and can understand not wanting to move Kamara.
Buendia got the most praise from Unai yet he's the only one that's dropped.
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Luca you are having a mare
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Desperately clinging on at present.
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West Ham want this more than us
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Diabolical second half, can't just blame it on the Mings injury and needing to shift Digne across.
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I'm preparing myself for the worst.
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Our players are like ghosts, West Ham walk right through them
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Looking leggy in January. Doesn’t augur well for February, March, April and May.
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they are winning every 50/50
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This is a tough watch.
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This is a tough watch.
It is
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How long left?
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Is Maatsen really this bad?
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Referee is a fucking joke
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how much was maatesn
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We are getting the runaround by fucking West Ham.
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Alvarez has done enough to be sent off about three times
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No 2nd yellow for Alvarez there?..no...
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hows he not off?
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Shocking refereeing
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Alvarez should be off.
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How long left?
Long enough for the inevitable to happen
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We're not winning.
Alvarez should have approx four yellows tonight.
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how much was maatesn
Too fucking much from where I’m sitting.
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Ref is a grade a prick
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Crap free kick against us too
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Referee, my lord.
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Referee is a fucking joke
Again
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This ref gas been fuckinv abysmal
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That is week refereeing
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what a absolute shite ref
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Referee totally lost the plot. Why do we always get them??
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Malen has to pass the ball there
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I’m not sure if seven extra minutes is good or bad.
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I chose a bad day to give up glue
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what a absolute shite ref
Almost as bad as our players today
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Awful second half. No response from us.
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Kamara has been great, everyone else, not so much.
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Week in, week out it always seems we are talking again about shit fucking refs.
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Why is it Konza starts to play better when the rest of the side are playing shit?
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Kamara has been great, everyone else, not so much.
How does he make the game look so easy? Just a majestic player.
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Kilman has played well, the twat.
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Oh what a shame. Such a shame.
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Yeah such a pity that.
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Should have bought Wan Bissaka over Maatsen in the summer
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Substitutions have been shite
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Week in, week out it always seems we are talking again about shit fucking refs.
And shit performances.
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Best beat Celtic in the week and make the most of it.
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Fucking stupid by buendia
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Buendia needs glasses
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This referee... Jesus fucking Christ.
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Two dropper points and another poor performance
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If there was a Ballon D'Or for throughballs that *almost* reach their man, Buendia would be a multiple award winner
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Two poor sides. I think top half will be about as much as we can achieve this season.
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Paquetta MOTM? WTF?
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Carraghee must be on drugs to award Paqueta the MOTM
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How many chromosomes do we reckon this ref is missing?
I'd say most of them.
Gormless shitebag.
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Fucking hell, WH goal disallowed
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FT. Relieved with the point to be honest.
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At least the match thread always makes realise that there’s many of us who feel the pain of following Villa.
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Not done enough to win that, draw a fair result.
Somehow need to raise our game but we’ve looked just so hopeless the last few games.
Think it needs shake up from Unai…….
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Awful game and result.
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Fucking shit. Awful.
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Lame result
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Not done enough to win that, draw a fair result.
Somehow need to raise our game but we’ve looked just so hopeless the last few games.
Think it needs shake up from Unai…….
We were lucky to get a draw. We were wank after the first 15 minutes
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Villa you are a joke
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Fuck 'sake Emi.
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What a horrible game
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least Pooter looked a twat at end
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If we want to beat Celtic we’ll have to show more desire!
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This team isnt good enough to get CL this season.
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Lucky to get away with that Martinez. I think Emery needs to get into all these and get their minds sorted.
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Utter shite. And now the squad looks thin. Awful ref. And we played rubbish.
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Forget about Champions league we will be lucky get through the season.
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After that first 15 or so I never saw the rest of the game coming.
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Lucky to get away with that Martinez. I think Emery needs to get into all these and get their minds sorted.
I think Unai needs to have a word with himself before he starts on anybody else.
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Digne was clearly the wrong decision to move to CB after Mings went off. West Ham targeted our left hand side after that.
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Digne was clearly the wrong decision to move to CB after Mings went off. West Ham targeted our left hand side after that.
Who could we have put there who wouldn't have been targeted?