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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: Toronto Villa on February 15, 2025, 01:45:27 PM
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No Leon Bailey at all is a surprise.
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Good idea holding Tyrone back, play him against Liverpool and move Bouba back into the midfield. Really attacking side today. Wouldn't it be wonderful to get back into a positive goal difference this season.
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wasnt expecting ollie to start but probaly as bailey is missing .
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Suprised ansenio and rash both on bench again.
No bailey must be another injury
Kama and diasi at cb not sure about this one! At least mings is fit enough for bench
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Bailey injured apparently
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Have a feeling we’re going to dish out a funeralling this afternoon.
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Shame for Bailey given he was much better last week. Unai could have chucked Asensio in and saved Watkins for midweek. I hope we do see a bit of rotation this week now we have the players for it.
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Bailey "rested"
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Very annoying with Bailey as he was starting to pick up. Need to win this.
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Suprised ansenio and rash both on bench again.
Rashford hasn't played much football for a while. Not surprised he's not starting yet.
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Don't know how Ascensio can't get in that starting line up.
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Don't know how Ascensio can't get in that starting line up.
He’s short of football probably trying to ease him in.
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All being well I think Rashford will start v Liverpool
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5 games in 15 days, need to manage their workload I guess. Sensible from Unai.
A small trcickle would be appreciated if anyone has one?
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Don't know how Ascensio can't get in that starting line up.
It's not about the starting 11 it's about the finishing 11
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last half hour Asensio and Rashford against Ipswich , we should be tingling .
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Looking forward to this. It feels like the new additions may spark us to go on a bit of a run.
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Anything less than smashing them by at least 5 will be shameful.
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I'd have thought an starting Rashford and giving him an hour would have been the way to go with the liverpool game a few days away. He needs minutes and I'm not sure 20 -30 minutes is enough.
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You normally see a free kick for something like that.
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Should’ve been a red.
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What a shock Mike Dean defends the ref - Rogers made.too much of it according to him.
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thought it the wrong ball then
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Wasn’t it handball by the keeper? They barely showed a replay.
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Anyone have a trickle?
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Anyone have a trickle?
Check your PM's
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Wasn’t it handball by the keeper? They barely showed a replay.
Nah, he got nowhere near the ball but he did make sure he got an arm across Rogers to slow him down
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We didn't concede from the first shot, which is nice.
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their first shot didnt go in
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Flat start + atmosphere
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Loving malen
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Flat start + atmosphere
No
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Enciso to go off
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Surprised Enciso ended up at Ipswich. Good player, could surely have joined a better team
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Kamara off Mings on
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mings on
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After a trickle as well, mine just dried up
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dont wanna lose kamara for p lop
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Who had 15 mins for a defensive player going off injured?
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Hope it’s minor for Kamara
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Kamara off Mings on
He was in front of the Holte and was holding the back of his leg. Thought he might have just been adjusting his shorts, but obviously not.
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Fuck what’s happened to him?
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I reckon when Villa played it at the back and Kamara got tackled , must have been that
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Oh ffs, we are in real trouble if Kamara is out ling term
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Fuck sake. Fuck sake.
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what a shite free kick
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The curse of cb continues
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I wonder what that is for Kamara because he didn't look injured.
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think mcphee just trying to be tok smart with these free kicks and set pieces. So poor
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I wonder what that is for Kamara because he didn't look injured.
Hopefully just a twinge and went off as precaution.
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This is shit.
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Making hard work of this
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Is that one injury a game?
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Slow and predicatble
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The problem is, we are all expecting us to completely roll Ipswich over. Have to put the effort in. Long way to go.
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Slow and predicatble
Chin up
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Rogers having one of those games where everything bounces off him.
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Lacking energy at the moment.
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refs a ipswich fan
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This ref is already proving he's a twat.
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Soft foul ffs ref
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back pass
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Ref rewriting the rule book
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Come on Villa get this sorted
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How the fuck can he give that having not given the one by their keeper.
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poor finish Luca
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anyone have a small river available please
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Tuanzebe booked
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first ipswich booking
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Streams keep buffering so I am relying on all of you for updates - the bits I have seen have been.. fine? Not the most exciting.
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Streams keep buffering so I am relying on all of you for updates - the bits I have seen have been.. fine? Not the most exciting.
Ita been poor game with very little quality from either side
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Hopefully Ipswich will tire in the second half because they're working very hard to close us down.
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Malen's the only one of ours playing well.
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This is so pedestrian- SJM is having a poor game so far.
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Pretty discontinued so far
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Horrible game so far
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Finally a decent chance
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Another one on one missed for Watkins.
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JJ needs to get into this
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Goals in all other games. We haven't even had a shot on target yet.
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Ollie ffs
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Quit the complaining
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He has to score, simple as that
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Oh dear.
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Terrible from Watkins.
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No left foot., init.
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FFS Watkins.
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A Watkins classic.
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Watkins misses so many chances
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This is just really poor.
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Watkins misses so many chances
And yet he scores plenty
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He doesn't score that many.
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We’re not making top 5 playing like this
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We’re not making top 5 playing like this
We can and we have the players in the squad to do it, we just need to get them of the bench, sooner rather than later.
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Tuanzebe sent off
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Tielemans needs to be banned from shooting.
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Red
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We’re not making top 5 playing like this
The keys to the top 5 aren't on the field currently
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red
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Ipswich down to ten men, no excuses now Villa. Up the tempo.
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2nd yellow or straight red?
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Good lad, Axel. One of us.
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the ref from when we played west ham would have let him off
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Fuck sake Villa. Let’s take full advantage of this.
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Now we should be able to turn the screw.
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2nd yellow or straight red?
Second yellow
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Agent axel !
What a stupid challenge by him
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rashford and marco against these at half time please now
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Agent axel !
What a stupid challenge by him
Especially as Ramsey would have shot straight at the keeper anyway 😂
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Come on Villa
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Shit free kick
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If we don't win this now the club should be disbanded.
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Oh no! Against 10 players
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Don't let them in at half time 0-0
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Well that's it, no way are we winning this now.
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So close
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Another woeful freekick
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We need to move the ball a lot quicker, stretch them.
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How is it every goalkeeper we come up against turns into world class.
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hows that not gone in
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Need to play with pace, especially against 10.
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I've been refreshing my COMPLETELY LEGAL AND LEGITIMATE game access for 10 mins now. Not particularly arsed as it's been dire. No post-CL hangover excuses today.
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4 mins
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How is it every goalkeeper we come up against turns into world class.
Thats his first real save to be fair. We havent done enough vthis half
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How is it every goalkeeper we come up against turns into world class.
Thats his first real save to be fair. We havent done enough vthis half
I think that's our first shot on target?
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HT
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Disappointing despite controlling that half.
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get it in the box and stop tippy tappy about
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I'd say we were conservative with a small c
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I sometimes want us to be less side to side and a little more throughball. Buendia used to be good picking those sorts of passes. Lets get Asensio on the pitch and get at them.
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Fucking rubbish.
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I’d like Delap not to come out in the 2nd half
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Pretty turgid stuff. Going to need to be a lot more dynamic given they’ll just pack midfield and defence.
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Poor half. Really bad.
If we drop points here that would be a very poor result againt ten men. Should be no excuses.
Youris been awful in my opinion
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Villa Park sounding frustrated at the end there.
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Very annoying with Bailey as he was starting to pick up.
Are you representing a new client now that Moeen Ali's cricket career is winding down?
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Watkins in missing an easy chance his great movement made possible shocker. Just win this crappy game and pray Kamara is back soon.
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Poor half. Really bad.
If we drop points here that would be a very poor result againt ten men. Should be no excuses.
Youris been awful in my opinion
Not seen anything from Ramsay, a passenger again.
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Isn’t this deliberate though - step it up after an hour similar to wet spam in the cup.
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Can Asensio take free kicks because ours have been shite again
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These next games are vital for Villa to win, certainly this one, we have an incredible chance of booking a top 5 spot, not with this first half performance.
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Can see this getting twitchy
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Isn’t this deliberate though - step it up after an hour similar to wet spam in the cup.
Let’s hope so.
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Poor half. Really bad.
If we drop points here that would be a very poor result againt ten men. Should be no excuses.
Youris been awful in my opinion
Not seen anything from Ramsay, a passenger again.
Was the reason axel got sent off to be fair
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Can Asensio take free kicks because ours have been shite again
I saw a stat recently that on average only 5% go in. I don’t think we are particularly bad at them.
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We’re all over them without actually threatening that much . Ollies miss looked poor from where we are sat . Can’t see any result but a Villa win though .
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Poor half. Really bad.
If we drop points here that would be a very poor result againt ten men. Should be no excuses.
Youris been awful in my opinion
Not seen anything from Ramsay, a passenger again.
Was the reason axel got sent off to be fair
only time he had a go , hes been under par as well as a few of them.
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Isn’t this deliberate though - step it up after an hour similar to wet spam in the cup.
I don't think giving ourselves 30 mins to win a game would be the best strategy.
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It needs changing up at HT as it isn't working
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8 shots, 4 corners, 67% possession even before the red, passing through their midfield with ease, winning the ball back on the break and controlling the tempo.
We’re not winning but this is hardly shit football.
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Watkins in missing an easy chance his great movement made possible shocker. Just win this crappy game and pray Kamara is back soon.
Yes, he does all his best work when he's nowhere near the ball. Magic. Perhaps we could find him a job in the new shop.
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Can Asensio take free kicks because ours have been shite again
I saw a stat recently that on average only 5% go in. I don’t think we are particularly bad at them.
no point having them .
Mind there was a good one when he had it ruled out ( Malen)
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Can Asensio take free kicks because ours have been shite again
Pretty sure Rashford has scored a few direct Freekicks.
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Can Asensio take free kicks because ours have been shite again
I'd like to see him on the right where's there's acres of space with the impressive Malen inside.
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Poor half. Really bad.
If we drop points here that would be a very poor result againt ten men. Should be no excuses.
Youris been awful in my opinion
Not seen anything from Ramsay, a passenger again.
What? Ramsey’s been good.
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We need to move the ball quicker. We do that we win the game.
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Can Asensio take free kicks because ours have been shite again
I'd like to see him on the right where's there's acres of space with the impressive Malen inside.
Malen has been the best player If you can call it best
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Can Asensio take free kicks because ours have been shite again
I saw a stat recently that on average only 5% go in. I don’t think we are particularly bad at them.
I don't think we're far from the ball being played short and trying to build from there for free kicks. They're low percentage chances where the defending team and keeper is set. Surprised Guardiola hasn't lapped it up already.
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We must come out of this with a solid comfortable win, its bad enough they are down to 10 men as an excuse, 3 or 4 goals second half.
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Fullbacks are finally getting higher after the red. I would switch Garcia with Asensio and let him roam. I'd also bring Rashford on for Watkins...and increase the intensity. This game is there for the taking.
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They're well coached and set up and work hard within their system.
We need to keep playing and chances will come.
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Sixteen less goals than last season, Watkins misses makes up for a lot of them. Not sure what it is with him but it is not working.
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Maatsen and Rashy coming on
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looks like maatsen on
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Sixteen less goals than last season, Watkins misses makes up for a lot of them. Not sure what it is with him but it is not working.
Its certainly a major concern
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rashford deef
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Garcia’s ace.
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Digne and JJ off
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Rashford on thank goodness
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Suprised maatsen on.
Bit hopefully rash can make a difference
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Rashford doubles our shots on target for this game.
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need to punish them here
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Rashford doubles our shots on target for this game.
We have to except he's a different class, as we will see.
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What's with all the crap shooting
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Keep this up and we'll be fine.
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Keep what up. Playing crap and not having many shots ?
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Keep what up. Playing crap and not having many shots ?
No, you're right. You just carry on wetting your knickers.
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Any trickle?
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0-1 Delap
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Keep what up. Playing crap and not having many shots ?
No, you're right. You just carry on wetting your knickers.
Oooops
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Simply shocked, wtf
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Wow.
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ffs Villa
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Unfuckingbelievable
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Jesus Christ
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I give up
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Keep what up. Playing crap and not having many shots ?
No, you're right. You just carry on wetting your knickers.
Just stating facts kid
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Keep what up. Playing crap and not having many shots ?
No, you're right. You just carry on wetting your knickers.
Just stating facts kid
Did you celebrate their goal, though?
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I put this crap down to yet another passive half asleep first half, they fancy this.
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Oh just fuck off
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They’ll be even harder to break down now.
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Keep what up. Playing crap and not having many shots ?
No, you're right. You just carry on wetting your knickers.
Just stating facts kid
Naus
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Might need Asensio on to pick the lock of a tight defence now they’ll sit back.
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That is just embarrassing.
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mcginn and disiasi poor there
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We are pathetically soft. This team has 10 men and lost to Southampton.
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Peak Villa
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mcginn and disiasi poor there
McGinn has been abysmal.
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How the fuck did he beat three players to that ball?
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When will we ever keep a clean sheet again.
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FFS so rubbish
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How the fuck did he beat three players to that ball?
Scary
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-4 GD
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Great effort maatsen
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Dear oh dear that's abysmal
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get marco on for watkins malen up top
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Getting what we deserve at the moment for faffing around.
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Rogers has been particularly shit.
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Keep what up. Playing crap and not having many shots ?
No, you're right. You just carry on wetting your knickers.
Just stating facts kid
Did you celebrate their goal, though?
.why would i celebrate that you wierdo?
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At least we might start running at more than jogging pace now.
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If we weren't villa fans this would be laughable.
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Might need Asensio on to pick the lock of a tight defence now they’ll sit back.
Now?
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How the fuck did he beat three players to that ball?
Yeah also how easily was Maatsen beaten down the wing
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That is just piss poor defending…3 of them beaten to the ball ffs. Meanwhile we continue to fail to break them down.
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Might need Asensio on to pick the lock of a tight defence now they’ll sit back.
Now?
Even more then!
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Shit free kick incoming.
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That is just piss poor defending…3 of them beaten to the ball ffs. Meanwhile we continue to fail to break them down.
Maatsen skinned alive also
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Marco coming on
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Shit free kick incoming.
Correct.
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That we NEED Asensio to change the game is a sad state of affairs where playing second bottom ten man Ipswich at Villa Park.
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Phillips has played really well. Closing space all game. Snapping in. I thought he was shit now?
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Malen off Asensio on
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just let rashford take it ffs another shite one
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We don’t look like scoring here, at all. It’s another really poor display the moment.
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Philips played well at their place in other words he plays well twice a season.
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Get this sorted Villa
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get marco on for watkins malen up top
Agree.
I am sick of hearing Watkins work rate, yada yada yada.
We need goals. A team with a -4 GD is not a top 6 side.
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Our set pieces are abysmal
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Watkins is undroppable.
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Qualifying for the CL is so last year.
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Another game we thought we had to just turn up to win.
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No penalty what a surprise.
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I shouldn't have said I was looking forward to this. It never, ever turns out well.
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How I long for those great performances like the one we put in at Wolves two weeks ago.
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No penalty what a surprise.
Would have been harsh
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I was laughing at Chelsea last night - this is truly awful. Sort it out Unai, we’ve gifted them this game.
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If you only go for it for 10-20 mins a game it's going to bite you on the backside. As we keep finding out.
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Getting cut adrfit in mid table now. Hanging out with the Brentford's and Brighton's of the world. What a time to be alive.
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SCORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRCHIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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OLLIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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YEESSSSSSS
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Thank fuck for that. Now go and fucking win it Villa
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See I told you he was unstoppable
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Thank the lord
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Well done Ollie and super well done Rashy
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told you to let rashford take them
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Well done Rashford
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Get in. Now sort this out and close it out Villa
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We've broken them now lets go and win it ffs
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Ollie!
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Thank fuck for that.
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Get in
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And what a fucking great free kick from Rashford
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Cracking free kick, super strike from
Ollie
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Fair play to Ollie too. Great reaction to the rebound
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Fucking yes! What a free kick. Great following up by Watkins.
Thank fuck for that.
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Rashford on free kicks from now on please.
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Quite superb
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Get in great finish great free kick
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Asensio, turning them inside out
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Ooooh Morgan close from a brilliant cross by Asensio
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Keep what up. Playing crap and not having many shots ?
No, you're right. You just carry on wetting your knickers.
Just stating facts kid
Did you celebrate their goal, though?
.why would i celebrate that you wierdo?
You post a quickly as you can when someone misplaces a pass, when someone makes a foul but not when we score. Hilarious and predictable.
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Come on second quickly.
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Keep what up. Playing crap and not having many shots ?
No, you're right. You just carry on wetting your knickers.
Just stating facts kid
Did you celebrate their goal, though?
.why would i celebrate that you wierdo?
You post a quickly as you can when someone misplaces a pass, when someone makes a foul but not when we score. Hilarious and predictable.
Hear,hear
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is that an assist for rashford?
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Marco misses a sitter that would have seen Ollie get two pages worth of pelters
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Shooting practice on the training ground next week please.
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is that an assist for rashford?
Nah, won't count as that.
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is that an assist for rashford?
Not sure, against the bar.
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As predicted, we started running around a lot quicker when we went behind, and lo and behold started to create chances.
We've spent far too much of this season playing in second gear.
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is that an assist for rashford?
Not sure, against the bar.
Yes for FPL, no for other people who keep records of such things.
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is that an assist for rashford?
is that an assist for rashford?
Nah, won't count as that.
It will on Fantasy Football
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As predicted, we started running around a lot quicker when we went behind, and lo and behold started to create chances.
We've spent far too much of this season playing in second gear.
Spot on
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The goal for anyone that hasn't seen it
https://x.com/AlainaParn12301/status/1890800584996860148
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rashford class
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Asensio close
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Shouldnt be drawing with these. Got to start being clinical in finishing
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I love Villa but we really do make hard work of winning.
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Suddenly Lev Yashin in goal
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Delap off makes you know what they’ll be doing to the end of the game
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Suddenly Lev Yashin in goal
Its like they morph into this ten armed monster
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The goal for anyone that hasn't seen it
https://x.com/AlainaParn12301/status/1890800584996860148
Thank you
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Fack orf Bournemouth.
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Currently 9th as it stands. Really need all three points from this Villa
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Come on Villa we need all 3, all over them
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Asensio is a handful
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We won’t score another here.
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Watkins is undroppable.
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Pissed off given Ipswich have lost the last 4. Got to stop gifting points and murder teams
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Asensio looks levels above the rest of them.
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Only thing Rashy can finish is a big dinner.
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Watkins is undroppable.
I see what you’re doing…..
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Silly for Rashford to volley that
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The post match thread is going to be fucking shit if we don’t find a winner. We’ve created so many chances and as per usual a stupid goal is set things back. A draw would be a very poor result.
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If this was us under the cosh from our relegation season you know the opponents are scoring
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Need to bring Duran on
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We're getting into that, we could be doing this all day and still not score, area.
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The post match thread is going to be fucking shit if we don’t find a winner. We’ve created so many chances and as per usual a stupid goal is set things back. A draw would be a very poor result.
Agreed. This season is so inconsistent. We will nothing from the scousers so needed 3 points here. To not beat Ipswich this season is fucking horrible
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Whatever happens this is a poor performance.
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Can we please have a lot of stoppage time if it’s still 1-1
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Time running out, come on Villa
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It ain’t coming.
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So much time killed by Ipswich there
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I am a bit moany this evening but surely we can put the likes of ipswich to bed. Really frustrating that after last year we have a nose bleed again and settling for mid table. Need that fight as CL was in our grasp again. I want us to be in Europe every season but need some bollocks now and not keep conceding
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4
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4 mins added time
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4 minutes to sort this
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This is just poor.
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Is that all
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He’s back again.
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Make one of these fucking corners count FFS
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I don't think it can be overstated (overstated?) how shit Spurs were last week.
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Rogers
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Putting a corner straight out at this stage is incredibly poor
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2 points from West Ham, Wolves and Ipswich is a very poor return.
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concentrate on the FA cup I reckon
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Just shit Villa. Just shit
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How is this happening.
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What a save, wanker
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Set pieces have largely gone to absolute shit.
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COME ON VILLA
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The ****** has become the best of all of the great keepers in history
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That’s that. Utter shit
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Full time
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Goalie playing like he’s World class
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The ****** has become the best of all of the great keepers in history
Next week he will let 20 in
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how the fcuk that didnt went in - so unlucky
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Rubbish
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An awful performance and result. A 10 man Ipswich at home. Only Villa.
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start with rashford and aseenio you win that
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We've got our Villa back. Grrrrr
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Absolutely poor by Villa, at this point in the season this is as bad as it gets.
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Really poor result to add to an ever-growing list. I'm going out when Southampton come to town.
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The villa of old. Piss poor and quite frankly embarrassing result
The subs were excellent though
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Really not good enough by a long way
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Absolute shit show again. Needs sorting out as what is the excuse against relegation fodder Ipswich? With the attacking line up we have. It is just poor
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The villa of old. Piss poor and quite frankly embarrassing result
The subs were excellent though
The only embarrassment was you
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Think we have more chance of qualifying for CL next season through winning it this year than we do through the league.
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Even against ten men we are one paced, movement across the pitch is pedestrian. This tip tapping across the backline does my head in. Against ten men for most of the game and we still can't win. Rashford our best player by a mile.
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Yet again Villa bottle the chance to climb the league. Yet again we have no idea how to play against 10 men. Make the pitch big, plenty of width and quick passing. We did none of this. So frustrating. As for the defending for the Ipswich goal, it's criminal.
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The villa of old. Piss poor and quite frankly embarrassing result
The subs were excellent though
The only embarrassment was you
And hows that alex? You cant accept abit of criticism of the side your post is rather embarrassing
This a forum where people can express their opinions just so your aware
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The villa of old. Piss poor and quite frankly embarrassing result
The subs were excellent though
The only embarrassment was you
And hows that alex? You cant accept abit of criticism of the side your post is rather embarrassing
This a forum where people can express their opinions just so your aware
Gibberish as per
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The villa of old. Piss poor and quite frankly embarrassing result
The subs were excellent though
The only embarrassment was you
And hows that alex? You cant accept abit of criticism of the side your post is rather embarrassing
This a forum where people can express their opinions just so your aware
Gibberish as per
Good one. Great way to prove your point 😂
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4 league games without a win despite playing WHU Ipswich n Wolves
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The villa of old. Piss poor and quite frankly embarrassing result
The subs were excellent though
The only embarrassment was you
And hows that alex? You cant accept abit of criticism of the side your post is rather embarrassing
This a forum where people can express their opinions just so your aware
Gibberish as per
Good one. Great way to prove your point 😂
You are one giant tool
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We seem to have an aversion to playing directly down the middle.
I would imagine that the Ipswich centre half pairing, facing players like Watkins, Rogers, and Rashford were more than happy to see us play it endlessly from left to right in front of them instead of villa putting the ball behind them.