Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: kippaxvilla2 on August 20, 2025, 02:18:53 PM
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Saturday 3pm.
Can someone please add a poll?
I’m trying to distract us from the transfer nightmares that now include us worrying about a right back some of us want shot of actually leaving.
Anyway 0-2.
As in to us.
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Can’t see Wissa being involved
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Hopefully we’ll try and win this one. The more I reflect on Saturday, it’s disappointing we set up so negatively.
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Hopefully we’ll try and win this one. The more I reflect on Saturday, it’s disappointing we set up so negatively.
I think he tried to stack the midfield to match up to them. Net result, Tielemans didn't see enough of the ball. That needs to be fixed either by him dropping back alongside Kamara and dropping Onana or by Pau playing (which he will have to anyway) and him being able to open up the passing lanes.
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Yep which is inherently negative, we set up to stop them. It was the wrong approach, so I hope we’ll be a bit more balanced in our approach.
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I don't think we set up that way, it just happened. I reckon that they, rightly, got a kick up the arse at half-time and were more like it second half until the sending off. Anyway, not sure what to expect here. Kamara did well at centre-half on Saturday but I'd rather he was back in midfield, here. Draw wouldn't be a total disaster but be great if we could get a win. Preferably with Ollie scoring a hat-trick to annoy their dish it out but can't take it crybaby fans.
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We've seen it a lot from Emery; play safe first half and open up second. Konsa seeing red finished us really.
I expect to win on Saturday.
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We'll win 3-1.
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Play it safe is one thing, that first half was a shocker. But perhaps it was just rustiness, although I do think the set up way wrong and didn’t give us enough width.
Hopefully we’ll have sharpened up a lot on Saturday.
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0-3 I think Brentford will be in serious trouble this season.
On to the next one.
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I’m on mobile and can never seem to do it on here.
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Make sure you're on "full site" and all the options should be there.
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Thanks.
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A very unpretty 1-0 win
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The line up last Saturday was extremely negative
Digne for Maartsen, Maartsen is more attacking but not as good defensively
Mings for Pao, same as above
then he played with 2 holding midfielders to stop them playing
McGinn out in the left wing which doesn’t work and we had no out ball
Not saying that all those changes should have been made obviously not, but what I am saying is in Every area where a decision had to be made he went for the defensive option in every case, hence we didn’t have a single attempt on goal in the first half
At home we have got to be more progressive and attacking, we are good enough we’ve seen that in the past when we’ve taken the game to some top sides
Take Onana out and put Malen in or the new lad have a go show some confidence that we arn’t scared of the opposition especially at home, like I say we’ve done it before
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I'm assuming Brentford still have a load of 7 foot tall mutants at the back. I'd definitely be leaving Onana in. I suspect the team will be much the same as last week but with Martinez back and a question of how we replace Konsa. If we can, hopefully, avoid any more red cards, we have more options to change it if it isn't going well.
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There's no reason we shouldn't bully Brentford this weekend, I'm going 3-1 to the good.
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I'm assuming Brentford still have a load of 7 foot tall mutants at the back. I'd definitely be leaving Onana in. I suspect the team will be much the same as last week but with Martinez back and a question of how we replace Konsa. If we can, hopefully, avoid any more red cards, we have more options to change it if it isn't going well.
Martinez
Cash/Garcia Kamara Mings Digne
Onana Tielemans
Malen Rogers McGinn
Watkins
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A must-win which we should, even if it's not pretty. 2-1 to us, Asensio and Jackson.
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4 points from our first 2 games is the minimum we should be getting. If it comes through a win in game 2 versus the other way around so be it. Brentford are not very good and we need to take full advantage. I hope we don't play with any kind of conservative or negative intent.
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They are desperate, it’s always a battle so expect them to give us a good kicking.
Hope the ref is strong enough and our players know what is coming and are prepared for it.
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1-4
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Any kind of win will do. Tielemans back in midfield will be crucial.
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Hate playing Brentford, especially away. Niggley bunch of f**kers.
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Ben Mee and Mapauy spring to mind
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I've still got PTSD from the two consecutive midweek humpings at Griffin Road in the second division. Horrible. At least I was only three bus stops from home.
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Ben Mee and Mapauy spring to mind
And Nathan Collins....came on as sub at their place last season, with about 15 minutes to go, clearly with instructions to kick the feck out of our midfielders. Ref eventually booked him in added time after his 8th foul. And I don't think he touched the ball more than twice.
Deano had them playing some great stuff in Div 2.
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Probably a good time to play this fixture given the shit summer they've had and their new fella already under pressure.
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I have a very good feeling we will win comfortably. 3-0 to us, a brace for Ollie and a Roger’s special.
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Wonder if Mosquera will be on the bench, with Konsa unavailable?
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Losing players left, right and centre, desperate for replacements and struggling for form and goals.
But, enough about us. Bees 1 Villa 0.