Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: PeterWithesShin on November 27, 2025, 07:48:29 PM
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Never in doubt.
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Played well first half. Malen class again, has to start now.
Jon done.
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Never in doubt.
You always say that. I'm sick of winning by the skin of our teeth. It can't last... Bring back the chastening defeats.
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Win’s a win, but blimey we make a hard slog of some of these European games. Lovely finishes from Malen.
Guessand, I really hope it’s confidence, but at the moment he doesn’t appear to have anything except he works hard.
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Played well first half. Malen class again, has to start now.
Jon done.
Who is Jon, I hoper he's better soon.
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3 points, no damage done, extra minutes in some legs, Harvey sighted. All good.
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Guessand, I really hope it’s confidence, but at the moment he doesn’t appear to have anything except he works hard.
Which makes him one better than Sancho
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Joint top (second behind Midtjylland who lost their first game of the tournament).
Braga and Lyon can go above us (joint on points) and they are playing away to Rangers and Maccabi respectively.
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Sancho was alright imo, far better than Guessand.
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About 90% of our attacks broke down with Sancho. He’s skilful but end product is non-existent.
Malen and Rogers together is exciting
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Sancho was alright imo, far better than Guessand.
Agreed. Sancho actually tried to do something on the ball.
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Guessand, I really hope it’s confidence, but at the moment he doesn’t appear to have anything except he works hard.
Which makes him one better than Sancho
Sancho was light years ahead of Guessand
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Guessand, I really hope it’s confidence, but at the moment he doesn’t appear to have anything except he works hard.
Which makes him one better than Sancho
It doesn’t. Sancho tried to do something attacking.
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What was t'crowd?
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We're a funny team/squad. So many players that don't look up to it or are out of form. Yet we win practically every game we play.
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Played well for 60 mins then unnecessarily sloppy at the end to make it a little twitchy.
Now let's smash Barcahampton on Sunday.
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Guessand, I really hope it’s confidence, but at the moment he doesn’t appear to have anything except he works hard.
Which makes him one better than Sancho
It doesn’t. Sancho tried to do something attacking.
He did but to my eye at least, achieved absolutely nothing.
I don’t think either have offered anything all season. Including against some really poor teams.
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We won that game by a big toe when we should have won it by at least six goals.
Goal difference could be important in reaching top 8 and this was our best chance.
A win is a win but flustrating to watch.
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We definitely need more from Sancho but he's a much bigger threat than Guessand. More chance i'd score or assist than him and i'm at home.
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We won that game by a big toe when we should have won it by at least six goals.
Well we would have done had Malen stayed on.
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We definitely need more from Sancho but he's a much bigger threat than Guessand. More chance i'd score or assist than him and i'm at home.
I want to distance myself from any suggestion that I was praising Guessand. I just wanted to shine a light on Sancho’s lack of effort off the ball.
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Apparently the YBs fans hit Malen with a Toblerone. Those jagged edges are dangerous. Pricks.
(https://i.ibb.co/fY75x1c4/IMG-8438.jpg) (https://ibb.co/fY75x1c4)
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Apparently the YBs fans hit Malen with a Toblerone. Those jagged edges are dangerous. Pricks.
At least it wasn't an alphorn.
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Sancho was alright imo, far better than Guessand.
Aye, Guessand again did very little and looked afraid to shoot.
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That was much harder than it should have been, apart from Ollie's effort, can't remember us really testing their goalie second half, but an important 3 points. Instead of Ollie I would play The Don upfront on Sunday.
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That was much harder than it should have been, apart from Ollie's effort, can't remember us really testing their goalie second half, but an important 3 points. Instead of Ollie I would play The Don upfront on Sunday.
Agree mate.
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I thought we looked comfortable for the the first 80 minutes without getting out of first gear, also using a lot of squad players getting valuale playing time.
Points in the bag, job done.
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That was much harder than it should have been, apart from Ollie's effort, can't remember us really testing their goalie second half, but an important 3 points. Instead of Ollie I would play The Don upfront on Sunday.
Agree mate.
I’m shocked.
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That was much harder than it should have been, apart from Ollie's effort, can't remember us really testing their goalie second half, but an important 3 points. Instead of Ollie I would play The Don upfront on Sunday.
Agree mate.
I’m shocked.
You must agree though surely. Can't keep starting Watkins when Malen is playing like this.
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Excellent first half. Not as good second half but we did enough to win the game. A bit concerning that the subs didn’t step up.
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That was much harder than it should have been, apart from Ollie's effort, can't remember us really testing their goalie second half, but an important 3 points. Instead of Ollie I would play The Don upfront on Sunday.
Agree mate.
I’m shocked.
You must agree though surely. Can't keep starting Watkins when Malen is playing like this.
Yeah I don’t mind Don starting against Wolves. But against good opposition I think his hold up play needs work or he needs to play off a main striker.
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Sancho was alright imo, far better than Guessand.
Both were awful.
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Did anyone stay much past the end? I left more or less bang on final whistle as didn’t want to keep my lift waiting but it seemed like the YB players didn't go over to clap their twatty fans. Fair play, if so.
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Our bench was like a second starting 11 tonight, probably as strong if not stronger than the 11 on the pitch.
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That was much harder than it should have been, apart from Ollie's effort, can't remember us really testing their goalie second half, but an important 3 points. Instead of Ollie I would play The Don upfront on Sunday.
Agree mate.
I’m shocked.
You must agree though surely. Can't keep starting Watkins when Malen is playing like this.
He’ll start on Sunday even if to just wear the ‘heads down and Malen to finish them off. I just hope he finds a way to score.
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Blimey, it’s been a few years since I’ve witnessed crowd trouble like that. Has Malen got some sort of history versus Young Boys? He certainly made a point of going over to them.
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Complacency is what we served up tonight. We are much better than them, we knew it, they knew it and our better players decided a half arsed performance would suffice. They were right. Even so, Morgan Rogers, work on your passing, the assist for Malen’s 2nd apart was awful. Sancho, tried but was wasteful when it mattered. Guessand, the Afcon can’t come quick enough. He’s just not very good, he’s not even good, average or has potential. There is nothing there I see, that says , he could be great with a bit of coaching. Nah.
Malen MOM. I’m starting to feel sorry for Watkins, he’s in a bad place at the moment. Malen is our main man now for me. It’s up to Ollie to convince us otherwise.
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Probably the worst trouble in Villa Park for over 30 years - if not longer. Seats on the pitch, players bottled, coppers fighting fans… what will their punishment be?
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Purring first half and early second. Some of the best football we've played this season.
Wonder if Moussa D is bored enough playing part time football and fancies plugging a gap for us. He plays tonight and we bag 3-4 goals in that opening period and put the game to bed.
Doesn't have to be him, ofc.
But ideally -as a team with aspirations to win this comp and do well domestically- we might want some sort of attacking threat out wide on at least one flank. Not too much to ask is it.
The Guessman and Sancho aren't going to provide that, as they've illustrated time again. Close to the midway point of the season now. Excuses are running out for the pair of them.
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Good win even if it should have been more comfortable than it was. Went sloppy once all the subs came on. Malen looking very sharp. He'll start on Sunday.
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Did anyone stay much past the end? I left more or less bang on final whistle as didn’t want to keep my lift waiting but it seemed like the YB players didn't go over to clap their twatty fans. Fair play, if so.
They did go over to their fans after the game, it took a while to get out of the North Stand.
It took even longer to get in, we missed the first 15 after spending 2 hours to get there from Worcester, and when we got there late the brains trust decided to only have 1 turnstile open for late comers, I hope we ever have a 5.45pm home game again.