The main point is, which perhaps PL hasn't grasped, is that most teams play slightly different away from home to the way they play at home. The away team is usually set up to play a more defensive style and it is then the job of the home team to counter this and find a way of attacking them successfully so that they score a goal. If the home team succeeds in scoring a goal then the away team has to change its tactics to enable it to score an equaliser.
So, to say we play exactly the same at home as we do away, is IMO very naive and if it is 100 per cent correct, shows a very poor set of tactics.
The Guardian summed it up pretty well in their "FA Cup third round: 10 talking points from this weekend's action"This is alarming when you see the stats. At some point our away form will return to normality and we will be completely buggered.
1) Villa's appalling home record continues
There were plenty of empty seats inside Villa Park on Saturday but it is more remarkable how many home supporters continue to turn up. Villa's record at home over the last two and a-half years has been nothing short of appalling, which is why the 2-1 defeat by League One Sheffield United in the FA Cup was not the shock some might consider it to be. Villa have won only 11 of 48 Premier League home games going back to the start of the 2011-12 season, when Alex McLeish was in charge. Of the 15 teams that have been in the top flight throughout that period, Villa have scored the fewest number of goals and they are the only club to fail to average a point per game in front of their own supporters. Broaden the sample to include all 26 clubs that have featured in the Premier League since 2011-12 and only Wolverhampton Wanderers and Bolton Wanderers, both of whom were relegated, averaged fewer points at home. Villa, in short, are escaping the bottom three purely as a result of their away form, which, in fairness, is remarkably good – they have picked up more points on their travels this season than second-placed Manchester City and as many as third-placed Chelsea. It is not, however, much fun if you are a regular visitor to Villa Park, where victories and entertainment are in short supply. Humiliating cup defeats against lower-league opposition merely compound the misery.
In short:First two i agree with. Last one, well , open to question really.
1) Attitude of our fans
2) The fact away teams perceive us still as a big club due to our excellent stadium and and thus the big teams don't rest players
3) The pitch is so big it suits play-makers, of which we have none
our players , cuz there lower league players with no premiership quality along side them, shit their selves in a ground the size of ours, and the preconceived expectation
Lambert you are making our return to where we where just four years ago harder
Lambert's a ******.our players , cuz there lower league players with no premiership quality along side them, shit their selves in a ground the size of ours, and the preconceived expectation
Lambert you are making our return to where we where just four years ago harder
Can someone translate please?
our players , cuz there lower league players with no premiership quality along side them, shit their selves in a ground the size of ours, and the preconceived expectation
Lambert you are making our return to where we where just four years ago harder
Can someone translate please?
You kids!In short:First two i agree with. Last one, well , open to question really.
1) Attitude of our fans
2) The fact away teams perceive us still as a big club due to our excellent stadium and and thus the big teams don't rest players
3) The pitch is so big it suits play-makers, of which we have none
There really is some mass hysteria going on and some people clearly topping up from Christmas on the old sauce.
Better off points wise than this time last season, better off goal difference wise, more clean sheets than the whole of last season, this with some significant injuries and our main goalscorer out of form / still not recovered from injury.
A season and a half into rebuilding the squad from the mess it was in I would love to know what points tally / position some people think we should be at.
Still 100% behind PL.
UTV.
There really is some mass hysteria going on and some people clearly topping up from Christmas on the old sauce.
Better off points wise than this time last season, better off goal difference wise, more clean sheets than the whole of last season, this with some significant injuries and our main goalscorer out of form / still not recovered from injury.
A season and a half into rebuilding the squad from the mess it was in I would love to know what points tally / position some people think we should be at.
Still 100% behind PL.
UTV.
I'd expect a home record a couple of rungs up the ladder from 'disgraceful' and for us not to be knocked out of cup competitions by teams from each of the three lower divisions than ours.
Saw an interview with Danny Murphy recently, and he said he always enjoyed playing at Villa Park because of the size of the pitch, he also said other players said the same thing, he also said it worked against Villa because playing on such a big pitch every week was tiring us out.In short:First two i agree with. Last one, well , open to question really.
1) Attitude of our fans
2) The fact away teams perceive us still as a big club due to our excellent stadium and and thus the big teams don't rest players
3) The pitch is so big it suits play-makers, of which we have none
Further to this, if opposing players openly discuss enjoying playing at VP, that has to tell us somethings fundamentally wrong somewhere.Saw an interview with Danny Murphy recently, and he said he always enjoyed playing at Villa Park because of the size of the pitch, he also said other players said the same thing, he also said it worked against Villa because playing on such a big pitch every week was tiring us out.In short:First two i agree with. Last one, well , open to question really.
1) Attitude of our fans
2) The fact away teams perceive us still as a big club due to our excellent stadium and and thus the big teams don't rest players
3) The pitch is so big it suits play-makers, of which we have none
Saw an interview with Danny Murphy recently, and he said he always enjoyed playing at Villa Park because of the size of the pitch, he also said other players said the same thing, he also said it worked against Villa because playing on such a big pitch every week was tiring us out.In short:First two i agree with. Last one, well , open to question really.
1) Attitude of our fans
2) The fact away teams perceive us still as a big club due to our excellent stadium and and thus the big teams don't rest players
3) The pitch is so big it suits play-makers, of which we have none
This guy is the problem. He's just not good enough imo.(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BJ-0wNoCcAAaOjH.jpg)
I still blame the fans.
I still blame the fans.
Well worth a read (http://www.astonvillalife.com/aston-villa-blog/a-home-advantage-curse-the-psychological-view/)
I still blame the fans.
Those that do attend are "supporters" so please start supporting the team for 90 min no matter how shit we look at the time.
The Liverpool game(and other awaydays) shows we CAN play when the shackles are off at VP.
Take a leaf from the Brigada boys!