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Author Topic: Nine years ago today  (Read 1032 times)

Offline kippaxvilla2

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Nine years ago today
« on: September 13, 2024, 08:40:54 PM »
Leicester 3 Villa 2.  The beginning of the beginning of the end.

Offline dcdavecollett

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Re: Nine years ago today
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2024, 12:53:51 AM »
Watched this one in the pub.

Couldn't believe the lack of subs when our midfield was struggling at 2-0 up.

Couldn't believe the arm-twirling 'signals' from the bench either.

Could believe him blaming everything on the furrins, though, the proto-Brexit twat.

Offline Dave P

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Re: Nine years ago today
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2024, 01:33:06 PM »
A sliding doors game for sure, but the actual moment within this game when it all went to shit was when Tactics Tim brought a forward on at 65 mins when we were 2-0 up.  In fact the whole disaterclass of our substitutions that day is laid bare in the BBC live blog https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/33838830

Offline dcdavecollett

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Re: Nine years ago today
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2024, 12:55:27 AM »
Absolutely.

It was clear from the way the game was going that we were struggling to contain their midfield. We needed to get a forward off to bring on someone to crowd out the middle and negate Leicester's possession.

Instead, what happened was as you have described.

 


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