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Offline MONCABA

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Re: Aston Villa v Manchester City Post-Match Thread
« Reply #510 on: September 29, 2013, 08:54:35 PM »
MotD

How excited did Motty sound?
Maybe he's a closet Villa fan

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Re: Aston Villa v Manchester City Post-Match Thread
« Reply #511 on: September 29, 2013, 08:56:16 PM »
I'm afraid to watch the highlights in case el Ahmadi is given offside. Wrong tactics, wrong team,right result. Bollocks to it all. We deserved it because we scored the better goals.

Back to 4-3-3 next week, three wins on the trot since I dunno when.


What would the right team and tactics have been then?

Man City is probably one of he worst teams to play three at the back against. They have good players on the flanks that will pin back your wing backs and just Dzeko through the middle occupying three centre backs. We effectively played a lot of the game with 10 men.

If we wanted to be hard to beat we could have played 4-4-2, the old two solid banks of 4, or stuck with our usual 4-3-3.

They didn't have just Dzeko though, Negredo was playing up the middle too, although you'd be excused for not noticing as he got nothing out of our back three.

He got it right, for me it was El Ahmadi killing us in the first half with his shadow play. Thankfully he put it right a bit in the second half, but he's a weak link for me.

I think with our forwards we didn't even really need a number 10 type player, just another Sylla type to eat ground and be tidy. Delph can then work his magic further up.


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Re: Aston Villa v Manchester City Post-Match Thread
« Reply #512 on: September 29, 2013, 11:16:05 PM »
KEA was onside I reckon.

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Re: Aston Villa v Manchester City Post-Match Thread
« Reply #513 on: September 29, 2013, 11:19:57 PM »
KEA was offside IMHO, but lovely to hear the great dane say how the players are behinf the manager judging what Bacuna did after his goal and we will be a force in a couple of years

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Re: Aston Villa v Manchester City Post-Match Thread
« Reply #514 on: September 29, 2013, 11:20:50 PM »
Nice words from Schmeichel on MOTD2 there.

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Re: Aston Villa v Manchester City Post-Match Thread
« Reply #515 on: September 29, 2013, 11:23:34 PM »

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Re: Aston Villa v Manchester City Post-Match Thread
« Reply #516 on: September 29, 2013, 11:26:35 PM »
KEA was offside IMHO, but lovely to hear the great dane say how the players are behinf the manager judging what Bacuna did after his goal and we will be a force in a couple of years


Going by the definition given earlier on in this post match discussion KEA was onside the way I see it.  The part of him that was level with the last defender was the foot he used to score the goal.  Therefore under current rules that makes him onside by my estimation.

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Re: Aston Villa v Manchester City Post-Match Thread
« Reply #517 on: September 29, 2013, 11:26:45 PM »
Dzeko wasn't ...for their first goal!

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Re: Aston Villa v Manchester City Post-Match Thread
« Reply #518 on: September 29, 2013, 11:28:10 PM »
Nice words from Schmeichel on MOTD2 there.

I had to miss it tonight, what did he say about us??

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Re: Aston Villa v Manchester City Post-Match Thread
« Reply #519 on: September 29, 2013, 11:45:07 PM »
See above

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Re: Aston Villa v Manchester City Post-Match Thread
« Reply #520 on: September 29, 2013, 11:50:07 PM »
Nice words from Schmeichel on MOTD2 there.

I had to miss it tonight, what did he say about us??
Posted on Confidence in Manger thread.

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Re: Aston Villa v Manchester City Post-Match Thread
« Reply #521 on: September 30, 2013, 12:42:45 AM »
Anyone else mentioned our record with Mike Jones in the middle? Only defeat was 3-2 in the FA Cup a few years back.

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Re: Aston Villa v Manchester City Post-Match Thread
« Reply #522 on: September 30, 2013, 01:00:31 AM »
KEA was offside IMHO, but lovely to hear the great dane say how the players are behinf the manager judging what Bacuna did after his goal and we will be a force in a couple of years


Going by the definition given earlier on in this post match discussion KEA was onside the way I see it.  The part of him that was level with the last defender was the foot he used to score the goal.  Therefore under current rules that makes him onside by my estimation.
Nope, if any part of your body that you can score from is offside, you're offside. Doesn't matter if you use that sort or not. I'm nit complaining, but that's the rule.

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Re: Aston Villa v Manchester City Post-Match Thread
« Reply #523 on: September 30, 2013, 03:05:57 AM »
Anyone else mentioned our record with Mike Jones in the middle? Only defeat was 3-2 in the FA Cup a few years back.

Only last year (Arsenal 3-2, Jan '12 wasn't it?). But unbeaten in 12 or something, now.

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Re: Aston Villa v Manchester City Post-Match Thread
« Reply #524 on: September 30, 2013, 06:47:39 AM »
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Man City is probably one of he worst teams to play three at the back against. They have good players on the flanks that will pin back your wing backs and just Dzeko through the middle occupying three centre backs. We effectively played a lot of the game with 10 men.

If we wanted to be hard to beat we could have played 4-4-2, the old two solid banks of 4, or stuck with our usual 4-3-3.

We were hard to beat playing 3-5-2.

As it turned out we were, yes. I wouldn't fancy us repeating the trick though. Maybe like at Anfield last year it was the surprise that worked to our advantage. Whatever City were setting themselves up for during the week, it probably wasn't us playing three at the back.

 


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