Aston Villa vs Burnley Post-Match Thread

[villan from luton]

All of arsenals threat is in midfield , win that duel we win the cup .
I think we will go Xmas tree 3421

---------Guzan-------

---vlaar -- okore -- baker

Hutton Delph westwood cleverly

----- Grealish ------Nzogbia
----------Benteke -----------

Think you have had more to drink than me

[Toronto Villa]

That team would get torn to shreds through the flanks.

[silhillvilla]

That team would get torn to shreds through the flanks.

I've assumed cissoko and Richardson are out. Who would you play TV ?

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

All of arsenals threat is in midfield , win that duel we win the cup .
I think we will go Xmas tree 3421

---------Guzan-------

---vlaar -- okore -- baker

Hutton Delph westwood cleverly

----- Grealish ------Nzogbia
----------Benteke -----------

Think you have had more to drink than me

Is that a polite way of saying they're talking shit?

Clearly he'll go with the team and formation that has served him well.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Not so sure about that john2710, I think he will be tempted to start Hutton at right back

Surely we've learnt to play to our strengths and utilising our best players. Now, Bacuna is far from our best player, but he'll contribute more to allowing our better players, especially Benteke, to play better than Hutton.

Too many years of defending has made people forget the object of football is to score goals.

The main role of a full back is to defend and Bacuna yet again today showed he has lots to learn on that front

Not in this TS side it's not. It's about contributing going forward. How many goals has Bacuna had a hand in since TS has been there? A few I seem to recall.

[Des Little]

It'll be the formation and line up for the semi, goalie apart.

[OCD]

I think the poster who said the shape of the team that played Man City will be used is onto something. That was the first time that an away side had the better share of possession there for several years. If that performance was the basis of the final and then we could figure out how to be steady defensively too, it would give us our best shot.

[silhillvilla]

team that started at CiŁyGuzan, Bacuna, Okore, Vlaar, Richardson, Sanchez, Westwood, Cleverley, Delph, Grealish, Benteke.
SUBS: Given, Weimann, Cole, Senderos, Cissokho, N'Zogbia, Lowton

[Malandro]

I think the poster who said the shape of the team that played Man City will be used is onto something. That was the first time that an away side had the better share of possession there for several years. If that performance was the basis of the final and then we could figure out how to be steady defensively too, it would give us our best shot.

I'd forget about all that and just get the ball to the genius up top.

[john e]

Only just got back in,
So no idea why Steer was in today, can someone explain

and if Given is injured is it official or just hearsay

[Matt Collins]

All of arsenals threat is in midfield , win that duel we win the cup .
I think we will go Xmas tree 3421

---------Guzan-------

---vlaar -- okore -- baker

Hutton Delph westwood cleverly

----- Grealish ------Nzogbia
----------Benteke -----------

Think you have had more to drink than me

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[pauliewalnuts]

There is no denying that Gabby can put in the odd performance that lifts us, or can score important goals.

The problem is the 20 games in which he does next to nothing which separate these big performances.

I said this earlier but he is the poster boy for the five year long drift to utter mediocrity.

He isn't the only one, far from it, but he's the most disappointing one. Where do we think he'd go if we sold him?

I'd guess somewhere like Norwich, some newly promoted non entity.

Sherwood has done well to keep us up, but getting five or six games worth of good performances is one thing, stopping this sort of horror season happening again is going to be a big challenge.

Stopping the sort of implicit acceptance of mediocrity that giving the likes of Gabby new deal after new deal represents would be a step forward.

The Cup final is an unexpected bonus, and we played well in that competition, but 17th is as bad as we can get without getting relegated.

The "who wouldn't have accepted staying up and a cup final when Lambert was here" line of argument is fair enough - we'd all have accepted it - but the bigger picture is we have got to stop looking around the arse end of the table like a posher version of Wigan year after year.

To do that we will need either a new owner or a version of Randy that gives more of a shit and is more clued up, and a willingness to take difficult decisions, because the placid acceptance of dross is going to take some shifting after five whole years of it.

[villan from luton]

Not so sure about that john2710, I think he will be tempted to start Hutton at right back

Surely we've learnt to play to our strengths and utilising our best players. Now, Bacuna is far from our best player, but he'll contribute more to allowing our better players, especially Benteke, to play better than Hutton.

Too many years of defending has made people forget the object of football is to score goals.

The main role of a full back is to defend and Bacuna yet again today showed he has lots to learn on that front

Not in this TS side it's not. It's about contributing going forward. How many goals has Bacuna had a hand in since TS has been there? A few I seem to recall.

I don't disagree but I would go for the defensively better player in the final

[Toronto Villa]

Only just got back in,
So no idea why Steer was in today, can someone explain

and if Given is injured is it official or just hearsay

Given injured. And if he played Guzan and he got hurt then we'd be playing some kid in the cup final because Steer is cup tied and Ben is also out. So he didn't risk Guzan.

[Toronto Villa]

team that started at CiŁyGuzan, Bacuna, Okore, Vlaar, Richardson, Sanchez, Westwood, Cleverley, Delph, Grealish, Benteke.
SUBS: Given, Weimann, Cole, Senderos, Cissokho, N'Zogbia, Lowton

I can see Sanchez playing for sure to help secure the back line and break up the play. I think that's about as defensive as it will get. You might be right about that team if Richardson can play. I imagine any player not 100% fit will make every effort to "recover" this week.