My take on Villa thus far.Positive:Villa have a reasonable defence, but it frequently comes under excessive pressure.Negative:1. No defined style of play.2. No proven goalscorers.3. Midfield lacks coordination in build-up play (see 1).4. Compared to other Premiership teams Villa appear tentative. They repeatedly fail to impose themselves on the opposition (as with 10 man West Ham), preferring to re-enact their version of the Battle of of the Alamo (as seen at Crystal Palace. Never mind the terrible refereeing, Villa should have lost by several goals).Outlook:Unless:(i) a defined style is introduced with joined up midfield play, suitable for combating Premiership teams and(ii) the attack is strengthened to enable Villa to score more goals, then there is only one possible outcome, relegation.
Lots of people predicted that we'd get 'found out' and battered every game, but no one has looked like thrashing us so far and our performances are getting better bit by bit.Home form - 4 points from 3 games, two of which were against top 10 teams last season who have both spent this summer, and the third we were the better team but a couple of silly nervous mistakes cost us two early goals. Two clean sheets is nothing to be sniffed at in this league either, in fact our last season in the Prem we only kept 6 all season.Away form - 0 points from 2 games, one of which was against the European runners-up and other could easily have been a draw, one way or another.Neither of those records is anything to cry about. The Bournemouth game is the big regret because it was two silly mistakes so early that denied us three points that would have us around mid-table and no-one would be bothering with this thread.
NOW are you worried?
Very worried now. It won't be long until the players' confidence disappears, and the atmosphere in the ground turns negative. That was utterly shit today. Two games in a row now against ten men, and one point to show for it.