Wesley has 4 in 9. That's decent for a 22 year old lad in his first season in both England and the top flight.Bit premature to have gone full Stuart442 or whatever the anti-Benteke/Smith guy was called.
Villa have shown they have the character I believe, to stay up. Yesterday's match was very important for showing this.I've got to admit if I was a player I would find it difficult to pick myself up after one of these VAR goal cancellation incidents. It's bad enough being a supporter!
Quote from: SoccerHQ on October 20, 2019, 12:13:49 PMQuote from: Bren'd on October 20, 2019, 01:35:39 AMI thought Brighton were very good for large parts of the game. We just didn’t get tight enough in the middle of the park. They waltzed through us too often. I know Connor is a goal threat but when he’s not he doesn’t do his other job well enough at this level. This is more important when Grealish is quite rightly playing a roaming role. He was excellent throughout today. A last minute winner the like Of which I can’t remember. So sweet.Think we'll see Luiz starting v Man. City and Liverpool. Not sure who out of Conor or AEG you take out, I'd be tempted to leave Hourihane in as he's good at getting shots away around the box and we won't create too many clear cut chances against those two so set pieces will be important if we're going to score.The problem yesterday andtoo often is that our midfield looks like Swiss cheese, teams as Brighton did yesterday just pass or walk through us with ease.Conor can not do enough defensively, just not his game, so we need more presence in there and you would hope Luis is the answer.I keep hoping that Smith would play 4 2 3 1 but he seems stuck on 4 3 3
Quote from: Bren'd on October 20, 2019, 01:35:39 AMI thought Brighton were very good for large parts of the game. We just didn’t get tight enough in the middle of the park. They waltzed through us too often. I know Connor is a goal threat but when he’s not he doesn’t do his other job well enough at this level. This is more important when Grealish is quite rightly playing a roaming role. He was excellent throughout today. A last minute winner the like Of which I can’t remember. So sweet.Think we'll see Luiz starting v Man. City and Liverpool. Not sure who out of Conor or AEG you take out, I'd be tempted to leave Hourihane in as he's good at getting shots away around the box and we won't create too many clear cut chances against those two so set pieces will be important if we're going to score.
I thought Brighton were very good for large parts of the game. We just didn’t get tight enough in the middle of the park. They waltzed through us too often. I know Connor is a goal threat but when he’s not he doesn’t do his other job well enough at this level. This is more important when Grealish is quite rightly playing a roaming role. He was excellent throughout today. A last minute winner the like Of which I can’t remember. So sweet.
The main lessons from yesterday were that with Hourihane: we go down to 10 men without the ball, because his tracking-back and positioning are shite (as are his energy levels)Also , Wesley did well to set up JG's goal, and he would be so much more effective if the back four released the ball earlier to him, on the ground. There's a very good player in there, but we are not playing to his strengths.Most importantly, we have to move the ball more quickly, which means our players need to be on the move. Everything was too static and slow yesterday. Brighton showed us how it should be done.
Quote from: not3bad on October 20, 2019, 02:47:09 PMVilla have shown they have the character I believe, to stay up. Yesterday's match was very important for showing this.I've got to admit if I was a player I would find it difficult to pick myself up after one of these VAR goal cancellation incidents. It's bad enough being a supporter!Good point, this. In fairness, the team have managed to get it together and score again within minutes of having a goal VAR'd on both occasions.
I thought Maupay was naff, i'm surprised by the love in on here to be honest.
I hadn't really seen much of Maupay when many on here were raving about him over the summer. I wish we'd signed him. I don't get why we are not more in control when we have a solid keeper, two solid centre backs and a midfield that includes Grealish and McGinn. I still think Douglas Luis will be a big player for us.
Quote from: mike on October 20, 2019, 09:26:13 PMI hadn't really seen much of Maupay when many on here were raving about him over the summer. I wish we'd signed him. I don't get why we are not more in control when we have a solid keeper, two solid centre backs and a midfield that includes Grealish and McGinn. I still think Douglas Luis will be a big player for us.Our shape was wrong and wasn't really corrected, and Nakamba letting the game pass him by didn't help.
Quote from: LukeJames on October 20, 2019, 09:52:22 PMI thought Maupay was naff, i'm surprised by the love in on here to be honest.fully agree, another good championship striker - fullstop