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Offline Damo70

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4785 on: June 03, 2020, 03:40:08 PM »
I think the 'mid season break' favours the like of strugglers like ourselves rather than the likes of in form Sheffield United.

When the season was halted Liverpool, Man City, Manure, Sheff U, Wolves, Arsenal and Palace were the form teams over the previous five games.

As for the the stugglers form in their last five games -

Newcastle W1 D2 L2
Southampton W1 L4
Brighton D4 L1
West Ham W1 D1 L3
Watford W1 D1 L3
Bournemouth W1 D1 L3
Villa W1 L4
Norwich W1 D1 L3

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4786 on: June 03, 2020, 04:12:00 PM »
One positive result in the prem and they would mean they miss the first round of fixtures at least. What are the odds it’s from us?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4787 on: June 03, 2020, 04:35:05 PM »
One positive result in the prem and they would mean they miss the first round of fixtures at least. What are the odds it’s from us?

It's Tottenham. Phew!

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4788 on: June 03, 2020, 05:59:28 PM »
Sky will put it on the free-to-air 'Pick' Channel and simulcast on Sky Sports. Pick is 159 on Sky and 144 on Freeview. 25 games on Sky will be free-to-air.

Pick is channel 144 on Freesat. It's channel 11 on Freeview.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4789 on: June 03, 2020, 08:36:18 PM »
Amazon Prime will make its four Premier League games free to air when the season restarts.

Fans will not need a Prime membership to watch fixtures on the online streaming service when the top-flight campaign resumes from 17 June.

Every one of the remaining 92 Premier League games will be broadcast live across Sky Sports, BT Sport, BBC Sport or Amazon Prime.

In total, 33 of those matches will be free to air.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4790 on: June 04, 2020, 03:40:31 AM »
Aston Villa vs Sheffield United will kick off on June 17th at 6pm, and will be live on Sky Sports.
That's 3 in the morning in Australia. Have they no consideration?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4791 on: June 04, 2020, 08:13:10 AM »
When have the TV companies given a shit about the fans?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4792 on: June 04, 2020, 08:31:42 AM »
We don't "need" to beat Sheffield United. Even if we lose we will be two points off seventeenth with nine games remaining, plenty of points to play for.

I'd take a draw in that game right now, would be a solid start and something to build on.
Beating SheffU would not only give evryone at the club a massive confidnece injection, it would also move us out of the bottom 3 when all games-played are equal.
So whilst it's not a "need", technically, it's a "need" motivationally.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4793 on: June 04, 2020, 09:11:04 AM »
Yep, losing our first game after weeks of the players being raring to go would be a psychological kick in the balearics.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4794 on: June 04, 2020, 09:22:31 AM »
And given the rest of our fixtures, getting 5 wins from the remaining 9 if we lose the Sheffield United game seems like a bridge too far.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4795 on: June 04, 2020, 09:31:50 AM »
i agree, this season has been about not lose games although we have managed to lose a few of them.
We looked all over the place at the end of the Leicester game. we need a win and draw out of the next 2 games. 

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4796 on: June 04, 2020, 09:45:30 AM »
And given the rest of our fixtures, getting 5 wins from the remaining 9 if we lose the Sheffield United game seems like a bridge too far.

I think we'll beat NEC Nijmegen, but the Vittesse game....

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4797 on: June 04, 2020, 11:47:08 AM »
We don't "need" to beat Sheffield United. Even if we lose we will be two points off seventeenth with nine games remaining, plenty of points to play for.

I'd take a draw in that game right now, would be a solid start and something to build on.
Beating SheffU would not only give evryone at the club a massive confidnece injection, it would also move us out of the bottom 3 when all games-played are equal.
So whilst it's not a "need", technically, it's a "need" motivationally.

No, it isn't. We could lose nine-nil and still stay up. It isn't a "need" in any way.

Offline Duncan Shaw

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4798 on: June 04, 2020, 11:51:35 AM »
Have we beaten Sheff Utd. with Wilder in charge?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4799 on: June 04, 2020, 11:52:16 AM »
We don't "need" to beat Sheffield United. Even if we lose we will be two points off seventeenth with nine games remaining, plenty of points to play for.

I'd take a draw in that game right now, would be a solid start and something to build on.
Beating SheffU would not only give evryone at the club a massive confidnece injection, it would also move us out of the bottom 3 when all games-played are equal.
So whilst it's not a "need", technically, it's a "need" motivationally.

No, it isn't. We could lose nine-nil and still stay up. It isn't a "need" in any way.
Logically you're right; psychologically it ain't that binary. If we lose 9-0 (or even 2-0) I think psychologically we will not recover from it and be likely to continue to lose.
I say that from the evidence of the first 28 games, where we have looked psychologically frail.

 


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