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Offline Somniloquism

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #435 on: October 04, 2020, 11:06:07 PM »
Watkins gives us pace, strength and an outball.. he stretches the opposition defence, he's a Gabby before he bulked up, once Wesley is fit he better get used to sitting on the bench

Trying to not get too carried away after that performance from him, but goals aside, think his work-rate has been really impressive.

When it went to 5-2 and another goal for them might have changed the complexion of the game, he scrapped really hard to hold the ball up a couple of times and it just took a bit of pressure off.

His second goal was superb.

TBF, all three were class. First one his pressure forced the error and then he knew he had time to take a touch and put it in. Other strikers could have tried hitting it first time and screwed it up.
The second with the link up play and then the run and the last the header, had such power and precision that even if the keeper was well positioned it wouldn't have been stopped. A perfect hat trick as well.

And as Shearer pointed out a perfect Hat trick.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #436 on: October 04, 2020, 11:06:40 PM »
I was most impressed by how much of a bully he is. He moves defenders around, hits space, knows where the back of the net is, but physically he competes too. Absolutely bullied van Dijk and Gomez.

He looks to be a really good prospect.
« Last Edit: October 04, 2020, 11:09:02 PM by Ads »

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #437 on: October 04, 2020, 11:08:30 PM »
Understand the Gabby comparisons but really, his technique is a billion times better.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #438 on: October 04, 2020, 11:12:10 PM »
He equalled Gabby's goal tally in his last three seasons in one game.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #439 on: October 04, 2020, 11:18:20 PM »
I was most impressed by how much of a bully he is. He moves defenders around, hits space, knows where the back of the net is, but physically he competes too. Absolutely bullied van Dijk and Gomez.

He looks to be a really good prospect.

This.  He looks like a really good prospect.  Good movement and upper body strength.  I like the way he tells himself off when he misses a chance.  Sounds like a really humble and eager to please young man. Quality acquisition, looks a snip.  5 goals already?

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #440 on: October 04, 2020, 11:22:49 PM »
And could almost have been in double figures already as well. Also remember Grealish has four as well. Two players on the way to 20 in the season hopefully.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #441 on: October 05, 2020, 12:00:33 AM »
I was most impressed by how much of a bully he is. He moves defenders around, hits space, knows where the back of the net is, but physically he competes too. Absolutely bullied van Dijk and Gomez.

He looks to be a really good prospect.

There was one passage of play in the second half where the ball got played down the line and van Dijk got their first and was heading back towards his own goal.  Instead of giving it up as a lost cause and dropping off, Watkins chased him down and forced him to put the ball out, getting us a throw in deep in their half. 

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #442 on: October 05, 2020, 12:08:26 AM »
He's got two goals in three games albeit in the cup but I think he will score a lot more for us he's carried on where he left off last season.

3 in 4 if you include the Manure friendly

2 down 18 to go for 20 in goals in all comps.
Looks quite the goal scorer and hoping he flourish against Fulham Monday after his poor show in Play Off final against them.

My Forecast for Premier league goals is set at 11-14 goals 
That's based on solid research. So is most likely around this figure. (If not more! But provisos number of minutes for the season)

In the premier league.
Anything above is outstanding on a debut season .15+ goals is rare occurrence debut or otherwise
Anything below 11 is underwhelming.
Provided he is our main striker.

And providing he plays a decent amount of 30+ games

Superb hat trick tonight.
Perfect .
Dream land.

So that's 5 goals 15 to go for 20 in all comps.

3 goals premier league with the fantastic hat trick and as he said it could have been 4 or 5
Love this guy's attitude and sheer team play . Great Instincts and just loves Deano.
So happy he's our main man and very good things are happening !

Bravo Ollie Bravo!
Well on the way to hitting premier league goal targets
Superb man

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #443 on: October 05, 2020, 12:14:34 AM »
I was most impressed by how much of a bully he is. He moves defenders around, hits space, knows where the back of the net is, but physically he competes too. Absolutely bullied van Dijk and Gomez.

He looks to be a really good prospect.

There was one passage of play in the second half where the ball got played down the line and van Dijk got their first and was heading back towards his own goal.  Instead of giving it up as a lost cause and dropping off, Watkins chased him down and forced him to put the ball out, getting us a throw in deep in their half. 

Said earlier on that even without a goal tonight, Watkins was my man of the match. I have not seen a striker work the line, tirelessly harass defenders AND make the ball stick up top like that in a long, long time. He was truly exceptional tonight, and deserved 5-6 goals in the end. He has exceptional movement in the box too. Kid will score a lot of goals, but his overall play is  massive reason we can now spring out the way we do. We must find a suitable back up for him!

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #444 on: October 05, 2020, 12:21:45 AM »
What a player and what a performance from Ollie he's just brilliant.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #445 on: October 05, 2020, 01:22:53 AM »
Employing my limited language skills to read the European papers' reports on the match (mainly just to see the numbers '7' and '2' surrounded by capitalised words of all kinds), I came across the description of Watkins in Sueddeutsche Zeitung as 'Villa-Stürmer', which I fucking love.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #446 on: October 05, 2020, 01:24:02 AM »
I don't want to piss on your chips but that literally means Villa Striker!

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #447 on: October 05, 2020, 01:25:21 AM »
I don't want to piss on your chips but that literally means Villa Striker!

I did say limited! Bloody German, too much grammar; romance languages are more my speed.

Anyway, Villa-Stürmer-had-a-stormer still sounds nice.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #448 on: October 05, 2020, 01:53:14 AM »
I did say limited! Bloody German, too much grammar; romance languages are more my speed.

Anyway, Villa-Stürmer-had-a-stormer still sounds nice.

No mention of a Villa-Blitzkrieg?

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #449 on: October 05, 2020, 09:22:57 AM »
Absolutely brilliant aground display. From start to finish he bullied Liverpool. Scored a perfect hat trick and I’ve got the feeling it’s the first of many,

Ollie, Ollie, Ollie UTV !

 


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