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Author Topic: Villa v Leeds post match thread  (Read 22989 times)

Offline Fred Crump

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Re: Villa v Leeds post match thread
« Reply #120 on: October 23, 2020, 10:57:48 PM »
Fair play to Leeds, they played us off the park tonight. They were better all over the pitch but as others have said, I worry about our strength in depth . In particular midfield is light , we need to have the players able to turn to plan b if some players are having an off night. Neither Hourihane or Nakamba would have made a difference tonight. Where was Ramsey ? Not sure if he was on the bench.

Offline andyh

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Re: Villa v Leeds post match thread
« Reply #121 on: October 23, 2020, 10:57:51 PM »
The only good thing about tonight is that we didn’t have to go.

Offline RichardBatchelor

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Re: Villa v Leeds post match thread
« Reply #122 on: October 23, 2020, 10:58:36 PM »
Player ratings

Martínez 0
Cash 1
Konsa 0
Mings 0
Targett 0
McGinn -5
Douglas Luiz 0
Trézéguet 0
Barkley 0
Grealish 1
Watkins 0

Traore 0
Manager and coaches 0

We have 12/15 points and Leeds were superb tonight. Maybe reconsider when you’ve calmed down.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Villa v Leeds post match thread
« Reply #123 on: October 23, 2020, 11:00:19 PM »
Maybe post after reading more comments.

Offline Stinkin_Thinkin

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Re: Villa v Leeds post match thread
« Reply #124 on: October 23, 2020, 11:01:28 PM »
When Bielsa hooked his player off after 20 minutes, I thought it's probably not going to be our night. To be honest, I really respect that sort of ruthlessness from a manager. Smith should have done the same to Barkley after his horror pass at 0-1, which directly resulted in their second.

I thought the same but would be incredibly brave of any manager to take off a big name like Barkley, could of soured the whole loan, easy for Bielsa to sub his no name players. Smithy could of perhaps shifted Ross out to the right in place of Trez and put Nkamba on to try and get hold of the midfield however it seemed like leeds wingers did most of the damage so who knows how that would of worked out.
Barkley has had games like this for Everton and Chelsea, thats probably why they've loaned him out. It's up to us to see if we can do something with him.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Villa v Leeds post match thread
« Reply #125 on: October 23, 2020, 11:02:42 PM »

Offline themossman

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Re: Villa v Leeds post match thread
« Reply #126 on: October 23, 2020, 11:04:13 PM »
Bear in mind as well, Leeds had 3 key players out, including their best player. They reshuffled the whole team to plug the gap then had to reshuffle it again when his replacement looked like he was going to get sent off.

That’s the kind of flexibility of thought and tactical pragmatism that smith just lacks.

Offline Villafirst

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Re: Villa v Leeds post match thread
« Reply #127 on: October 23, 2020, 11:05:08 PM »
First half very even overall. Pity Jack's shot was cleared off the line. Goals change games as we found out......
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Offline SoccerHQ

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Re: Villa v Leeds post match thread
« Reply #128 on: October 23, 2020, 11:05:49 PM »
That’s why Barkley lost his place at Chelsea, inconsistency. He’s been great in his first 2 games but looked poor tonight.

He had the air of a moments player in last two games, didn't think he impacted game much v Leicester generally but not complaining he won the game.

Still we criticise Hourihane for going missing constantly v the high press so bit concerning a high calibre midfielder also massively struggled.

If he's not fully fit as he was saying after Leicester game then I'd leave him on the bench next weekend unless Chelsea have put one of these penalty clauses in the deal for him not starting.

Offline PaulWinch again

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Re: Villa v Leeds post match thread
« Reply #129 on: October 23, 2020, 11:08:08 PM »
Our inability to respond to adversity was a big problem last year. We’ve had a great start to this season, but with the result tonight we still need to show we know how to tactically respond to games.

Offline RamboandBruno

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Re: Villa v Leeds post match thread
« Reply #130 on: October 23, 2020, 11:08:23 PM »
Maybe post after reading more comments.

I agree with him, Those scores are just silly, 1s and 0s? Just an over reaction

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Villa v Leeds post match thread
« Reply #131 on: October 23, 2020, 11:12:31 PM »
Fucking hell

Offline Steve67

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Re: Villa v Leeds post match thread
« Reply #132 on: October 23, 2020, 11:12:56 PM »
Maybe post after reading more comments.

I agree with him, Those scores are just silly, 1s and 0s? Just an over reaction

Jeez!  Some really literal people on here this evening.

Offline Allan C

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Re: Villa v Leeds post match thread
« Reply #133 on: October 23, 2020, 11:13:28 PM »
That reminded me of the 0-3 home defeat to Wimbledon all those years ago.

In form, looking good, and then bosh!
Funny that, that’s exactly what I thought

Offline OzVilla

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Re: Villa v Leeds post match thread
« Reply #134 on: October 23, 2020, 11:14:43 PM »
Goals change games, if Grealish or Konsa scores we could have quite easily gone over the top of them. I agree that our reaction to going behind was the greatest concern. The general performance up until then was fine though.


 


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