Who remembers in the 80s and 90s when we were a strugglingly crap team? The top teams who came to Villa Park would seem to have the ability to keep possession and pass the ball around at will, whilst we huffed and puffed chasing after it; only to give it away almost immediately. Then they'd just stroll about some more before 3 or 4 quick passes would put a player in who just slotted it into the net with consumate ease.That's what we're doing now under El Prof.All done with an air of calmness in an unhurried, controlled way.Enjoy.
Quote from: SaddVillan on August 27, 2023, 09:32:27 PM Who remembers in the 80s and 90s when we were a strugglingly crap team? The top teams who came to Villa Park would seem to have the ability to keep possession and pass the ball around at will, whilst we huffed and puffed chasing after it; only to give it away almost immediately. Then they'd just stroll about some more before 3 or 4 quick passes would put a player in who just slotted it into the net with consumate ease.That's what we're doing now under El Prof.All done with an air of calmness in an unhurried, controlled way.Enjoy.A crap team in the 80s? All of it? I remember 85-87 being non to clever but we won the league in 1981 and were top as the 1990s commenced. As for 1990s we underperformed in 1991 and 1995 but can't remember us being crap other than that. Happy to be educated.
Quote from: pauliewalnuts on August 27, 2023, 08:37:14 PMRead this from the Torygraph match report.This is the difference with someone like Emery.QuoteA dozen minutes later, Cash received the ball on the right and drifted inside. Diaby ghosted around him on the overlap, received the ball from a deft outside-of-the-foot push, and returned it to Cash. That pass split two defenders and Cash finished like a forward. Only seconds earlier, Diego Carlos had been in possession within his own half. It was surgically clinical. It was, frankly, too easy.Afterwards Emery explained that he had studied Burnley’s opening-night performance against Manchester City at length. “They were playing man-to-man, playing tight to keep possession longer,” he said. “It was very difficult to do more than five, eight, 10, 12 passes in combinations. Today we caught the moments to do it.“The second goal was one positive example of the idea we have. When we can’t do passes, we have to be clinical and more direct than normal. I think we did, more or less, in 90 minutes respect them but always tried to impose our idea.”That, in a nutshell, is the attention to detail that Emery is famous for.Who was the last manager we had whose main concern was ideas?
Read this from the Torygraph match report.This is the difference with someone like Emery.QuoteA dozen minutes later, Cash received the ball on the right and drifted inside. Diaby ghosted around him on the overlap, received the ball from a deft outside-of-the-foot push, and returned it to Cash. That pass split two defenders and Cash finished like a forward. Only seconds earlier, Diego Carlos had been in possession within his own half. It was surgically clinical. It was, frankly, too easy.Afterwards Emery explained that he had studied Burnley’s opening-night performance against Manchester City at length. “They were playing man-to-man, playing tight to keep possession longer,” he said. “It was very difficult to do more than five, eight, 10, 12 passes in combinations. Today we caught the moments to do it.“The second goal was one positive example of the idea we have. When we can’t do passes, we have to be clinical and more direct than normal. I think we did, more or less, in 90 minutes respect them but always tried to impose our idea.”That, in a nutshell, is the attention to detail that Emery is famous for.
A dozen minutes later, Cash received the ball on the right and drifted inside. Diaby ghosted around him on the overlap, received the ball from a deft outside-of-the-foot push, and returned it to Cash. That pass split two defenders and Cash finished like a forward. Only seconds earlier, Diego Carlos had been in possession within his own half. It was surgically clinical. It was, frankly, too easy.Afterwards Emery explained that he had studied Burnley’s opening-night performance against Manchester City at length. “They were playing man-to-man, playing tight to keep possession longer,” he said. “It was very difficult to do more than five, eight, 10, 12 passes in combinations. Today we caught the moments to do it.“The second goal was one positive example of the idea we have. When we can’t do passes, we have to be clinical and more direct than normal. I think we did, more or less, in 90 minutes respect them but always tried to impose our idea.”That, in a nutshell, is the attention to detail that Emery is famous for.
It's wonderful to be able to think 'there is no man or woman I'd rather have as our manager'.I don't think anybody under about 45 has ever truly known that feeling before, if ever (old timers?)I would literally choose Unai over any manager on the planet.
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