Unai Emery

[Demitri_C]

 I saw a stat we have lost a lot of pounts already this season from winning positions.  This is something  we need to work on. It was area we were pretty good at last season

[Somniloquism]

5 Points at a guess as it has only been the last two games we have done it this season. Of course points gained from losing positions is 10.

[London Villan]

2 vs Ipswich
3 vs  Spurs
2 vs Bournemouth

Cash was fine on Sunday - it was McGinn who didn't close Son down and let him cross the ball. Something Cash did all through the first half.

[Somniloquism]

Ipswich is a weird one as it can could also apply to the points from losing positions being we were losing at the start. So 7 lost and 9 won.

[London Villan]

Fair point!

[Monty]

For all of Unai’s undoubted strengths, he seems to have massive blind spots against inferior managers like Ten Hag and Ange Mate. Infuriating.

I think he's overthinking it a bit against them. With Aaangie he's got this idea that they'll swing themselves out and we'll pounce, and he's so determined to implement various versions of this strategy that it's like he neglects what makes us a good team in the first place.

[Demitri_C]

5 Points at a guess as it has only been the last two games we have done it this season. Of course points gained from losing positions is 10.

The stat i read was aston villa have dropped 7 points  from winning positions in the premier league two more than the entirely of last season (5)

[PaulWinch again]

This is Unai’s first pretty choppy spell since he joined. He’ll sort it, but he needs to work out how we can be more dynamic again. As a team we’ve been defensively all the shop for a while, but we’ve also lost our spark in attack now.

[BC Villain]

Last season we had a settled starting line up.  So far this season it feels like Emery's trying to avoid burnout by chopping and changing every game.  McGinn must have played in about 3 different positions since he came from injury.

[Risso]

He just seems bereft of ideas. His substitutions are actually making us worse, and the defence has been poor for a lot of the last 9-10 months. Yes losing Kamara didn't help, but a manager of his calibre should be able to organise us better than that. We were 9th in the league on form for the second half of last season, and we'll probably be down abround 8th or 9th if Liverpool beat as expected at the weekend.

He needs to sort things out, he had a fortune to spend in the summer, but we've gone backwards. Chucking on Duran to play next to Watkins is working out about as well as Ings and Watkins.

[Paul.S]

Last season we had a settled starting line up.  So far this season it feels like Emery's trying to avoid burnout by chopping and changing every game.  McGinn must have played in about 3 different positions since he came from injury.

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head.

[brontebilly]

Last season we had a settled starting line up.  So far this season it feels like Emery's trying to avoid burnout by chopping and changing every game.  McGinn must have played in about 3 different positions since he came from injury.

Needs to stop taking McGinn off early, fuming with that decision tonight. Duran/Watkins part 15 exposed again and yet Bailey scared of his own shadow left on instead. After Spurs how could be possibly try Duran/Watkins so soon?

[Risso]

McGinn was terrible, and he's been off most of the season. McGinn and Bailey, both back to Gerrard form. Watkins not much better, couldn't trap a bag of cement.

[ez]

The midfield is a problem. That's where the attacks are breaking down. They are not turning their markers which is imperative to the way we play.

[Demitri_C]

Unai it is seriously bad at the moment.  Not sure what thw thoights were with the summee recruitment but it looks like we have gone backwards to last year.