Aston Villa 1 Jorge Mendes clients 1 post match thread.

[Louzie0]

Emery will have learnt a lot from the last three games…

He's an elite manager who wants to play an elite brand of football…

To play entirely that way, we'll need recovery pace in defence and midfield and lots of efficiency, ruthlessness, fear, surprise and an almost fanatical devotion to Unai Emery.
 

Thought this reminded me of something!

You've lost me but I like it!

Monty Python, Spanish Inquisition; ‘…amongst our weapons…’
Couldn’t resist, sorry Olof’s Beard!

[simboy]

Thought we looked tired the first half. Probably not surprising as we had a recovery time shorter than them, and they were at home against Man U, we were away at Tottenham.

Having said that, the Cash/Young start didnt work. They ran over us first half but it changed when Podence went off. Thought Kamara was a little off, but along with Mings [I think] had played the full 90 at both Tottenham and last night.

Not our best performance of the season, yet still drew with a side always up for playing us, not forgetting that the Augustinsson header cleared off the line and the wrong decision by Buendia meant we win on another night... despite Bailey's abject attempt having rounded the keeper and supposedly done all the "hard work" at the end.

[eamonn]

Excellent post OB. And good point about the calibre of managers - all the smart ones from the big leagues outside of England want to come here now which makes the overall standard better.

Would much, much, much rather see Everton and West Ham get sucked into the bottom 3 than this lot.

Highlight was the claim that during the recent minutes silence for Pele, Dominic Calvert-Lewin thought it was for Viviane Westwood.

That is tragic/hilarious. Do you have a link?

[Risso]

I think the start under Emery has been promising, and while the results have been mostly good, I think the last three games have shown we've got too many square pegs in round holes. All of the first halves in the last three games have been fairly poor. Liverpool we constantly gave the ball away, and Spurs in keeping it tight, we created absolutely nothing. Last night we were just second best all over the pitch for the first 45. It's good that Emery can react accordingly, but I think he made some mistakes from the off last night, eg:

Ashley Young - three games in just over a week is too much for a 37 year old, and it showed.
Matty Cash - although he might have played there in the past he's not a wide right midfielder.

Then we've got the continuing problems of Buendia and Bailey really not doing a whole heap of anything useful. Not much he can do about those, except try to bring in more consistent recruits.

[Olof's Beard]

Emery will have learnt a lot from the last three games…

He's an elite manager who wants to play an elite brand of football…

To play entirely that way, we'll need recovery pace in defence and midfield and lots of efficiency, ruthlessness, fear, surprise and an almost fanatical devotion to Unai Emery.
 

Thought this reminded me of something!

You've lost me but I like it!

Monty Python, Spanish Inquisition; ‘…amongst our weapons…’
Couldn’t resist, sorry Olof’s Beard!

I'm too young clearly ;-). Right nationality for our Unai though.

[LeeB]

Nobody expected that link to be made

[olaftab]

Wretched for first hour but at least we got a point out of it. If you want to know why we can never finish top half in the premier league games like tonight are your answer.

Do you mean games where we were not at out best for a long while but still came back to get a point and should have won it?

[olaftab]

Nobody expected that link to be made

That's a surprise to me.

[Ian.]

I like Podence, he’s a great little player. He also done a number on us last season when we was 2-0 up, he came on and turned the game around. He’s not massively popular with their fans though, my brother said it’s because he will often try things, always positive but not always come off so he can give the ball away.

Sounds not too different to our Buendia. We do get a very mixed bag in one match and also he divides opinion regarding his performances on here.

I’m a Buendia fan, I like his tenacity and I like the way he is always trying something positive, I do get he is frustrating also as not everything comes off.

[olaftab]

had he scored it would have been very tough on Wolves. They deserved a point.

I agree with this. However, I would have fucking LOVED it had he buried it, thus funeralling the orange fuckers.

Yes. After watching them last season over to my right, after their deflected last minute winner, celebrating like hyenas scavenging at a 10 day old carcass  I wanted them absolutely unfairly  fucked out of Villa Park.

[PeterWithe]

Would much, much, much rather see Everton and West Ham get sucked into the bottom 3 than this lot.

Highlight was the claim that during the recent minutes silence for Pele, Dominic Calvert-Lewin thought it was for Viviane Westwood.

That is tragic/hilarious. Do you have a link?

Isn't that more of a dig at his seeming preference of fashion and modelling over his football, rather than at his intelligence?

[paul_e]

First half Wolves dominated, 2nd half we did well and maybe could of snatched a win - but a fair result

Thought the Wolves number 3 who came on as sub, looked an excellent player

Ait Nouri. Left midfielder. He’s been good. He won’t be there much longer if he’s got any ambition.

He's the only player they have that I'd take if they were to go down.

I'd definitely take Neves and Neto. Excellent players.

I'd take Podence, Neves, Neto, Nunes & Colins.  Possibly Ait Nouri too.  They've got some decent players.

JUst to be clear Ait-Nouri is the only one I think would be a reasonable price for how valuable an addition he could be. Neto and Neves are both good but would command big fees and I think we could get better for the cost. The others I'm not entirely convinced by.

[Risso]

Ait-Nouri was very good last night, impressed by him. Kept our right side quiet and got forward well.

[CT Villan]

I was impressed with Matheus Nunes too - he was everything I wanted Luiz to be in the first half.

[Pete3206]

Do Wolves win the award for fattest fans in the league? Some right porkers waddling away from the visitors end last night.