Pau Torres

[kippaxvilla2]

It was Martinorres' fault.

[LeeB]

Bit of both, more so Martinez.

I've just watched it again, Torres right foot comes down so close to the ball just as Emi is coming to get it. I'm not blaming Torres at all but if he isn't right there at that point that ball isn't falling lose.

[Somniloquism]

It was Martinorres' fault.

Not Paumi's

[Somniloquism]

Bit of both, more so Martinez.

I've just watched it again, Torres right foot comes down so close to the ball just as Emi is coming to get it. I'm not blaming Torres at all but if he isn't right there at that point that ball isn't falling lose.

Which meant Pau could have dealt with it IF Emi hadn't decided to shout and come for it. However on the initial ball I didn't thing Pau was getting anywhere near it ahead of Dembele. Just a shame neither did in the end.

[LeeB]

Bit of both, more so Martinez.

I've just watched it again, Torres right foot comes down so close to the ball just as Emi is coming to get it. I'm not blaming Torres at all but if he isn't right there at that point that ball isn't falling lose.

Which meant Pau could have dealt with it IF Emi hadn't decided to shout and come for it. However on the initial ball I didn't thing Pau was getting anywhere near it ahead of Dembele. Just a shame neither did in the end.

I've mentally filed it as 'one of them things' as opposed to a glaring error.

[cdbearsfan]

That's exactly right. Even then, probably only about a 10% of it bouncing straight to their bloke in a perfect position to score, so most of the time it would have been swiftly forgotten about.

[sid1964]

There have not been too many Villa player In recent years who have been linked to Real Madrid - so he must be doing something right!

[VillaTim]

There have not been too many Villa player In recent years who have been linked to Real Madrid - so he must be doing something right!

today probably isn't a great day for bigging up Real Madrid

[eye digress]

Pau played as an auxiliary midfielder for good spells of the game on Wednesday. Thought he was tremendous. In fact, both centrebacks were very aggressive going forward (hence the PSG breakaways and goals). If you tot up the Pau volley, Konsa finding himself in a "striker's" shooting position in the box (he passed), the Konsa goal and the missed header - that's 4 pretty golden opportunities for our CBs in one game.

Can't happen that often.

[VillaTim]

Bit of both, more so Martinez.

I've just watched it again, Torres right foot comes down so close to the ball just as Emi is coming to get it. I'm not blaming Torres at all but if he isn't right there at that point that ball isn't falling lose.

There's that moment of hesitation that creates the problem . It's a great cross and leaves Torres indecisive. Mings puts his foot through that without hesitation into row z . That's my opinion anyway .
Conceding 5 over the 2 legs made it incredibly difficult to win the game .

[PaulWinch again]

Well yeah but Torres was important to us being able to attack like we did. Also the 3 goals in the first leg had nothing to do with Torres.

[VillaTim]

Well yeah but Torres was important to us being able to attack like we did. Also the 3 goals in the first leg had nothing to do with Torres.

More at a macro level of team selection etc . It's very hard  to call nowadays who our best XI are . All I know is we lost the tie and conceded too many . And that 1st goal on Tuesday was very poor to concede . Effectively killed the tie off .

[PaulWinch again]

I know you like to stretch things a bit. But the first goal is on Emi - could Torres have kicked it? Yeah, but Emi calls it and it’s his responsibility and his mistake. It also evidently did not kill the tie, the second goal didn’t even do that.

[VillaTim]

I know you like to stretch things a bit. But the first goal is on Emi - could Torres have kicked it? Yeah, but Emi calls it and it’s his responsibility and his mistake. It also evidently did not kill the tie, the second goal didn’t even do that.

It did though in reality. And how do you know the keeper called it ? You don't that just fits your narrative  . Even if he did call it in such a red danger zone area better defenders take their own view and just deal with it anyway instead of leaving risk .

[colin69]

I thought Torres was poor against PSG and I’d have Mings over him every time.