Burnley vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

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This appears to be what happened

https://twitter.com/LeRatio16/status/1695895730261491874

A lot of pearl-clutching going on here. It's just fancunter. We sing the national anthem at them, they throw bricks at our players and staff. That's what fancunter is. We accuse Liverpool fans of being 'always the victim', Burnley fans hire a plane to deliver racist messages. It's all just fancuntery, you woke snowflake weirdos.

Think there is a bit of a difference between singing the national anthem at a match to wind Scots and scousers up, and throwing bricks at the windows of a team coach as it motors down a main road isn't there?

Yeah, his false equivocation falling flat.

You need to grow a pair mate. The lads of Big Talk didn't fanny around at Goose Green because of a few bricks. This is what we want, isn't it? Their lot having a go at our lot. It's just the fancunter as it was designed and meant to be. Don't clutch your pearls, get singing!

Are you OK?

Of course not. Another set of fans have wound us up. I just wonder what our next move is. I love fancunter as much as the next person, but we're going to need to double down on our own wind ups. Maybe we could poison their water supply? Just an idea at this stage. The important thing is that we wind them right up at some point.

It's 5 o'clock somewhere I suppose.

[Beard82]

Just re-watched our second goal - that was just a thing of beauty.  19 passes, 9 players, about 960 degrees of spins by players

The transformation from just 12 months ago is unbelievable - most of those players were the same ones as then, and if you told me they were capable of that, I would have laughed in your face.

[VillaTim]

Brickgate

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Just re-watched our second goal - that was just a thing of beauty.  19 passes, 9 players, about 960 degrees of spins by players

The transformation from just 12 months ago is unbelievable - most of those players were the same ones as then, and if you told me they were capable of that, I would have laughed in your face.

Agreed, we are comfortable to reset constantly to probe at the oppositions shape. Superb goal.

[AV84]

One of the things that was said a lot by pundits and journos in the run up to Gerrard's sacking was that the squad he had was far too good to be playing the way they were. Emery brought in one player last season, and the change across the board was monumental.

[rob_bridge]

One of the things that was said a lot by pundits and journos in the run up to Gerrard's sacking was that the squad he had was far too good to be playing the way they were. Emery brought in one player last season, and the change across the board was monumental.

I honestly thought the only player Gerard improved was Cash who was one of the few who didn't get better under Emery. Well until now.

The rest are different players - Luis, Watkins, McGinn, Konsa are miles above the 'Slippy's do some magic approach' standard.

[cdward]

I'd say Pau will be annoyed at himself for allowing the defender to roll him like that.
It happens, sometimes being touch tight to a striker allows them to do that to a defender. Benteke did something similar against West Brom for us back in the day.
Luckily it had no bearing on the outcome of the game.

Watching that 19 pass possession and goal is like football porn. Hard to believe we are watching Aston Villa.

It's great to be looking forward to every game rather than dreading it.

[The Edge]

There's still a nagging doubt that the football we are playing right now is in some way down to the level of the teams we have faced up so far this season. If we can produce even a few of those magical moves at Liverpool next week it will mean Unai's revolution is the real deal.

[Percy McCarthy]

There's still a nagging doubt that the football we are playing right now is in some way down to the level of the teams we have faced up so far this season. If we can produce even a few of those magical moves at Liverpool next week it will mean Unai's revolution is the real deal.

We might have to modify it v the top teams, but I feel we can be a lot more confident of putting away lesser teams these days.

[Lastfootstamper]

I don't think it is. It's possibly magnified our magnificence, but I wouldn't attribute it to quality of opposition. We can make teams look bad. We did it last season, you could probably unearth quote after quote from other teams' supporters about how they picked the wrong week to have an off-day against a bang-average Villa side, or words to that effect.

[The Edge]

I don't think it is. It's possibly magnified our magnificence, but I wouldn't attribute it to quality of opposition. We can make teams look bad. We did it last season, you could probably unearth quote after quote from other teams' supporters about how they picked the wrong week to have an off-day against a bang-average Villa side, or words to that effect.

Yeah I know what you mean. "It's only Villa ffs" or "that shouldn't be happening against the likes of Villa" are phrase that have always got to me. We are Aston Villa and it's about time everyone understood that phrase again. (tongue slightly in cheek)

[AV84]

There's still a nagging doubt that the football we are playing right now is in some way down to the level of the teams we have faced up so far this season. If we can produce even a few of those magical moves at Liverpool next week it will mean Unai's revolution is the real deal.

I kind of feel the same. We're undoubtedly good but Liverpool will be the first real test since the Newcastle game. They've looked very wobbly again this season but they've still managed to get results so it's going to be much more of a challenge than Everton or Burnley. That's not to say I think we'll lose or anything. I'm actually really looking forward to this match, just to see us presumably have to step up another gear.

[dave.woodhall]

There's still a nagging doubt that the football we are playing right now is in some way down to the level of the teams we have faced up so far this season. If we can produce even a few of those magical moves at Liverpool next week it will mean Unai's revolution is the real deal.

We might have to modify it v the top teams, but I feel we can be a lot more confident of putting away lesser teams these days.

In the last five seasons, and probably longer but CBA checking, if you won every game against the teams who finished in the bottom half you'd only have needed at most another three points to get into Europe. That sort of consistency has always let us down.
 

[VillaTim]

There's still a nagging doubt that the football we are playing right now is in some way down to the level of the teams we have faced up so far this season. If we can produce even a few of those magical moves at Liverpool next week it will mean Unai's revolution is the real deal.

we did string some nice play together v Newcastle believe it or not . Just defended like keystone cops

[olaftab]

There's still a nagging doubt that the football we are playing right now is in some way down to the level of the teams we have faced up so far this season. If we can produce even a few of those magical moves at Liverpool next week it will mean Unai's revolution is the real deal.

One of thing is if top teams look to stop us or just rely on their own superiority to overcome us? If they ignore over capability , like Spurs, Chelsea and Newcastle did last season they will pay for it however if they do the former they would make it difficult for us to win as they have far better players to do that than say bottom half teams.