Our defence

[Footy-Vill]

There seems to be a focus on the actual number of goals conceded But like to make aware our league position and the underlying numbers already show we are a top 4 defence.

So given how the defence is performing it's reassuring and reasonable to say can forecast in next 5 Premier games they'll be more clean sheets than first 5!

Ipswich, Man Utd, Fulham, Bournemouth,Spurs the stats expect 0 goals conceded in 2-3 of the fixtures.

Will look at this again after 10 games.
The goals conceded per match at 1.4 is likely to be reduced and Villa will likely still be top 3 or higher in table with top 4 defensive numbers

[Risso]

Nothing else matters other than the goals going in. We've gone ten games in the league without keeping a clean sheet, whatever xG says.

[Footy-Vill]

Nothing else matters other than the goals going in. We've gone ten games in the league without keeping a clean sheet, whatever xG says.

Just based this season 5 games and it's on xG
Expected goals will likely level out.

Can already take one goal away from the 7 conceded as that was a penalty.

Martinez has only made 10 saves this season the lowest of any goalkeeper who has played all 5 matches!

The defensive numbers are there.
Lets see after 10 games where we are at.

[Footy-Vill]

Mings and Kamara returning will further boost the defence!

[Monty]

I think it's fair to look both at the stats and the eye-test and conclude that we're conceding goals more from errors than structural issues. However, if you're making errors, you're not defending well!

[Footy-Vill]

Our main issue are set pieces goals conceded since start of last season.
We can all agree on that as it's fact. The given numbers are too high and Villa are one of the teams that don't show the defensive strength with only Forest and Spurs conceding more in Prem since last season.

[Risso]

The main issue we have is that our best player in defence (Torres) is there more for his footballing ability than his defending ability. The latter of which if we're being honest, isn't good enough. We'll be better when either Kamara is back, or Onana gets to Kamara's levels of defensive screening.

[Footy-Vill]

Well given the respective defensive and attacking numbers today vs Ipswich theres a chance for Martinez to have no goals conceded.

Ipswich average the lowest shots on target per 90 less than 3 at 2.8

They have the lowest amount of shots at goal by any team: 14
In 5 games they have scored 3 goals from xG of around 3.2

Everysing points to a clean sheet here.

[Monty]

The main issue we have is that our best player in defence (Torres) is there more for his footballing ability than his defending ability. The latter of which if we're being honest, isn't good enough. We'll be better when either Kamara is back, or Onana gets to Kamara's levels of defensive screening.

Is that it though? The errors have struck me as being quite spread about (Cash vs. West Ham, Onana vs. Everton, Carlos vs. Wolves etc).

[Smirker]

Shit again.

[PeterWithesShin]

We've played 5 of the current bottom 7 in the opening 6 games and haven't looked at all like we're capable of keeping a clean sheet. If you have score 2 or 3 every game to have a chance of winning you're going to drop a lot of points.

[villa for life]

When has playing Konsa at RB ever looked good? It seems to be Emery’s one blind spot..

[VillaTim]

Very clear to see the defence is our Achilles heel . Mings cannot return soon enough . The Konsa RB experiment should have ended last season . In a few weeks we need to revert to
Cash Konsa Mings Digne 

[PaulWinch again]

It’s not as simple as it just being the “defence”. They are absolutely a part of it, but as a team our work off the ball defensively just isn’t there. Tracking runners is patchy, closing off space is sloppy. Until we deal with that we’ll keep conceding. Swapping Mings in might (might - he’s been out for over a year) help some individual errors. But he used to make plenty to be honest, and it’s a systemic issue more than a personnel one. Although individuals aren’t doing great either.

[olaftab]

Nothing has changed from last season. We conceded far too many goals last season and we are doing same again.