Aston Villa v Legia Warsaw Post Match Thread

[brontebilly]

Do we think Ramsey only made a brief appearance because he's saving him for the weekend, or is he still building back up to match fitness?

One of him or Bailey will start v Bournemouth. Better balance with Ramsey on left but I think Emery will try squeeze Bailey in. Diaby did enough tonight to stay in.

[AV84]

Just a slight disappointment as another goal tonight would have meant the last game was a dead rubber and the 1st team wouldn't have needed to even travel.

Most of them would have had to at least travel, we don't have that big a squad that we could send a "B team" to start and be on the bench.

I don't think it would matter how big our squad is - each club registers the same number of players for European competition so we would have to bring 18 or 20 players (however many subs are benched in Europe these days, 7 or 9) regardless and the bulk of them are always going to be seniors, no matter if it's us or Liverpool/West Ham with their dead-rubber last group games in the Europa League.

There's a B squad you can register for European competitions. Players have to be under a certain age and have played for the club for a set amount of time, so basically home grown players. You can have an unlimited number of players on there, but unless we were going to send the u21 kids, we don't have a lot of options there either.

[VillaTim]

Winning on 70% happy with that, good rotation and legs rested for Sunday a far more important match

[trinityoap]

Has Olsen been Emeryed?

[Steve67]

Has Olsen been Emeryed?

Seems to be the case.  Good distribution tonight.

[PeterWithesShin]

Played 5, won 4 and top of the group and already qualified for knockouts. I'm happy with that overall even if we aren't guaranteed top spot yet.

[brontebilly]

Has Olsen been Emeryed?

His ability to welly the ball up the pitch quickly was handy to break their high line.

[pauliewalnuts]

Has Olsen been Emeryed?

As i sat down just now and opened the laptop, i was thinking that exact same thing.

[Ian.]

Moreno is a lovely footballer, great technique and had a blinding first game back.

[Goldenballs]

Has Olsen been Emeryed?

Seems to be the case.  Good distribution tonight.

Still had my heart in my mouth a couple of times with passes that were very close to being cut out. He could argue they were perfection. He didn't do anything wrong at all tonight. But he didn't have a save to try and make, no keeper in the world saves their goal.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Moreno is a lovely footballer, great technique and had a blinding first game back.

He was my MOTM. So great to see him back and more importantly back up to speed. Love him more tonight than I did last season and that's taking nothing away from Digne who has done a great job.

[pauliewalnuts]

Do we think Ramsey only made a brief appearance because he's saving him for the weekend, or is he still building back up to match fitness?

One of him or Bailey will start v Bournemouth. Better balance with Ramsey on left but I think Emery will try squeeze Bailey in. Diaby did enough tonight to stay in.

I thought Emery managed that well tonight - Moreno a long run out, and JJ a shorter one, to kill two birds with one stone, get the tie out of the way with less impact on the usual starting XI and also bring two players fresh from long injuries closer to full fitness.

[pauliewalnuts]

Moreno is a lovely footballer, great technique and had a blinding first game back.

He was my MOTM. So great to see him back and more importantly back up to speed. Love him more tonight than I did last season and that's taking nothing away from Digne who has done a great job.

Sign of squad depth that we have Moreno and Digne (who has been superb) as our LB options.

If we had the same depth at RB, it'd be lovely.

[VillaTim]

Be interesting to see who plays LB Sunday , I think it will be Digne

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Moreno is a lovely footballer, great technique and had a blinding first game back.

He was my MOTM. So great to see him back and more importantly back up to speed. Love him more tonight than I did last season and that's taking nothing away from Digne who has done a great job.

Sign of squad depth that we have Moreno and Digne (who has been superb) as our LB options.

If we had the same depth at RB, it'd be lovely.

January is just around the corner. I'd imagine it's top of our list.