Aston Villa vs Spurs post match embarrassment

[john e]

April 14th 1981.Aston Villa 1  -  Ipswich Town 2. Remember how that ended.

I admire your optimism, but we ain’t winning the league mate

[Demitri_C]

Their last away win was dec 15th against forest

They do have alot of options going forward i agree. I did say a while i go and got laughed at that spurs have more depth in their squad than we do

You got "laughed" at because you also decided that long term injuries for us don't count, but for them claimed they still had more out injured against us Sunday including a player who was out for the season.

But I expect they do have a stronger in-depth due to having close to 250mill to spend in the summer + others. When we had that FFP freedom, we didn't have a team that had finished in the top five for six of the last 10 years to build on. We couldn't even use any loans in Jan to plug spaces like they have because we had used them up to plug the two long term injuries you don't count as a problem for us this season.

What on earth are you talking about ? Im not talking about yesterdays post im talking about how i said weeks ago that i think spurs are better than us and have more squad depth. Please read the posts.

As for yesterdays i was asked a qusstion on the injuries so i said sessganon as he is a injured player. As i said yesterday so you understand if we exclude the long term injuries we had two players out kamara and ramsey while spurs only had richarldson so its only one extra player we have out so im not sure whats so funny to laugh at that post?

The teams were almost full strength for both.  Never should be losing that 4-0. Thats just poor

[Ads]

"What on Earth are you talking about". Good question to reflect on.

[Drummond]

We're without Mings, Buendia, Kamara and Ramsey yesterday, so yes, their squad depth was greater than ours.

We've had a really tough run injury wise this season, and somehow kept pulling results out of the bag. Yesterday can't be blamed on our injury list though, that's for sure.

[Skerra]

Of course I want us to finish as high up as possible but, if it wasn’t for Manure being so shit, I think 6th would be our finishing position this season. As it is, I’m still clinging onto the hope of finishing 5th, just behind Spurs. Our zenith was the Man City game but, all started to change when we drew with Sheffield Utd. At that point we could have gone top of the league but, have never reached the heights since then. We’ve dug out a few results but, overall we haven’t played that well.
Still can’t get over some people saying we’re knackered because we are playing in the Conference League on a Thursday. If that’s the case, what’s the point of trying to get Champions League, where we will still have to play midweek matches but, against much stronger opposition. The mind boggles as, if a professional footballer at the height of their fitness in life, can’t play 2 games a week then there’s not much hope.

[ChicagoLion]

Of course I want us to finish as high up as possible but, if it wasn’t for Manure being so shit, I think 6th would be our finishing position this season. As it is, I’m still clinging onto the hope of finishing 5th, just behind Spurs. Our zenith was the Man City game but, all started to change when we drew with Sheffield Utd. At that point we could have gone top of the league but, have never reached the heights since then. We’ve dug out a few results but, overall we haven’t played that well.
Still can’t get over some people saying we’re knackered because we are playing in the Conference League on a Thursday. If that’s the case, what’s the point of trying to get Champions League, where we will still have to play midweek matches but, against much stronger opposition. The mind boggles as, if a professional footballer at the height of their fitness in life, can’t play 2 games a week then there’s not much hope.

If you have the squad you can cope with playing twice a week, Sadly , right now we don't. Hopefully next season we will.

[astonvilla82]

Of course I want us to finish as high up as possible but, if it wasn’t for Manure being so shit, I think 6th would be our finishing position this season. As it is, I’m still clinging onto the hope of finishing 5th, just behind Spurs. Our zenith was the Man City game but, all started to change when we drew with Sheffield Utd. At that point we could have gone top of the league but, have never reached the heights since then. We’ve dug out a few results but, overall we haven’t played that well.
Still can’t get over some people saying we’re knackered because we are playing in the Conference League on a Thursday. If that’s the case, what’s the point of trying to get Champions League, where we will still have to play midweek matches but, against much stronger opposition. The mind boggles as, if a professional footballer at the height of their fitness in life, can’t play 2 games a week then there’s not much hope.

You forgot Chelsea who spent 1 billion if I am correct, so we would be 7th

[Flamingo Lane]

All of us on here are feeling pretty sore after yesterday's game.  But spare a thought for the poor fella who did the skybet6 this weekend, and who would have won £250,000, if only the score in our game had stayed at 0-2.

[Olof's Beard]

Their options in central midfield yesterday were Sarr, Bissouma, Bentancur, Hojberg and Lo Celso. Five expensive international players (they also have that Skippety Skipp fella). Ours are Kamara, Luiz, McGinn before we get down to Tim or shifting Tielemans back there. They are years ahead of us in terms of squad depth and can money on squad fillers which we just can't.

[Risso]

All of us on here are feeling pretty sore after yesterday's game.  But spare a thought for the poor fella who did the skybet6 this weekend, and who would have won £250,000, if only the score in our game had stayed at 0-2.

Toney can get stuffed, quite frankly.

[Oklahoma]

Emery sent the team out to play a certain way. It didn't work, we lost badly in the end (to a good team).

Emery doesn't get it wrong very often, he's been absolutely fantastic for this club. 

4th place with 10 games to go is an incredible position....all to play for.

UTV

[john e]

Emery sent the team out to play a certain way. It didn't work, we lost badly in the end (to a good team).

Emery doesn't get it wrong very often, he's been absolutely fantastic for this club. 

4th place with 10 games to go is an incredible position....all to play for.

UTV

Can’t argue with any of that

[eamonn]

Their options in central midfield yesterday were Sarr, Bissouma, Bentancur, Hojberg and Lo Celso. Five expensive international players (they also have that Skippety Skipp fella). Ours are Kamara, Luiz, McGinn before we get down to Tim or shifting Tielemans back there. They are years ahead of us in terms of squad depth and can money on squad fillers which we just can't.

Ramsey? I know we play him on the left generally but he can play CM. They have more options but our top options are just as good if not better than theirs. I wouldn't swap Luiz, Tielemans, McGinn or Ramsey for theirs.

[LeonW]

A lot of what went wrong yesterday (and in general when things have gone wrong this season) is related to the overall make up of all our midfield which is predominantly positional rather than physical. Luiz, Kamara, even McGinn who whilst he brings some physicality by his nature are not quick and physically strong players. They rely on anticipation and quick release of the ball. For next season we need more options in midfield who can stand up to the sort of physical pressure some teams have put us under this season, including yesterday.

[brontebilly]

Their options in central midfield yesterday were Sarr, Bissouma, Bentancur, Hojberg and Lo Celso. Five expensive international players (they also have that Skippety Skipp fella). Ours are Kamara, Luiz, McGinn before we get down to Tim or shifting Tielemans back there. They are years ahead of us in terms of squad depth and can money on squad fillers which we just can't.

Yet we are still ahead of them in the table even after yesterday. No doubt they will have a wobble themselves on the run in and might have an injury or suspension to a key player or two.

But just looking at their revenues, age profile of their squad and finally getting in a non toxic coach, they are going to be a force for the foreseeable.