Amadou Onana

[PeterWithesShin]

Every player gets caught on the ball, it happens. His pass to Digne was excellent.

[Risso]

Andre?

A jocular reference to that reporter getting his name wrong. As seen with Andre Amadou himself on his T-shirt last week.

[Somniloquism]

Ah was just saying this myself regards players caught on the ball but to be fair it was very poor play that seen before from past midfielders but not what Onana acted. The way he went down and tried to win free kick that cost us the goal. The commentator Carragher suggested his pride and ego was hurt and was pretending to be injured which is actually quite a controversial statement.

Did he say the same when Pickford went down?

I was pissed off with the ref sending him to the touchline though and not inviting him back on for ages. It was just after a goal, not during the play so seemed petty.

[Meanwood Villa]

Who knew we were buying a goal machine defensive midfielder? What a start to his Villa career.

[Toronto Villa]

That shot was so sweetly hit. I don’t think any of us saw his ability to score goals for us as a key trait. More helping to keep them out. It’s great to see his ability and more importantly his overall attitude. He’s been a superb addition.

[tomd2103]

That shot was so sweetly hit. I don’t think any of us saw his ability to score goals for us as a key trait. More helping to keep them out. It’s great to see his ability and more importantly his overall attitude. He’s been a superb addition.

Tielemans is doing well, but the thought of a fit again Kamara and Onana in central midfield is an interesting prospect.

[Dave]

One quarter of the way to Stan Petrov's total goals across 200+ matches for us.

[VillaTim]

Club record signing and we are starting to see why. Some player. Once he's fully bedded in he can be immense .

[PeterWithesShin]

https://www.facebook.com/avfcofficial/videos/387941530859200

[AV84]

No criticism of the players or the recruitment team, but it's a marked contrast between this guy and Diaby, or even Zaniolo. Sometimes players just fit.

[Footy-Vill]

Onana took his goal well, but his movement isn't great, and he seems a bit lost at times.
It was a contrast to Tielemans, who was excellent.

There were shades of good play when he carried the ball forward on occasion and brought about a yellow card, but his initial contribution was a foul or standing around coming towards the ball and not moving much thereafter.

It's noticeable his last two games since the international period haven't been as great for me. 
Clumsy today in his control for handball, for Duran disallowed goal and actually thought Barkley deserved more minutes ahead of Onana.

Kind of got away with his performance today because of weak opposition and Tielemans showed the midfield ball dominance, but Amadou sometimes looks too me look very lumbering and out of touch. Still learning and only will improve but his availability without ball and positioning needs to be worked on.

Against  Bayern Munich has to perform higher standards for me, and I'm sure Emery would say the same.
I demand more if he wants to keep ahead of Barkley.

[edgysatsuma89]

That shot was so sweetly hit. I don’t think any of us saw his ability to score goals for us as a key trait. More helping to keep them out. It’s great to see his ability and more importantly his overall attitude. He’s been a superb addition.

Tielemans is doing well, but the thought of a fit again Kamara and Onana in central midfield is an interesting prospect.

Tielemans is doing so well in his role now that it will be interesting to see what happens when Kamara is back fit. I imagine those 3 will play but I wouldn't want Youri's role changing too much. Fun times.

[PaulWinch again]

One of the things I love about his play is his awareness and ability to cover danger. There was a moment tonight when SJM played a slightly sloppy pass and they would have been away down their left, but Onana spotted it and just swept it up. It’s not the sort of thing that gets big plaudits buy it’s so important.

[Neil Hawkes]

For Footy - everything you've highlighted as faults are what every player has initially after joining an Emery team.

Once Onana is confident that his positioning only needs to be exactly what Emery has requested and not overthink it, as every other Emery conditioned player is doing, I believe these early hiccups will either disappear OR if Onana is unadaptable he will be sold an another brought in (reference: Diaby).

[Risso]

Onana had a 92% pass completion rate, scored a goal, and was the only player other than Torres not to lose possession once. He had a great game.