Pundit and Media Watch on Aston Villa 24/25

[kippaxvilla2]

I still love the media ignoring us frankly. 

[Footy-Vill]

Gary Neville SkySports said
“I think for Villa, they look very good, there is no point in judging Villa, at this moment in time. They have got a very experienced manager who has been around the block and he knows this game about playing in Europe and playing at the weekend as well. It’s not new for Villa at all or for Unai Emery.

But the Champions League brings such a sense of occasion. It’s like an event. Even for teams who have played in it quite a few times when that music comes on. For Villa, and their fans, it will feel like a massive event, but then you have got to go to Ipswich away on a Saturday at 12:30 pm after it. That’s where you have to (adjust). You have played away somewhere, come back at three in the morning on a Thursday, and you feel like you are hungover even though you haven’t had a drink. That’s how you do feel in Europe sometimes.

Players are the same. You get up on a Friday morning, you feel well behind it and then you have to go and play again. That’s why the top clubs, the top players and the top teams, do it year in and year out. They just repeat that and are very good at it. It’s new for Villa, so it comes with that height, anxiety, expectation and the electricity it will bring. But it will sap them a little bit of energy and they have to deal with that. They have a very good manager to be able to do so.”

[AV84]

I'd assume squad rotation will help with that. Like on Saturday there were several players who didn't even make the bench, for whatever reason. If you've got 3 or 4 players not even travelling to European away games, and 3 or 4 who travel but barely played, then you've got the guts of a starting line up that's fresh for the weekend.

[Footy-Vill]

Incidentally, not worthy of its own thread but this seems a decent place for it, I see Troy "pass" Deeney has replaced Garth Crooks as the BBC's Team of the Week picker. Will he deliberately avoid picking Villa players or over-compensate and go the other way, I wonder.

BBC Troy Deeney's first Premier League team of the week includes Onana

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/

Onana (Aston Villa): He got a goal on his Aston Villa debut but Onana was all over West Ham's Lucas Paqueta throughout too. The Belgium midfielder broke up the play and did all the horrible things you wouldn't really see, unless you have a bit of a trained eye.

[Accent Guy]

Game set and match that comment.

You cannot be serious!?

[Ads]

Premier League Pundits Ian Wright and Tim Sherwood on West Ham 1- 2 Aston Villa

You've linked an Arabic speaking YouTube account.

[Risso]

Oops, glitch in the algorithm.

[eamonn]

The "hot take" (read lazy) from neutrals is that the Champs League will drain us. Ok, the games are going to be harder than the Conference last season, but we'll on average have more recovery time (no Thursday games so it'll be Tues/Weds to Sat/Sun) and our squad is stronger now.

[eamonn]

Yeah, Lowe answered something like 4 of her 6 questions with something Villa-related, good for her.

Ledge.

[Accent Guy]

Yeah, Lowe answered something like 4 of her 6 questions with something Villa-related, good for her.

Ledge.

Lovely voice too. 

[Footy-Vill]

Sky Sport MNF season Predictions by Carragher and Neville

[Accent Guy]

Just listened to 606 from Saturday....

3 non Scouse Liverpool fans, 2 Spurs fans even tho they didn't even play and not a single Villa fan.

When we win something it's going to taste so fucking good.

[Hookeysmith]

Just listened to 606 from Saturday....

3 non Scouse Liverpool fans, 2 Spurs fans even tho they didn't even play and not a single Villa fan.

When we win something it's going to taste so fucking good.

It should not rile me but it really fucking does - especially Talk Shite.

The build up to Fridays opener it was like the resurrection of Fergiscums team from the 90's, not a team managed by a supply teacher that finished 8th last year. They should rename the station to United FM. 

[coreyfeldman]

Gary Nev is clueless isn't he

[Footy-Vill]

Talk Sport Team of The Week

By Gabby Agbonlahor