Aston Villa v Southampton Post Match Thread.

[cdbearsfan]

I’d love us to get him, unless we think Broggio can be somewhere near as good.

Issue with Dibling is that they've already sold him once, to Chelsea. He didn't settle and ended up coming back two months later. You'd need to be very sure that he was going to be happy at the club and not wanting to leave again within months before forking out twenty to thirty million quid.

[PeterWithe]

Other issue is that he sounds like a small village in Wiltshire

[pauliewalnuts]

Other issue is that he sounds like a small village in Wiltshire

Or a Battle of Britain fighter base, somewhere in Norfolk.

[Risso]

Or an unspeakable sexual act on Urban Dictionary, probably involving frozen shit.

[Dante Lavelli]

I’d love us to get him, unless we think Broggio can be somewhere near as good.

Issue with Dibling is that they've already sold him once, to Chelsea. He didn't settle and ended up coming back two months later. You'd need to be very sure that he was going to be happy at the club and not wanting to leave again within months before forking out twenty to thirty million quid.

I’d hedge against that by signing him this January but leave him at Southampton for the rest of the season. Even some of next.  He’s only 18 so let him mature where he is comfortable.

[Beard82]

I went Dibling with some of my private school mates when I was a teen.  Wouldn’t be aloud now thanks to the “woke police”.

Bartlett broke his leg - but we still laugh about it now.  And the farmers thanked us - after all it helped fertilise there fields

[john2710]

Over the years I've seen plenty of games, in conditions like yesterday, where we've slipped up. It could & should have been more comfortable. But it doesn't really matter.

Despite the fact that we haven't hit anything resembling the form of this time last season, we are still 6th & only 2 points off 4th. But we need some results from the next 4 league games to keep us in the picture. Hopefully we can hit some form & get a couple of players in January to give us a boost.

[cdbearsfan]

I feel like every time it was blowing a gale during the late 80s/early 90s we would be playing Wimbledon and would lose.

[olaftab]

I’d love us to get him, unless we think Broggio can be somewhere near as good.

Issue with Dibling is that they've already sold him once, to Chelsea. He didn't settle and ended up coming back two months later. You'd need to be very sure that he was going to be happy at the club and not wanting to leave again within months before forking out twenty to thirty million quid.

I’d hedge against that by signing him this January but leave him at Southampton for the rest of the season. Even some of next.  He’s only 18 so let him mature where he is comfortable.

So leave him there to develop a losing mentality and learn getting thrashed every week is acceptable?

[Smithy]

Another one with great feet and deceptively quick . He made one run with the ball where Digne and philogene could lnot get near him and kamara had to make a last ditch tackle .  I like him a lot

It was precisely that run that made me realise how quick he is. He was running with the ball, and neither Digne nor Philogene made up any ground on him.  Not that either of those two is particularly rapid, but you always expect the players without the ball to be "slightly" quicker than the one dribbling it.

[dcdavecollett]

One of the most solid 1-0s ever. Bouba/Super John for MotM and boy, was it cold!

[eamonn]

Aston Villa are the team with the highest percentage of their total passes being line-breaking passes in the UEFA Champions League this season (15.9%). Indeed, only two sides have made more line-breaking passes from their own half than Villa (211) this term: Bayer Leverkusen (241) and Juventus (216).

RB Leipzig have averaged 386 high-intensity pressures per game in the UEFA Champions League this season; the second-most of any team in the tournament, only behind Sturm Graz (392.4). Meanwhile, Aston Villa rank 33rd out of 36 teams for high-intensity pressures per game in the competition this term (265.80)

Aston Villa’s Morgan Rogers is one of only five players to have completed 10+ dribbles (18) and created 10+ chances from open play (10) in the UEFA Champions League this season, along with Vinícius Júnior, Florian Wirtz, Savinho, and Johan Bakayoko.

Jhon Durán is Aston Villa’s top scorer in the UEFA Champions League this season (two goals), while no player has attempted more shots for them (9). This is despite the Colombian only being on the pitch for 35% of Villa’s match time in the competition this season (159/450).

[Somniloquism]

Wrong thread eamonn.

[Brend'Watkins]

If he's still in South America it could be that he's affected by the altitude/Tequela/other?...

[eamonn]

Haha...you're not wrong!