Lets not forget that Villa are also in the midst of a 5 game run in 12 days, played on the weekend, and albeit on paper they have a decent team, there are deficiencies.
Expect us to be competitive, have tough spells, and if we are a bit calmer on the ball, we will create (and hopefully take) chances.
The Madrid City game seems all the more tempting now.
…No I’m kidding, up the reds!!!
I feel sick.
Anyway, I’ve already got my excuse lined up if we fail to collect 3 points:
Interesting. Another tactical masterclass from Slot by changing it up a bit.
If we win.
Work as a team…play as a team…and fight as a team…listen to each other…and help each other…my team talk over…over to u Virg n Arne…
Not picking on you, but I really hate the “playing the results” style of analysis that goes on. Sometimes shit just doesn’t go your way during a game, bad reffing decisions, one or two injuries forcing subs, player gets sent off, wind catches the ball weird and beats the 'keeper, wicked deflection, etc.
Those things have nothing to do with tactics and can cause a team to drop points, but it doesn’t mean the tactics were wrong. On the other side of that, horrendous tactical decisions can be lauded as “genius” if a team manages to shithouse a win, like when Fergie played 8 defenders that one time. They didn’t play well, they just shithoused a win and everyone was sucking Fergie’s dick about it, but it was nonsense.
Trent to have a good game tonight. 1-2 Reds.
Former Liverpool defender Stephen Warnock believes certain players in Arne Slot’s squad will be “expecting a hiccup” after pulling seven points clear at the top of the Premier League table with 13 games left.
Warnock sympathised with the players on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Monday Night Club, stating: "The players probably feel like they don’t want to throw it away because everyone will say, ‘it wasn’t Manchester City chasing you down, it was Arsenal and they lost their forward three’.
“I do think there is an element of the players expecting a hiccup because it has almost gone so well so far, but they shouldn’t do because they are such a good team.”
A bit surprised Andy starts again.
Yes he was poor against Wolves just kept missing challenges, hopefully he has a brilliant game
Jesus some knee jerking going on before game has even kicked off. I seriously thought this place was more sane than that appears not.
Stephen desires for that to happen he means.
Just heard tactics tim say that as a manager he’d just tell Rashford to ‘run around’. Can’t understand why he’s not using his football brain to revolutionise Real Madrid or PSG.
How Swindon didn’t rise the leagues as him as director of football.
Tonight is about standing together and playing as a team controlling the game.
Arne seems to be learning after the everton sub on Jota instead of Endo and waiting until 71 minutes last game to bring on another midfielder.
Imagine getting this in our in match threads
I sign out of these threads when the match starts. Won’t even be back at HT this time