Hardly anything has been able to distract me away from the Villa in my lifetime. The last series of events able do it was the birth of my kids, decades ago.
Purchasing a gaff in Spain has distracted me too. It’s the whole process of buying the property and doing tons of research as in what to expect in being over there and everything else around it. It’s a nightmare, with utilities and all manner of bills and taxes to sort out. And is exactly the reason why the thought of moving at all has never appealed to me.
It’s caused me to take a total back seat from thinking about the Villa and is why I’ve hardly been on the site or written anything. Apologies for that and you seem to have been doing a pretty good job of that yourselves.
There’s also another reason I haven’t written and frankly it’s because I have practically nothing positive to say.
I’m very much known as a straight talker and rate myself as very much the pragmatist, hence I want to look at something quite depressing. Our current form.
To make it simple, here’s our form over the last 12, 10, 8, 6 and 4 games;
8th. 5th. 13th. 17th and finally 19th. Anybody else seeing a pattern here? At a time when we’re thinking we’ll turn it around and it’ll come good, we’re actually getting worse. And we’re already in relegation form.
Things look pretty grim to me and I expect this to continue, at least tomorrow anyway.
So Chelsea away and they’re on a roll.
Squad news then and Jacob Ramsey is definitely out and Amadou Onana will be assessed before the game, having missed out for the last two. Kamara will probably start after doing so on Wednesday and I’d expect Barkley might too, having done pretty well in the last few weeks.
As for Chelsea, they apparently rotated quite bit for their European game on Thursday and will revert to a full strength side for tomorrow.
Which doesn’t bode well for us.
We actually have a fairly good record against Chelsea over the last few seasons, but I don’t see us getting anything tomorrow. Unai doesn’t seem open to changing from his current very high line defending stance and I just can’t see how we’re not going to get caught out, with their attackers repeatedly getting in behind us. Quite simply we’ve been found out and we all know it.
So we’re in trouble and Chelsea are looking very likely for a Champion’s league spot. What can go wrong?
Everything, I suspect and my thoroughly depressing position is we’ll be soundly beaten.
I’m going for 1-3. But I seriously hope I’m wrong.
UTV!
Mark Clattenburg can go do one too…We defo need this to improve our GD…
Fuckin yeaaaasss Villa are back
Woooo hooo we are back come onnn up the Villlaaaa
Kamara has been superb for me.
And your man Chesty looks absolute class tonight.
I bet Canadian Pete is peeing his pants!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Seems like a lot of empty seats at VP. Enjoyable me thinks
Stupid football. At this moment in time we sit 6th. From 12th.
And if only…(the Bournemouth game).
And Ipswich. And Palace. It’s those 3 that rocked us. Not the 3 away games. They were tough games that, unfortunately, were played too close together for results not to impact league position.
Go for the throat on Saturday and get that GD up. The lethargic Villa better not turn up again!
Maybe Bailey should bleach his hair too. We got a bit of VAR luck with the 3rd goal IMO. Mings has been dominant to any cross which is something we have missed and Kamara our best player by a mile so far. Cash also playing well. The only frustration for me is Bailey who gets in good positions but always runs into trouble and loses possession.
Like he did when we first signed him.
Agree with pretty much all that Holte.
That’s Bailey though. It seems like his confidence has returned and when he’s like that, he tries stuff.
How many times have we seen him flop and then suddenly pull a rabbit out of the hat and get a stonking goal?
Bailey needs a goal more than anyone. He should get plenty of space to run into if Brentford over commit.
Brentford pull one back with a nice effort.
We could have done with a clean sheet, but hey ho.
Bloody Brentford.
Thought it was a foul on Cash tbf
When we had 2 I thought we need a 3rd. At 3-1 we needs 4th
Is Tyrone Mings back, just when we’d written him off?
The wheels have come off in the second half 🤦♂️
I can see us blowing this.
Mings has been grat in the air.
Exactly what Torres lacks in his commanding attacking head play.
Torres next to Kamara in Dougie’s role, anyone?
10 mins. Come on.
Oh happy days, Villa back to winning ways, 😁
Thank goodness for that. I was feeling nervous when they pulled one back.
Totally agree that Mings was MOTM.
Kamara was excellent until he ran out of steam.
Duran I thought played well when he came on.
McGinn looks to be struggling right now and Bailey needs a goal! Philogene was okay when he came on.
Another win on Saturday will give us a big lift before the Leipzig game.
Rogers for me, looked an absolute class act this evening, balance, poise, weight of pass. Looked the real deal. 👏
I thought he was awesome tonight. At times he looks unplayable. He will get better and we have some player on our hands
Imo better wide on the left than through the middle, plays with more freedom.
And absolutely, bargain of the century and if he plays like that and continues to improve then skies the limit for the lad.
🤯
I can’t believe I’m hearing that from you, RSS! With no sense of irony?
Playing though the middle he’s so often caught on the half turn or takes a heavy first touch or gets caught dallying in possession surrendering the ball while we are stretched, this then makes us venerable to a quick counter (it really pisses me off).
I know I’ve been his biggest critic but credit where credit’s due BFR, none of that last night.
Playing down the left he looked a far more effective and accomplished (imo).
And what a finish?
Hopefully Unai has come to the same conclusion! 👍
Huge sigh of relief. Mings back and Olly scoring, happy days!
Still need to beat Soton on Saturday but it’s looking good.
Didn’t see the second half as was told by the missus I had to go to the managers piss up (cocktail party!).
Anyway reckon I saw the Emery Villa in the first half. I agree that even in the first 45 minutes Mings looked a commanding presence. He plays well with Konsa and is an organiser.
Pleased to see him back.
UTV