It demonstrates how drastically we are perceived by opponents than last season, I know Villa has had a rough start this season but they basically had to sit 10 men in front of Martinez to negate our attack. Frustrating that we didn't win but...
I thought he was mostly fine. A couple of bad moments sure but by and large didn’t do much good or bad. Just a fine game. Nothing like the disaster people are making out.
The yellow was one of those ones where you can’t get bypassed and he had...
He does do some really fantastic things when under pressure, stuff that doesn’t come around very often in a centre midfielder like him.
It’s the basic stuff he’s struggling with though - which is a much bigger problem.
Agree. When he is forced to play on instinct he can do elite things. But when he has time and space he seems scared to take the hand brake off. He had opportunities today to turn and drive forward but he played safe. I think his positioning needs...
Agree, they had possession at various points but I never felt we were under the cosh or would concede. We created enough good opportunities to score but we didn't. Beto that. We also need to score more from set pieces. Dominance equals corners...
Agree, big fan of his attributes. He has way more natural ability than Garner but we didn't look solid in the middle today until Rohl came on. Without doing that much we became very dominant when he was on the field which is a very good sign. He...
The rohl one for me with gana have no idea what it was for. The jt tackle i had great view didnt even give the foul played on the decided it was a foul when the lad rolled ok the floor, acting like was hurt. Then think was a tackle from behind on...
I felt like Villa players held and pushed our players at every opportunity but the ref gave us nothing. And he gave them lots of soft fouls when we pressured them and turned over the ball. The perfect tackle by JT was a great example.
Save from Grealish in the first half, last gasp tackle from Mings stopping Barry shooting, Beto missing two absolute sitters. We created enough chances to win that game.
He didn’t do too much wrong but he looked much more hesitant in possession than he did against Brighton. He had opportunities to drive forward with the ball or play a more progressive pass and he played safe too much. Needs to stop getting...