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Match Premier League - Home to Aston Villa - 03/11 - 2pm KO

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People might find this a bit odd, but this is the most I've enjoyed watching us play in a long time.

Put the goal to one side... we've looked composed and in control.

That's the overriding sense I'm getting.

Enjoying this.

Still there to win if we sort out our forward flanks.

Fuck me - in a thread of utter chaos and misery this post at that point of the game is quite something 👏👏👏
 
Pretending that the fact that we were utterly abysmal for the final 3/4s of the season doesn't matter because we were unusually good for the first 1/4 before the league sussed out our 1 trick pony manager with zero experience in a serious football league? I haven't picked out a chunk of poor form in that statement.

And the statement was made in the context of Ange having to prove he's better than that final 3/4s of last season, and climb above Villa thus the importance of today's match.

It doesn't appear at this point he is capable of it. We're currently 4-1-4, basically the exact same form from that final 3/4s, and losing at home to Villa - the club we needed to climb above to show improvement.

I'm not putting any emphasis on what we accomplished Aug-Oct 2023, because I haven't seen any indication this squad with this manager is capable of replicating that form. I've seen a lot of indication that all this squad with this manager is capable of is what we've seen from Oct 2023-Oct 2024. A full calendar year of football isn't "cherry picking" results to fit a narrative.
Oh yeah, what’s your opinion on winning today?

Oh and Wednesday or do these results not count?
 
Jesus Christ...
This is why modern football is dying...

Did we win or not? YES!

Did we deserve to...? Probably!

Did the stats say we deserved to??
I GENUINELY don't care!
Yes, great...
No, so what, we still won!

Heat maps and stat attacks make no difference...
Had we lost, I'd be pissed off... ESPECIALLY of we deserved to win...

But we won, so I don't give a Nun's cunt if we deserved it or not ..

I think we did ..
Stats might prove otherwise...

But who gives a shit?

3 points... We beat Villa
.. time wasting, dirty dark arts Villa!

We beat that!!

GOOD!
All those charts, and the pages and pages of gobbledygook remind me of a detailed horoscope reading my wife got years ago. I reckon the horoscope reading was more accurate...and it was complete bollix.
 
Tbh since dragusin has played weve done well. More prgrammed as a defender than the trendy demand of defenders bringing out from back. VDV is the crown jewel but wouldnt mind seeing vdv and dragusin as defensive partnership for a few games.
 
I went in hard on Ange last week for getting the team wrong but he's played a blinder since! The more compact game plan worked against City and even starting Werner in that game worked well with his pace. Then today, he got the team right. Big call leaving out Maddison but Deki and Sarr were vital in the win today. But the biggest improvement was the subs, Bissouma on for Bentancur was timed to perfection and he showed serious guts taking off Son. Then when Richarlison got injured, the easy thing to do is go like for like and bring on Werner/Moore but he read the game state, brought on Maddison and moved Kulusevski to the left making us more compact. Great management after probably getting it wrong last week.
 
Jesus Christ...
This is why modern football is dying...

Did we win or not? YES!

Did we deserve to...? Probably!

Did the stats say we deserved to??
I GENUINELY don't care!
Yes, great...
No, so what, we still won!

Heat maps and stat attacks make no difference...
Had we lost, I'd be pissed off... ESPECIALLY of we deserved to win...

But we won, so I don't give a Nun's cunt if we deserved it or not ..

I think we did ..
Stats might prove otherwise...

But who gives a shit?

3 points... We beat Villa
.. time wasting, dirty dark arts Villa!

We beat that!!

GOOD!

And we have a thread specifically for this crap but this cunt just wants to bore the pants off anyone on the Match thread!
 
Villa are a nasty team too btw. Came here to park the bus and time waist. They got everything they deserved today. Just an Aldi version of Woolwich is all they are. Boring and negative.

Emery is a good tactician and knows how to frustrate teams and cause upsets, but that style of football gets found out in the long run. Cup manager is all he is, but that club are now targeting top 4 and sacrificing cups, so this arrangement won't end well despite all the positive hype about them.

Delighted we put them back in their box today. Welcome to the jungle!
 
Uh oh...
Flat track Bully?

Typical fucking greasy Italian Deigo Wop, eh?

They reversed during WWII... and they've never changed...

Get rid!
...bring back Gazzaniga or Gomes!!!

Fucks sake! At least he GIVES a shit!
reachingforthestars reachingforthestars is correct. Vicario is bad news. Does the dramatic stuff because it serves his ego, but couldn't command his box if his life depended on it
 
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