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We are about 6 games away from playing for fuck all. Get someone else in now or it’s a nothing season. What we will do is wait until it’s too late. We have 6 league till we play city on the 1st of Feb. If we don’t pick up at least 3 wins in we will then be completely detached from the European places. Palace,Brentford,Sunderland,Bournemouth,West Ham and Burnley are games we should expect to win. The way we are just now we could lose the lot of them.
Nope. Sacked or resigned earlier this month I think
It’s not just the defence - the DM and wingers are shit and lose possession when they shouldn’t
There must be an absolute gulf between these two teams' defenses for this to make any sense. And in case you're wondering, it has little to do with the individual errors that in our case seem to have amplified in the recent weeks.
We lead the league in number of defensive errors that led to a shot from opponents with 21, and are 2nd in number of goals conceded from them with 6. This is certainly holding us back somewhat, even though it must be noted that someone like Vicario for all his faults is still T-4th in number of saves for example.
But then Villa are T-6th in the former category with 16 of their own, and are also T-3rd in number of goals conceded from them with 5.
So this alone barely solves the conundrum .The question remains then: How come our defense, with an almost fully healthy backline all season, is this much behind a team like Villa's ?
I'm not sure why we're still thinking in terms of 'a team like Villa's', as if that would be a bad place to be (apologies if that's not what you meant, but it's the way it read to me). Villa are on course to finish ahead of us in the league for the fourth consecutive season; and, barring a miracle, it'll be the third consecutive season that their GD will be better than ours.
Agree
Its utterly dispiriting how we have allowed Villa with a elite coach to go past us. They are the side we have effectively swapped positions witn. Ange Postecoglou Thomas Frank and the level of player recruitment (paratici Lange)has over the last four years done for us. This is not now a quick fix. Was a time they were picking up Lenglet on loan. We need to start buying the best British players can afford this and bringing through our own best young players.
Villa were in the fucking Championship 7 years go. They're shit bags who have lucked out with a top coach and some quality signings that have worked out. I'm not thinking Villa. I'm think better than Villa who like Newcastle will only challenge every other season.
