THIS was the first home match of the season and yet only 28,000 Villa supporters turned up. Since when did this happen before on the first day of the season? And these brave fans were rewarded with no shots on goal. The best they got for good cheer was 2 close shaves from Zoggy.
After the play in the last 3 seasons, then I suppose I can see where everyone is coming from in their happiness that we have four points, but it looks as though we’ve already forgotten how things used to be at Villa Park!
Yesterday there was an absence of positives unless you sum it up in one word – ‘defence’. There's no denying that the full-backs look good (is this the same Hutton? And why was he locked away for so long?), combined with two sound centre-backs, and the midfield looks stronger with Richardson and now Sanchez at hand. But it's all at present designed to keep the opponents out.
After the play in the last 3 seasons, then I suppose I can see where everyone is coming from in their happiness that we have four points, but it looks as though we’ve already forgotten how things used to be at Villa Park!
Yesterday there was an absence of positives unless you sum it up in one word – ‘defence’. There's no denying that the full-backs look good (is this the same Hutton? And why was he locked away for so long?), combined with two sound centre-backs, and the midfield looks stronger with Richardson and now Sanchez at hand. But it's all at present designed to keep the opponents out.
Yes they do it well, but how many shots on goal have we had in two matches? The answer is ONE. And that produced our only goal so far, and one that was partly as a result of a keeper's error.
Yesterday, Villa were crying out for a player to unlock the barcodes’ defence … but we saw none. Anything to prevent defeat seems to be the mentality just now. And this is at Villa Park ... not at Anfield or Old Trafford, where such team placements in the away side would have been understandable.
Yesterday, Villa were crying out for a player to unlock the barcodes’ defence … but we saw none. Anything to prevent defeat seems to be the mentality just now. And this is at Villa Park ... not at Anfield or Old Trafford, where such team placements in the away side would have been understandable.
Yes, it can improve (the squad is good enough and Benteke and Okore are still to return), but I wait with baited breath.
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