Aston Villa Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours/Champions League Thread 2024/25

rebelomar

Targett and Hourihane are beyond poor and should be nowhere near a PL team.

Neither strong or athletic enough to compete....at least Conor has his set pieces.

Our squad is still threadbare at best. No striker on the bench.

circadian

What the **** was that?

Esse85

Absolutely disgraceful, maybe it's time Terry fecks off and someone else comes in and takes over the defence because its laughable at this stage.

artanevilla

Embarrassing from Grealish there.

Easy Rod

artanevilla wrote: »

Embarrassing from Grealish there.

Yeah not good. I’ve said it before, we’re such a moany team at times, screaming for fouls all the time.

Grealish acting like that to get someone sent off is only going to harm his reputation in the future and referees will be less likely to give frees when he is inevitably kicked.

OneColdHand

Will see how long Smith waits to change it up...60mins gone now.

Easy Rod

Ramsey on for Conor please

Esse85

rebelomar wrote: »

Targett and Hourihane are beyond poor and should be nowhere near a PL team.

Neither strong or athletic enough to compete....at least Conor has his set pieces.

Our squad is still threadbare at best. No striker on the bench.

Their lack of pace along with Trezeguet really hampers the side.
Targett is Stephen Warnock.

sc86

Mings needs kick in the arse

Need barkey back asap , bar dead balls when hourihane plays hes useless

artanevilla

Shocking from Trez.

Patser

Ohhhh Trez, c'mon man, your just missing too many easy chances.....

rebelomar

Awful miss.

listermint

Did he kick the ball off his own other foot...

artanevilla

Stonewaller.

Patser

Penalty?

Ahh no, that has to be var'ed out. Trez goes down for nothing IMO


Edit: Maybe not as he's gushing blood...ooops

listermint

How'd he get the head injury?

artanevilla

Patser wrote: »

Penalty?

Ahh no, that has to be var'ed out. Trez goes down for nothing IMO


Edit: Maybe not as he's gushing blood...ooops

Other angle they showed the shirt pull better.

listermint

Ah I see stud after he went down

artanevilla

listermint wrote: »

How'd he get the head injury?

Razor blade in the sock. They do it in wrestling all the time.

Watkins bins it.

Patser

OH!!! FFS!!!


open goal - missed
peno - missed

But they are ahead from a speculative flick header

rebelomar

Awwwww Gaaaawd

artanevilla

Sell Mings.

basillarkin

Watkins records on pens is terrible.

circadian

There has to be a better penalty taker on the team.

OneColdHand

Why isn't Grealish taking them? I feel he's missed a few, but he's our captain and talisman, he should be stepping up with confidence to take them.

tonytiger81

Bertrand looking a bit lazy already

basillarkin

OneColdHand wrote: »

Why isn't Grealish taking them? I feel he's missed a few, but he's our captain and talisman, he should be stepping up with confidence to take them.

He and Watkins had a heated argument in one game earlier in season where Jack relented and gave the ball to Watkins. Need Smith to designate Jack as pen taker. Watkins has missed 4 out of 6 going by sky graph.

Easy Rod

basillarkin wrote: »

He and Watkins had a heated argument in one game earlier in season where Jack relented and gave the ball to Watkins. Need Smith to designate Jack as pen taker. Watkins has missed 4 out of 6 going by sky graph.

Really? Don’t remember that happening

Patser

Watkins!!!!!


Lovely finish, great ball in






HahahhahahahahhaH of course VAR

matrim

If that's offside it should be a peno. Ogbonna is all over him

listermint

Jesus vars ridiculous is this how technical it is. Lines manually drawn

tonytiger81

Aww f**k

circadian

I have never seen this for an offside before, feel like somone is drawing on ms paint.

listermint

Was his poxy hair off side. Genuine question. Was it his fringe they decided that on

matrim

listermint wrote: »

Was his poxy hair off side. Genuine question. Was it his fringe they decided that on

Pretty sure it was his knee that they judged it off

listermint

Was more of a peno than the trez one tbh

fullstop

VAR has ruined the game IMO. Every time a goal goes in these days the first thought is that it’ll be ruled out for one reason or another. Has completely killed he flow of the game with these ridiculous stoppages
to check if someone’s left testicle is offside. If it’s not obvious just give the goal.

sc86

How the hell did we lose that.

fullstop

matrim wrote: »

Pretty sure it was his knee that they judged it off

Looked like it was the top of his left arm?

JPA

We were the better team and lost. Same as last week. Need to take our chances.

Watkins needs to be off penalties now.

JPA

sc86 wrote: »

How the hell did we lose that.

Missed a peno and an open goal, what can you say, don't deserve anything when we do that.

Trezeguet must have missed 3 or 4 super chances by now.

rebelomar

VAR has denied us two games in a row but its our defending is what has cost us...and some bad finishing I suppose.

Traore and El Ghazi are useless. The Lyon fans were right.

Grealish was amazing again.

Esse85

We gave away 2 cheap goals, we missed a penalty, missed a sitter in the 6 yard box, had an injury time goal chalked off due to offside. That's the life of a villa fan.

Too reliant on Jack, too many championship players involved, Hourihane, Trez, El Gazhi should not get a sniff of league action.
Brain dead Mings then never fails to mess up.

CSF

Esse85 wrote: »

We gave away 2 cheap goals, we missed a penalty, missed a sitter in the 6 yard box, had an injury time goal chalked off due to offside. That's the life of a villa fan.

Too reliant on Jack, too many championship players involved, Hourihane, Trez, El Gazhi should not get a sniff of league action.
Brain dead Mings then never fails to mess up.

Trez missed an absolute sitter today but he was one of our best players again.

sc86

Is barkley out for long?

CucaFace

sc86 wrote: »

How the hell did we lose that.

Because the same as last week , Tyrone Mings.





Shocking for the first goal....



Second half kick off, the man who trys to do cruyff turns in his own box, as always launches it up the pitch where we lose it. Then defends the cross with as much aggression as a 14 year old girl.



Do you think he (Bowen a slight skinny winger) would win that header so easily if McGrath, Southgate, Alpay, Ehiogh (i could go on and on here) were playing? Not a chance



Mings walking around chewing his gum as if he was out for a nice stroll in the park.



He has become the weak point in the whole side, and thats saying a lot with a team that includes Trezeguet, McGinn, Horihane and Targett.

pavb2

Douglas had a good game too many others just not up to it. Traore is a massive disappointment

Esse85

CSF wrote: »

Trez missed an absolute sitter today but he was one of our best players again.

He's a headless chicken. Scores the odd goal, missed loads. Can't beat a man, poor delivery, no pace, works hard tracking back.

Luiz was the second best villa player behind Grealish.

JPA

CSF wrote: »

Trez missed an absolute sitter today but he was one of our best players again.

He's involved but how long can we forgive the chances he's missing, he's costing us games with his misses. On the otherhand of Traore was playing maybe he wouldn't even get in those positions.

Radiant Cool Crazy Nightmare

Esse85 wrote: »

We gave away 2 cheap goals, we missed a penalty, missed a sitter in the 6 yard box, had an injury time goal chalked off due to offside. That's the life of a villa fan.

Too reliant on Jack, too many championship players involved, Hourihane, Trez, El Gazhi should not get a sniff of league action.
Brain dead Mings then never fails to mess up.

I really couldnt care less if I never see Hourihane play for us again. He offers nothing bar his set pieces, I really want him to do well but I just dont think he is up to this level. Hopefully Barkley will be fit again soon.