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

Watkins misses a 1v1 as he tries to round the keeper, 3 mins later Bolton make a mockery of our defence and score.

Coutinho is playing more centrally than left.

Villa look like the league one team here not Bolton.

Ha, that's a rare one.

1-1

Luiz with a fluke goal, direct from a corner.

Zero positives to take from the first half.

Kamara with a lot of silly fouls.

McGinn's been terribly.

Ings hits the post, should of scored, good pass from Watkins.

Started the second half better.

There’s no scenario where McGinn can start on Sunday, and yet he almost definitely is.

Bailey, Buendia, Ramsey, Archer and Iroegbunam.

Both came on towards the end. Archer looked lively. Carved out a chance for himself and should of scored.

Think you read my message wrong.

Away to Man Utd in next round of the league cup.

Before the result they had Vs Liverpool, I'd of said bring it on.

With cup competitions, we always seem to get a rough draw.

Hopefully it's just a loan deal.

Gerrard said in his press conference today that we’re not close with any signings.

To be honest, I don’t know how enthusiastic I’d be about giving him any major funds given that he’s very likely about 3 games from the sack.

American owners don't spend their own money.

It's the lack of visible progress on the pitch is the cause of most of the doom and gloom. I thought at times last season you could visibly see what we were trying to achieve tactically.

This season our play has been majorly lacking in conviction. The second half vs L1 Bolton was an improvement but surely the bare minimum expected.

His handling of the Mings situation was bizarre. The very public cryptic statements just caused confusion. I'd imagine other players close to Mings didn't like that either. Now he's back in the team...probably the first choice CB and his captain McGinn should be under pressure for his place imo.

The Sarr transfer sage was infuriating. It either shows a split behind the scenes on the transfer strategy or very bad organisation. I find it very hard to believe these days a club wouldn't know a players wage demands / attitude before they made an official bid.

Is he trying to play like Klopp but doesn't know how?

Cash isn't TAA and never will be.

If the full backs pushed on half as much, or took turns going forward, we would immediately be more solid.

Then if we played Luiz with Kamara we'd add more solidity, it's kinda basic stuff.

If a team is struggling, then tightening up is the obvious move.

The physicality of West Ham and their threat from set pieces concerns me. Would hope our set pieces coach has done his research and preparation.

Is Mings injured? This would really increase our need for another top CB