For the fans having a meltdown….. if you don’t understand football… that was called game management!! Don’t get injured, get minutes, control the game, don’t bust a gut, get a point, move on! We’ve just beat City & Arsenal & face a very tough Brentford Sunday… job done ✅💜💙
Would have been nice if @BBCMOTD had shown the full passage of play for this #AVFC goal last night! The cut down version didn’t do it justice @GaryLineker
Troy Deeney 🗣️
“It’s painful to listen to Aston Villa supporters crowing so much with them 3rd in the table, but their chirpiness is well-founded. Because everything about Villa is thoroughly impressive right now — the team, the manager, the recruitment, the supporters.” #avfc
Pau Torres 🗣️
“I always (like to) play at Villa Park & when we play away, you can feel the support of the fans, there’s always 3,000 Villa fans in the games away”
“At the end of the season, your fans can give you extra points & we can feel it, we feel strong with them” #avfc
Villa.
Judge a team not when they're flying but when they're not and they change things in real time. Villa did.
Outplayed, outfought in the first half, the defensive high line, like first at Forest just seemed like pure indulgence of a philosophy rather than in game reality.
Second half the manager changed personel, demanded the team take up a midway defensive line instead of kamikaze half way line. Enabled just enough of a buffer for defenders to be comfy in being aggressive, second balls were won a lot more which then enabled midfielders to have enough ball to start to create as the second half wore on. Gap between central defenders and forwards wasn't too much , we looked like a different team.
Some Villa fans will want gung ho on away days and "that's the way we play", but we could realistically achieve something this season and those away points and that away second half could be the difference between being talked about as a good side and proving we are. That came about ONLY because Unai looked at the big picture, didn't like it and employed just a little more pragmatism, something the Premier League DEMANDS at times.
Fully expect us to still play a high line against teams that we feel we can outscore on away days, but against the best teams, play more like that second half. Deeper, but not so deep that there a huge gap from Konza to Ollie.
#UTV
Emiliano Martinez
Better than Alisson
Better than Ederson
Better than Onana
Better than Oblak
Better than Courtois
Better than Ter Stegen
Better than Neuer
Better than Kobel
Better than Donnarumma
Better than Maignan
Better than Bounou
The BEST goalkeeper on the planet
#AVFC
That first half we didn't deserve to get an equaliser, but thankfully in the second half our master tactician changed some things and we were more solid and comfortable on the ball and now we are Top 4, 2 pts off Top, someone pinch me 💙💜 #avfc#UTV
EXCLUSIVE 💥 A hardline Nazi, who has called for Sam Smith to be gassed and refers to black people as “c**ns” and “monkeys”, is appearing as a historian on @channel5_tv tonight about the 1928 London floods 🧵1/8