I totally agree and we need to become more 'streetwise' to compete in the PL. Let Villa have their moment of glory and see how they fare when they visit the Etihad on 26th October!!! PD says it all VERY well - https://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/norwi...-aston-villa-premier-league-verdict-1-6308481
[QUOTE="DUNCAN DONUTS, post: 13209198, member: 1040120" Other than that can't see many positives.[/QUOTE] It didn’t rain and I went to an excellent gig at The Open after the game.
I had several beers yesterday watching the match and luckily blanked most of the game out of my memory.
Anyone at the match notice McGovern 'disperse'? Last thing you need during a heavy loss, to be sure. https://readnorwich.com/2019/10/06/norwich-vs-aston-villa-h-four-things-learned/
Sounds painful! They something about Zimmerman being a long term injury before the season started, wasn't that relatively minor and then made much worse later on?
I'd have taken those results - Citeh will not be in our league space at the end of the season, the Villains probably will and so I'd have rather we'd taken points from them than Citeh. Never mind, onwards and upwards.
I think Zimmerman is due to be back in January. Hernandez has been moved up to November, which is some consolation. If Lewis is out, at least we have Heise to come in and both Aarons and Byram can both play at LB.
Hernandez seemed to be walking normally when he walked round the pitch with Adam Drury on Saturday if that is any indication unlike poor old Timm who looked a sad state on his crutches and all. He was still smiling though - good old Timm !!
That readnorwich article is a combination of stating the obvious and ill-thought out nonsense. Yes, all of us can see that Jamal Lewis has been excellent and Max Aarons well below the standard he set last season. Obviously. Then Stiepermann is roasted and Cantwell lauded, a big thing being made of Marco's failing to take four chances yesterday, but no mention of the chances that Cantwell has failed to take in the last few games. No mention of Marco being the only midfielder to show any ability to penetrate the Villa back four in the first half, and no mention of his excellent cross from which the Pukki of last season would probably have scored but the Pukki of this season simply let pass him without managing any sort of contact at all. The fact is that Villa (and e.g. Burnley) have excellent defences and shut down their penalty area much as we did against Man City. ALL our midfielders are finding scoring difficult and the sort of goals we put away regularly last season are being blocked out this season. How many has Buendia scored or even looked like scoring? Finally "the defence" are slated with a focus on the CBs, but chief responsibility for Villa's goals, all of them, lies with the full backs and midfield pair. The idea that the "mistakes" supposedly made by Amadou and Godfrey wouldn't have been made by some notional CB we should have recruited in the summer, shows a pathetic inability to understand the real reasons why goals are scored. Yes, the Amadou/Godfrey partnership needs time (as witness Godfrey carelessly playing Wesley onside by not moving forward in unison with Amadou and Aarons), but so would any new partnership even if including a more experienced player. Fact is, Amadou and Godfrey were stupidly left exposed on Saturday and we paid the price. They were hailed as heroes against Man City, only to be cast as incompetents yesterday. People need to ask what the differences were.
Yeah I only glanced through and thought the same as you articulated. Lazy journalism.... much like my post is a lazy post
Pretty much agree with all of this, although I'm hoping Amadou / Godfrey CB partnership won't get time to develop as I see Amadou as a defensive midfield player rather than a CB.