Stottie

In eleven games, we've only scored four times in the first half. We've been losing at half time six times. In the second half, goals for and against is 9-3. Chelsea are the only team to ourscore us in the second half.

If its this calendar year, Spurs (teerible) and Brighton (bad) don't have good records on their travels. Villa's is pretty good, despite the drop off at the end of last season.

Spurs ditched him after 17 games at 1.65 points a game. Ange is currently on 1.72. Eddie with us is at 1.73, starting with a relegation zone team.

Doing okay but clearly up against twelve. The one with the whistle is the motm so far.

They average 42% possession and have a better record away than at home. They lost their hardest home fixture so far, which was Fulham. My guess is a cagey first half where I hope we don't throw it away like at Fulham, and then a game won or lost in the second half. Also hope we have our finishing boots on and Chris Wood doesn't have his.

This is Villa's only third game against teams in the top 10. We've played six. This will leave us four points off third after 10 games, five if Chelsea win later on. For all the ups and downs and absences and bad summer dealings, that's not a bad start.

Poor Longstaff doesn't get an arrow for passing it to Gordon?

Ha ha, that prediction is almost like a curse. We've now conceded four in our last five league games. The kicker is that typical NUFC means we still managed to lose two and draw two of those games.

I reckon it should have been a second yellow for Mac Allister at 0-1 but its Anfield and they don't give them.

Great game, we did a number on them. More than anything, what a fucking goal!

10 league games played now, usually enough to shake things out and point to where teams are likely to finish. I would rate 15 points and a home tie away from a Carabao semi as about a B minus. Spurs, City, Chelsea, Arsenal, and Brighton all played, so maybe a little harsh. Score the penalty at Everton and its a strong B. The main thing is Tonali and Willock are back and up to speed and the full backs are blossoming. Only two more games this month, but we're playing well and will go into them with momentum. I felt Tonali still missing at the start of the season and the Schar red in the opener really put a dampener on August. We're off and running now though.

Kudus has multiple reds there. He had two kicks at him on the ground and then slapped two of them

First job will be to give Tuchel the world’s biggest poppy. It better be fucking massive!

The Premier League has already spent a reported 45M on lawyers. For context, the payments to the Football League are in the region of 150M. Again, just on the reports I read. 45M would be more than all of Leagues 1 and 2 combined. That's before any of City's costs they might have to bear or punishment payments for causing City to lose income. Everyone aside from Liverpool, Tottenham, etc. will kick off at the PL if they keep wasting money in this way.

Didn't see the game but this happens when Kane is playing and he drops deep. The key is to have someone else run into that space, Son at Spurs the obvious example. Like everything else, the more flexibly and unpredictably this is done, the harder it will be to pull off but also the harder it will be to defend against. In a KISS keep it simple stupid situation, playing a full time #9 gives your #8s and #10s an obvious target to pass it to who will be located in a predictable place. If that #9 can shoot on the turn, it will create chances of varying quality. Penalty chances too, since defenders will have to stop the turn.