Erikse

Last season they didn't have many injuries apart from Jesus and Saliba. Jesus keeps getting injured, but other than that they don't seem to struggle with injuries. Saka is kind of like Salah, he picked up some small injuries this season but usually they can allways rely on him, and he doesn't even seem to get tired.

True, but they have a decent squad depth. They wont get a crisis to the extent as the one we did, especially when they are not going to play Milan, PSG and Dortmund midweek. Wouldn't surprise me if they went on to do some more signings in january.

Looking at Villas fixtures until gameweek 30 I can actually see them being top 3 still and not far off of 1st place.. They have an easier european tournament and they have kept this form ever since Emery walked throught the door more than a year ago. This is like us last year when people said that our form was just short term, and we were going to drop off. What they didn't realise was that we had already kept the top 4 form for an entire year when we reached january.

I'm not much of a conspiracy guy, but it is kind of strange.. How does luck not even out with them, how do they keep getting these decisions their way?

Well, you didn't need to be a manager yourself to be able to acknowledge that Steve Bruce was a shit manager.

4 months with a toe injury from sprinting. Never seen that before.

The whole Willock situation is sad really. I hope we don't rush him back next time. Would suck if he kept getting reoccurences. He has so much potensial, and suits our playstyle really well.

His injury just sums up our season so far.. Out for 3 months because he tried to sprint and injured his foot/toe.

My thoughts aswell. He had several off days last season too, but we tend to purely remember the best moments. When he's not at his best he usually does nothing. I guess there can be many reasons, but I think he is part of that problem regardless.

He would've not made the save that the Milan keeper made..

Gordon, Bruno and Trippier looked exhausted again. Almirom kept losing the ball. Schär should've just shot. We should've made a tactical foul.

Almiron has been useless this game..

Everton has been deducted 10p from the form table aswell apparently.

Schär has done well at LCB, but playing Burn there would allow him to get back his usual RCB position. Just another small factor, not a decisive one.

Getting the group of death didn't help either. Every game is a cup final kind of, and we had to be at our very best to get something each of those games.

Could Burn take Lascelles spot when he's fit, if Botman is still out?

I agree. And by the way I didn't mean too early to fire him, I just meant it's too early to even have a discussion about it.

Nomatter what happens (unless it gets extreme), he should be getting another try next season. Shouldn't even be a discussion about it right now though, way too early.

Chelsea ready to throw more money at the problem..

An injured Lascelles on his way to press theil goalie

Everton would've been 3p behind.

Fulham with 15 goals in 4 games, could become more.

About time they didn't scrap a 1 goal win after being ran over.

What's even worse is that despite all this he barely makes the top 5 list of our worst managers in the last 20 years.

They still think that we are basically PSG. Buying overpaid stars and firing their managers for not winning CL.