stozo Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 58 minutes ago, Ronson333 said: Villa fans angry too What I'd give to be losing at home to Tottenham while 6 points clear in the race for the Champions League and with a Europa League Semi Final Second Leg to come... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 1 minute ago, stozo said: What I'd give to be losing at home to Tottenham while 6 points clear in the race for the Champions League and with a Europa League Semi Final Second Leg to come... I'd take our recent history over anything Villa have done recently Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stozo Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 1 hour ago, joeyt said: I'd take our recent history over anything Villa have done recently Of course - I'm more just amused by the Twitter meltdown from Villa fans when they are actually having a very decent season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy84 Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 (edited) Can’t get over that performance from villa, changes I get but the application was bordering on corrupt Edited May 3 by Andy84 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
samptime29 Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 Biggest win of season for Spurs. Wow. Boy did they need that! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
samptime29 Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 1 hour ago, joeyt said: I'd take our recent history over anything Villa have done recently Exactly man. 2 finals, 1 Cup, 2 champions league in 4 seasons. Legit class. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 1 hour ago, joeyt said: I'd take our recent history over anything Villa have done recently I’d revisit this at the end of May - if they win the UEFA Cup it’ll surpass what we’ve done. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 1 minute ago, TheBrownBottle said: I’d revisit this at the end of May - if they win the UEFA Cup it’ll surpass what we’ve done. No chance. The only meaningful opponent they've faced in that competition is a team who's been in the PL relegation battle all season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 1 minute ago, TheBrownBottle said: I’d revisit this at the end of May - if they win the UEFA Cup it’ll surpass what we’ve done. It’s an interesting point. On the face of it, win the UEFA/Europa is a higher achievement than winning the league cup. But I think you can definitely argue it’s easier. We beat at least two teams that were significantly better than anything Villa will face in their run, and even if you factor in Forest, Chelsea and Brentford didn’t play their strongest 11’s, they were still probably better than most of the teams Villa will have faced. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 4 minutes ago, Yorkie said: No chance. The only meaningful opponent they've faced in that competition is a team who's been in the PL relegation battle all season. I don’t think winning the UEFA Cup is more difficult, but I do think it’s far more prestigious than a league cup win Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leffe186 Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 8 hours ago, Andy84 said: Can’t get over that performance from villa, changes I get but the application was bordering on corrupt They owe us from last year tbf. It does go to show how difficult it can be for a team to be coherent when you make a few changes. In fact, that Villa team was only four different from the team that beat Sunderland. Konsa, Onana, McGinn and Watkins were the only ones that didn’t start both games. You don’t need me to tell you yet again how different our team is from the full one we’d want to put out. It emphasizes that who is missing matters a lot. Konsa would have helped, Watkins is better than Abraham but Onana and McGinn were obviously the key ones missing. It’s notable that they were the two enforced changes. For our part, there are several players I’d obviously want to have back in the line-up, but the fact that Bentancur and Udogie were back on the pitch was absolutely critical. It very much highlights what an absolute disaster of an appointment Frank was in so many ways. There’s still a long way to go. In this week just gone and the next two West Ham play(ed) before us. The concern was that that would put a lot of pressure on, but the flip side is that we kinda know what we have to do. I just hope and pray that you do the business on the 17th. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froggy Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 36 minutes ago, leffe186 said: It does go to show how difficult it can be for a team to be coherent when you make a few changes. In fact, that Villa team was only four different from the team that beat Sunderland. Konsa, Onana, McGinn and Watkins were the only ones that didn’t start both games. You don’t need me to tell you yet again how different our team is from the full one we’d want to put out. I'd say it's less to do with the changes in the team and more than they don't want to get hurt before a big European game on Thursday. We both saw it with our own teams last year. Zero desire in the games leading up to the European matches. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon25 Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Just seen remaining fixtures. Can't see West Ham getting more than 3 points Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leffe186 Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 2 hours ago, Froggy said: I'd say it's less to do with the changes in the team and more than they don't want to get hurt before a big European game on Thursday. We both saw it with our own teams last year. Zero desire in the games leading up to the European matches. Yeah the team we put out against Villa last year was a joke, far worse than Villa’s last night. We were shitting it about people getting injured. Also as one Hammer pointed out on KUMB: “No point whining about the Villa side. We had our gift last week against Palace whose post-European results have been sh*te. With no Nketiah, Wharton and Sarr, Kamada and Mateta rested. We had an unchanged squad from the Wolves match, 10 days to prepare, and an opportunity to put daylight between us and Spurs. We finished with Mohamadou Kante up front.” I’d forgotten that was the game where Palace went on the piss beforehand, and fair enough tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Derry some form of regen? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Forest playing their B Team Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 That's a bit of a mental team from Forest considering their league position. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Shaun Derry’s son starting for Chelsea Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paullow Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 I was going to ask if anyone had any preference over the outcome on this one? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Probably a Forest win. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Luque Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 3pm game on a Monday? Weird. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizza Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 15 minutes ago, The Prophet said: That's a bit of a mental team from Forest considering their league position. They've got another game on Thursday, they need to rotate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 3 minutes ago, Unlucky Luque said: 3pm game on a Monday? Weird. Bank holiday innit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paullow Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 (edited) It is a brave call. Only 3 points clear after yesterdays result, although they do have a strong GD advantage over West Ham, so effectively 4 points, but it does seem risky to almost pass up on a match at this stage. Edited May 4 by Paullow Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Luque Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 4 minutes ago, joeyt said: Bank holiday innit Ah, right. I'm not in the UK so thought it was some new woke shit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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