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Nearly home and still gutted

I thought Villa were red hot today. 09 is getting a lot of undeserved stick but Reinildo gave the ball away for one of their goals then Diarra missed a sitter. Those were the two crucial errors.
 

2 points off arnt we??
You would think we were bottom 3 way some have thrown the toys
I thought Villa were red hot today. 09 is getting a lot of undeserved stick but Reinildo gave the ball away for one of their goals then Diarra missed a sitter. Those were the two crucial errors.
Diarra's error for me is the big one as we would have won the game after that.

But we lost to a good side.
 
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Best reflection of today i've seen. I had similar thoughts on Xhaka but Phil Smith named him MOTM so maybe because he was only a bit below par and we notice it more?
Phil Smith must have assholes for eyes. Xhaka was way off it. Sadiki was good, covered for the old man.
 
Its crazy. I'm not sure we have had a better left back in my lifetime and I'm middle aged.
Exactly. You’ve got to look at who’s playing in front of him on the left, Le Fee’s a good player but that’s not his best position, he lost the ball twice leading up to Villa’s goals then later from the middle played a great ball for Isidor to score. Talbi’s our best player on the left and should have started.
 
Absolutely correct - onien and reinildo shouldn’t be starting on Friday at all
We all wanted Ballard to start but just coming back from injury limited RLB line up my guess but O9 has been playing great so was not obvious to drop him today. Gutted today but still on cloud 9 this year…Sunderland made me so excited only to blow it. I think having a Friday match will help us forget Villa a good squad it shows we will compete next year.
 
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He’s looked off it for a while. Think Humes deserving of a spot at LB for me, unless Alderete is out in which case Mukiele CB and Hume RB
"off it for a while"

Was fine against Spurs, but struggles yesterday against a very good McGinn

Prior to that he missed 6 games with injury.

Where/when is this "while" that you are referring to?
There’s posters in the diarra thread on here saying that 😂
I know it's just daft bairns venting, but it's so frustrating reading that sort of shit. All these keyboard experts telling us he should have slid it to Martinez's left/right or passed to Talbi etc tec
What if he'd done just that and the keeper had still made a save? What then? Are players not allowed to miss chances? Are keepers not allowed to make saves?

There's a few on here need to play less FIFA and actually experience the real world
 
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We all wanted Ballard to start but just coming back from injury limited RLB line up my guess but O9 has been playing great so was not obvious to drop him today. Gutted today but still on cloud 9 this year…Sunderland made me so excited only to blow it. I think having a Friday match will help us forget Villa a good squad it shows we will compete next year.
When did onien play great? The time he should have given away a penalty against Leeds? Or the time he passes the ball to the mags? Or when he missed the other mags game due to a red card? This has been on the cards for a while and it’s no surprise a PL quality striker has picked apart the sad and low quality performance of Luke f***ing onien. End of the day, he’s cost you 4 goals in a game. There’s no defending that at all and he should never play PL football again.
"off it for a while"

Was fine against Spurs, but struggles yesterday against a very good McGinn

Prior to that he missed 6 games with injury.

Where/when is this "while" that you are referring to?

I know it's just daft bairns venting, but it's so frustrating reading that sort of shit. All these keyboard experts telling us he should have slid it to Martinez's left/right or passed to Talbi etc tec
What if he'd done just that and the keeper had still made a save? What then? Are players not allowed to miss chances? Are keepers not allowed to make saves?

There's a few on here need to play less FIFA and actually experience the real world
The games before his injury he was poor too - West Ham for example - where he was hooked at half time. Hasn’t had a great game for us in a good while. Not sure whether it’s fitness, or lack of, related but Hume deserves a place in the 11 undoubtedly
 
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"off it for a while"

Was fine against Spurs, but struggles yesterday against a very good McGinn

Prior to that he missed 6 games with injury.

Where/when is this "while" that you are referring to?

I know it's just daft bairns venting, but it's so frustrating reading that sort of shit. All these keyboard experts telling us he should have slid it to Martinez's left/right or passed to Talbi etc tec
What if he'd done just that and the keeper had still made a save? What then? Are players not allowed to miss chances? Are keepers not allowed to make saves?

There's a few on here need to play less FIFA and actually experience the real world
I don’t think he did a great deal wrong personally. Isidor was running at an angle which gives him more options, plus Martinez slipped and Isidor capitalised on that. Diarra was central running straight at him, Martinez had narrowed down his angles and but for an extra inch diarra would have finished his chance brilliantly. People look at his chance and just say ‘ah he’s got to score that man, world class strikers miss one on ones like that, erling haaland has done it a few times this season where he’s placed it round the keeper who’s narrowed the angles and it’s gone wide.
 
I don’t think he did a great deal wrong personally. Isidor was running at an angle which gives him more options, plus Martinez slipped and Isidor capitalised on that. Diarra was central running straight at him, Martinez had narrowed down his angles and but for an extra inch diarra would have finished his chance brilliantly. People look at his chance and just say ‘ah he’s got to score that man, world class strikers miss one on ones like that, erling haaland has done it a few times this season where he’s placed it round the keeper who’s narrowed the angles and it’s gone wide.

Whaaaaattt thought it was certain to be on target?!?
You would think we were bottom 3 way some have thrown the toys

Diarra's error for me is the big one as we would have won the game after that.

But we lost to a good side.

Same as against Fulham mate, #headsgone
 
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So many players below par yesterday yet we still had a chance to win it after being 3-1 down late in the game away to Villa who are the real deal, quality all over the pitch and an outstanding goal keeper.

If we fail to get a European place it won’t be because we got beat against Villa away from home
 
It was an exciting game that somebody had to lose and unfortunately, it was us.

I'm absolutely gutted we lost that type of the game but the positives are that we went toe to toe with a very good Villa team that are likely to win a European cup and qualify for the Champions League. There has been loads of games this season involving other teams with far less quality.

Onwards and upwards.
 
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