An old friend of mine, a Baggies fan, emailed me to say that as much as he hated to admit it, Stoke’s disallowed goal should have stood and asked what I thought. I didn’t disagree, but goals change games so we shouldn’t assume that the rest of the game would have played out exactly the same to end in a 1-1 draw. I’m confident that we would have found the necessary goals to win the game and the
Perhaps more workman like than spectacular, but job done and it’s a good day at the office for Aston Villa. Substitute John Carew’s 61st minute goal was the ultimate difference between the teams at Villa Park, but Villa’s quality shone through and they thoroughly deserved to edge back into third place in the Premiership.
MON put out an unchanged side for the fourth game running and who can blame him since they do say that you shouldn’t change a winning
It’s time to put this silly rumour to bed. Brad Guzan is not growing his “neckbeard” for an upcoming staring role in a Hollywood movie and this is not a real movie poster.
Please, enough of this nonsense!! Thank you.
In Part I we went behind the scenes of a failed Aston Villa wallpaper. Here in Part II we’ll take a quick look at the evolution of the wallpapers here at Aston Villa Central by touring the ones that didn’t make the cut.
Disco In The South Stand
This was the first Aston Villa image I ever created. The picture shows Stan Petrov moments after firing his audacious effort on goal in the 6-0 destruction of Derby at Pride Park.
Have you ever found yourself watching a bad movie, perhaps late at night, and known that you should switch over, or switch off and find something more useful to do, like sleep? Do you ever hear yourself arguing with that little voice who is telling you to turn it off? ‘Give it a bit longer, it will probably get better’, but eventually you find yourself staring at the rolling credits knowing that you’ve just wasted 90 minutes of
I’m bringing the average position map back for this game since Milner, Ash, Downing, Gabby & Heskey aren’t all in one big pile! I think this one is a pretty decent depiction of how the current system functions.
As far as the numbers go, well you can see for yourself. Had we not scored more goals than Sunderland and, therefore, won the game, might this be evidence of our shortcomings for any of the overly vocal detractors floating around
Aston Villa have eased back into third place in the Premiership after beating Sunderland 2-0 at The Stadium of Light tonight.
It was a slightly scrappy affair at times, but Villa put in no more effort than they needed to and always looked like there was another gear or two available if required. It wasn’t, but they couldn’t hide the chinks of quality shining through.
Heskey opened the scoring in the 27th minute after Petrov worked some space for James Milner
I haven’t had chance to do an Actim post for a little while, but worry not, I do keep an eye on the data. I’ve been waiting for the Index to be updated with the data from the weekend as I had a sneaky suspicion that our players would benefit from a certain victory over a certain team from Manchester.
The Index was finally updated today and it’s better news than I thought. Partially due to our victory over Man
I was just checking out a table on this Sky Sports page which shows the total successful passes for the Premiership and a couple of things stood out for me that I thought were worth sharing.
Firstly, if you take the table and sort by successful passes it looks like this:-
Team
Goals
Shots
On Target
Shot Accuracy
Succ Passes
1
Man Utd
34
208
93
45%
6725
2
Chelsea
40
268
125
47%
6588
3
Liverpool
32
216
99
46%
6519
4
Arsenal
40
196
104
53%
6137
5
Tottenham
35
227
110
48%
5336
6
Fulham
20
166
70
42%
4886
7
West Ham
24
190
85
45%
4867
8
Wigan
19
192
90
47%
4755
9
Man City
29
168
85
51%
4609
10
Everton
22
178
82
46%
4322
11
Portsmouth
14
182
68
37%
4103
12
Burnley
20
142
63
44%
4063
13
Aston Villa
26
136
59
43%
3639
14
Birmingham
16
135
70
52%
3521
15
Blackburn
16
164
67
41%
3493
16
Hull
17
124
56
45%
3458
17
Wolves
15
135
50
37%
3427
18
Sunderland
22
143
61
43%
3361
19
Bolton
20
165
64
39%
2665
20
Stoke
15
129
47
36%
2610
Hopefully you noticed that Portsmouth have made 13% more successful passes than Aston Villa and yet they hug the bottom of the only table