I don’t do it often, but sometimes I check the average position map at half time and compare it with the version at the end of the match. Villa are frequently a second half team, I’ve never seen our team pushed back so much during a second half that the full time map reveals deeper positioning than at half time. Until this game. Rather than simply saying we were too deep in the second half, I think
Through some weird twist of fate Aston Villa were not drawn against Man Utd in the Third Round of the FA Cup with Blackburn instead coming to Villa Park. Theoretically this presents a greater possibility to progress, but it’s Cup football, all bets are off as far as I’m concerned.
Draw in full:-
Tottenham v Peterborough United
Brentford v Doncaster Rovers
Middlesbrough v Manchester City
Stoke City v York City
Notts County v Forest Green Rovers
Huddersfield Town v West Bromwich Albion
Sheffield United v QPR
MK Dons
A very defensive display from Aston Villa, more so during the second half, forced Spurs to settle for a point in a 1-1 draw. If they’re wondering how they could knock 9 past Wigan last week, but struggled to find the net at all today at Villa Park they need look no further than Brad Friedel and Carlos Cuellar. I don’t normally bother with MotM, but if pushed for an answer I’d give it to the Spaniard as
Just days after I suggested that Aston Villa were making more loans than Barclays, we lend a couple more players out. Seriously, are we propping up some collapse in the player market?
Barry Bannon has joined Blackpool until late January and Chris Herd is joining up with Nathan Baker at Lincoln, but is due back a week earlier on Boxing Day. Both are great prospects and it goes without saying how useful this experience is for them. Good
It looks like Google are accelerating the roll out of Wave, but if you still can’t get your hands on an invite this could be your lucky day. I’ve got no less than 9 invites that I’d love to give away, but you’re going to have to work for them.
I’ve just created a new Facebook profile and I’d like to be your friend, but in order to get a Google Wave invite you’ll need to do a little more.
Martin O’Neill recently took part in the BRMB Villa Forum here. Go listen, it’s well worth it. The second and third parts are available in the menu on the right under ‘Football Forums with Tom Ross’.
It must be a sign of the strength of squad depth that Aston Villa can now boast so many decent players out on loan. It shouldn’t be any great surprise that Nicky Shorey has become the latest to get a short term move away by joining Nottingham Forest until Christmas. I hope it works out for him, he deserves to get some competitive football under his belt.
I’m sure he’s equally frustrated, and it’s something that isn’t difficult to
This is why I love Twitter:-
If you want, you can follow Zolton here, but more importantly, you really should be following Aston Villa Central.
EDIT: Bylis Ballsh has a Wikipedia page and Zoltan is listed in the current squad. Unfortunately he doesn’t have an entry himself yet, but it can only be a matter of time before he’s sitting front of back four, holding midfields and making nice plays.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KS_Bylis_Ballsh
I feel bad, there’s lots of things I could have filled the international break with and Actim is ideal, but it completely slipped my mind. I thought I better throw this update out there before Jermaine Defoe’s 5 goal haul against Wigan wins him every spot in the top 20!!
Of course, I also want to make sure this update is seen as there are no less than 9 Aston Villa players in the Top 100, bested only by Chelsea:-
8th