No narrative from me this time, what can you really say to provide any kind of worthwhile analysis? It was a freak result that doesn’t reflect our part in proceedings? Don’t believe me? Compare the numbers below with the statistics from the 2-1 victory over Chelsea at Villa Park back in October.
I guess sometimes it’s a really fine line between a great victory and a humiliating drubbing.
Incidentally, apart from Luke Young in at right back in place of Carlos
Absolutely bludgeoned.
Feels bad, man.
Going to sulk.
I may be some time.
My personal feeling about this game is that MON gambled. He rolled the dice on Richard Dunne and James Milner’s fitness and neither looked like they should have started this game. Richard Dunne was caught off guard on a number of occasions and it was clear he was off the pace. James Milner struggled to make any impact in this game and it was little surprise that he left the pitch in the 77th minute. I
Well, another game, another draw at Villa Park. 1-1 this time and with City getting beaten at home 2-0 by Everton it’s a chance to go 5th that I think we’ll look back on at the end of the season and rue.
I can’t find too many faults in the performance, Craig Gordon had to make a couple of game saving saves in the first 10 minutes. I mean, real top quality saves that reinforce why Sunderland paid so much money
I think we’ve touched on this in the past, but one of the weaknesses of our current system when we play two strikers is that it can leave Petrov a little over run. Perhaps I was hasty in wondering whether his mind was elsewhere and maybe he just had a tough game. Either way, he wasn’t able to stamp his usual authority on the game.
Let’s start with a graphic showing the two systems against each other, and this
The good news? Aston Villa remain unbeaten in the Premiership this year. The bad news? Boy, did they have to work hard to maintain that record today. If they’re honest, Wolves fans might be willing to admit that they put in one of their best performances of the season and wonder why they can’t play like that more often, but I still think that we were our own worst enemy today.
First of all, the game was fantastically entertaining, or at
I sometimes struggle to enjoy a game now and again, even ones we win, because the nervous energy doesn’t allow me to relax and be entertained. Maybe you’re the same. Maybe it’s just me. Either way, this wasn’t one of those games, I enjoyed almost every minute, even the final few. OK, maybe not the final few so much and probably not the opening 5 or so minutes, but in between it was really entertaining.
All the games we’re playing right now are the reverse fixtures of games we played earlier in the season. Nothing out of the ordinary about that, but this was one 2nd leg match I was anxious to get to. You can probably already guess why, but if not; if there was any game this season I’d like a do-over on, it’s the opening day clash against Wigan at Villa Park.
I wondered after that game whether I’d done Wigan a
I only knock these Statshacks up for Premiership games, can you believe that it’s almost 3 weeks since the last one? No wonder we have all these games to make up this month!
This one shows more domination from Villa than I was expecting with 60% of possession and a CPS of 65%, which pretty much means we outpassed them 2:1. Someone let me know when they start awarding points for that though!
I watched the headlines flowing through Twitter after