I generally try to find some positives even in defeat. Right now, I’m struggling, I really am. That was completely inept today.
I avoid criticizing the manager, Martin O’Neill has forgotten more than I know about football, but when I saw Petrov and Delph on the starting team sheet I was concerned. Petrov hasn’t played since dislocating his shoulder in Spain. Delph is a 19 year old from League One.
I’ll do a full review later. For
A disclaimer about this blog post: For the first time in quite a while I don’t have any video or audio for this game, so I’m writing this post while refreshing commentary on the OS. To that end, this will be less of a review, more the random ramblings of a Villan suffering cold turkey from competitive football. One week to go!!
An interesting starting XI for this game. Certainly not quite what I was expecting:-
Heskey
Agbonlahor
A Young
Delph
Gardner
Milner
Shorey
Clark
Cuellar
Lichaj
Friedel
I
As expected, after playing so recently in the Peace Cup, it was just kids that were sent down to Oxford to play the conference side at the Kassam Stadium. I listened to the commentary on BBC Radio Oxford and I could hear the 700 odd Villa fans in good voice. I was also treated to the dolcid tones of Jack Woodward in the background, at one point comparing the pitch to a snooker table which left the radio
First of all, it’s pre-season and Porto didn’t put their strongest eleven out from the start so I don’t want to get carried away here, but Aston Villa just beat the 2004 European Champions to set up a Peace Cup final against Juventus. Who saw that coming after the Malaga game?
In all honesty I didn’t enjoy the Malaga game very much, there were very little positives to be extracted. I didn’t enjoy the first 30 minutes or so
Aston Villa were finally able to find the quality required to earn themselves a Peace Cup semi-final match against Portuguese champions, Porto, on Friday. It didn’t come without any drama though.
If Villa’s opening Peace Cup game against Malaga was disappointing in both performance and result, this one made up for it. Eventually.
Emile Heskey had recovered from his bang on the head, so apart from Guzan getting a start in goal, there were no major surprises in
I’m going to be brief, I’m in a rush to get out.
MON seemed to be thinking along the lines I was when I wrote the preview – throw the senior guys in from the start, the Malaga side have played no more football in pre-season than they had. I picked this up from TV commentary though – apparently Malaga achieved their impressive 8th La Liga finish last season with a fair number of loan players and have been scrambling
Another game without a win for the Villans. If you’re keeping count, that’s 9 league games without a win now. An unbelievable run of form that must come to an end if they’re to hang on to fifth place.
3-3 at Villa Park – another Thrilla from the Villa!!!! 6 games to go and 4th place slips another 2 points further away. It looks like a race with Everton for 5th now. That could be exciting, right??
What can you say?? Some 17 year old reserve player wins it in injury time for Utd at Old Trafford. The Hollywood scriptwriters have been hard at work.