I wouldn’t blame you if you’re not that interested in the stats from this one, it might feel a little anti-climatic now I suppose. Nevertheless, I’ll chuck the usual statistics in and for the “feature stats” I’m going to break our passing down into 10 minute chunks graphically which demonstrates how the game evolved quite nicely I think.
Wingers
One quick point about Downing and Ash; they spent much more time on their natural wings during this game, they usually swap
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90 seconds was all it really took, but the dream of qualifying for the Champions League next year is finally over after we lost 3-1 at the the City of Manchester stadium today.
City dominated the first half, but we opened the scoring with the first attempt on goal to cap a quite beautiful passage of play. Stuart Downing cut in from the right and found just the right reverse ball to match Carew’s intelligent diagonal run. Carew shot
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Man City recently visited The Emirates with the clear primary intention of avoiding defeat, their cause largely assisted by an Arsenal side devoid of much interest in winning themselves. Mancini’s thinking could not have been more clearly stated; take a point against Arsenal, then win the points they need for fourth from Villa and Tottenham. Cheeky bugger if you ask me, but he’s technically correct since both games happen to be “six pointers”. He’s got to pull
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Regardless of what happens in our remaining two games; Man City and Blackburn, Aston Villa’s performance over the course of the 2009/10 season will be at least the 2nd best in the 18 year life of the Premier League. It will make no difference how you choose to compare the records from each season, only 1992/93 can rank higher.
However, some people feel the need to wait until the season is over and our final position is confirmed before they
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The Young Lions roared at a damp Villa Park tonight in the first leg of the FA Youth Cup final, but could only manage a 1-1 draw against a skillful Chelsea team.
I had a few technical difficulties, but eventually tunnelled my way in to see the game. I missed the opening goal, but Daniel Devine nodded in Samir Carruthers’ cross with a looping header for the only goal of the first half. Chelsea reportedly had the better of
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I intended to open this post talking briefly about the penalty, but once I dived into the subject I found it deserved its own post. This post got left on the back burner. I apologise, but I realise that you don’t really care about the statistics from this game; if ever there was a game where only one stat counted it was this one, right? Yup, we won, that’s all that matters.
So, let’s be brief then. I’ve
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It happens in almost every televised game. A tasty tackle is made, bodies go flying and the commentators confidently call the incident a foul. Then we see a replay, in slow motion, possibly from a different angle and we hear “oh, he got a touch on the ball first”. It’s repeated to the point that the average football fan, and presumably those repeating this meme, actually believe that a glancing blow between the leather of boot and ball are enough
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James Milner Wins PFA Young Player of the Year 2010
Congratulations to James Milner who has just been named as the PFA Young Player of the Year for 2010.
As you’ll recall from when the nomination was announced, James joins Andy Gray, Gary Shaw and Ashley Young as players who have won this award while at Aston Villa.
Congratulations are also in order for Richard Dunne who joined James in the PFA’s Premier League Team of the Year.
Well done to both
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We’ve played 36 games. We have two left; Man City at Eastlands and Blackburn at Villa Park. We have 64 points. Regardless of what happens in those two games, this season will be the second best performance in 18 years of the Premier League. Only 1992/93, the very first EPL season, was better.
And some people believe that Martin O’Neill has taken us as far as he can? Really?
One thing to consider is that there were
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