Martin O’Neill has set the bar pretty high for himself. Around this time last year I was able to proudly proclaim our best ever Premiership season at that stage with 41 points from 21 games. I also predicted that we wouldn’t trail off during the remainder of the season, so the least said about that the better I think. I’m due to update the comparison of this season versus last season series shortly, so I won’t get into that here,
I’m sure it’s something that is, and will be, looked at back at Bodymoor, but surely the fact that goals from set pieces are apparently drying up has to be an area of concern right now. We had 16 corners in this game and won 9 free kicks inside the West Ham half which I’m pretty certain all were used to either shoot directly at goal or at least deliver the ball into the box.
Throughout the game we had
Aston Villa’s lack of a true goal threat was highlighted in a frustrating performance against a struggling West Ham side at Villa Park today. West Ham clearly arrived knowing they had next to no chance of winning this game and will head back to London very satisfied with their point. Villa fans will be heading home wondering how their team could dominate the game without ever really threatening to break the deadlock.
Once again the other teams around us
I recently asked whether Martin O’Neill was a great manager, or greatest and a few people contacted me to suggest that I was ahead of myself a little and he hasn’t really achieved the title “great” yet. Yet.
That’s a fair point. A touch of semantics aside, it was obvious that a large slice of subjectivity would influence any debate, so ultimately greatness, it would seem, is in the eye of the beholder.
With this in mind, I enjoyed Phil McNulty’s
So far so good. Aston Villa have the advantage at what is effectively half time in their Carling Cup Semi-Final tie with Blackburn Rovers after winning 1-0 at Ewood Park tonight. Blackburn really didn’t look like they have much fight in them for much of the game and we have to be cautiously optimistic that we will be booking ourselves a trip to Wembley when the final whistle is blown at Villa Park next Wednesday night. Cautiously optimistic, but
Finally, we’re going to get so see some Aston Villa today. FINALLY!! This will be a blog post which I’ll just update bits and pieces throughout the day as we head towards kick off tonight at Ewood Park. It seems like forever since we last had a game, which incidentally was Blackburn at Villa Park on January 2nd. Just in case you couldn’t remember.
One little story that’s bouncing around the Twittersphere as I write surrounds Nathan Delfouneso‘s stated
Yeah, you’re right, it’s a filler post really. I’m beavering away on some site developments and don’t have much else to write about at the moment so I dug this wallpaper out of the archives.
I couldn’t ignore it any longer and I had to click on an Aston Villa news alert I had which I knew had something to do with Dwight Yorke, but it was in a language I didn’t recognise so I hadn’t rushed in. Turns out it was Icelandic, but the translator in my toolbar let me down so, none the wiser I ended up finding the source at the Birmingham Mail.
I’ve just been looking for the back story behind the
With the football schedule in the UK recently decimated by the freaky weather it feels like we haven’t seen the Villa play for ages. Whether the fact that the squad have travelled up to Blackburn and Wigan, only to have the games cancelled, will have any adverse effect when they finally get another crack at Ewood Park on Thursday remains to be seen. Obviously we hope not.
We’re assured that Man City will play their game in hand today