Category: Opinion
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Villa 0 – 1 Arsenal; We were outgunned, simple.
A bit of a corny headline, but it seems the obvious one and I haven’t seen it used elsewhere, so why not?, I thought. It probably sums things up quite well though as Arsenal were better than us in every area. Am I allowed to say we were poor, yet again? I doubt that’s controversial…
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West Ham 2 -1 Villa; Not quite enough to match them, but it was better.
Shock, horror and whisper it quietly, but I actually thought we were a lot better today. We didn’t constantly give the ball away and passed much more accurately, which is a major part of what I want to see. I know we didn’t get the preferable result, but I thought we went mostly toe to…
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West Ham – Villa; Not particularly hopeful, but you never know.
I’m a bit late with this one, so will keep it brief. This is a really tough test, as many sides have found out this season, as West Ham have been playing consistently very well. They’re very strong on set-pieces, especially with their heading too, so our marking and aerial defence will have to be…
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Leeds 0 – 3 Villa; A stonking win and Gerrard’s a genius!
Well, perhaps that’s a bit over the top. But there’s no doubting how good that result was. I might get some stick for saying this, but I honestly don’t think we were very good and it was more Leeds were really poor in what was mostly a very scrappy game. Not that it matters. You…
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Leeds – Villa; Who knows what we’re going to face here?
Okay, so my suggestion that we didn’t play very well against Southampton went down like a lead balloon. I think it’s probably best to leave that debate and just say whatever the performance it was a great and much needed result. So tonight, on Amazon Prime, we face Leeds Utd, a team that I’ve only…