Hardly anything has been able to distract me away from the Villa in my lifetime. The last series of events able do it was the birth of my kids, decades ago.
Purchasing a gaff in Spain has distracted me too. It’s the whole process of buying the property and doing tons of research as in what to expect in being over there and everything else around it. It’s a nightmare, with utilities and all manner of bills and taxes to sort out. And is exactly the reason why the thought of moving at all has never appealed to me.
It’s caused me to take a total back seat from thinking about the Villa and is why I’ve hardly been on the site or written anything. Apologies for that and you seem to have been doing a pretty good job of that yourselves.
There’s also another reason I haven’t written and frankly it’s because I have practically nothing positive to say.
I’m very much known as a straight talker and rate myself as very much the pragmatist, hence I want to look at something quite depressing. Our current form.
To make it simple, here’s our form over the last 12, 10, 8, 6 and 4 games;
8th. 5th. 13th. 17th and finally 19th. Anybody else seeing a pattern here? At a time when we’re thinking we’ll turn it around and it’ll come good, we’re actually getting worse. And we’re already in relegation form.
Things look pretty grim to me and I expect this to continue, at least tomorrow anyway.
So Chelsea away and they’re on a roll.
Squad news then and Jacob Ramsey is definitely out and Amadou Onana will be assessed before the game, having missed out for the last two. Kamara will probably start after doing so on Wednesday and I’d expect Barkley might too, having done pretty well in the last few weeks.
As for Chelsea, they apparently rotated quite bit for their European game on Thursday and will revert to a full strength side for tomorrow.
Which doesn’t bode well for us.
We actually have a fairly good record against Chelsea over the last few seasons, but I don’t see us getting anything tomorrow. Unai doesn’t seem open to changing from his current very high line defending stance and I just can’t see how we’re not going to get caught out, with their attackers repeatedly getting in behind us. Quite simply we’ve been found out and we all know it.
So we’re in trouble and Chelsea are looking very likely for a Champion’s league spot. What can go wrong?
Everything, I suspect and my thoroughly depressing position is we’ll be soundly beaten.
I’m going for 1-3. But I seriously hope I’m wrong.
UTV!
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174 responses to “Chelsea – Villa; Very little hope here.”
Mings is a good move. He played ok other than the pickup nonsense. Too many players at the back are rubberstamped on the team sheet. If Rogers wants to play then he should. 2-0 and why not.
We’ll be lucky to get away that lightly, imo Gerry.
Oh, hang on, you mean a win don’t you?
I hope you’re right.
Looking much improved and Chesty is so much better wide on the left.
Chesty.
Absolutely top draw.
Rogers 1-0. Nice goal!
Chesty!!!!!!!!
Get in!
Watkins pen makes it 2-0, but it was only just!
2-0. Should have been a red card. Also, keeper was well off his line if he had saved that pen it would have been retaken
Ollllliiieeeee!!!!!!
2-0.
Bailey looks much better tonight as does Rogers.
We look like the Villa of early last season tonight.
Cash!!!! 3-0!!!!!
Cash at the back stick makes it 3-0.
Wtf?
We look miles better.
That’s more like us
Mark Clattenburg can go do one too…We defo need this to improve our GD…
Fuckin yeaaaasss Villa are back
Woooo hooo we are back come onnn up the Villlaaaa
Kamara has been superb for me.
And your man Chesty looks absolute class tonight.
I bet Canadian Pete is peeing his pants!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Seems like a lot of empty seats at VP. Enjoyable me thinks
Stupid football. At this moment in time we sit 6th. From 12th.
And if only…(the Bournemouth game).
And Ipswich. And Palace. It’s those 3 that rocked us. Not the 3 away games. They were tough games that, unfortunately, were played too close together for results not to impact league position.
Go for the throat on Saturday and get that GD up. The lethargic Villa better not turn up again!
Maybe Bailey should bleach his hair too. We got a bit of VAR luck with the 3rd goal IMO. Mings has been dominant to any cross which is something we have missed and Kamara our best player by a mile so far. Cash also playing well. The only frustration for me is Bailey who gets in good positions but always runs into trouble and loses possession.
Like he did when we first signed him.
Agree with pretty much all that Holte.
That’s Bailey though. It seems like his confidence has returned and when he’s like that, he tries stuff.
How many times have we seen him flop and then suddenly pull a rabbit out of the hat and get a stonking goal?
Bailey needs a goal more than anyone. He should get plenty of space to run into if Brentford over commit.
Brentford pull one back with a nice effort.
We could have done with a clean sheet, but hey ho.
Bloody Brentford.
Thought it was a foul on Cash tbf
When we had 2 I thought we need a 3rd. At 3-1 we needs 4th
Is Tyrone Mings back, just when we’d written him off?
The wheels have come off in the second half 🤦♂️
I can see us blowing this.