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Stoke 0 – 1 Villa; We’re gonna win the league!

16 August 201416 August 2014| Badger123Badger123| 217 Comments| 5:47 PM
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Well, maybe not, but it was great to hear the fans singing it, wasn’t it?

So, what to say?
Simply put, I thought this was a very competent performance against a very poor Stoke side.

I’m not taking anything away from us, as you can only perform in comparison to the team you play, but Stoke did seem to have very strange tactics, before Crouch came on.
I can only assume Mark Hughes was overly worried about our threat on the counter-attack, but whatever the reason was, the opposition didn’t attack with any numbers; something I found quite strange, given our poor defence last season.
Note the “last season” part there, as we looked way better to me in the Full Back areas.
Cissokho looked very solid, but I’m happy to say that Alan Hutton did too.
To my own astonishment, for a large part of the game, I was actually looking to give Hutton MOTM, but I feel Vlaar pinched it overall. At least you can’t say I’m biased against Hutton.

In fact, I thought it was a very good defensive performance overall, with Vlaar and Sendoros getting very good blocks in and you have to wonder if the CBs are playing a more relaxed style because they aren’t babysitting kids.
I suspect so personally.

Most of the play revolved around the midfield and I don’t think anyone was outstanding here, myself.
It was all very much functional stuff and no one stood out.
N’Zog looked bright in small glimpses, but I thought it was right that he was hooked, with Grealish to replace him.
It was a good game for the latter to come on and his start was steady, just what I wanted to see.
I suspect he’ll be getting plenty of game time this season and rightly so, as I get the feeling he has that “something” about him, which could lead to something special.

Onto the attackers then and I’m not sure there.
Gabby didn’t particularly impress me, but where it seemed he missed a sitter, I don’t believe he did and it looked to me that Shawcross stole the ball off him with a very good challenge.
As for Weimann, he didn’t get that much of a look in really, but he won the ball against some poor Stoke defending and put it in the net. You can’t ask for more than that, can you?

So all in all, an excellent win in a game where I really didn’t expect us to get anything. Happy days.

Big shout for those that were there.
There wasn’t vast amounts to sing about until we scored, but the Stoke fans were pretty subdued too.
Of course, once we scored, there was only one set of fans in it.
So much for Stoke fans being the noisiest.

I’m off to give a Stokey friend of mine some abuse.
As you do.

217 thought on “Stoke 0 – 1 Villa; We’re gonna win the league!”

    1. He’s come for his money 🙂 got a reset ion in the states, someone said that he’s cleared his house out over here, don’t know if its true or not. Still banners up Saturday Lerner out, the Villas ours. 🙂

  2. Guys, pretty sure Gnabry has an injured knee (did it in April) with no clear recovery time. Ar*e said it’s unlikely he will go on loan in this window.

  4. hello ALL holtby while i like, i just can’t see this happening, if spurs want 2 offload him, which i don’t think they will. he won’t be loaned again. he spent 12minths at fulham, so would lerner free up more funds ??? i was shocked he coughed up the sanchez dosh which i appreciate of him.

    as for Serge Gnabry i can’t see this as well, he does need games and i feel grealish is better. both lack games both are raw, but i would develop our own just my thoughts
    addios 🙂

      1. Could do I spose but I thought he said he was going to be more hands on.Could be the sale of the club?

    2. i just red langford say same 🙂 well keep digging around for us 🙂 seems like sumat is about 2 happen 🙂 i can’t believe lerner but iam not gonna complain. he needed 2 spend and seems like the penny has dropped in his head 🙂

      post when u hear anything jay 🙂
      gracias

        1. no at work 🙁

          i just like adding a spanish word in the mix like del boy threw in a wrong french word at the wrong time lmao

    1. Jay Dee – good work; keep ’em coming! Note he’s only played twice for Argentina not sure when. Could there be a work permit issue?

  16. According to John Arne Riise we’re interested in signing him and have made contact. I hope that’s not true!

  17. Hitchens…lol mate. Yet another left back! Lambert seems to collect them 🙂 So could be true….fucking hope not. its about 10 years too late.

    1. Do you mean Riise has said we have made contact about Seb Blanco or enquired about Riise?

      1. OK see what you mean! About signing Riise! Could be old news perhaps PL had a number of irons before signing Cissokho?.

  23. Once one sight mentions it they all follow lead.. so wouldn’t read too much into various sites reporting it..

    Look at the Riise story.. four different links to it now on newsnow.. and we know it’s rubbish..

      1. Jay Dee you did but I also think Lionheart has a point; metro has now picked it up. That’s not to say that the Blanco link doesn’t have substance. It will be interesting to see whether the story develops over the next 24 hours rather than different media outlets basically running the same piece.

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