I usually don’t report too much about Aston Villa’s U21 games, but this is an exception. U21 games often have audio broadcasted through AVTV and Aston Villa’s Twitter page keeps us up to date with the action. But nothing has been reported, neither has a post report been uploaded by the official site. The only report out there is through Burnley’s official website which gives Villa fans some inside into the game.
Aston Villa played a very strong team, an official squad list is not available but it’s confirmed that Kozak, Bacuna, Grealish, Richardson, Joe Cole, Ilori, Okore, Traore and Senderos all featured at some stage. Aston Villa did win the game 2-1, with Grealish scoring a freekicking and Bacuna scoring a penalty. The game appeared to happen at Bodymoor Heath and was most likely played under closed doors. But it’s still curious as to why the game wasn’t mentioned by the club.
An interesting theory brought up by 7500 Holte End, claims that Sherwood want fans to forget about Senderos, Siegrist and Kozak so there would be less pressure to drop the likes of Guzan, Lescott and Agbonlahor.
Still, with little else happening around Aston Villa, it’s good to see a victory for Villa, even if it was against a young Burnley side.
I’m all for conspiracy theories, but Senderos can’t play for the first team as he was omitted from the 25 man squad [yet we spent £2m on Lescott] and Siegrist has a broken arm, so no way these 2 players are getting anywhere near the first team.
As much as I didn’t want sendeross to come to avfc, at the start of the season he actually looked pretty good! You could tell he reads the game fairly well just lacks pace, I could imagine him and Richards working quite well, wont happen obviously but just got me thinking. Kozak has done nothing wrong at all so there is no harm in giving him a few games. Same with Okore hopefully his time will come soon, he should be more match fit now. I would 100% try llori at right back instead of hutton, he really cant be any worse!!
With Sendeross I mean last season obviously.
I remember that both Vlaar and Senderos were very solid together, but after the first two months (were we actually played well) the pair didn’t really play again today. Which was a shame.
Its gonna be very interesting to see who starts at Stamford Bridge.
Senderos is much better than Lescott, from what I’ve seen.
I’d rather have Badger at ch than Lescott!
Spot on Bencey83, I don’t want to sound like a broken record but I posted several comments saying how I didn’t rate Lescott, before and since we signed him. His best days are way behind him, Tony Pulis knows a good defender when he sees one, that’s why he let him go!
Agree I think we all knew he was crap he was never that good at his peak.
Very true Oohah, very true.
all starting to turn a bit sour at the moment. Ts is a manager with a bit of swag who can talk the talk. All this unfortunately however does not translate on to the field and his tactics week in week out are baffling to all of us. No football team can be this far into a season and not know their startin 11, you’re asking for relegation if you keep chopping and changing the line up and “systems” all the time. Players in the dressing don’t know what they’re supposed to do and/or are told to do something different each week which leads to massive inconsistency, from there the players themselves become fed-up and start to lose confidence in each other on the pitch and then the manager and staff. It’s a downward spiral from here and soon comments from the manager will be against the players and “for the fans” which will continue the spiral! A fan of Sherwood when he arrived, he has to go now and we need a good tactically sound proven manager (haven’t we for years ffs). Houllier would still in my opinion be at the club and we’d be in a right healthy position if he wasn’t sick. Ranieri could just be the best appointment of the year! Guy has bag loads of experience knows the premier league and tactically one the best around out of the older heads. Missed a big one there…sad days…this will be the year if we don’t act now