Andreas Weimann is quickly becoming Aston Villa’s most disappointing player of the season. He is a shadow of the player he was last season. Weimann scored 12 goals in total last season from 38 appearances, he often played out wide on the right side and also provide a number of assists. He offered a lot of energy up front and had excellent communication with Benteke. At one moment Liverpool were even considering making a bid for the young Austrian forward. Fast-forward today, he currently is contributing very little to Aston Villa with only 2 goals this season and 2 assists.
You’d think that Weimann would get dropped to the bench and perhaps see himself in a similar position as Lowton. But no, he has currently played more minutes of football than any other striker at Aston Villa (1115). We’ve got players that could fill his position easily, Albrighton would do a terrific job on the right hand side of midfield and I felt as though Bowery even added more of a threat upfront then Weimann. I’d also believe that Weimann is taking his starting 11 position as granted. As the back of his mind, he knows that he doesn’t have to play his best to start next game. And is the problem! Give his position to Albrighton or Bowery for example, and I bet they’d try harder, they’d try to get more involved in the game in an effort to impress the manager.
So what has gone wrong? Perhaps it’s not only Weimann because Benteke and Agbonlahor haven’t scored too many goals either. Is it self-confidence, or is it the system that they are being forced to play in? The last option could easily be Benteke’s and Agbonlahor’s problem but Weimann’s? Impossible, I can’t recall a single game (in the Premier League) where I felt he was ‘unplayable’. He doesn’t make decent runs out wide, he doesn’t create space nor get into any decent positions and worst of all, his finishing hasn’t improved at all. It’s gotten worse in fact!
I really didn’t want to tear apart our players but I hope that Lambert has taken note of his performances because they are just not up to standard. I want to see Weimann do well, but it’s just not clicking together for the young Austrian.
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85 responses to “Weimann Has Completely Lost It”
Robin van Persie’s out for Sundays game, happy days.
Just Rooney Hernandez and well beck to worry about with no vlaar. Easy !
Good news but that Hernadez usually does for us. Would be nice to turn them over but doesn’t look likely with our home form
True but their defense looks terrible, they have 1 good fullback in Rafael and I can’t see Gabby having all that much trouble. Their midfield is even worse. Valencia’s been really poor as has Young. Really Rooney and Kagawa are probably United’s biggest weapons and only real danger point as they’ll create a bit for Hernandez but for once I can see our defense doing semi-decent as Sylla should provide decent cover knowing nothing will come from United’s terrible midfield.
I have just noticed that I am if the picture behind Weimannn I am tje one on the white villa track suit top
lol!
He needs dropping for albrighton against united. Or give Robinson a run out couldn’t be any worse. Can’t see us getting anything on Sunday and if we don’t the nerves will kick in and the fear of being near the bottom won’t help and I can see our form going to shit if I’m honest. At least united should play to suit us and we may see a shock. Another Saturday with no villa playing, going to be boring as fuck!
I’m not even going to get to see the game, as I have to work 🙁
Interestingly though, I’ve had a Derby fan, a nose and a couple of scousers tell me that they think we’ll do Man U, because they’re quite simply shite.
My first thought was to agree: I really see very little to be scared of and this is not the Man U of old.
But then I thought about the utter rubbish we play at home.
I doubt we’ll get anything, which pisses me off, as there will never be a better chance to undo the hoodoo we have against them at home.
On another front Randy Lerner has donated a million pounds to Acorns to celebrate 25yrs with the club. Bet he won’t get the same hype as Beckham got when he donated his wages to charity. Fuckin typical
im working too badger :/ and worst of all im off Saturday when im usually working, bah! :/
im concerned about this game too, I got a feeling we might get a pasting, I really hope im wrong and my predictions aren’t too great.
my concerns are we are without vlarr(we’ve conceded 4 goals in the game and a half he’s been missing)and the fact united have a run of 4 very winnable games coming up for the rest of December which would seriously put them in a good spot by xmas, the other top teams all play each other at least once in the next 4 games btw. united no doubt see this too and will be(or should be)well up for the 3pts.
my hope would be we get the 1st goal which would no doubt hammer their already low confidence they don’t seem to have the fight to come back like when fergie was there.
Speaking to a couple of Man U fans and they are glad its at Villa Park as they thought we would ‘do em’ at Old Trafford….Says it all !
Also Paul Lambert has told the press Ashley Young does not dive…….Is he insane ???
The article should be as lambert lost it not andy his the reason our strikers are shit playing formation which dont work go back to last season lambert we were better at the end
Just watching city v arsenal how the fuck did we manage to beat both these teams lol
Weimann has been playing in the same position.. right of the front three and has been shite..