The best we’ve played this season?
Nuno’s is currently averaging 1.25 PPG, which would see us finishing the season on 40 points (minus any points penalty).
Beat Villa? 27 points with 12 games to go! We’d need another 5 wins to stay up (imo).
More good news…Laryea sold for 750k.
We have done a remarkable job at shifting our players.
West Ham:
The Good: Everyone had a great game.
The Bad: The Hammers.
The Ugly: VAR…or not looking at it. Clearly a penalty on Williams.
Special Mention: The Felipe / Murillo partnership? The CHO and Tavares partnership? Williams? Very positive signs!
The Last Time we played (Aston Villa (H) - a 2-0 win - exploit the High Line!)
Vlachula
Aina Niakhate Murillo Toffolo
Sangare Mangala Dominguez
MGW Awoniyi Elanga
Proposed Lineup:
Sels
Williams Felipe Murillo Tavares
Dominguez Danilo
MGW
Elanga Awoniyi CHO
Subs: Turner, Niakhate, Omobamidele, Toffolo, Kouyate, Yates, Reyna, Origi, Ribeiro
Injuries: Montiel, Wood.
AFCON Injuries - WTF?!: Aina, Boly and Sangare.
Laughing @ Derby: The big hands duo (Hennessy and Vlachula).
Form:
Villa (H) - W3 D1 L2 GF8 GA8 - 4th (11th in the Home Form table)
Forest (A) - W1 D2 L3 GF9 GA14 - 16th (15th in the Away Form table)
Prediction:
Villa have lost their last two at home (Newcastle / Man U) and drew the game before that (S.United).
They have six long-term injuries. One of those being everyone’s favourite…Mings.
A 2-1 Forest win.
We always look like scoring and we were at our best defensively against a (albeit) weak West Ham.
Final Words:
COYRs!!!!
Villa v Forest - Match Thread
posted on 24/2/24
Another implosion. 3-0
posted on 24/2/24
Another ball into our box, no one gets anywhere near heading it, and Luiz heads it in. Villa are already out of sight, and Nuno appears to have no intention of changing it. If it were a boxing match, it would have been stopped by now. We have eleven players, but we don’t have a team. We are absolutely shocking, again.
posted on 24/2/24
Ellipse and Murillo book, both centre halves now have to be very careful. We desperately need Toffolo on at left back to stem the tide.
posted on 24/2/24
Felipe and Murillo booked, is what the above should say.
posted on 24/2/24
Yates misses a sitter to make it 4-3. 4-2 Villa look comfortable.
posted on 24/2/24
comment by reddave (U8660)
posted 15 minutes ago
Yates misses a sitter to make it 4-3. 4-2 Villa look comfortable.
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we have had 2 excellent chances that a better team would have taken. That first half defending on the left side has cost us the game.
posted on 24/2/24
To sum it up. The kind of performance that will definitely get you relegated. You can’t afford to conceded the number of simple goals that we do and survive.
We need to take a leaf out of Everton’s book, and learn how to keep a clean sheet away from home.
posted on 24/2/24
Typical, just as i typed the above Lewis Dunk equalisers for BHA.
posted on 24/2/24
Well…I got our two goals right.
As soon as I saw Niakhate at LB I thought we’d lose. We were focussed on attacking through Elanga and we looked unbalanced.
Awful defending today, with only Williams being an effective outlet. In fact, probably the only player who had a good game.
Another difficult fixture out the way being the only positive today.
posted on 24/2/24
Match of the day described it perfectly,
At 3-2 Nottingham Forest ‘self destruct’, again.
Sums us up perfectly, we are simply not learning lessons quickly enough, definitely relegation material.