JW1985
Vital Champions League
What a night!! We had a bit of luck but considering the only luck we had last week was bad I'd say we earned it.
Heaton and the defence were solid and blocked everything. Mings and Engels were brilliant. Engels does indeed remind me of Laursen but he's much better on the ball. Mings is just always there. His distribution wasn't as good as normal but who cares when he's throwing himself in front of everything. Taylor was solid defensively but my god he destroys every move if the ball goes to him. He genuinely looks terrified of having the ball at his feet. Guilbert had a Stormer of a debut. Slightly out of it 1st 20 like a few but he came into it and looked dangerous going forward. He has real pace and likes a tackle, one slide tackle on Kean brought my corner of the ground to its feet. For 4m he looks an absolute bargain.
Luiz was less noticeable than Saturday. Mainly because we had far less if the ball but he put himself about and worked hard so I've no complaints. He will be a top player. I read through this thread and saw that Jack was getting pelted. Can't understand it myself as I thought he did well enough. McGinn was as superb as ever. Won't be long before clubs at the top are offering us big money for him.
Trezeguet like all of them worked hard but didn't look as threatening as his 1st 2 games. Jota looked really dangerous. How we got him in exchange for Gary Gardner I'll never know. Lovely assist and he looks a really clever player.
MOTM was big Wes. The lads been slated by pundits and fans from day one of the season, completely unfairly. Even if he'd been completely useless in both games, which I don't think he was btw, it would have been a stupid overreaction. He took his goal well and battled their 2 big centre halves all night. His hold up play was excellent and will only get better. Hopefully he'll get a week of from the Talksport numpties and media rent a gobs.
Hopefully we can build on this. We look like we've enough going forward to cause most teams plenty of problems and the defence looks like it'll die to prevent a goal. I think that once marvelous is up to speed we'll see him in against teams that we think will see a lot of the ball as from what I've read of him he's a pure defensive midfielder.
A great night, 3 points, a battling performance, Wesley off the mark and an incredible atmosphere at Villa park. The place was as loud as I've ever heard it and it almost felt like the play off final again. Going to watch the recording this morning to see if Sky did it justice.
Heaton and the defence were solid and blocked everything. Mings and Engels were brilliant. Engels does indeed remind me of Laursen but he's much better on the ball. Mings is just always there. His distribution wasn't as good as normal but who cares when he's throwing himself in front of everything. Taylor was solid defensively but my god he destroys every move if the ball goes to him. He genuinely looks terrified of having the ball at his feet. Guilbert had a Stormer of a debut. Slightly out of it 1st 20 like a few but he came into it and looked dangerous going forward. He has real pace and likes a tackle, one slide tackle on Kean brought my corner of the ground to its feet. For 4m he looks an absolute bargain.
Luiz was less noticeable than Saturday. Mainly because we had far less if the ball but he put himself about and worked hard so I've no complaints. He will be a top player. I read through this thread and saw that Jack was getting pelted. Can't understand it myself as I thought he did well enough. McGinn was as superb as ever. Won't be long before clubs at the top are offering us big money for him.
Trezeguet like all of them worked hard but didn't look as threatening as his 1st 2 games. Jota looked really dangerous. How we got him in exchange for Gary Gardner I'll never know. Lovely assist and he looks a really clever player.
MOTM was big Wes. The lads been slated by pundits and fans from day one of the season, completely unfairly. Even if he'd been completely useless in both games, which I don't think he was btw, it would have been a stupid overreaction. He took his goal well and battled their 2 big centre halves all night. His hold up play was excellent and will only get better. Hopefully he'll get a week of from the Talksport numpties and media rent a gobs.
Hopefully we can build on this. We look like we've enough going forward to cause most teams plenty of problems and the defence looks like it'll die to prevent a goal. I think that once marvelous is up to speed we'll see him in against teams that we think will see a lot of the ball as from what I've read of him he's a pure defensive midfielder.
A great night, 3 points, a battling performance, Wesley off the mark and an incredible atmosphere at Villa park. The place was as loud as I've ever heard it and it almost felt like the play off final again. Going to watch the recording this morning to see if Sky did it justice.
