Crystal Palace v Aston Villa - Match Thread
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Melon Donkey
I am a little bit perplexed
I think Anwar’s was a poor touch that turned into a great pass!
Xchurch Villa
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You are highly unlikely to ever get the truth from a good manager. You want the truth - Watkins was utter garbage. You want diplomacy - there are areas we need to improve on
JW1985
Vital Champions League
Melon Donkey
I am a little bit perplexed
Yep. Not complaining just looked like it to me .
Melon Donkey
I am a little bit perplexed
Loved Mings owning Tekkers in the box first half btw. Great strength . We have all seen what Tekkers can do haven’t we Mr Smalling? 
MOTD highlighted the closeness of the Villa midfield 3 yesterday and its a definite plus point and something that's been mentioned on here before. We're having more passing options now to actually keep the ball unlike previously where a defender would have the ball and everyone would be 20-30 yards away leading to the big boom upfield and it instantly coming back.
It's such a small tweak to install but it proves that football, if coached right, is a simple game and doesn't need to be over complicated with graphs,pie charts and coloured counters on a board.
Very happy with what I've witnessed so far
It's such a small tweak to install but it proves that football, if coached right, is a simple game and doesn't need to be over complicated with graphs,pie charts and coloured counters on a board.
Very happy with what I've witnessed so far
eltoro
Man on the edge. Of what I don’t know!
I thought that was what VAR was for, to check incidents before throwing red cards about, he couldn’t wait to get that red card out.
JW1985
Vital Champions League
Loved Mings owning Tekkers in the box first half btw. Great strength . We have all seen what Tekkers can do haven’t we Mr Smalling?
Smalling can't answer as he's still flying through the air after that challenge.
JW1985
Vital Champions League
eltoro
Man on the edge. Of what I don’t know!
Not a fan of Lineker, but funny quip last night about Jenas & Richards
‘And I’m joined by Jenas & Richards, both hoping to get through this 70mins or so uninjured’
He won't be saying a lot, because he knows we have two very hard games coming up, which will add a bit of realism into the equation.
On the subject of the goal, it was a collective switch off that we have seen so many times this season.
It's a 90 minutes+ game and our defenders must concentrate better.
We never looked in any danger in that game, but contrived to chuck it away.
Defend like that against City and they will take full advantage.
Melon Donkey
I am a little bit perplexed
MOTD highlighted the closeness of the Villa midfield 3 yesterday and its a definite plus point and something that's been mentioned on here before. We're having more passing options now to actually keep the ball unlike previously where a defender would have the ball and everyone would be 20-30 yards away leading to the big boom upfield and it instantly coming back.
It's such a small tweak to install but it proves that football, if coached right, is a simple game and doesn't need to be over complicated with graphs,pie charts and coloured counters on a board.
Very happy with what I've witnessed so far
Yep, it was an excellent point and analysis and so true. It is why I was shitting myself against BHA and yesterday about our midfield 3 and how poor it looked on paper and to be honest how that combination has looked in previous games with the gaping gaps between players and the units within the team. That analysis highlighted how each midfielder and thus the other units within the team have an option and it’s not hours of the defence passing sideways amongst themselves because they have don’t have a short option ahead .
Ah, I have tried to be charitable and say it was a good pass, but like your self, I think he had lost control.
So pleased he did.
JW1985
Vital Champions League
So long as there were no sprinklers around Jenas would be safe.
Bonker
Vital Football Hero
It's been the same most of the season - I just don't get it, it's not just a bit of improvement around the edges required but as you say, he seems to be completely incapable of controlling the ball at all unless he's running onto it.
I get he was a winger (probably should still be IMO) but these are the very basics of playing football that any footballer should be able to do. He just seems to have lost that ability overnight and while he's always been pretty powder puff in terms of holding the ball up when fending off a challenge, he seems to have become even weaker in that respect too.
Baffling - does he have a balance problem post-injury??
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Bonker
Vital Football Hero
Easy to be like that when you've got one of the best teams in the PL/World.
Gerrard needs to keep it stern for a good while yet as he's for sure still eyeing the other end of the table for now - 7pts away from the drop and catapulted into mid table is a great start but we can't relax until we've got 40pts.
He knows as well as anyone that two losses after the two wins will wipe the gloss off a great start,even though they are to be expected, and then the momentum can quickly reverse back the other way.
This is as much a psychological battle now as anything else - as soon as they all start jerking each other off in congratulations for how great they all are we'll sink again.
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