I believe there is a fundamental misunderstanding in the media of how we play. Arteta and Pep were both midfield players. I think they believe all games are won and lost because of the midfield, so want all players capable of playing in midfield and their own position. We invert from left only because it was easy buying a player from City who already knew how to do that. Arteta wants both full backs to invert and at least one Centre back to be able to come into midfield. I remember Marquez, Puyol, Maxwell, Dani Alves etc. were all comfortable in midfield. It goes back to Cruyff's belief in total football.

comment by 50 No longer trusting the process (U1147)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Passion Power - Make 1984 fiction again (U8398)
posted 3 minutes ago
wow, but let's not get ahead of ourselves, we remember what JET was like at that age and when he got older he wasn't that good
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Not seen Obi play but could tell JET was relying way too much on his physical attributes rather than his IQ
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He seems intelligent but still hard to tell, England better get on him just in case as he seems to prefer Denmark at the moment

Talking about full backs, what do people think of Rosiak? He usually inverts from the right, anyone think he will make it?

Van de Ven 😂😂😂
Offside?

Gives Villa a reason to down tools tomorrow if it stays this way.

Bring him to the carpet

Hahaha VdV you caaaant 😂😂😂

Aye. 2-0

VdV was never VVD.

😂😂😂

The commentators thought VdV is world class.

Yeah, spent ages bigging him up. Tbf he has looked like a goat today, the amount of grass he has eaten.

Hope Spurs play this open against us.

comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 4 minutes ago
Gives Villa a reason to down tools tomorrow if it stays this way.
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How? Gives them a massive boost.

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 4 minutes ago
Gives Villa a reason to down tools tomorrow if it stays this way.
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How? Gives them a massive boost.
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exactly!

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 30 seconds ago
comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 4 minutes ago
Gives Villa a reason to down tools tomorrow if it stays this way.
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How? Gives them a massive boost.
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It won't matter if they lose. So can hide behind the tiredness excuse. Give players an easy out and they take it imo

comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 30 seconds ago
comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 4 minutes ago
Gives Villa a reason to down tools tomorrow if it stays this way.
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How? Gives them a massive boost.
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It won't matter if they lose. So can hide behind the tiredness excuse. Give players an easy out and they take it imo
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Of course it does. They would be behind Spurs with a game less to play.

comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 3 minutes ago
Hope Spurs play this open against us.
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Fortunately Ange Ball doesn’t know any better

What is Dubravka doing?

When was the last time we played Villa at home on Sunday 4:30pm? Was it when Cesc Fabregas came of the bench scored 2 & went off injured again?
One of the all time great substitute performances.

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 23 seconds ago
comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 30 seconds ago
comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 4 minutes ago
Gives Villa a reason to down tools tomorrow if it stays this way.
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How? Gives them a massive boost.
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It won't matter if they lose. So can hide behind the tiredness excuse. Give players an easy out and they take it imo
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Of course it does. They would be behind Spurs with a game less to play.
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So the same as before this weekend. If Spurs win this game and Villa lose tomorrow makes it much more difficult for them.

comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 23 seconds ago
comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 30 seconds ago
comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 4 minutes ago
Gives Villa a reason to down tools tomorrow if it stays this way.
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How? Gives them a massive boost.
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It won't matter if they lose. So can hide behind the tiredness excuse. Give players an easy out and they take it imo
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Of course it does. They would be behind Spurs with a game less to play.
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So the same as before this weekend. If Spurs win this game and Villa lose tomorrow makes it much more difficult for them.
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Not really the same, if Spurs lose it gives them hope.

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 12 seconds ago
comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 23 seconds ago
comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 30 seconds ago
comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 4 minutes ago
Gives Villa a reason to down tools tomorrow if it stays this way.
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How? Gives them a massive boost.
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It won't matter if they lose. So can hide behind the tiredness excuse. Give players an easy out and they take it imo
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Of course it does. They would be behind Spurs with a game less to play.
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So the same as before this weekend. If Spurs win this game and Villa lose tomorrow makes it much more difficult for them.
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Not really the same, if Spurs lose it gives them hope.
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A bit too early for the 'hope' stuff because Villa know Spurs have to play City, Liverpool and Arsenal. They don't want Spurs to build a gap so that those games don't matter to them.

I heard a Spurs fan say that they want Villa to win against us as they would rather Spurs get 5th than us winning the PL, because Levy won't spend the CL money anyway on players and they won't do anything in CL.
Sad existence of Spurs fans