What to think of Tanganga!What a fantastic performance by Sanchez, and Lucas. Happy for both of them.
Yes, he was also pretty good. But he wasn`t anyone`s scapegoat before tonight.What to think of Tanganga!
Don't know what's going on with Neville. He used to make some brilliant points and be a very good co-commentator, always sticking to the task and not letting bias or a narrative get in the way.I know I moaned about the first half commentary earlier and I’m sure this has already been mentioned, but I just saw that the first half was the first time since 2014 that Villa didn’t have a shot on goal at home.
Whether the defence played ok or not, that stat should make Neville feel thoroughly ashamed of himself if he sees it. Tyler, as usual, played up to Neville by making a joke about our defence in the second half too. I hope they both review their commentary and realise what fucking plonkers they were.
And it doesn’t matter that Grealish wasn’t playing or that Villa had trouble creating, the fact is Grealish hasn’t played every home game for Villa since 2014 and also, we had a young back 4 playing together for the first time. So it was actually decent that not only did we restrict them to zero attempts on goal first half, but that we kept a clean sheet after the 90 too.
Yet if Neville was commentating on that match on the radio, you’d have thought we were 3 or 4 down at half time.
They might not be totally ready right now but I’d like to see Tanganga paired with Rodon at CB. We’ll no doubt buy in the summer, but I hope Tanganga in particular will be our long term CB, even though I really enjoyed his little runs down the wing.
Or Ronnie Kray.Paul Merson appears to have morphed into Ray Winston???
Seems overly harsh tbh.negatives:
sanchez (the bloke is a liability), constantly out of possession, gives away cheap, unnecessary fouls and to think some believe he’s playing well recently is comical.
Stevie B - offered very little going forward and poor decision making in his brief intro.
sissoko - his introduction immediately led us losing our rhythm, possession and I’d rather, despite his industry we play someone who resembles a footballer.
Or Ronnie Kray.
He was bought as a centre Back and that is his preferred position.
What position did he play when Jose arrived.He was bought as a centre Back and that is his preferred position.
Don’t you know ?What position did he play when Jose arrived.
I agree but to undermine our performance with they were poor is unfair - its was the manner in which we played and the effort put in. We struggled at the back first half but hard work got use through. They messed up in our box but again I felt we stood strong. its not a case of accepting the perforance (because we can play better) its appricating the importance of it. The team played with some passion and that's what footvall is all about.They managed to pass the ball around us quite a lot, despite our improved pressing and made some decent openings via good football but just didn't have the quality on the pitch in the final third to take advantage. They really weren't great and we were a bit better. We probably deserved 1-0 and we got the second due to the extremely fortunate penalty. On another day that penalty is not given and Villa could have walked one into the net
Not meant at you in particular but I really worry that our expectations have dropped so much that we are happy about today
Judging by the ratings that post got I'm not the only one that's thinks so either. Stuff like this is always going to be contentious because what I look for in a player isn't always going to be what you do. Has he made mistakes in that time? Sure but he's also stopped so many opportunities I've lost count. Massive improvement by him since his regular return to the side and it's no surprise to me it's basically become Sanchez plus a.n other.I am literally speechless.