Aston Villa Vs Tottenham: Match Thread

[piedpiper]

Belt up mate.

Oops you got me . Dembele's fault. Infuriating at times.

 

[piedpiper]

Dembele was a monster today. I lost count the amount of times he protected the ball from 3-4 players at a time. We were sloppy, but let's not forget that at this stage of the season playing the bottom three is very very tricky.

Just read a stat on HITC that he had a 93% pass rate. Would never have thought that to be true. I'm often irritated by wayward passes from Dembele and Lamela particularly. I guess i'm guilty of focusing on the 4 odd wayward passes and forgetting other contributions like Dembele's 93% pass rate vs Villa.

 

[mattie g]

I thought we had a good game plan. Poch knew that Villa would have to go for the win, so we were able to conserve energy and let them come at us, then hit them on the break. It was almost too easy, except that Guzan had a phenomenal game and kept us out when we could have been well out of sight by the time the first half was over.

Once we scored the first, there was little doubt as to the outcome, and the second well and truly killed it off. At that point, we settled into it and simply saw off the game without expending too much energy.

Well executed strategy in both starting the game and in seeing it off once we got a comfortable lead.

 

[Gaz_Gammon]

Don't agree on Dembele. He was just a waist for me.

Is that a size 38-40 or 42-44 Sir?

 

[eViL]

Is that you, Tim?

It's probably the only thing he wasn't wrong about..

 

[yusrisafri]

Funniest comment was @yusrisafri saying his second assist was lucky, trying to justify a previous post of his.

It WAS lucky no matter how you spin your story. It was meant for Lamela.

And he WAS very frustrating last night.

 

[parj]

Yep but has he done more than Alli this season was what the question was. Probably

Why is there a comparison of Lukaku and Alli? And isn't Alli in his first season in the premier league and Lukaku in his 3rd or 4th?

 

[parj]

Just read a stat on HITC that he had a 93% pass rate. Would never have thought that to be true. I'm often irritated by wayward passes from Dembele and Lamela particularly. I guess i'm guilty of focusing on the 4 odd wayward passes and forgetting other contributions like Dembele's 93% pass rate vs Villa.

I think with Lamela and Dembele a lot of people miss that they both encourage people to move by picking the ball up. The others know they will release it so they have to move.

 

[Bulletspur]

@Bulletspur is on strike

Lol! Not quite .Was away and have just finished watching a recording of the match.

 

[millsey]

Why is there a comparison of Lukaku and Alli? And isn't Alli in his first season in the premier league and Lukaku in his 3rd or 4th?

Umm maybe because we are talking about who wins the young player of the year gong.....

 

[Derryank]

Yes but they have a game to play.....

Still reads six points this morning.....LOL

 

[widmerpool]

Not a bad line from the Grauniad:

For all their pressure, Spurs seemed to be treating Brad Guzan like the Death Star: searching for some hidden weak spot right down the centre of Villa’s goalkeeper, rather than trying the more traditional corners of the net.