Pizy

Talk about a turn around for him. Out in the wilderness for both club and country without much hope of things changing. Tried and failed to move in the summer and looked destined to ride our bench for years. Now he looks to have solidified his starting spot for us and should do for Spain as well. Oh, and he’s also got a smoking hot fiancé and will be getting married soon. The dude is winning life right now. 🤣🤣🤣

Darwin Nunez is absolute dogshit, btw. Lukaku like.

Damn. Arse will be in dreamland if City lose this. And I was hoping we could keep Liverpool 9 behind us.

Hopefully the overall performance there was a blip and a result of too much chopping and changing in the wrong areas. Because Brentford up next is another team that will do a lot of the same things Villa did today but can actually score goals. We were a bit better in the second half but for about 75% of that game we were shocking.

Good LORD!!! Mount finally in last season’s form?

Jorginho finally comes in and instead of RLC going off who seemingly hasn’t made a single forward pass it’s for Kova? 😩

We just keep giving it away in midfield OVER AND OVER AND OVER again.

They’re still crating chances at will. Because our midfield is nonexistent.

Can we PLEASE get Jorginhomon so we can keep the ball?!

Just play players in their actual positions. That’s all there is to it. Not complicated. Was annoying when Tuchel played players out of position and now Potter is doing the same. As mediocre as Azpi is these days at least he knows that position. And I realize that with the fixture pile up he’s got to rotate certain players, but it was a mistake to drop KK when he’s finally starting to hit top form and replace him with a wingback playing out of position.

Should never, EVER be playing CB when we have a fully fit LCB like Koulibaly in the squad. Should only play there in an emergency. He’s a tireless worker who runs the channel, not a natural CB. And it really shows here. Should’ve rested Chilwell instead of Koulibaly.

We are getting murdered down both flanks. Massive change needed at half time. Midfield isn’t working at all either. This is by far the worst we’ve looked under Potter. One injury to James and the whole team looks lost because we have to shift everyone around to new positions. Very concerning. Don’t think I can pick out 1 positive from an outfield player that half. Kepa prevented complete embarrassment. Even Silva looked very shaky that half which almost never happens.

Take Cucu or Chilwell off for KK, please. Cucu looks totally lost out there at CB. Shift RLC to RWB, move Sterling up the pitch, and bring J5 on so we can keep the fucking ball.

Fucking hell, man. They’re dominating us! Other than the shocker that we scored from we haven’t done a single positive thing. They should’ve scored 2-3 by now.

They’re just easily creating chance after chance down that side, ffs.

That right side is just as much of a problem as I suspected it would be. Sterling, RLC, and Trev are completely out of sorts on where each of them should be. Also not a fan of Cucu at CB.

Really need to sharpen the fuck up on the ball. We’re giving it away far too easily.

Biggest concern I have is Ings and Watkins running that left channel against a right side of RLC and Trev who are both prone to silly lack of concentration errors.

Nah, apparently is was all verbally agreed but I remember Tuchel getting publicly annoyed at Barca in a presser he had and forcefully said that Azpi must stay at all costs basically. Said he was far too important to the squad to lose after we already lost Rüdiger and AC.

100% on Tuchel for adamantly putting his foot down and blocking Azpi’s move to Barca. We absolutely would’ve brought someone in but Tuchel strongly told us all that he felt Azpi was still good enough.

So is it a back 3 with Cucu at CB and RLC RWB? Interesting. Looks like Villa have either gone for maximum pace and pressing with Ings, Bailey, and Watkins or they’re sitting deep and hoping those 3 can spring lightning counters. Either way it should be a real test for a makeshift back line.

Players like Bellingham and De Jong are likely only to come if we have CL football next season. Rice I feel would jump at the chance no matter what if we pay the money. So I still think he’s the likeliest of the super expensive midfield targets.

Must win game in order to keep within touching distance of the current top 3. Lots of Villa supporters have soured on Gerrard and are calling for his job. They’ve apparently been playing some awful football this season. But due to Reece being out I think this will be a tight, slog of a match with them setting out to really frustrate us. So hopefully the players have the same desire to dominate this game as they did the Milan ones. Cannot afford to fall further behind. Even though we’re currently sitting 4th with games in hand on the others above us, the table is pretty grim reading for us. We are already MILES behind in goal difference and goals scored. It’s straight up embarrassing to see clubs with 10 or 20 more goals scored than us and +10-20 goal difference compared to us just 8 games into the season with the squad we have. Absolutely imperative that we continue to beat sides like Wolves, Palace, and now Villa before we start playing the big boys. Edit- and btw, I see we have Brentford midweek who are solid again this season with Toney scoring twice again yesterday and then United a week from now. So even more mandatory to win today. This next 7 days will tell us if we’re a serious team or not.

This season is really annoying already. Spuds keep winning whilst playing shit on a stick football and Arse top of the table and flying. Meanwhile, we finally start hitting form and pick up multiple key injuries. 😔😔😔

Azpi has looked decent because we’re now using him the way we should have been for the last 18 months which is as a sub and rotation option. He’s fresh and isn’t asked to do too much. Now it’ll be like last season where he’s starting every match for the foreseeable future. He’ll likely be good for the first few matches but we may quickly start seeing his limitations again. I feel like the biggest players who are going to suffer with this injury are Sterling and Auba. Reece was really starting to form a strong chemistry with those two because he provides them the exact sort of service they feast on. Only hope is that Azpi can somehow become the attacking threat he was a few years ago when he was serving Morata chances up on a plate.