How deep are your pockets?The rumors of us being linked with Ivan Toney are over. Maybe have a look at Ollie Watkins. Currently 2nd in the Premier League goalscoring charts.
Incredible how we're the first team in history to lose a game chasing a title during the run in. Here I thought it has happend to many title chasing teams before. Many of whom ended up still winning it, but apparently we are uniquely bad in this regard if some are to be believed.It was just a bad second half guys.
We clearly should have scored and probably been a couple of goals to the good in the first half; our final pass and general profligacy killed us.
Can’t really explain why we were so poor after that, though Arteta was slow to react (Bayern was obviously on his mind in both selection and subs), but Villa are clearly a very good, physical and extremely well disciplined team.
Next two games will show how far we’ve come since last season.
Well quite….Incredible how we're the first team in history to lose a game chasing a title during the run in. Here I thought it has happend to many title chasing teams before. Many of whom ended up still winning it, but apparently we are uniquely bad in this regard if some are to be believed.
@Oxeki needs a breather.
Order of games that have seemingly cost us the title...
1. 2-0 loss v Villa
2. 2-2 draw v Fulham
3. 2-0 loss v West Ham
4. 2-1 loss v Fulham
5. 2-2 draw v Sp**s
...as good as the second half of the season has been, it had to be because the first half was quite poor really.
Barely playing very well, weird tactical and team choices, couldn't hold a lead v 10 man Fulham and the embarrassment v West Ham and after we lost to Pool in the cup and lost 2 in a row it geniunely felt like out season was finished.
Credit to them for getting back into it, but in the end for what...to just eventually break our hearts again?
At some point we have to win something, otherwise all the good work these last few years is for nothing.
Bayern at the Allianz next? Scary hours…
I’m just playing. We have enough in us to knock them out despite the bad result yesterday. Let’s foggin go boys.
Villa don't have players with huge egos. They obviously respect him. I used to hate watching the players in training under Emery. They weren't serious.If there's one thing emery is good at, he knows how to get the best from his strikers. I'd say Mikel is near the opposite. Emery does have the likes of Watkins looking so sharp and explosive, and Auba and Laca looked the same when he was here too.
They still have their flaws but it's weird how much better his villa side look than his arsenal one. When they were playing out from the back flawlessly today I was reminded of the contrast of that traumatic game against Watford when he was arsenal manager...
Well don't blame the fans the guy been error prone every time he played I don't like booing our own players but sometimes you have to do it to make them wake upShould have buried them first half. Our finishing reverted to pre-Christmas just at the wrong time.
I am not sure how loud it was on TV, but Zinny was boo'd off much like Xhaka. He had a shocker, but that was sad to witness.
i'd be really fuming if this lead to another collapse even if we get knocked out against Bayern yes going to be big mental blow but this team only lost twice in 4 month one in CL and one in PL they can't be that soft.Heartbroken here. Personally I don’t see this going anywhere other than collapse.
I guess the Bayern match will show us whether our season’s over or not. Lose and it could get ugly in terms of morale for the run-in.