🗣 Unai Emery: "We must recover because we are losing the advantage we had.
“Something we were deserving, now we are progressively losing. There’s still time to work & build our confidence individually and collectively to compete in the Europa League and Premier League."
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🗣 Unai Emery: “We’re in a bad moment. We need to work to recover our structure tactically, offensively and defensively, trying to get comfortable with each one.
“We must recover and work in the training sessions and try to get our structure strong again."
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FT: Villa 1-4 Chelsea
Desperately disappointing. Going to take some serious character & turnaround to stop this slide. Big moments, didn't take them/go our way, but so much more to be concerned by beyond that after such a positive start.
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Don't even know what to say at this point. Another horrible night. Drop off/collapse since the third minute has been quite something. Unable to stop the threat out wide, high line/offside trap an absolute shambles.
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HT: Villa 1-2 Chelsea
Intent/energy/tempo so much better & looked a real threat going forward, but with that has come being increasingly vulnerable defensively. Need to find balance & play it smart to tighten things up. Emery in-game tweaks/subs now going to be crucial.
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📈 Energy, intensity, tempo, intent, collective pressing...so much better in opening stages. Balance needed, but been desperate to see us start games like this.
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Big save from Emi Martinez, fantastic. Some start this...
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Dougieeee!!!!!
Brilliant, brilliant start. Can tell immediately we've come out with the right approach. Great move involving Leon Bailey & Ollie Watkins, great run and finish from Douglas Luiz.
1-0 Villa, 2'
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Not the XI I personally wanted to see, but it's done. Crucial thing now is that we play with the right approach tonight as a collective to try & dominate the game. We risk frustration quickly setting in if we're too passive & losing duels across the pitch again.
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Three Villa changes. Tyrone Mings, Ian Maatsen & Leon Bailey in for Pau Torres, Lucas Digne & Jadon Sancho.
In need of a big performance & shift from every player tonight. Want to see more intensity & tempo to take the game to them. 3pts would be huge. UTV!
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🚨✅ Confirmed Villa XI vs Chelsea: Martinez; Cash, Konsa, Mings, Maatsen; Onana, Luiz; Bailey, Buendia, Rogers; Watkins.
Subs: Bizot, Lindelof, Digne, Pau, Bogarde, Barkley, Sancho, Abraham, Alysson.
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🚨✅ PL MATCHDAY #29
UP THE VILLA. 🟣🔵
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🗣 Unai Emery: “We need other leaders. John McGinn is very important, but he’s not available for tomorrow.
“He’s progressively getting better, but we have enough players to keep our consistency, get our performance, and to feel comfortable with the players we have."
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🗣 Unai Emery: “Firstly, we have to transmit them [supporters] our energy & our wishes, our attitude, our skills & try to connect with them, but starting for us, from our side.
“And then, of course, we need the supporters. We need Villa Park, especially Villa Park.”
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🗣 Unai Emery: "Now we are in a not good moment, but every day is the opportunity to try to recover confidence, recover our energy, recover our good form we had every day.
“And tomorrow, we can show it in Villa Park against Chelsea.”
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🗣 Unai Emery: "Now is the moment to be together and to understand how we are where we are. Today we did not achieve what we needed but it is still in our hands to get into a top position."
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🗣 Unai Emery: "We had one chance with Amadou Onana & we did not score. But what a fantastic season we are having. We were tired & played open. But they have good players. After their goal, they were much more competitive."
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🗣 Unai Emery: "Congratulations to players for fantastic season we're having. Fantastic 1st half, we dominated. Created chances & did not concede early on. Deserved more in 1st half.
"2nd half they were winning more balls & got into our box. More & more difficult for us."
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🗣 Morgan Rogers on our upcoming fixtures: "They are the games you want to play and with so much on the line, we need to show why we deserve to be where we are."
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🗣 Morgan Rogers: "No excuses. We have players who are fit. We strive to win every game, still 3rd in the table.
"We set standards high & have ability to win every game. Obviously that's not realistic but we're playing good football as a whole & nothing to worry about."
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🗣 Morgan Rogers: "It does weigh on us but it shouldn't. We deserve to be here and we should not forget that. Our run lately has not been as good as usual but that is the battle of the Premier League. We are going to get back to our good run of wins."
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🗣 Morgan Rogers: "Disappointing. We didn't do anywhere near enough to create chances and score goals. We controlled the game in parts, it was not all doom and gloom. But we did not create enough chances."
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Villa's next four fixtures: Chelsea (H), Lille (A), Man Utd (A) and Lille (H).
Season practically on the line. Villans, how do we fix it?
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If the approach doesn't change & we continue with this passive style with nowhere near enough aggression, intensity & urgency, dread to think how this season plays out.
Players are shot of confidence, but we've surely got to be more positive/get on the front-foot to try & force something.
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FT: Wolves 2-0 Villa
Awful, awful football for weeks now. Completely wilted as confidence drains out of us. Injuries have killed us, but drop off shouldn't be this bad. One thing struggling for quality, but lack of aggression/intensity/tempo so painful to watch. Shambles.
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Infuriating the number of duels we're losing again tonight. Step too slow to get to a man, not enough urgency or intensity to really apply pressure as a collective. Happy to step off and be passive. Woeful in the build-up to the goal.
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HT: Wolves 0-0 VIlla
Lots of possession to get a foothold, controlling tempo, but nowhere near enough quality on the ball in advanced areas. Front four in particular have to be so much better. Game is there for us to win, subs will surely have to be decisive again.
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Three Villa changes. Pau, Digne & Sancho in for Mings, Maatsen & Bailey.
Not a fan of the Maatsen benching & would have liked to see Abraham lead the line, but good to see Pau return to the XI & hopefully all proves to be correct calls with three points. UTV!
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🚨✅ Confirmed Villa XI vs Wolves: Martinez; Cash, Konsa, Pau, Digne; Onana, Luiz; Sancho, Buendia, Rogers; Watkins.
Subs: Bizot, Lindelof, Maatsen, Mings, Bogarde, Barkley, Baley, Abraham, Alysson.
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