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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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🚨✅ Europa League round-of-16 draw:
Lille vs Aston Villa
First leg (A): Thursday, March 12
Second leg (H): Thursday, March 19
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🚨✅ PL MATCHDAY #28
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🚨✅ Villa team news vs Wolves:
🗣 Unai Emery: “Alysson is coming back, I think he will come back in the squad.
“The other players, with the players we know are out, hopefully they will be available for tomorrow.”
❌ John McGinn, Youri Tielemans & Boubacar Kamara
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🗣 Unai Emery: “It’s not the best or worst result.
“We must be positive, accept this result, every team (is) showing their capacity, how difficult is the PL.
“How we are third, I think should be something (we) must accept like a positive result & keep going forward."
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🗣 Tammy Abraham: "These things are important in football. Set pieces have been one of the key factors. We were hungry. Well done to Ezri [Konsa] for the first contact and I was there for the second contact. It was in front of some of the best supporters in the world."
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🗣 Tammy Abraham: "Like I said many times, it feels like a dream to come back and play for this club again. I'm happy to be here and bring extra energy.
"I had to sniff around the box, be alert, be ready. Luckily for us, I got the goal."
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Tammy Abraham an absolute must in the starting XI to lead the line next Friday at Wolves, as is Pau Torres at the other end of the pitch to give us some quality/composure in our build up play.
Stick Barkley & Sancho in there too.
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FT: Villa 1-1 Leeds
Dire performance until final mins. Drifted with lack of creativity, quality, intensity or urgency. Slow, predictable & lacking answers. Vital Abraham goal to earn an important point, but our level has to improve/too many average individual displays.
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Tammyyyyy!!!
Great work from Ezri Konsa to keep it alive, Tammy Abraham puts it away. Desperately needed that, big late push now.
1-1, 88'
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Painful how bad we've looked since losing John McGinn, but particularly Youri Tielemans. Their/his influence so hard to replicate/replace.
Think no Pau makes it worse, but expect Barkley, Sancho & Abraham to have a big say in turning this around.
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HT: Villa 0-1 Leeds
Tough watch again. No rhythm or quality, all very slow & predictable. Can't find space short, can't hold the ball going long. Need more from Luiz to dictate, doing nowhere near enough, but changes will be key as so flat/short of physicality & ideas.
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Seven Villa changes. Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Mings, Maatsen, Buendia & Watkins come back into the XI.
Three points crucial today, but would be an important bonus if we can put on a more convincing display. Strong XI/good bench options to change things if needed. UTV! 🟣🔵
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🚨✅ Confirmed Villa XI vs Leeds: Martinez; Cash, Konsa, Mings, Maatsen; Onana, Luiz; Bailey, Buendia, Rogers; Watkins.
Subs: Wright, Lindelof, Digne, Pau, Bogarde, Garcia, Barkley, Sancho, Abraham.
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🚨✅ PL MATCHDAY #27
UP THE VILLA. 🟣🔵
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🚨✅ Villa team news vs Leeds:
🗣 Unai Emery: “Matty Cash is coming back. He trained the last two training sessions and he is feeling good."
❌ John McGinn, Boubacar Kamara, Youri Tielemans, Alysson, Harvey Elliott & Marco Bizot.
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