Unai Emery

Maybe it does with those 3 veteran Emery signings, but for me it’s a moot point, sneaking into the CL only to be a non contender for a season or maybe 2 is pointless.

Rather play the long game, take a few years to arrive, but when you do actually be a contender for the CL and a consistent challenger for the EPL like we are now.

I think part of it is he learnt what this league was about and was simply more equipped for his 2nd stint.

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Villa have also bought really well. I’m not sure how much influence he has on their transfers but I think it was pretty clear he didn’t have a ton of influence on Arsenal’s transfers. The whole Pepe over Zaha thing was kind of proof of that.

I think it’s going to be a really tight game this weekend. Can absolutely see us losing. I still don’t trust Raya and they’ll be ready to test him from corners.

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Good Ebening

dude taught City and now us a lesson

working miracles with Villa

Am sorry but he did nothing of the sort today. We lost because of us being pathetic in the final third, not because of Emery’s brilliant tactics or his team’s performance. I really expected Villa to batter us today. Emery is a good coach but today’s result was more because of our issues than anything he did.

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That may be true but to beat us and City back in to back without conceding a goal says a lot

They were clearly instructed to be less intense not press as much and still got the W

I love Unai but no need to big him up.
They did not win tonight because they were better or played better.

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The City performance says a lot, not today’s performance.

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If you define today’s performance as teaching a lesson then you must not have watched the game.

They scored early rode luck snd got the result, it happens and they’ll be delighted but it certainly isn’t a lesson.

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We got in behind several times in the first hour and were just unfortunately extremely wasteful.

Overall it’ll go down as beating both of us back to back

A win is a win and they got two against 2 title contenders in the same week, says a lot about both Emery and Villa

@Aussiegooner yeah I know, we have ourselves to blame but still this is Villa we’re talking about, how many teams have beat us even when we’re under par

I know what the results have been.

My debate was over that being a football lesson, I doubt even Emery would say the game went the way we wanted it to go.

Play that game 10 times the same way, we win more often, suggesting anything else is delusional.

But yes I know Villa won tonight.

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15 home wins in a row for Villa. Unai Emery is clearly doing something right. Though I’ve been hearing that we got fucked by the refs/VAR on several occasions.

Is that true? Did it make up for the poor effort up top from our players?

Fair play I wouldn’t say it’s a lesson taught either unless the lesson is self taught that you get punished when you don’t take your chances

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What a week he’s had.

The effort was always there, just not our night.

Ehhh let’s not go overboard. Today was a classic Unai game.

High line? :white_check_mark:
Concede plenty of shots? :white_check_mark:
Ride your luck? :white_check_mark:
Less than convincing playing out from the back? :white_check_mark:

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Sure but he beat us and city and sits in 3rd

With Villa

:nerd_face:

Did you watch the match out of curiosity @Forever ?

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If I were a Villa fan, while I would be celebrating this win, if I am being honest, I’d know we should have lost this one, and comfortably. This was not a 2nd vs 3rd game, more like 2nd vs a mid table side who took their one good chance, and then did little for the rest of the game, getting huge slices of luck (partly due to our profligacy and partly due to the ref) along the way to get a win.