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thought that should’ve been a penalty to villa. they’ve shown they are more than happy to penalise follow-through challenges (romero vs chelsea) even if the ball is won.

that’s a good comparison and i’d hate to see us ever turn out like that. i think there is a middle ground, however. whenever we face these teams we seem to play right into their hands. very hard for us to build rhythm when they’re committing niggly little fouls or going down holding their heads...

of course, and they rely on individual players for quality rather than a good system, like us. i still don’t think there’s any harm in looking at what they do well. i think if we were stronger in midfield duels and were bailed out by our keeper a bit more we’d be in an infinitely better place.

sure, but it works for them. my overall point is that they always look very confident. as good as we have been at times this season, we haven’t really looked overflowing with confidence like last season. think large parts of that is due to having to limp on due to injured, and therefore not...

we’re both very good teams but i always get annoyed watching villa because they’re everything we aren’t. incisive when they go forward, strong in midfield duels, very good at the nitty-gritty, and they have a keeper that bails them out when they do concede chances.