Something For The Weekend

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The conditions obviously favoured Bolton’s game-plan but Villa looked a bit light-weight as they got bullied by the likes of Le Fondre, who was a combative pain in Villa’s rear. Villa tended to look a bit fussy and over elaborate at times and looked better when they passed it earlier and were more direct. It was one of those games when the team which scored first was likely to win the game and Bolton did exactly that. Le Fondre was given the man of the match but I think Flanagan was their key man when came to keeping Villa out.

Villa get the chance to regroup as everything stops for yet another international break. They need to let their bruises heal and get a few players back for the Hull game on Saturday week. But the nature of these breaks is that it is more likely that your best players will get injured or suffer jet-lag, than it is your injured players will recover. With everyone else playing on Good Friday the table is likely to look rather discouraging when Villa kick-off next Saturday, and the pressures will be immense.

Meanwhile, England’s meaningless fixtures, make the added demand on the England manager of not only talking up the prospects of his team but dodging the political questions which arise from whether the team should actually attend Russia’s showpiece tournament or not, after the government’s diplomacy has been reduced to Godwin’s law by the country’s buffoon-in-chief. I don’t think much of him as a manager but on the other front Southgate is definitely earning his monster salary. Who needs another cold war? Last week at Bolton was more than enough for me.

Keep the faith!

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