Leicester city fans singing "Champions of England you'll never sing that" must be forgetting football didn't begin in 1992 🤦♂️
We've won the league 7 times, you've won it once 👍
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Most chances created from open play in the Premier League this season:
🏴 Jack Grealish (66)
🇧🇪 Kevin De Bruyne (65)
🇦🇷 Emiliano Buendia (46)
🇸🇳 Sadio Mané (39)
Elite.
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Only two players have created 50+ chances from open play in the Premier League this season:
🇧🇪 Kevin De Bruyne (63)
🏴 Jack Grealish (50)
Elite.
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🗣️ Samatta: "All fans from Tanzania I understand all of you love me because I'm your son. I also know that you'd like to see me perform well with my new team but, I'm making a request in a very humble way; stop criticising or abusing my fellow teammates or the team."
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"I play with Salah in the national team, but for me Jack Grealish is the best player I've ever played with...He’s not better than Mo, they’re different players. Mo's one of the best 5 players in the world, but for me Jack can make the difference at any time." - Elmo.
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🗣️ Agbonlahor on Grealish: "I don’t think he wants to leave Villa. Villa are a massive club, big history, if they can get the right players in the summer, he’s the captain, the team will be built around him. There’s some times you don’t want to leave."
Spot on from Gabby.
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"I play with Salah in the national team, but for me Jack Grealish is the best player I've ever played with...He’s not better than Mo, they’re different players. Mo's one of the best 5 players in the world, but for me Jack can make the difference at any time." - Elmo.
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"I travelled two and half hours to Birmingham - the same back home - every day, to go and conduct myself at a massive club like Aston Villa. I had a special connection with the Villa fans and I really enjoyed my time there." - Robert Snodgrass
🗣 Gabby Agbonlahor on Remi Garde:
"Jack Grealish told me: 'Remi Garde has just told me off for smiling."
"He wanted it to be like an army base."
"He stood on the side in training & was sulking."
"There was a big split in the changing room."
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"A coach at Caen said: ‘You’ll never be a top-flight player, nor even a second division player. Maybe third-rate at best.’...I got this character because I always had that idea of proving to people they were wrong about me." - Guilbert.
Superb mentality from Frederic 👏
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FT:
- Game should be going to ET, incompetent officials robbed us
- Proud after that, especially second-half performance
- Feared the worst after 30 mins
- Dream goal for Samatta, great cross El Ghazi
- Engels so close to make it 2-2
- Fans were incredible 👏
UTV 💜💙
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🗣️ Mings: "We're in a relegation battle & we'll have to keep doing it until the end...The manager, the players, everybody tells each other. Me & Ezri had a bit of an argument at HT that's how our dressing room is & then we go out & respond like that."
Quality 💪
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🗣️ Micah Richards: "Having been friendly with Jack, he loves Villa. That's his first option...He should be playing in the Champions League. But if Villa stay in the league, he gets into England & Villa say ‘we’ll invest in the summer’, I think he'll stay."
Micah gets it 👏
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Villa's seven Premier League victories this season have all come on six different days of the week.
If we beat Tottenham on Sunday, we'll become the first side in the Premier League to win a league game on every day of the week in the same season.
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"My children looked at me in horror as I was jumping off the sofa, screaming my head off. It was one of the most stressful moments of my life, as I imagine every Villa fan felt on that day." - Prince William on Villa staying up.
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Jack Grealish has been directly involved in 3️⃣8️⃣% of Villa's 34 Premier League goals this season (7 goals & 6 assists) - more than any other player. Where would we be without him 😅
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Since the start of last season, Conor Hourihane has been involved in more league goals for Villa than any other player at the club with 9 goals and 13 assists.
Incredibly underrated 🇮🇪
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MASSIVE credit to Dean Smith, tactically got it absolutely spot on over both legs and allowed us to compete with a very good Leicester side.
Thank you Dean 👏
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"When things go well there's no better experience in football than having the Holte End roaring you on. Give me the choice again of staying in the Prem with Bournemouth or dropping to the Championship to captain Villa, I'd make the same choice every time." - tommy Elphick.
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John McGinn is due to start running on the grass again either today (Wednesday) or tomorrow and will then work on building up his fitness ahead of a speedy return. [The Athletic]
This man can't come back any sooner 🙏
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Happy 39th birthday to
@petercrouch
🥳
"Crouch is at the back post and scores with the header! Well he looks like Rodney Trotter, he's scored against the Trotters, he's not a plonker, he's lovely jubbly for the claret and blue."
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"I absolutely loved it at Villa. It was the best part of my career, no doubt. I adored my football at Villa. When I left, I was devastated. It was the only time I ever cried when I left a football club." - Paul Merson
🗣 Villa fan on Jack Grealish:
“He doesn’t have to go anywhere!
Why would you go to Man United? They’re in the same position as Villa.
There is no difference.”
Absolutely spot on 👏
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#OTD
in 2000 Benito Carbone started the new millennium of with a hattrick at Elland Road, as Villa beat Leeds 3-2.
Bit of
@PaulMerse
magic for the winner 👏👏👏
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🗣️ Smith on Grealish: "He's a top player but as I've said before, our owners are very ambitious & want to establish us as a top PL club. To do that you have to keep your best players, so we'll be keeping hold of Jack Grealish. People can keep looking but they can't touch."
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"It's John McGinn and he gets his shot away! And Villa have staged their smash and grab here! They've been under so much pressure in the opening eight minutes, but it's the Premier League new boys who strike first!"
Such a tidy finish 👏
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"Hard work always pays off. Last season was because sometimes I play, sometimes I don’t but I always believed that my chance would come. In the end, I had my chance and I’m happy that I had a role in keeping Aston Villa in the Premier League." - Trez.
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#OTD
in 1998:
"Go on Stan, make a name for yourself, WHAT A GOAL! Stan Collymore, what a strike, Aston Villa 2, Atletico Madrid 1! Stan! The! Man! Now we have a UEFA Cup epic on our hands, come on the Villa!"
Superb night under the floodlights.
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Big Sam on if he’d take Jack Grealish to Euro 2020: “We talk about English players can’t open the door in the final third. Jack Grealish is the man for me, this lad seems to be oozing class in the Premier League.” 🏴
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"Steve Bruce said to me, ‘things will take off we’ve got John McGinn coming in.' No disrespect - but I’d never heard of him! I was thinking, he’s coming down from Scotland for £2m. But...he blew me away with his attitude & ability." - Jack Grealish on McGinn.
Quality 😂
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"Villa will always have a place in my heart. Last season was a long hard season and I’m glad I could help get them back to the Premier League." - Tammy Abraham.
Class act 👏
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🗣️ Konsa: "When Troy scored you could see from his celebrations how much he enjoyed it. It made us a bit angry and the fans as well...Things like that always fire you up – when you see someone celebrating like that in front of your fans."
👏👏👏
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Most fouls won in a match this season:
Jack Grealish - 8 vs Man City
Wilfried Zaha - 8 vs Tottenham
Jack Grealish - 7 vs Man Utd
Jack Grealish - 7 vs Chelsea
James Maddison - 7 vs Aston Villa
Jack needs way more protection.
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"I'm not perfect, I know that. But because I have seen the other side of the fence, it does allow me to be authentic when talking to fans. There are a lot of different shoes I can put on & say, 'I’ve been in your situation & I want to try & help." - Tryone Mings.
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"I'm not perfect, I know that. But because I have seen the other side of the fence, it does allow me to be authentic when talking to fans. There are a lot of different shoes I can put on & say, 'I’ve been in your situation & I want to try & help." - Tryone Mings.
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🗣️ Jack Grealish on McGinn: "Steve Bruce said to me, ‘things will take off we’ve got John McGinn coming in.' No disrespect - but I’d never heard of him! I was thinking, he’s coming down from Scotland for £2m. But...he blew me away with his attitude & ability."
Quality 😂
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Nakamba has to be a starter for the rest of the season. Started the season well then went through a rough patch.
Since the new year he's really picked up imo, breaks up play, stops counter attacks and makes us more solid. Hope his good form continues 🙏
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