I think Villa would be interested in our first XI and first subs.
DDG, Wan Bissaka, Shaw, Maguire, Lindelof, Fred, McTominay, Bruno, Martial, Rashford, Cavani plus Greenwood, Matic, Van de Beek, Bailly, James would all play most games for Villa.
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- Clean sheets
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- Goals
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- Assists
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- Yellow cards
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DDG, Wan Bissaka, Shaw, Maguire, Lindelof, Fred, McTominay, Bruno, Martial, Rashford, Cavani plus Greenwood, Matic, Van de Beek, Bailly, James would all play most games for Villa.
This guy gets it.
What a state this thread was in ten pages in. Quite the reversal.
I can see the temptation, especially in the era of fullbacks becoming midfielders. But I think he gets exactly the amount of space and time he needs in his current role. He's a player who wants to be able to look up and see the whole game in front of him, which you can do from the side of the pitch but not the middle of it. Notice that when his runs take him central he doesn't get his head up much, tends to have to either keep running or lay the ball off to someone near him.
Also one of the strongest elements of his game is the understanding he and Rashford have built about how to play around each other down that wing. Why throw all that hard work away?
And lastly at the moment Telles is really not playing well at all, and I'd rather not see him on the pitch more than necessary.
Still only 25
Credit to Shaw
Little things like this make us a better team in possession.
Pretty sure we can thank Eric Bailly for that one!
But Shaw...he's in beast mode. So focused, like this is all he wants to do.
He's a footballer. Plain and simple.
He's been absolutely outstanding this season.
Yeah I need him and Rashford to sit this one out.
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BEAST.
Love how he’s attacking the space these days and driving forward with the ball, if he sees a space through the middle or the line he’s going for it, love his diagonal runs with the ball through the space left from our forwards making runs. Must be instructed. He’s having a brilliant season.
This guy gets it.
Yup. Him and Maguire really have formed an excellent partnership on that side, they play with so much composure and quality on the ball. Great to see.
Bet you thought Lingard was relegation quality, and yet he goes to the team in 5th and becomes their most important attacking player instantly.
He's always had this in his locker.
Up until this season, the only thing he's lacked is crossing. Now he has it.
Brilliant fullback.
Up until this season, the only thing he's lacked is crossing. Now he has it.
Brilliant fullback.
Some of our fans are completely mental.
These are the same guys who likely thought Evans was shit (mainstay for Leicester), Michael Keane was second division material (ever present for Everton) when they were at United
While people may have exaggerated how poor some players were, doesn't mean the players were United quality. I'm sure most are glad Lingard is doing well for himself, he just didn't have a spot here, and hadn't done anything of note since 2019
Yeah, he's always been a world class talent. I remember watching him for Southampton in the 2013/2014 season. I have never seen anything like that from a defender that age.
I also watched him in person that summer in pre-season and I could not believe what I was seeing. Just an astonishing player, it's sad how the leg break and mismanagement from Mourinho set him back, but now he's playing with confidence. Confidence combined with his innate talent and he's unstoppable. I really couldn't believe that control from Fabianski's clearance today, how was that even possible.
Does anyone else now agree that Shaw at his highest level is better than Evra? I claimed this a few months ago, now I think more will agree with me.
He just has these automatic habits that give him a baseline much higher than any average premier league footballer. The addition of Alex has forced him to venture outside of his comfort zone to really create and perform.
He’s a beast. Love it
He’s a beast. Love it
When Jose Mourinho deems a young player to be nothing but deadwood, it almost guarantees that they will eventually become world class - De Bruyne, Salah, Shaw, Rashford etc
He is simply class nowadays. It's been fun to see his journey to become the player he is now. Almost wrote him off due to injuries, but he seems to be over that for the most part (knock on wood).
I don't know why i feel during the game he is not found early, and also he attempts a plenty of one-twos and is ignored occasionally...
And I know Fernandes plays that free role, but today he was sometimes crowding Shaw on the left instead of attacking the box, Shaw had few chances to whip a cross but no one was in the box, Shaw is not being utilized by his teammates to the maximum.
Aside from the above, he is performing extremely well and is in TOP FORM, long it may continue.
And I know Fernandes plays that free role, but today he was sometimes crowding Shaw on the left instead of attacking the box, Shaw had few chances to whip a cross but no one was in the box, Shaw is not being utilized by his teammates to the maximum.
Aside from the above, he is performing extremely well and is in TOP FORM, long it may continue.
Shaw has gone from strength to strength. He's at a world class level I feel, just immense watching him play.
The cons of prematurely promoting a newbie.This guy gets it.
That's far beyond little. I haven't seen anyone else in the team do that this season.
He is such a brilliant footballer, very good composure when pressed, probably best first touch in the squad and his passing is good too.
Will be huge disappointment if he doesn't make PFA team of the year.
A fullback is more skilful than both of our CMs.
This guy gets it.
At least you did it before someone else. I'm sure we all have similar posts to yours regarding. Shaw has turned into a true world class player.Shaw is more skillful (or better footballer) than most CMs in the league.
I thought at least Lingard move would make people understand that just because player is not good enough for us doesn't mean they aren't good enough for any midtable team. Just read West Ham fan forum, they are full of praise for him. He is arguably their best attacker too.
Exactly, even in our team I think Mata is the only one who has a better first touch and short passing than Shaw. Excellent all round footballer.
That was sexy and is absoloutely key for us in beating a high press
True. But not CMs on Top 4 (except us).
He's been brilliant, but for Bruno he'd be comfortable as our player of the year.
Full credit to the player firstly of course but the coaching staff have done brilliantly too to manage his game time effectively, the addition of telles to allow him to rest, the huge improvement we've seen in his crossing, his body shape now is approaching valencia levels of cyborg.
He's a shoe-in to start at the euros, I just hope they don't play him every single minute but I fear they will
Full credit to the player firstly of course but the coaching staff have done brilliantly too to manage his game time effectively, the addition of telles to allow him to rest, the huge improvement we've seen in his crossing, his body shape now is approaching valencia levels of cyborg.
He's a shoe-in to start at the euros, I just hope they don't play him every single minute but I fear they will
I don't agree with that/ Ndidi plays for Leicester and Shaw is better footballer than Ndidi. Mendy played 20 league games for Leicester and Shaw is comfortably better footballer.
Then you have Kante, if you are talking about pure footballer then arguably Shaw is better footballer (not saying Shaw is better than Kante as a midfielder btw),
Shaw is brilliant, absolutely adore him.
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