Stan Collymore described the Aston Villa season as “slightly disappointing” and thinks that the club will miss European football next year.
The Boyhood Villa fan, Collymore, regularly attended matches after spending three seasons with the club in the late 1990s and, although he recognizes the progress made under Emery Unai, he estimates that defensive fragiles will hinder their progress .
Villa, which is ninth in the Premier League after the disappointing match on Saturday 1-1 with 10 men Ipswich Town, is still in the Champions League and qualified automatically for the eighth of 16 years after being eighth in the group phase revised.
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Collaboration predicts that villa will end the eighth
But Collymore thinks that the failure to sign at least one defender in the January window will return to bite them.
Speaking to 101 major objectives via William Hill VegasThe 54 -year -old said: “I have a villa to finish eighth, which would make us miss Europe in its entirety.
“This happened in Newcastle and it is only one of those faults and seeds where, in particular the clubs with small teams, do not have the capacity to face the amount of tournaments played.
“If I am right, Villa will miss Europe. I don’t think we will win the Champions League, so it will be so that we could win the FA Cup? I think it always makes you in the Europa League, so this is the best opportunity.
“As for the season overall, dares to say that it was slightly disappointing, which seems bizarre when I was in Holte with friends to watch ourselves beating Bayern Munich, watching us beat Juventus …
“If you remove the Champions League, one in 10 efforts so far, the league campaign has been clearly average because there has been a lack of attention to detail in terms of maintaining clean leaves. Villa just can’t keep a white sheet. Most often, we concede the first goal, which means that you continue the game. ”
Collaboration eyes fa cup glory
Villa is difficult on three fronts, the League, the FA Cup and the Champions League. Asked what would constitute the success of the club this season, Colalymore said: “With the hat of my fan of villa, we have not won the FA Cup since 1957 so that he has won a trophy, especially after the ascent Fast in the last two seasons under Unai Emery.
“What the villa is prioritizing is to go as far as possible in the Champions League, but I think they will be extremely disappointed if they do not obtain a certain flavor of Europe.
“So the FA Cup as a fan. As a club, go as far as you can in the Champions League. »»
Rashford and asensio not enough – collabora
Villa made two major signatures in January, respectively lending Marcus Rashford and Marco Asensio de Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain, but Collymore was not entirely satisfied with the club’s relations.
“In terms of recruitment, the jury is released,” he said.
“I know there were two renowned signatures in terms of Asensio and Rashford, but I think that many villa fans would have liked to see one or two central defenders.
“Tyrone Mings again injured quite recently, he is back now, Pau Torres was injured, Diego Carlos left for Turkey and Ezri Konsa was mixed between the right back and the central defense.
“It is great to have title signatures that attract attention – the big national and local titles – but the signatures that Villa had, none has been exceptional. If you look at the three main markers of the villa – one was Ollie Watkins that Unai Emery inherited, one was Morgan Rogers, one in 10 player, but he should probably not play as many games as he ‘did, which is a bit of Luck and Ross Barkley, who marked three. Again, he probably had to come and play a few games in cup competition and not weigh in terms of the Premier League. Leon Bailey was disappointing, Donyell Malen has not yet done much, Ian Maattsen… [Amadou] Onana started very well, but derived.
“The players who came for good money were equal or just below the peer, so there are questions to answer Unai Emery. Currently, villa fans say “brilliant that we are still in the Champions League”, but we must rectify some of the flagrant inconsistencies in performance. »»
