Aston Villa v Leeds Utd Match Thread - Struijk starts in defensive midfield

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Aston Villa v Leeds United
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23/10/2020
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108
Played
32
Won
33
Drawn
43
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GD
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Win %
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Won
15
Drawn
27
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-26
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28/04/2019 Elland Road 1–1 D Championship ↗
23/12/2018 Villa Park 2–3 W Championship ↗
13/04/2018 Villa Park 1–0 L Championship ↗
01/12/2017 Elland Road 1–1 D Championship ↗
29/12/2016 Villa Park 1–1 D Championship ↗
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2 Lee Chapman 6
3 Charlie Keetley 5
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5 Gary Speed 3
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Def Dallas
Def Ayling ©
Def Koch
Def Alioski
Def Struijk
Mid Costa
Mid Klich
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Re: Aston Villa v Leeds Utd Match Thread - Struijk starts in defensive midfield

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Struijk was playing well, key in the early chances. I'd imagine this is tactical but taking off a defender when we have very few available is surprising
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Someone tell Ayling he doesn't need to fall over when not being challenged

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Ayling saves the day after he makes the initial error. Very well done to get into position for a goal-line clearance.
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YorkshireSquare wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 7:27 pm Booked for a late one on Grealish and another foul 30 seconds later. Bielsa keen not to go down to ten men here.
Surely he could have just moved him back to CB, moved Ayling over to RB and pushed Dallas into DM?
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ayling almost sold the ranch there
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Any streams guys i'm having a mare.
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villan and hero was Ayling

You can just see the difference in quality in these sides, this is falling into a similar pattern
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Re: Aston Villa v Leeds Utd Match Thread - Struijk starts in defensive midfield

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Leeds1000 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 7:32 pm Any streams guys i'm having a mare.

http://hockeynews.site/events/2020/avillu/

Couple of minutes behind though
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Leeds1000 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 7:32 pm Any streams guys i'm having a mare.
Ditto, I've switched 4 time so far
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Too many slack passes going forward again
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YorkshireSquare wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 7:33 pm http://hockeynews.site/events/2020/avillu/

Couple of minutes behind though
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Harrison back to his pre Man City form,
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Cracking opening half an hour between two quality teams both playing with a lot of confidence.

We've done most of the attacking but they have looked dangerous on the break.

Alioski excellent and Shackleton has done very well since coming on for Struik
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Great defending by Klich..bet no one else noticed though
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Cash goes through Harrison, no FK....He's having to get dirty to cope with Jack
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Villa seem to very good at falling down like they've been shot aren't they
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Harrison is too honest
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That's what they do when been outplayed mate .., disrupt the flow mate.
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faaip wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 7:40 pm Villa seem to very good at falling down like they've been shot aren't they
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Rodrigo blazes 10 feet over
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