Do Aston Villa Have More Gears to Come as They Defy xG
Villa go behind. Again. Villa wobble. Again. Villa win. Again.
This post-mortem from the London Stadium digs into a game that should have been a banana skin and nearly was. West Ham had momentum, Jarrod Bowen was running the show, Villa looked leggy after Europe and yet somehow, once noses were in front, the door slammed shut.
We get forensic on the turning point. Digne on, Bowen gone. Control reclaimed. Emery-ball reasserted.
There’s a brutal assessment of the first half, Watkins dithering when the game was there to be killed, and why Villa are still making life harder than it needs to be. We also take aim at the growing xG moral panic and the uncomfortable truth that winning efficiently is now being treated as a flaw.
Nine wins on the bounce. Three times conceding inside ten minutes. Still perfect after European Thursdays.
Villa are not fully clicking, yet they’re winning. That should worry everyone else.
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