Baseline81 wrote:Pipp33 wrote:3 from 3, with all clean sheets for Villa.
2 years ago this week we sacked Steven Gerrard. Can't imagine thinking even in the best of circumstances, that we could be sitting atop the Champions league table in a short 2 years after. King Emery has done a magical job.
If I was told we'd have Watkins, Mings, Kamara, Ramsey, Digne, Cash, Buendia etc on the bench for a Champions League game in 2024, I would have laughed my ass off
I'm not trying to downplay what you've said, because you're correct. Villa has come a long way in a few years. And I am happy for such a shakeup.
I will simply add, outside of Bayern Munich, who are not the defending Bundesliga champions, wins over Young Boys and Bologna were expected, at least I hope Villa fans thought as much.
I know exactly what you mean and agree, 2 of those games should have been won by us, but very few people had us a chance to beat Bayern. And there will absolutely be harder games and poorer results, but from where we've come, this is incredible.
And at the end of the day, you can only beat, who you play.
Since the start of the season, the only game we've lost was against Arsenal...and I think that was the best game we played in the Prem, just didn't get the result we needed. Luckily, our poorest performance (against Ipswich), we still walked away with a point
