Villa Park

It's just been fine.

Well, it's good that you've got nothing to say on the game because our first question comes from Craig who says, was it simply one bad afternoon at Villa Park or did Aston Villa expose a weakness in Maresca City that other Premier League teams can exploit? Joe, thank you very much for your contribution.

We'll see you sometime next week.

See you next week, everyone.

I think it's a pretty good sign that both results, both defeats that City have suffered this year, we walked away from being like, yeah, on a different night, it goes your way.

And you can take loads of positives from it.

And you can take positives from this because as we pointed out all week leading up to this game, City have been absolutely smashed at Villa Park for a number of years now.

And they did not get smashed in this game They were, you know, they were the protagonist.

Let's talk City first.

They took an old trip to Villa Park where they have a pretty bad record there, don't they? So Villa are the first side to win three successive Premier League games against Manchester City since Liverpool in 2016.

Damn.

That's a pretty good...

They've got a good record against Manchester City in the last three years, a really good record, and they continue that on.

Villa Park, as always, is a very difficult place to go for anyone.

So super win.

Unai Emery, who is another one that people are starting to talk about with Manchester United, but the difference is he a horsey.

The Aston Villa owners have trusted him enough to give him the keys to Villa Park.

So he has basically 90% say over everything.

That's the big difference.

Well, Tommy, something that might bring a smile to your face is our next game, because Man City's unbeaten run in the Prem is over.

The future championship winners just lost 2-1 to Aston Villa away at Villa Park.

Nicola Jackson with

both the goals.

I don't think that's so bad, to be honest.

You thought they fake sponsorship money to put in these smart urinals at the ground themselves.

Well, this is Villa Park, so...

Hey, they're getting

It's in.

Andreas Feynman sets Villa Parker light.

We started last week's episode talking about the great mystery of the universe, but there are some certainties in this existence, Liam.

There's Aston Villa and there's Man City.

They were just amazing.

And just to get everybody back together, Aussie with Tony and Giza and Bill back at Villa Park.

What a feat in its own, Sharon.

Oh, I know.

We heard some very sincere things said by him from that stage, which had me welling up, I have to say.

And the docos that went around before that and after that as well.

So it was a 10-hour festival, I guess you could call it, at Villa Park.

You've managed to get the movie down to two and a half.

Manchester City lost to Aston Villa.

Can't, Get used to Villa Park with an empty stand at one end.

It's weird, isn't it? It's so weird.

It looks weird.

Anyway, but look, we'll start with, because it fits nicely into Arsenal anyway, but obviously Villa, fantastic win.

at villa park against man city um i was hearing a lot of predictions on social medias of three nils three ones four twos five ones to man city everyone's thought that was going to be a comfortable victory far from it and uh look i'll i'll go to the rest of the panel because we've kind of touched on it a little bit with yourself richard we'll get you to kind of oversee it all but boys Was it deserved? Was it a deserved win for Aston Villa in your opinion from what you watched?

Yeah, I mean, I'm going to say that because it's always funny to watch them lose, but they genuinely did deserve something out of the game.

I think when you look at it, we've got to talk about Emery, boys, because this guy is just ridiculous, man.

Away.

So I'm not, I'm not expecting it.

I'm not expecting much from that one, if I'm honest, but we'll see, probably play a few of the fringe players and then ready for, ready for Villa Park, uh, against Fulham.

Eight, eight o'clock kickoff on the Saturday.