Lars Sivertsen

no but there are two sides to that like villa have regressed in the second half of the season in the league as we've seen but on the flip side of it like they have people who strike the ball really well in the team like there are people who who score low xg chances more often than others and if you go through like the sort of villa attacking positions like i looked this up when dia in his last season for norwich before leaving and going to villa i mean he's a really interesting villa career that's actually worth talking about maybe dan but

I mean, he had five goals from outside the box for Norwich in the championship the last season he played for Norwich.

But the point is, he's a really good ball striker who has that in his locker.

Tielemans is a really clean ball striker.

Even when he hits long-range passes, he hits the ball really sweetly.

We shouldn't be shocked that he's belted one in.

Like, Rodgers obviously can hit one.

Like, Emery, I don't know if this was a conscious strategy for him and, of course, Monchi when he was the sporting director, but Villa have just accumulated quite a few players who are quite good at shooting.

So maybe they're not going to score quite as many from range next season and the season after that.

But we should probably not be shocked that they're scoring more, like, bangers than a few other teams I could mention.

I think that's fair.

But I want to send that over to Dan, like...

I'm really fascinated by Buendia having this season.

And I say this because I've always been a Buendia truther.

I believe he is a good player, actually.

And it just hasn't always worked out the way I thought it would at Villa.

And he probably wouldn't even have been there if PSR wasn't a thing last summer and they had more maneuverability in the market.

But he's had a really good season for you guys.

It'd be really funny if the planning meeting for this set piece was McPhee going like, you run over here, you run there to take the marker with you there, you pass the ball to him, you just cross it into the box, and then you, Uri...

You're just going to hit an incredibly clean volley whilst moving to the side, and then everything will work out.