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Villa now has 7 goals in La Liga putting him in the top 25 scorers in the league with only 757 minutes of playing time. The next closest player on the top 20 list has 1,100 minutes with many logging over 2,000 minutes at this point. Only Messi, Ronaldo, and Falco have a higher minutes per goal...

Running the 4-3-3 against the park the bus defense and with several players marking Messi I would also agree move Messi out wide. Now they cannot mark him with 2-3 players or your opening up space in the center of field which we would exploit. He could attack the end line and cause lots of...

I thought that Alexis performance was typical of his play all season. He was ineffective again and contributed little but "Sanchez has great pace" and that apparently makes up for his other deficiencies in the minds of the coach. How this guy plays ahead of Villa all season is scandleous at...

I hope they do not sign Neymar. I think he will slow play down because he often does not play the ball quickley and he seems to always slow play to set up a one on one, when keeping an opponent off balance by moving the ball would have been more effective. I would prefer Falco or even Suarez...

You might want to take a look at Villa's goal again and see if you still think he has lost alot of speed. He was sandwiched between two defender with approx 6 feet between them when the pass was played in, and he went from being onside at the 19 yard line to being 6 feet behind both defenders...

I would not want to be a Falco or Neymar moving to Barca with Messi playing on the line and demanding the ball way he has been recently with Villa. Every other elite striker he has played with had their role marginalized and they were pushed out. The reality is that Messi puts up more goals...

I say Villa has absolutely not declined. I took the time to figure his performance based on goals per minute over the last three seasons with barca and this what I came up with. 10/11 3948 minutes, 23 goals, 171 minutes per goal 11/12 1365 minutes, 8 goals, 171 minutes per goal 12/13...

Arsenal needed an impact player in Jan that could come in and produce day one to help move them up from 6th to 4th place in EPL to make European Cup play. Now Arsenal will be less interested in Villa since the EPL standing will have played out by summer. I think they will move on to a younger...

No one can score goals at a rate of every 102 minutes played that is off form, not fit, or plagued by injures at this level of play. That is obvious really. He has been playing etremely well and has a higher finishing rate even than Messi.

Playing Inesta at LW instead of Villa, weakend both our midfield and our scoring threat at LW. Messi was spending way too much time going back to help at midfield and that allowed Alonso and the other midfielders help mark (and maul) Messi instead of just the central defenders. With Inesta at...

I did the math to determine the scoring rates (per minute) of the 3 primary forwards. This is what it works out to in terms of minutes played per goal: Villa 111, Sanchez 439, Pedro 419, so Villa is scoring at a rate approx 4 times higher than the other forwards that both have much more...

OK. Lets say Arsenal or Man City sign Villa in the next 24 hours and God forbid Messi is injured and out for an extended time. Who would you put as the central striker for the rest of the season? It is an extremely scary proposition without Villa IMHO?

I would hope Inesta is in the midfield to break Real Madrids high press. We will want him on the ball as much as possible and his touch count goes way down when he is on the wing. I expected Villa to be gone in Jan but the fact that they played Villa 90 min seems to indicate that he is not...

It is looking more and more like Villa is going to Arsenal. I think Barca is going regret forcing villa out of the lineup. Just take a look at last season without Villa's typical 20-25 goals, there was also no worthwhile hardware either, despite Messi having a crushing record performance of a...

I am conviced Villa's playing time is being reduced because Messi does not want to play with Villa . The last time they played together especially I noticed Messi would not pass to villa. I think there is something to the Villa Messi conflict and you know that Messi wins in that case.

This should put Villa sitting the bench into perspective. Sanches 1009 minutes played, 1 goal, 4.5% scoring percentage on shots taken. Pedro 1682 minutes played, 1 goal, 3% scoring percentage on shots taken. Villa 888 minutes played, 8 goals, 25% scoring percentage on shots taken...