Hello and welcome to the TIFO Football Podcast. I am your host, Joe Devine, and today I'm joined by Alex Stewart. Hello. Hello, and welcome. Thank you. And by Seb Stafford Bloor. Hello, Joe. Hello and welcome. How are you? I'm very well. Good. We're talking about Aston Villa today, newly promoted Aston Villa. back to the big time, back to the Premier League.

Seb, you wanted to start with the playoff final, which I suppose makes the most sense as an opening for us.

Yeah, I think so.

Villa will rightly consider favourites going into that game.

And for the vast majority of it, they played extremely well.

I mean, it wasn't, as far as playoffs go, it wasn't particularly exhilarating game of football to watch. But they played with a decent amount of authority. They took the lead. They doubled it. They never really looked in danger. I mean, Derby had a little bit of a flourish towards the end of the game. I think actually the tale of that match is probably going to be what Frank Lampard got

wrong in hindsight.

Which is what do you think?

It was so little urgency.

Like it seemed even off they went behind.

So, Villarit at Ligarzi's head out, getting lead just before half time.

And then their goalkeeper made a real hash of a sort of a, it was like a charge down

which floated into a six yard box and he came out, didn't take the ball above his head and got

beaten to it by John McGinn to know. And it was only with about sort of 10 minutes to go that

Darby realized, well actually our entire season comes down to it, I thought the attacking balance

was wrong.

I can't pronounce his name.

It's like the left wing called I think is Joseph Sloon or something.

Anyway, he came on and he was, his end product wasn't particularly good, but he gave him a kind

of pace down the left side, which caused Villa a few problems.

But some of that may have been the occasion,

like halfway through the second half,

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