Aston Villa (A) | Pre-Match Thread

[dubblue]

Agreed, win v Villa & the league cup & i’m Happy ....I fear he’ll play a very weakened team v Spurs though

Yeh it won’t be too dissimilar to today, maybe Foden and Zinchenko will start.

 

[ballinio]

Doesn’t matter for me. If if you are right (and I don’t see how you can be so absolute and certain), I’d still rather sacrifice the league cup selection if it means playing our strongest available team vs PSG - even if they end up beating us. For me, we have to commit and go for it 100% now we’ve got there. The League Cup, we have had a decent crack at in recent years haven’t we? ;-)

You’d sacrifice the league cup to get beat by PSG ....? And we support the same team , no point . You’d sacrifice winning a cup to nearly winning one ?

 

[simon23]

Isnt it just typical ? One bad loss and panic sets in. I think that performance has shocked us all and now the doubts have started, me included. Hopefully we'll put today behind us and finish off the league starting with Villa.

2 bad losses - Leeds as well...

Villa aint no mugs so it aint panci to say we must play our strongest team...to think otherwise is arrogance

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Strong team, please.

No Sterling, Torres or Mendy.

 

[BLUEMATT23]

Agreed, win v Villa & the league cup & i’m Happy ....I fear he’ll play a very weakened team v Spurs though

No he won't

 

[FantasyIreland]

Ah, ok - despite the quotation marks, I was genuinely curious about his official injury status, and when he is due back.

I'm not convinced anyone other than Jack knows the extent of his injury/absence.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Cancelo being the common denominator.

He has been awful recently. Attacking threat gone and woeful defensively last 2 games.

He hasn't been moving into cm much, that seemed to be working well, wonder why they changed it?

 

[chaddblue]

Losing to Villa is unthinkable. The season could go into meltdown if we did

 

[come-on-barney]

Isnt it just typical ? One bad loss and panic sets in. I think that performance has shocked us all and now the doubts have started, me included. Hopefully we'll put today behind us and finish off the league starting with Villa.

Two

 

[chesterbells]

You’d sacrifice the league cup to get beat by PSG ....? And we support the same team , no point . You’d sacrifice winning a cup to nearly winning one ?

Yep, 100%.
If some supporters would rather prioritise a League Cup final (which we have won plenty recently) over a Champions League semi final, then yep, we are agreed on that, there really is no point in us discussing it, cos I can’t see either of us changing each other’s view.