Aston Villa (A) - Sat 21st Dec, 12:30 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[wattle]

Hopefully we will have our defense back
Think I'd probably go with Ortega. Eddie doesn't look right.

Ortega
Akanji - Stones - Dias - Gvardiol
De Bruyne - Kovatic - Foden
Bernado - Haaland - Grealish

Today would not have happened with this back 4.

 

[city wright winger]

Hopefully we will have our defense back
Think I'd probably go with Ortega. Eddie doesn't look right.

Ortega
Akanji - Stones - Dias - Gvardiol
De Bruyne - Kovatic - Foden
Bernado - Haaland - Grealish

Today would not have happened with this back 4.

Haaland needs to be benched

 

[wattle]

Haaland needs to be benched

For who?

 

[city wright winger]

For who?

Played 2 seasons without a striker before he came

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Wasn’t anticipating the regression being quite as forthcoming, right now it looks as if the players have lost interest after everything we’ve achieved recently.

Not sure if they have lost nterest but the newer lads seemed to be off it mentally
Nunes playing well until he went off the rails in the last few minutes, Gvardiol goes into a coma regularly and Doku is so confusing

 

[bert38]

Played 2 seasons without a striker before he came

Often trotted out but that team had Raz and Jesus-not wide players who achieve very little.

 

[Ric]

Ortega

Akanji
Dias
Stones
Gvardiol

Kovacic
Bernardo
De Bruyne

Foden
Grealish
Haaland

2-1 Villa

 

[RayCTID]

Played 2 seasons without a striker before he came

Foden is well out of sorts.

 

[Chak19]

Played 2 seasons without a striker before he came

Yeah we had several players who could score a decent amount of goals then, no one can hit a barn door in this team currently except Haaland and Gvardiol who is a defender, you can't play a false nine if none of your attackers can score.

 

[Roachy]

Need to get some semblance of order back for an entire match if poss. Really need a few players to stand up and be counted now.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Played 2 seasons without a striker before he came

But for who?

 

[Bluewars II]

We're getting battered!

 

[eyalluvitt]

I’d rather see some of the young lads playing on Saturday. Some of these so called Big game players we have need to pick up their arse

We have been saying that for two months and he stubbornly refuses too

 

[Cobra]

Who do we think will be more ineffective, Gundogan or Bernardo?

 

[mancityscot]

Players are so low on confidence I reckon a youth side would beat us. Villa will take us apart.

 

[Blue tiger]

Wasn’t anticipating the regression being quite as forthcoming, right now it looks as if the players have lost interest after everything we’ve achieved recently. As many have pointed out on here while the injury situation hasn’t helped matters it doesn’t hide the fact our defence and in particular our midfield are in dire need of a rebuild and in truth should have started last transfer window. Things can only get better

Yea, it's crap at the moment, but we've seen worse in the last 30 years. Time to start turning around in the next couple of games.

 

[JamesMCFC]

this will be another loss

 

[DiscoSteve]

VIlla away last year was the first time in years I saw City proper slaughtered - I think it was only 1-0 but Villa totally trounced us. God knows whats going to happen next week - I think I'll watch the game from under the stand with a beer!

 

[Tevez City]

For who?

 

[Tb1981]

VIlla away last year was the first time in years I saw City proper slaughtered - I think it was only 1-0 but Villa totally trounced us. God knows whats going to happen next week - I think I'll watch the game from under the stand with a beer!

If they turn up with any energy at all they will batter us
Today i have just given up all hope
If pep wants to keep doing the same things then we will get beat
Needs something radical but he won’t do it