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

Match Result Prediction?

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-------------Ederson
Walker--Dias--Gvardiol--Lewis
-------Kovacic--Grealish
--------------Foden
-Bernardo--Haaland--Doku

Subs: Ortega, Stones, KDB, Mubama, Mcatee, Savinho, O'Reilly, Gundogan, Nunes

I am more optimistic about this game because of the return of Kovacic and Foden. Lewis will be available. Stones might also be back but I don't know how fit he is.

Get Akanji back and Bobb and then we are at full strength with the exception of Rodri.
 
Lavinda Past said:
I would imagine that there won't be a single player, at any level in the club, who will be confident that we can get a result at Villa.

Sunday's abysmal showing, and even more abysmal result, will have almost certainly have destroyed quite a few of our players psychologically.

Pep's second biggest challenge this week will be to lift morale and confidence in the dressing room. His biggest challenge will be to convince himself that he can do that.

While a point or three would be welcome, I would have no problem with a 1-0 defeat at Villa, provided our team spirit, commitment, and overall performance shows a significant improvement on recent games.

I'm not at all confident that we'll see any improvement on Sunday to be honest.
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It could be the opposite of that. It could be that it is the final straw and turns this all around.
 
blue for life said:
Just not looking forward to games at the moment at all. I hope the manager and players are!!
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I’m feeling a massive fire in the belly, like these games are in a title run-in or Cup semifinals/final, for games at this stage of the season that I’d usually be calm about.

I’d usually be turning up thinking, ‘wonder if we might score four or five today?’. Now I’m simply hoping we can get a win of any means.
 
Looking forward to it. Things will turn eventually. Whether that's in 3 days time or August. Is what it is. CTID
 
bearcityblu said:
After our display at Villa last year they have to be favourites to beat us. They have been a bit up and down recently but their midfield and Watkins will be looking forward to playing us.
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I admire Emery.
His team's play attacking, fast football.
If things are not working out, he changes things early on.
We are due an energetic, committed performance, soon.
Please Pep, make early subs if things are going badly.
Also, please remember the starting eleven can all be subbed if they are knackered...
 
Platt Lane 59 said:
I admire Emery.
His team's play attacking, fast football.
If things are not working out, he changes things early on.
We are due an energetic, committed performance, soon.
Please Pep, make early subs if things are going badly.
Also, please remember the starting eleven can all be subbed if they are knackered...
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11 subs allowed in a game - is this a new City rule for this weekend? ;-)
 
Expect this to be one of if not the worst results yet. They've got the blueprint to cause us serious problems when we are on it, in this state I'm fearful as to how ugly it may get. Awful game to have directly before Christmas. Don't see how we come away with anything but I'll be delighted to be proved wrong.

Don't put grealish anywhere near the pitch for this, he'll make Sterlings dreadful hide and seek performances against the dippers look valiant. He'll get a shit load of abuse, he'll start reacting to it and that will get the fans and their side riled up even more.

Ederson
Walker
Dias
Gvardiol
Nunes
Kovacic
Bernardo
Kdb
Savinho
Doku
Haaland.

Go with wingers, go direct and at least try and at create chances. Sick of seeing us try and control games we are simply not capable of controlling, do fuck all with the ball for the majority of the game and throw it away anyway. Attack them and see if we can outscore them.
 
ninjamonkey said:
Expect this to be one of if not the worst results yet. They've got the blueprint to cause us serious problems when we are on it, in this state I'm fearful as to how ugly it may get. Awful game to have directly before Christmas. Don't see how we come away with anything but I'll be delighted to be proved wrong.

Don't put grealish anywhere near the pitch for this, he'll make Sterlings dreadful hide and seek performances against the dippers look valiant. He'll get a shit load of abuse, he'll start reacting to it and that will get the fans and their side riled up even more.

Ederson
Walker
Dias
Gvardiol
Nunes
Kovacic
Bernardo
Kdb
Savinho
Doku
Haaland.

Go with wingers, go direct and at least try and at create chances. Sick of seeing us try and control games we are simply not capable of controlling, do fuck all with the ball for the majority of the game and throw it away anyway. Attack them and see if we can outscore them.
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It's a shame you've put that team selection up and are still expecting a possible mauling. I'm not saying you're wrong either pal. Ordinarily we'd be thinking that team's more than capable of doing a job at a ground we usually do ok, last season apart. Incredible to think it's got to this stage in a 2 month timeframe, sad really.
 
ninjamonkey said:
Expect this to be one of if not the worst results yet. They've got the blueprint to cause us serious problems when we are on it, in this state I'm fearful as to how ugly it may get. Awful game to have directly before Christmas. Don't see how we come away with anything but I'll be delighted to be proved wrong.

Don't put grealish anywhere near the pitch for this, he'll make Sterlings dreadful hide and seek performances against the dippers look valiant. He'll get a shit load of abuse, he'll start reacting to it and that will get the fans and their side riled up even more.

Ederson
Walker
Dias
Gvardiol
Nunes
Kovacic
Bernardo
Kdb
Savinho
Doku
Haaland.

Go with wingers, go direct and at least try and at create chances. Sick of seeing us try and control games we are simply not capable of controlling, do fuck all with the ball for the majority of the game and throw it away anyway. Attack them and see if we can outscore them.
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Stones may play so if so Nunes can sit on the bench too and I’d swap Walker for Rico only for the reason that Walker is a mess at the minute.
 
ninjamonkey said:
Don't put grealish anywhere near the pitch for this, he'll make Sterlings dreadful hide and seek performances against the dippers look valiant. He'll get a shit load of abuse, he'll start reacting to it and that will get the fans and their side riled up even more.
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I’m not a Grealish fan boy by any stretch of the imagination but one thing he would never do in that environment is hide. He relishes it.

Did you see him against Ireland? While Declan Rice was trying to dampen down the hostilities Jack scored and gave it the biggun to the fans who had been abusing him all game.
 
Christ what a difference in two months of football, so used to going into games confident now hoping we don’t get another mauling, scary how shit we’ve become all down to Pep dipping his wick where it shouldn’t be ;)
 
Was hoping we might have seen Akanji in yesterday’s training gallery, but the club weren’t giving much away.
 
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