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

Match Result Prediction?

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Días out? Our single most dependable defender — sorry, our only dependable defender — out?
This is the Book of Job, football style!
So ok, Stones maybe rushed back, Akanji maybe rushed back. Gvardiol starting to make terrible mistakes, the likes of which he hadn't been making. Ederson too. In any case he's apparently out, so that simplifies things. Unless Ortega trips over a rug getting up tomorrow and smacks his head on the angle of a table. Then we're into Carson. Apparently, he's good in the dressing room, reputedly, so that's one thing. Aké apparently not an option.

Sorry, guys, strap in. It's going to get worse before it gets better. Grin and bear it. Washout season. It will get better. Just not tomorrow.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Días out? Our single most dependable defender — sorry, our only dependable defender — out?
This is the Book of Job, football style!
So ok, Stones maybe rushed back, Akanji maybe rushed back. Gvardiol starting to make terrible mistakes, the likes of which he hadn't been making. Ederson too. In any case he's apparently out, so that simplifies things. Unless Ortega trips over a rug getting up tomorrow and smacks his head on the angle of a table. Then we're into Carson. Apparently, he's good in the dressing room, reputedly, so that's one thing. Aké apparently not an option.

Sorry, guys, strap in. It's going to get worse before it gets better. Grin and bear it. Washout season. It will get better. Just not tomorrow.
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Looks like an opportunity for the EDS back four!
 
paulchapo said:
Have we ever had such a terrible run with injuries?? What are they doing in training and conditioning?
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Remember the good old days when the players were bussed to Blackpool to wade in the good old salt water to ease their muscle problems. Southport was closer to Manchester, but the sea was closer to Ireland
 
Not that it matters but they need something new.

---------Ortega
Akanji Stones Gvardiol
---------Kovacic
Bernardo Foden Grealish
---Kev Haaland Doku

Kev in that RM role that he played a couple of years ago just occupying that space and playing crosses to a speedy Doku who can cut back to Erling.

Play the defensive line a little deeper to combat the running of Watkins and Rogers.

Kova, Bernardo, Foden and Grealish to occupy a larger space in midfield. They are all brilliant dribblers and good at ball retention. Just need to show that fight again and wake up. Jack should be up for this?
 
Given our recent run it’s hard to be positive ahead of this game.

So many out, so many coming back that are at risk of breaking down that we can ill afford.

We just need to dig in but Villa away is a tough one. I’m hoping that a full week of prep might be enough for us to find a performance.

At some point in this run surely we are going to stop gifting the opposition two goals per game?

Come 1230 tomorrow I’ll still get the feeling that we’ll pull a result out of the bag, come on to fuck City!
 
sarcastico said:
Not that it matters but they need something new.

---------Ortega
Akanji Stones Gvardiol
---------Kovacic
Bernardo Foden Grealish
---Kev Haaland Doku

Kova, Bernardo, Foden and Grealish to occupy a larger space in midfield. They are all brilliant dribblers and good at ball retention.
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Yep, the only thing lacking in that midfield is speed, size, and ability to tackle anyone! Good luck, Kova!!
 
paulchapo said:
Have we ever had such a terrible run with injuries?? What are they doing in training and conditioning?
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Our injuries in terms of pure numbers really aren't even that bad, we've actuallt had much worse in recent seasons.

That we know of, we've got 4 players missing for tomorrow in ake, dias rodri and Bobb. With huge respect to Bobb, I do genuinely think he would have made the starting spot on the wing is own this season but for the untimely injury but as of right now, he's got nothing in the bank to really be classing him as a major part of the squad just yet so really, it's 3 senior players missing, that's nothing.

They'll be numerous sides with more players unavailable this weekend than that it's only a crisis for us because we were the only team in the division that thought six defenders was ample cover compared to the standard 8-9 most teams have, it's a crisis we've brought on ourselves and it's our decisions that are causing this unending cycle of injuries.
 
Personally I think this is another one that's going to sting a bit. Don't get me wrong, I believe things will get better, but Villa are a good team with a good manager and lots of good players. And they're at home. I don't know if this game is going to go very well.
 
Ortega
Rico Walker SPusey Gvardiol
Bernardo Kovacic ( Foden) Grealish
Kev (Savio) Haaland Doku

That is if Stones and Akanji are not fit to start.
 
r.soleofsalford said:
Where are the goals going to come from.

At the moment gvardiol looks like the only one who could score out of that team.
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Our last six goals have come from six different players. There are plenty capable of scoring, they’re just not doing it enough! Or assuming that Erling will score six for every one of theirs.
 
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