Aston Villa (A) - Sun 26th Oct, 14:00 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[shemnel]

With Marmoush recovering his fitness, i think Pep will give Haaland a rest for this one

not a chance.

 

[King Jay]

With Marmoush recovering his fitness, i think Pep will give Haaland a rest for this one

Too early I think

 

[Earlyriser]

Get ready for McGinn to try and kick seven kinds of shit out of us

 

[simon23]

Tougher game than recent.

Will be interesting to see how Pep sets up for this one

 

[PragueBlue]

I'd go with:

Donnarumma
Nunes
Dias
Gvardiol
O’Reilly
Gonzalez
Kovacic
Foden
Doku
Cherki
Haaland

 

[citytill1die84]

Will be tough but they play tomorrow away to G A Eagles in Netherlands although I don't think they'll have to put out a full team to get anything .

Donnarumma

Nunes Dias Gvardiol O'Reily

Foden Gonzalez Reijnders

Savinho Haaland Doku

Kovacic for Gonzalez if he's not fit. Come on City.

 

[willipp]

This will be a proper test i think of how much we have improved since Spurs / Brighton. Every game at the moment away from home feels like if we can take more than one of our chances we will be just fine, but whether thats Foden, Reijnders, Doku.... need to start chipping in with more goals.

 

[denTTony]

mobile ticket email and link just arrived

 

[Chappie]

With Marmoush recovering his fitness, i think Pep will give Haaland a rest for this one

Go back to bed and sleep your hangover off.

 

[Otamendi's Beard]

Got our tickets through. Hopefully better than last year's away day.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Haaland wants to break Ronaldo record for scoring in consecutive games

 

[waspish]

In premier away from home alway so tough especially how Villa play

 

[Zenmanc]

Wouldn't mind seeing that Reindeer we all spotted the first few games showing up more consistently.

 

[WesthoughtonJohn]

Hopefully playing thurs-sunday will impact them

Was going to say that myself - depending on what line-up they go for tomorrow.
Have to make the extra recovery time tell, get them chasing early doors.
Reckon 2-0, or 3-1 win if we're at it

 

[WesthoughtonJohn]

Donnarumma

Nunes
Dias
Gvardiol
O'Reilly

Nico Gonzalez
Reijnders
Foden

Cherki
Marmoush
Haaland

2-1 City.

Going with that front 3 at Villa Park is a risk too far for me - seems lacking something (can't put my finger on what though)

 

[Fordyboy46]

Is Gonzalez ok then?

 

[uwe rosler 28]

Donnaruma

Nunes
Dias
Ake
Oreilly

Gonzalez
Foden
Rejinders

Savinho
Haaland
Marmoush

 

[SaintColin]

Haaland wants to break Ronaldo record for scoring in consecutive games

Whats that? I’ve only known the Vardy record

 

[K-Bo]

I'd do a team assuming Nico G/Rodri is injured just to see what it looks like:

Donnarumma
Nunes Dias Gvardiol O Reilly
Reijnders Kovacic Foden
Bernardo Haaland Savinho

I could see it being something like this, with bernardo on the right to accommodate the weakened midfield. Doku out for two meh games in a row. Could also see Marmoush in on the left, doubt cherki will start here tho

 

[Dial M 4 Mercer]

Still concerned that City’s biggest weakness is the ability of any team to simply run through our midfield, thereby immediately causing pressure and problems for the defence.