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

[Dr Jacoby]

Is this the first time we've had the majority of the board voting for lose?

Liverpool away.

 

[Haaland94]

Ake fit enough for the bench, but not fit enough to start? We desperately need him back :/.

 

[malg]

Liverpool away.

Fair one, but I suppose that one gets called every year.

 

[kaz7]

Anyone calling the players "cunts" will get banned from posting in future matchday threads, as long as people report the posts.

I reported those i read last couple of weeks, it really is not on

 

[TinFoilHat]

Peter Reid to score the winner.

 

[Blueknows]

Turn on TNT Sports
- Talk about boxing
- Talk about Mucus Gashfoot
Turn off.

Tip turn on @ 12.30

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Who would you have picked instead of them?

Not Walker that’s for sure. I’m glad Rico is back. Walker is tosh this season.

Team looks relatively solid but a bit lacking in flair.

 

[bluegaz13]

Disappointed with this line up because It doesn’t seem to solve our lack of legs/physicality in the middle.

But in Pep we trust….lets hope he’s been working on something different this week in training.

 

[Chak19]

Gundogan starting again, poor lad must be feeling 40 years old now, why can't Pep just start Savinho or Doku on the right, put Silva in midfield and give Gundo a rest ?

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

I still think we're going to lose, but I'm not really sure what people complaining about the line-up expect Pep to do? We have extremely limited options available to us at the moment, so this is about as good an XI as we can muster at the moment.

I have no problem with it. At full back it's either Walker or Lewis, so people screaming about Lewis, would you rather have Walker? Gundo has to be played, it's madness to play Kova on his own, just coming back from injury. Bernardo has to be played, unless you start McAtee. Up front selects itself. Yes, one or two of the youngsters could have been played. What I would object to would be if we're playing shit, and losing 2-0, and he doesn't sub on Nico O'Reilly, or McAtee at some point.
Frankly, I think whatever team he puts out, we're going to lose this one. It won't go on for ever, but it won't stop today, I fear.