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

[kaz7]

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.

He has said many times over the years that he will not play the kids when the team are in a difficult moment , he thinks they learn nothing

 

[Haaland94]

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.

False. We won the treble with Akanji, and occasionally John Stones at RB too. That's what people want. 4 CBs. That's the only game we won in the last 2-3 months as well.

 

[mancity111]

Every week almost without fail a player Pep fails to mention will not be available this time Nunes doesn't make it to match day.

The fragility of our squad is more than worrying.

3 players who started last week unavailable this week including our only close to on field leader currently for 4 weeks.

if this doesn't change and we don't get a settled back four we have little hope of getting back to near what is required to dominate on the field and the scoreboard.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

Kamara
Onana - Tielemans
Rodgers

Omg that is gonna tear through us, each one of those is stronger and quicker than our entire midfield 5

Tielemans hasn't sprinted for years. Like Onana though, thought he was way too good for Everton.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Massive grass.

Isn't that one of the PL charges?

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Yup. No one can argue against a 'twat' being thrown into the Matchday Thread. If it's cleaned up too much it'll be like being on RAWK.

I might see if there’s a match day thread on Mumsnet

 

[kaz7]

I must have missed those ones, but I do tend to pop in and out of the Matchday Thread. I'd imagine Walker got called that for his shenanigans against the Rags - I wouldn't have argued with that one.

They didnt last long,ha

 

[ninjamonkey]

McAtee had assurances this summer from Pep, none of which has happened.

Enlighten us as to what these assurances were please. Pep doesn't give anybody assurances, not least to a youngster that's done nothing in the game to date. There's documented quotes directly from Mcatee this summer saying he needs to be here this season even if he doesn't play, he knew exactly what he was getting into and you've completely made that up.

 

[TinFoilHat]

I might see if there’s a match day thread on Mumsnet

@BlueMoonRisin’ has ran out of fanny wipes. The match day thread has caused a national supply shortage.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Saw an interview with Palmer recently and he said he’d asked to go out on loan because he’d meet up with England U21s and most of them were playing league games for their clubs and he wanted to.

McAtee had assurances this summer from Pep, none of which has happened.

Alright James?