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

[kaz7]

Massive grass.

but not hiding it !

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Who would you have picked instead of them?

Grealish or Kev in the middle with Doku out wide? Simpson-Pusey at centre half and shunt Akanji to right back? No guarantee that'd be any better of course, but picking the same once paced, slightly built players over and over and expecting a different outcome, isn't working is it?
I hope they both have fantastic games, but on paper I'm struggling to see anything other than an overran midfield again......

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

I think we should be allowed 3 cunts per season each in the match thread personally.

 

[TinFoilHat]

I think we should be allowed 3 cunts per season each in the match thread personally.

There usually a few hundred in there.

 

[Gazza]

Pep likes to play with two wide men as it stretches the opponent's defence when we have a lot of the ball. This team makes more sense as it is narrower and bolsters central midfield where we have looked a bit hollow recently.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

There usually a few hundred in there.

Zing!

 

[kaz7]

I think we should be allowed 3 cunts per season each in the match thread personally.

Var check

 

[Trojan1962]

Grealish or Kev in the middle with Doku out wide? Simpson-Pusey at centre half and shunt Akanji to right back? No guarantee that'd be any better of course, but picking the same once paced, slightly built players over and over and expecting a different outcome, isn't working is it?
I hope they both have fantastic games, but on paper I'm struggling to see anything other than an overran midfield again......

Not sure about Pusey but definitely the other suggestion. The game we won v Forest

 

[TinFoilHat]

Father Reuben a big loss.

Dipper ref
Dipper 4th official
Dipper VAR

I'm predicting a typical city win after Scott Carson saves a dodgy pen which Ortega Is sent off for.

:)

 

[City64!]

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.

His mum, who owners the dance studio that my daughter goes to, mentioned it. Told he’d be given game time often, “he’s the best with the ball in tight areas so don’t leave, the team needs him”

This hasn’t gone the way you thought, eh?