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

[Trojan1962]

Ortega, Akanji, Stones, Ake, Gvardiol, Kovacic, Jack, Foden, Savinho, Doku, Haaland

That should have been the team today, IMO.

I agree a bit of pace

 

[Blu1]

what happened to our strategy of two attacking wingers with Haaland between them?

Sadly we have no midfield so we can’t play this way. Plus both doku & savi lose the ball a lot putting extra pressure on our one man midfield of Gundy

 

[MichaelBBack]

McCoist just now on TNT to Villa fan "I hope you get a result today"

Used to like him enough as a light-hearted co-commentator but feel he's become a right **** in recent years. Fuck him.

 

[Nightmare Walking]

I’ve no idea what you are waffling on about mate.

Sorry mate, apologies. I have just gone back through my alerts. It was not you.

Even so, a bit of positivity would not go amiss. I think that's a strong team today with a strong bench. We have no excuses today. Last week was a shit show, but put it behind you. The team we have out today would not have lost last week. We really need to get our season up and running today.

 

[TinFoilHat]

The key for me is how many of the team selected are actually 100% fit? On paper we win easily,

It reminds me of playing football manager. When you don't have a fully fit squad so you start with your 80% fit players and put your 30% star player on the bench praying you don't need them. If you do you don't put them on until the 80th min.

 

[St.Pauli support]

Ortega, Akanji, Stones, Ake, Gvardiol, Kovacic, Jack, Foden, Savinho, Doku, Haaland

That should have been the team today, IMO.

In a dream world of a fit and confident squad, maybe.

 

[Blue2202]

McCoist just now on TNT to Villa fan "I hope you get a result today"

Why do they employ that piss soaked alcoholic nobody to cover the english premier league?

He should be covering the likes of Cowdenbeath and raith rovers in Scotland.

 

[jimharri]

Were you not the one calling names the other day as I was having a bit of a laugh about changing teams? (For the record I am 45 year old blue from Newton Heath who went through all the shit, when all my rag mates from NH were giving me shit as they were flying high. I might not have gone to York away but I went to Mansfield at home when hardly any other fucker could be bothered).
Here you are saying you don't give a toss about a game. Have I missed something???

I wouldn't take too much notice of what that poster says, to be honest.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

The key for me is how many of the team selected are actually 100% fit? On paper we win easily,

I’m amazed Gundogan hasn’t broken down yet. The guy came back to play the odd few minutes as a little swan song and he’s been chucked out of a helicopter to fight on the front line. Not fair at all.

I’ve criticised all our players and rightly so this season but he’s probably the only one who gets a free pass in my view.

 

[01cravend]

Not big fan of the Akanji Stones partnership, it's like they don't communicate with eachother most the time.. Both need a leader next to them. Needs must I guess