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

[wattle]

Hopefully we will have our defense back
Think I'd probably go with Ortega. Eddie doesn't look right.

Ortega
Akanji - Stones - Dias - Gvardiol
De Bruyne - Kovatic - Foden
Bernado - Haaland - Grealish

Today would not have happened with this back 4.

 

[city wright winger]

Hopefully we will have our defense back
Think I'd probably go with Ortega. Eddie doesn't look right.

Ortega
Akanji - Stones - Dias - Gvardiol
De Bruyne - Kovatic - Foden
Bernado - Haaland - Grealish

Today would not have happened with this back 4.

Haaland needs to be benched

 

[wattle]

Haaland needs to be benched

For who?

 

[city wright winger]

For who?

Played 2 seasons without a striker before he came

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Wasn’t anticipating the regression being quite as forthcoming, right now it looks as if the players have lost interest after everything we’ve achieved recently.

Not sure if they have lost nterest but the newer lads seemed to be off it mentally
Nunes playing well until he went off the rails in the last few minutes, Gvardiol goes into a coma regularly and Doku is so confusing

 

[bert38]

Played 2 seasons without a striker before he came

Often trotted out but that team had Raz and Jesus-not wide players who achieve very little.

 

[Ric]

Ortega

Akanji
Dias
Stones
Gvardiol

Kovacic
Bernardo
De Bruyne

Foden
Grealish
Haaland

2-1 Villa

 

[RayCTID]

Played 2 seasons without a striker before he came

Foden is well out of sorts.

 

[Chak19]

Played 2 seasons without a striker before he came

Yeah we had several players who could score a decent amount of goals then, no one can hit a barn door in this team currently except Haaland and Gvardiol who is a defender, you can't play a false nine if none of your attackers can score.

 

[Roachy]

Need to get some semblance of order back for an entire match if poss. Really need a few players to stand up and be counted now.