Aston Villa (A) - Wed 6th Dec, 20:15 | PL | Pre Match Thread

Match Result Prediction

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The Alvarez, Bernardo and Foden thing isn't working. All of them seem to be being played out of position.

Time for a rethink, the midfield and left hand side need reshaping and stiffened up.

An already thin squad minus Grealish and Rodri is a bit worrying - particularly considering Nunes and Kovacic have been poor or not fit, and Phillips is essentially a ghost.
 
Ric said:
Not an ideal fixture after today, it’s fair to say! Hopefully we’ll rise to it though, bit of adversity might not be a bad thing for the squad.

Ederson
Walker
Dias
Ake
Gvardiol
Stones
Kovacic
Bernardo
Foden
Doku
Haaland
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Gvardiol looks hopelessly lost in the position. He's had a few moments of decent play, but on the whole, it looks very uncomfortable for him. However, not many options other than to swap positions with Ake.
 
Eoiyflem said:
First time I've voted loss. Can't see us winning for the first time in 5 years.

No rodri, grealish, doku, stones, KDB etc...

Dias, walker and akanji playing like absolute fucking dog shit

I hope I'm wrong and it's a catalyst but villa at 16/5 at home looks mega.
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Walker was dog shit today definitely watched a different game than me.
 
If we win it'll be some madcap scoreline like 3-4 or 4-5 because I can't see us getting even close to a clean sheet right now, especially with Rodri out.
 
Tricky_Trev said:
With Villa’s fantastic home record and our suspensions and hamstring issue for Doku, plus non-existent defending and needing 5+ clear chances to score a goal, a Villa win does seem on the cards and they would leapfrog us in the table. Pep has some big problems to fix.
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The players are picking games in which to be disciplined.

Watching the game yesterday, Bernardo was so lackadaisical in his positional awareness, he was pressing all over the pitch. Out of possession I expected him to be holding midfield with Rodri, Alvarez was also pressing high leaving Rodri alone in Midfield, this gung-ho mentality is so weird, we seem as a team to get rattled easily (chelsea and spurs) we lose composure in our play and get drawn into an end to end game, I only recall that once last season (N'Castle away)
 
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a last season team thad faild to won it at Villa away... with Rodri , Stones, KDB in , and still usefull Cancelo... dont know what to expect nowdays. Its pretty frustrating
 
Teams can smell blood at the min. Expect Villa to score on the counter. Would be nice to see our defending to return to something that resembles normality.

No team is unbeatable.
 
Difficult to see how we can go there and pull a win out the bag having conceded 8 in our last 3. Villa are shit hot at the moment and their ground is never an easy place to go at the best of times.

Rodri out makes this task a whole lot harder, and i'm just not sure this team has the mentality to pull off a result without him.

If we can get a draw i'd be over the moon.
 
Gabriel said:
If Stones doesn’t start or even feature against Villa, then why have we had him sat freezing his behind off on the bench for the last three games?
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This...if he's not fit he shouldn't be on the bench...if he is he could have saved us 4 points in the last 2 games
 
mancityscot said:
Difficult to see how we can go there and pull a win out the bag having conceded 8 in our last 3. Villa are shit hot at the moment and their ground is never an easy place to go at the best of times.

Rodri out makes this task a whole lot harder, and i'm just not sure this team has the mentality to pull off a result without him.

If we can get a draw i'd be over the moon.
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10 in last 3
 
A real blow to lose Rodri for this one, and without Grealish we don't have many attacking options to change things if needed - although I'm not sure we'd start Grealish at Villa Park in any case considering the reception he'll get.

Even though there's so long to go in the season, it feels like a must win game this one. Late goals against Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Spurs have cost us 7pts. We simply have to win this one.
 
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