Aston Villa v Barnsley - Pre-Match Thread

[Bad English]

Can't lose, must win, cup final, no easy games in this league, Barnsley not to be underestimated, Villa Park fortress, potential banana skin, what the fuckin' ell was that, sort it out Potato Head, FFS, just fucking win you wankers!

[JUAN PABLO]

5-0

hogan
snodgrass
grealish
bjork
Terry

[VancouverLion]

3-0

[l_mckay]

2-0 home win

[PaulWinch again]

Should be, and needs to be, a win.

[footyskillz]

Voting home win. Predictable yes and predictable match. However that's in hope and expectation not as preference. What I mean here is the more of the same from villa in a comfy but would have liked it properly comfy victory.

Against Forest it would have been annoying to say the least if had come away with a point based on overall match.

Similarly it will be annoyingly frustrating to draw or lose this match when Barnsley don't quite have the tools to defeat villa. I think essentially will over power and the quality of Snodgrass and Grealish as well as solidarity of Terry and Chester would mean another 'more of the  same' result (win) and performance (good enough for what it is-promotion drive)
Maybe a 2 or 3 goals to nil however I wouldn't be surprised though still happy with a 1-0.

Thats how I see it with Bruce and the team, players he's getting by and now performing results wise with spells of nice football though it's mainly not the most pleasing to watch but it's professional to get the job.
To sum up its professional and I'm hoping for progress as a build of momentum. I do think the quality is there to have attractive attacking  performances it's a consistency that is lacking to have a 90 minute match.

A big win or any sort for example is particularly lost in gaining momentum again when there is a extended break due to Cup weekend and match not till 10 days later. I see Bruce giving them some sort of Portugal or Dubai training break in this time.

Villa win 2-0 comfortable enough but both teams perhaps could have done better! That's how i see it going

[Des Little]

2-0 home win. We move on.

[Clampy]

At some point we're going to lose a game which we're expected to win but we beat these comfortably enough at their place and we should have scored more than three. I'll go 2-1 this time. Snodgrass and Hourihane with ours. Some chap I've never heard of for them.

[Tayls_7]

We as a crowd win these games. 2-0, Snodders and Albert.

[VinnieChase84]

3-0 win and a Hogan hat tick - all in honour of our former number 9 Cyrille

[Axl Rose]

1-1

[Damo70]

2-0 home win. Hopefully we will be two up by the hour mark so it is a comfortable last half hour as opposed to a nervy last half hour.

[Proposition Joe]

Could be a frustrating one, they held already-a-premier-league-team Barcehampton last week to 0-0.

[Ads]

Could be a frustrating one, they held already-a-premier-league-team Barcehampton last week to 0-0.

I mentioned this earlier. Its worth noting that despite Real Wolverhampton beating Swansea 0-0 and 1-2 over two legs in the FA Cup, they've only managed 9 goals in 10.

[Brend'Watkins]

The right approach to the game and we'll win it.  I think they'll be parking the bus so we need jack at his very best to open them up.