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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: Legion on November 13, 2012, 06:32:28 PM
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Saturday 17.11.12 KO 3pm
0-2 away win.
Benteke 16, 61
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I've got a feeling with Ci£y winning late last week and a full week off for them we could be on the end of a dazzling display
4-0 home win
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Saturday 17.11.12 KO 3pm
0-2 away win.
Benteke 16, 61
Hope springs eternal ;)
I'll go for 2-2, just for funsies.
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2-1 city, we will give them a scare though before we turn over arsenal and reading .
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3-0 City.
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0-0, a very similiar game to the United one, just without the goals.
Us to start brightly and match them in the first half, but have to weather an endless wave of attacks in the second. Guzan named Man of the Match.
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3-1 city. Us taking the lead before city equalise before half time and score 2 more in second half.
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£ity 2 Villa 0
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I think we will lose 3-2 again ...
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1-1 draw for me, benteke for us and someone richer than the whole of our squad for them.
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1-1 draw for me, benteke for us and someone richer than the whole of our squad for them.
Their tea lady?
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A 3-3 draw.
A Bernie Gallagher hat trick cancelled out by goals from Bell, Summerbee, and a dodgy won pen. from Franny Lee.
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Lambert to turn the dejection of last week into a righteous fury that would make archangels tremble. City to get a complete and utter shoeing, 3-1 to us.
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Them 3 Us 1.
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A 3-3 draw.
A Bernie Gallagher hat trick cancelled out by goals from Bell, Summerbee, and a dodgy won pen. from Franny Lee.
No no, Paul Power will get their 3rd goal
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2-2 with another Barry own goal in the 94th minute, after we have played over an hour with 10 men, as bannan sent of for twatting barry.
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Man City are conceeding goals. 3-3 Gabby-Benteke-Weimann. triggering an unbeaten run of 6 games ........
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2-2. Dzeko 12, Yaya Toure 67. Agbonlahor 43, Bannan 87.
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A battering, 3-0.
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It's my birthday on Saturday. I think I'll spend the afternoon doing something fun instead of following the inevitable disappointment on here. Keep us a few jaffa cakes on the match-thread though.
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Villa win. Lightening strikes twice shocker.
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Think we'll lose this one, after last weekend's efforts. The obvious steam selection choice I at left back, keeping the rest of the side the same. Stevens general play was better than lichaj's but perhaps Eric wouldn't have committed the faults for goals 1 and 3.
I think there are two other big considerations though:
- Toure. There's a risk that he's just too powerful for wee Barry and Ashley.
- wingbacks. In theory, our 4231 is a logical formation to play if city do play the 3412 they did on Sunday. But it didn't work at all for spurs as bale and lennon were piahed back.
I still think we'll shape up the same way. But there is a case for solidity in midfield, either with a narrow 4 - eg Holman Westwood kea bannan - in midfield; or dropping Ireland for kea to be a bit more defensive with a 433.
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Man City 2-1 Villa
Benteke
Toure
Dzeko
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2-2 Benteke and Barry own goal
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A tatering ! 3-0 Citeh.
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Hopefully Ireland will be up for it at least.
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1-1 for me, Benteke and Dzeko.
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Spanking is on the cards sadly. The Manc curse continues.
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I think we'll score, but I think they'll score more. We'll come roaring out of the blocks, pressing their back line into mistakes and generally making ourselves a nuisance. We might even take the lead. But one way or another, they'll come back at us, maybe Yaya Toure with a dodgy goal. From then on it's all one way.
My big worry is Benteke against Kompany. Kompany's a defender who might actually know exactly how to handle a player like Benteke, and that could leave our best avenue of attack closed off.
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4-2 AET
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Saturday 17.11.12 KO 3pm
0-2 away win.
Benteke 16, 61
indeed but you have the goal times wrong Legion, 19,82.....
UTV
The Doc
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All seems not well at Man City at the moment, so if we can get the first goal then there could be a bit of pressure on them.
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Think we will put up a better performance and make them play as per last week, and unlike the 2 spineless displays under Houllier.
However 3-1 to them. They have far too much class for our lads.
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I'm hoping for the best and my youngest and I will be there (thanks to DC5) to see a gallant ) 0-0 draw.
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Having ripped everyone apart in training all week, Khalid Abdo will start and score a first half hat-trick to put Villa 3-0 up.
After a stunning half-time 'swoop', he emerges from the tunnel in a City shirt and scores four more for them.
However, a late Benteke brace gives Villa a 5-4 victory. At the final whistle, Joey the Bat runs onto the pitch and runs Abdo through with a corner flag.
He is driven off to the morgue as the visiting fans chant 'what a waste of money'.
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Having ripped everyone apart in training all week, Khalid Abdo will start and score a first half hat-trick to put Villa 3-0 up.
After a stunning half-time 'swoop', he emerges from the tunnel in a City shirt and scores four more for them.
However, a late Benteke brace gives Villa a 5-4 victory. At the final whistle, Joey the Bat runs onto the pitch and runs Abdo through with a corner flag.
He is driven off to the morgue as the visiting fans chant 'what a waste of money'.
What a load od b****x. The transfer window is not open yet.
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Easy 4-1 win for us. Gabby x2 Benteke and a screamer from Lowton.
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6-2.
Gabby 12
Bannan 34
Bannan 48
Ireland 66
Benteke 71
Vlaar 88
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0-2 to us. Balotelli misses three pens. After the third he removes his shirt to reveal the message 'yeah, ok, it is me' and gets a second yellow card.
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3-2 to us. Benteke 2 Gabby 1 and i dont care about them, at all.
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I think we might score but guess so will they, at least 3 times.
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2-2 with another Barry own goal in the 94th minute, after we have played over an hour with 10 men, as bannan sent of for twatting barry.
2-2 Benteke and Barry own goal
I think it'll be a hard-fought and niggly 0-0 for 89mins and 55 secs, when the ball will strike Barry's arse, go into orbit, then re-enter precisely into their net at 50km/sec. 1-0 us (Barry).
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Some interesting predictions on here but I'm not sure about the 6-2. No way will Ireland score.
We've started really slow in virtually every game this season but teams have failed to put us away. Once we get going it's a bit like a juggernaut so, if you are on top early, you'll need to take advantage. If you play like you did in the League Cup you've got a decent chance. You were excellent that night.
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6-2.
Gabby 12
Bannan 34
Bannan 48
Ireland 66
Benteke 71
Vlaar 88
The way Hart played tonight I fancy this could be on.
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Having ripped everyone apart in training all week, Khalid Abdo will start and score a first half hat-trick to put Villa 3-0 up.
After a stunning half-time 'swoop', he emerges from the tunnel in a City shirt and scores four more for them.
However, a late Benteke brace gives Villa a 5-4 victory. At the final whistle, Joey the Bat runs onto the pitch and runs Abdo through with a corner flag.
He is driven off to the morgue as the visiting fans chant 'what a waste of money'.
What a load od b****x. The transfer window is not open yet.
Hilarious. I would love football be like this.
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i can see an absolute horsing here for us
we have a terrible record v citeh even when they played at maine road and were rubbish
4-0
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They'll be all over us like a Mark One suit. 5-1.
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Don't see the negativity for this myself.
City aren't playing well, Benteke, Vlaar and Wiemann aren't doing too badly. 2-1 Villa.
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2-0 to the Villa, like a torpedo and Olney with the goals.
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A 5-0 home win. They will blitz us with three early goals, 4-0 just after half time then a sending off for us (Vlaar) and a penalty for them.
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I love the positivity of this thread
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Hart's made a few clangers in his last two games and we're playing well. Why can't we go there and get a result?
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It won't be easy, but we won there a few weeks ago (I know not City's strongest team, before that gets pointed out) so at the very least we shouldn't be fearful. City don't exactly look faultless at the moment, so.... I'm feeling pretty positive we can get something from this.
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2-1 Villa, Bannan with a 1st half penalty, Benteke on the counter late on before Balotelli fires a late consolation.
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Does Bannan take out pens ? When was out last pen ? QPR away?
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Does Bannan take out pens ? When was out last pen ? QPR away?
I'd imagine Bannan takes them if Bent's not on the pitch, but for all we know one of our new signings could be good at penalties. I could imagine Vlaar being a beast at them.
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Christian Benteke insists Villa will be fully focused on Saturday's big clash with Manchester City - and not looking back nostalgically to the cup win.
Villa defeated City 4-2 in the Capital One Cup third round two months ago, with the giant forward playing a key role in the wonderful win.
But Benteke is a firm believer that you can only influence the present moment - and you don't draw anything positive from looking back in life.
He says Villa will be "really motivated" on the here and now as they head to the Etihad Stadium clash this weekend.
He said: "They will try to beat us because they are pushing for the title and also because we eliminated them from the cup. But we are motivated for the game too.
"We are motivated for every game. It doesn't matter whether it's Manchester United, Manchester City, anyone, we are going out to try and get a good result.
"The cup tie won't have any bearing on this match. In football, you have to concentrate on the present - not the past or the future.
"All you can affect is the present moment. We are totally focused on this match, not looking back at the cup win."
Benteke looks set to come up against Belgium pal Vincent Kompany in the game but he says friendship goes out of the window.
He added: "It will be good to come up against Vincent, who I play with for Belgium.
"He is a brilliant central-defender, one of the very best in the Premier League.
"I am looking forward to playing against him. There won't be any texting before the game though. I am focused on the game for Villa."
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Does Bannan take out pens ? When was out last pen ? QPR away?
I'd imagine Bannan takes them if Bent's not on the pitch, but for all we know one of our new signings could be good at penalties. I could imagine Vlaar being a beast at them.
As long as its not KEA, he'd probably nudge it sideways then fall over.
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I can honestly see us nicking a draw or better if we keep it tight for the first hour. They'll start feeling the pressure and come at us leaving some gaps.
Of course, a good beating wouldn't be shock of the century either.
It won't be 0-0 anyway.
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I feel a bit more confident than i normally do when we play them up there. Whether that's because we beat them in the cup or because they only seem to win games latley when they bring Dzeko on, i don't know. I saw the highlights of their game against the Albion a few weeks back and the stripeyfilth should have won it easily. It's a good time to play them me thinks.
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1-1 and Manchini arguing with the officials on the pitch after the match about something or other.
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Manchester City 3-0 Villa
We'll beat Arsenal though.
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3-1 loss, I predicted 4-1 last year.
I'm quite confident about the Arsenal game aswell, fair to say our season properly starts then.
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I agree, we can beat arsenal IMHO.
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I've just had a look at the pre-match thread on bluemoon. A lot of people there are giving us a lot more respect after the manure game. Hopefully they'll rest a couple before their CL game against Madrid next week.
2- 1 Villa. Benteke 32, Ireland 72.
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No chance they're already OUT of the CL in effect.
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...and probably have little desire to play in the Europa League I suspect.
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I think the last 4 weeks have shown how upand down we'll be this season.
A) v Fulham - Disappointing defeat
H) v Norwich - Scored but still diasspointing. SCraped a draw.
A) v Sunderland Won andwere the better team
H) v Man U - for an hour great then dropped away.
Sp- L- D- W thenna good performance that was ultimately a loss. I think we'll go back to square one on Sat.
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I think it will either be a fairly disappointing or heavy defeat, or a high scoring draw. Hopefully hart has a couple of ricks in him. Looking fwds to benteke v nastasic
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I love the positivity of this thread
Don't see why not. City have got to lose at some point. Well they lose to Villa.
Plus I am going to back the game with a £20 free bet. 8)
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Mate, your user name makes me feel a bit sick. Any chance of changing it?
I think bannan has a knee knock and is a slight doubt, at least according to fantasy premier league. Would be a shame. He's playing well and city look vulnerable at set pieces. Not sure who'd take them if he is out
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Pretty much the same as last week i'm afraid. Can see Villa scoring a goal or two,but our defence is so poor i can see them getting 3 or 4 . 4-2 to City
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4-0 Citeh - Benteke to sign a pre contract agreement with Citeh before Kick Off thinking that he is signing for Manure, on the outskirts of North London.
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Slightly worrying is that if we do lose to Citeh (quite likely) and reading beat Everton at home (less likely but possible), then we will be in the bottom 3 by 5 pm Saturday. I just hope this doesn't get to the players at a time when we are beginning to gel as a team.
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With us being 15/1 on Betfair - gotta be worth a fiver for an unexpected surprise 0-1 (Ireland) win
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Mate, your user name makes me feel a bit sick. Any chance of changing it?
I think bannan has a knee knock and is a slight doubt, at least according to fantasy premier league. Would be a shame. He's playing well and city look vulnerable at set pieces. Not sure who'd take them if he is out
Bannan quietly withdrew from the Scotland squad midweek with a "knee injury". Im reliably informed that he will be fine for this game.
Apparantly he was penalty duties last week so assuming there is no Bent again he will be this week.
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Think we'll hold our own for some of this game, so just a 3-0 loss I reckon.
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Be too strong for us with the likes of Aguero, Silva & Toure likely to start this time...2-0 defeat
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Optimistic, i know, but i am gong for a Villa win. I don't care what the score is as long as we win.
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With us being 15/1 on Betfair
Fucking hell, it's like betting on SPL matches vs Celtic.
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With us being 15/1 on Betfair
Fucking hell, it's like betting on SPL matches vs Celtic.
I am going to the bookiesfor some of that, 10 euros.
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With us being 15/1 on Betfair
Fucking hell, it's like betting on SPL matches vs Celtic.
I predicted us to lose but I'll have a bit of that!
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According to Sky News Citeh play Wigan at home tomorrow!!
So who TF are we playing ?
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I've come to the conclusion that 21.4% of you are mad - hope you're right though.
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Im not mad. But this jacket that has me trussed up like a chicken makes it difficult to type on this padded keyboard.
Come on blind faith. Benteke and Gabby to score each, a late Dzeko goal means we gnaw our fingernails down to the wrists, but hold on to a win, and enjoy a post match rant from Mankini
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2-0 Milner and Barry. Own goals of course!
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Far to much fire power for our defence. 3-0 loss sorry to say.
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Didn't we say " To much firepower for our defence " in the cup game ?
We can do this lot and i think we will. :P
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The cup "loss" was a draw over 90 mins, which is all we'll have tomorrow and they played their reserves plus two blokes in midfield that I had never heard of. I'd be amazed and delighted if we could get a draw.
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So bollocks to Man city!! UTV.
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So bollocks to Citeh.
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I'd like to be proven wrong, but I think they'll have too much for us. 3-1 to them.
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0-1 Benteke celebrating accidently takes his shirt off revealing an Arsenal shirt with his name on it !!!!!
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2-1 to them, reckon Benteke especially will cause them problems mind. Will Lichaj or Stevens play left back I wonder
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It's incredible to think how bad our record is up there, I believe it's 8 defeats from the last 9 since they moved.
Fair enough since the takeover but I remember times when we had decent teams and they were shite under Pearce and yet they'd still routinely turn us over with Vassell turning into Pele for the night.
I also remember Distin taking the piss and scoring by running from the halfway line although that may have been at Villa Park?
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Thatr was at VP
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That was from earlier in the thread.
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1-1.
Benteke for us.
I'd rather see Stevens at LB than Lichaj to be honest. Eric is a bloody liability.
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Will be a huge test for Bannan and Westwood tomorrow. Might find it a step too far. Garcia and Rodwell have been muck thus far but they might overpower us tomorrow with Toure. Hopefully Lowton and Clark can continue their recent good form. Can see us scoring and creating chances alright but we wont be able to keep them out.
4-2 to City
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We'll either get a right good hiding or draw 2-2, hope it's the latter!!
Can't concede early on or we've had it.
F**k it 2-2 Benteke 71, Gabby 86,don't care about them.
UTV!!
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1-2
Benteke with both :-)
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Our season's disciplianry record is exactly double that of Citeh - 24Y and 2R versus 11 and 1.
NU and Swnasea get close but ours is the worst in the EPL.
Not sure what that says about today's game ...
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A two nil win. We'll go two nil up early in the second half and then shut up shop in classic Villa style.
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Benteke is 11/1 to score first and Gabby is 14/1. Either are worth a fiver me thinks.
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I was looking at the possible line-up at City on the Graun (http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/nov/16/manchester-city-aston-villa-squad-sheets); the average age of the Villa team is 23 years and 9 months. I know anything can happen in football, but I think the City midfield will have the time of their lives against ours, where the inexperience at Prem level will show. I'm not sure why they've got Weimann lining up on the right side of midfield, however.
3-1 to them I reckon, possibly Benteke for us.
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I imagine its because that's where weimann has been playing?
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I imagine its because that's where weimann has been playing?
Yeah, possibly :P