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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: kippaxvilla2 on February 03, 2022, 08:40:23 PM
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Surely we can beat these. As long as the play actor isn’t playing we should win. 2-1. Coutinho and McGinn.
Things people would never say. ‘No one ever mentions how good that Bielsa fella is.’
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Don't think we've beaten them at home since Lewis Grabban grabbed a winner against them.
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0-2.
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Kind of game we should and need to win. 1-0, scrappy.
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It's Dirty Leeds, by the way.
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3-1
Super John, Tyrone header and a Coutinho belter in the 90th minute to seal the deal
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My very first game was Villa v Dirty Leeds in 1966, we won 3-0.
Same again please against the dirty cheats.
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It's got to be another win for Villa.
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They can be unpredictable, ranging from brilliant to crap. Us less so and we have a resilience evident last time out. After a long break, the fans will be champing at the bit so expect a good atmosphere under the lights and a good out come.
3-1
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Martinez
Cash
Konsa
Mings
Dinge
Ramsey
Dougie
McGinn
Countinho
Buendia
Watkins
An age since we've played, but 2 friendlies and a mini-preseason hopefully means we've adopted more of Gerrards ideas.
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Don’t want to jinx it, but……….I think this could be the match where we spank a side off the park AND get the goals we deserve. Reckon we’ll batter them. 4-1. Why not.
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I don't know why, but I just have this feeling we're going to batter them.
Us 5-1 Them.
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I just can't wait to get back to a live game!
The break will be a real boost for us though.
Comfy 3-0 win.
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I don't know why, but I just have this feeling we're going to batter them.
Us 5-1 Them.
I'm thinking similar algy. Have to keep an eye on Raphinha, but with Bamford out they don't have much up front. 4-0.
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A nice 3-0 win
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sadly unable to make the game due to work commitments, just win please Villa :)
UTV
The Doc
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Martinez
Cash
Konsa
Mings
Dinge
Ramsey
Dougie
McGinn
Countinho
Buendia
Watkins
An age since we've played, but 2 friendlies and a mini-preseason hopefully means we've adopted more of Gerrards ideas.
It picks itself now, but I wouldn't be upset if Ings got the nod over Watkins. Hopefully after his minutes for Brazil Coutinho will be right up to speed and it will be fantastic to have a fit and firing Berty back on the bench.
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As long as Lee bastid Chapman is out for them and Gary Mac doesn't get all misty-eyed watching his old team, we should be gobbling-up the three points here.
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Don’t want to jinx it, but……….I think this could be the match where we spank a side off the park AND get the goals we deserve. Reckon we’ll batter them. 4-1. Why not.
Don't do it.
I said this before THAT 2-2 Stoke game...
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As long as Lee bastid Chapman is out for them and Gary Mac doesn't get all misty-eyed watching his old team, we should be gobbling-up the three points here.
I hope Lee Chapman is out, because Carl Shutt is shit.
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They come into this after a very up and down set of results ranging from 7-0 spanking by Cite£ to a brilliant win away to an inform West Ham then followed up with a dross loss at home to Newcastle
A very tight 2-1
Buedia + Watkins for us then a late Raphinia free kick to make us all sweat way to much
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Just a shame Coutinho and Buendia have been away separately, it would have been nice to have them both around for training and building their understanding with the strikers in particular.
3-1
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2-0 Villa win.
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Oh dear, an optimistic pre match thread. We know what this means.
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I don't know why, but I just have this feeling we're going to batter them.
Us 5-1 Them.
I'm thinking similar algy. Have to keep an eye on Raphinha, but with Bamford out they don't have much up front. 4-0.
That’s if Raphina is even fit having gone off injured for Brazil. Phillips is also a continuing injury doubt. So with Bamford seemingly out for sure we won’t have a better chance to beat them. We have to get into them straight away but as they have proven as recently as the game at home vs Newcastle they are not the same high energy side, and everybody’s second team (my arse) that came up.
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6-6
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Yorkshire Whites? Yorkshire Whites Only more like. Marching On Together have set themselves the thankless task of trying to stamp out racism at Leeds for over 30 years without much success. See the Leeds Salute. Leeds are a strange club, a rugby league town that draws in support from former mining villages and very long in the tooth glory hunters from Scandinavia. I can't think of another club whose fans are everywhere when they're winning but disappear or go back to supporting Leeds Rhinos when they're shit, which is most of the time. Not that they're even loyal to Leeds Rhinos. You'll rarely see 'Leeds' and 'loyal' in the same sentence.
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Yorkshire Whites? Yorkshire Whites Only more like. Marching On Together have set themselves the thankless task of trying to stamp out racism at Leeds for over 30 years without much success. See the Leeds Salute. Leeds are a strange club, a rugby league town that draws in support from former mining villages and very long in the tooth glory hunters from Scandinavia. I can't think of another club whose fans are everywhere when they're winning but disappear or go back to supporting Leeds Rhinos when they're shit, which is most of the time. Not that they're even loyal to Leeds Rhinos. You'll rarely see 'Leeds' and 'loyal' in the same sentence.
They're massively weird. They did a 'Sevco' back in the day and got chucked out of the league for dodgy payments, reformed, did nothing till Revie turned up and made them dress like facists (well, the facists favourite team anyway) and were simultaneously brilliant, despicable, successful and a bunch of bottle merchants.
The first time I encountered them was at home in our promotion season in 88, a match that had to be all ticket because even in that climate their fans were significantly worse than everyone else's.
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3-0 to us. I’d go with Ings rather than Watkins in this though
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Yorkshire Whites? Yorkshire Whites Only more like. Marching On Together have set themselves the thankless task of trying to stamp out racism at Leeds for over 30 years without much success. See the Leeds Salute. Leeds are a strange club, a rugby league town that draws in support from former mining villages and very long in the tooth glory hunters from Scandinavia. I can't think of another club whose fans are everywhere when they're winning but disappear or go back to supporting Leeds Rhinos when they're shit, which is most of the time. Not that they're even loyal to Leeds Rhinos. You'll rarely see 'Leeds' and 'loyal' in the same sentence.
They're massively weird. They did a 'Sevco' back in the day and got chucked out of the league for dodgy payments, reformed, did nothing till Revie turned up and made them dress like facists (well, the facists favourite team anyway) and were simultaneously brilliant, despicable, successful and a bunch of bottle merchants.
The first time I encountered them was at home in our promotion season in 88, a match that had to be all ticket because even in that climate their fans were significantly worse than everyone else's.
I went to that one. 7.50 on the Holte as I remember. Still had the ticket stub until I chucked away a load of stuff by mistake before I moved to aus, including both league cup final tickets.
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78% going for a Villa win, which is a bit worrying, even so I still think we'll do it, going 2-1.
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I haven't felt this confident playing them since the morning of the 1996 League Cup Final. Another 3-0 win please.
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I haven't felt this confident playing them since the morning of the 1996 League Cup Final. Another 3-0 win please.
Savo
Taylor
Yorke
Marvellous day out
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Here ya go
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nhZxntYcB0k
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Don’t want to jinx it, but……….I think this could be the match where we spank a side off the park AND get the goals we deserve. Reckon we’ll batter them. 4-1. Why not.
I don't know why, but I just have this feeling we're going to batter them.
Us 5-1 Them.
You two report to the medical tent please immediately
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I haven't felt this confident playing them since the morning of the 1996 League Cup Final. Another 3-0 win please.
Same here. I remember in the queue into Wembley car park I let a minibus full of whites from Yorkshire nudge in my lane and told them that that was the only thing they are getting today as I was totally confident we will win. Of course a load of abuse was bellowed towards me but hey as expected we thrashed them.
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I haven't felt this confident playing them since the morning of the 1996 League Cup Final. Another 3-0 win please.
Savo
Taylor
Yorke
Marvellous day out
A great day. And in fairness my own experience was that their fans were pretty good on the day before and after the game, notwithstanding their reputation at the time.
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I haven't felt this confident playing them since the morning of the 1996 League Cup Final. Another 3-0 win please.
Savo
Taylor
Yorke
Marvellous day out
A great day. And in fairness my own experience was that their fans were pretty good on the day before and after the game, notwithstanding their reputation at the time.
One of them didn’t take too kindly to my comment when purchasing a programme outside: “oh £5 - same as last time we were here (1994 obvs) - bet you can’t say that”. Wanted to batter me. I put it down to the 5pm ko. Luckily I was able to move away in the crowd.
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2-0 win. They're shit and Bielsa's bubble has burst.
We'll lose now I've give it the big un.
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I haven't felt this confident playing them since the morning of the 1996 League Cup Final. Another 3-0 win please.
Same here. I remember in the queue into Wembley car park I let a minibus full of whites from Yorkshire nudge in my lane and told them that that was the only thing they are getting today as I was totally confident we will win. Of course a load of abuse was bellowed towards me but hey as expected we thrashed them.
We were in St. Jospeh's pre-match. Great atmosphere and everyone just seemed sure we'd win, it was really striking.
As chrisw1 mentions the Leeds fans were fine that day. My uncle and I were getting tube tickets to head north after the game when the Met emptied a train full of Leeds fans into the narrow tunnel we were in. They were doing the 'Leeds, Leeds, Leeds' chant as they passed us but tbf that was all despite the result.
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Yorkshire Whites? Yorkshire Whites Only more like. Marching On Together have set themselves the thankless task of trying to stamp out racism at Leeds for over 30 years without much success. See the Leeds Salute. Leeds are a strange club, a rugby league town that draws in support from former mining villages and very long in the tooth glory hunters from Scandinavia. I can't think of another club whose fans are everywhere when they're winning but disappear or go back to supporting Leeds Rhinos when they're shit, which is most of the time. Not that they're even loyal to Leeds Rhinos. You'll rarely see 'Leeds' and 'loyal' in the same sentence.
Super Leeds in the seventies where big in Scandinavia. From late sixties onwards we got a TV match from the English 1. div every Saturday 4 o clock. We didnt have anything like it, big impact for generation(s). Super Leeds with Billy Bremner? Peter Lorimer, Allan Clarke and some else stood out in those formative years for some. My self never liked their supporters in Scandinavia much. I think Gerrard set us up solid defensively so they cant get too much opportunities with their high pressure game. 2-1-to us; Couthino 33, Watkins 63, them 65.
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Honestly think we will batter them
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5.1
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2-1 win.
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as bad as some of you think Leeds are the difference Between us is just 4 points so there’s not a chasm between us
Obviously we have improved Since Gerrard arrived so we should be going for a win but it won’t be easy
2-1
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as bad as some of you think Leeds are the difference Between us is just 4 points so there’s not a chasm between us
Obviously we have improved Since Gerrard arrived so we should be going for a win but it won’t be easy
2-1
This. Those talking about giving them a battering, give yer heads a wobble.
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Yorkshire Whites? Yorkshire Whites Only more like. Marching On Together have set themselves the thankless task of trying to stamp out racism at Leeds for over 30 years without much success. See the Leeds Salute. Leeds are a strange club, a rugby league town that draws in support from former mining villages and very long in the tooth glory hunters from Scandinavia. I can't think of another club whose fans are everywhere when they're winning but disappear or go back to supporting Leeds Rhinos when they're shit, which is most of the time. Not that they're even loyal to Leeds Rhinos. You'll rarely see 'Leeds' and 'loyal' in the same sentence.
Super Leeds in the seventies where big in Scandinavia. From late sixties onwards we got a TV match from the English 1. div every Saturday 4 o clock. We didnt have anything like it, big impact for generation(s). Super Leeds with Billy Bremner? Peter Lorimer, Allan Clarke and some else stood out in those formative years for some. My self never liked their supporters in Scandinavia much. I think Gerrard set us up solid defensively so they cant get too much opportunities with their high pressure game. 2-1-to us; Couthino 33, Watkins 63, them 65.
That makes a lot of sense and to their credit they're probably the most loyal of the Leeds fans. The thing that really confuses me is I know loads of Leeds fans having lived up there. They're all still great mates but as soon as football is mentioned they suddenly turn into neanderthals who can only spit out one word, 'Leeds. Leeds' and they're all hard as nails and aggressive with it. Hilarious stuff. Maybe being a one town team who carry its name in a country that rarely talks about the place adds to their split personality, I don't know but they're a real strange and sad lot.
John e points out they're only four points behind us which I think reflects more on our poor season than theirs as they've had a long list of injuries with a small squad throughout most of the season. Fortunately Gerrard has come in and given us a bit of steel and organisation. If we can now start improving in front of goal we will be far too much for them but the least I expect is for them to make us work hard for the points.
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as bad as some of you think Leeds are the difference Between us is just 4 points so there’s not a chasm between us
Obviously we have improved Since Gerrard arrived so we should be going for a win but it won’t be easy
2-1
No Premier League game is easy, but on current form we should really be winning this comfortably.
The lack of distance between us in the table is much more to do with how bad we were towards the end of the Smith era than it is to do with Leeds being decent.
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as bad as some of you think Leeds are the difference Between us is just 4 points so there’s not a chasm between us
Obviously we have improved Since Gerrard arrived so we should be going for a win but it won’t be easy
2-1
Why do you have to be realistic and inevitably correct all the time? It's just annoying to be not like you :-[
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FTF! 3-1.
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as bad as some of you think Leeds are the difference Between us is just 4 points so there’s not a chasm between us
Obviously we have improved Since Gerrard arrived so we should be going for a win but it won’t be easy
2-1
Why do you have to be realistic and inevitably correct all the time? It's just annoying to be not like you :-[
ha ha love it but You really don’t want to like be me mate
if it makes you feel any better I’ve probably made more mistakes in life than the rest of you put together
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Think they have no Phillips, Bamford or Cooper and they're playing Llorente at CB.
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Yorkshire Whites? Yorkshire Whites Only more like. Marching On Together have set themselves the thankless task of trying to stamp out racism at Leeds for over 30 years without much success. See the Leeds Salute. Leeds are a strange club, a rugby league town that draws in support from former mining villages and very long in the tooth glory hunters from Scandinavia. I can't think of another club whose fans are everywhere when they're winning but disappear or go back to supporting Leeds Rhinos when they're shit, which is most of the time. Not that they're even loyal to Leeds Rhinos. You'll rarely see 'Leeds' and 'loyal' in the same sentence.
They're massively weird. They did a 'Sevco' back in the day and got chucked out of the league for dodgy payments, reformed, did nothing till Revie turned up and made them dress like facists (well, the facists favourite team anyway) and were simultaneously brilliant, despicable, successful and a bunch of bottle merchants.
The first time I encountered them was at home in our promotion season in 88, a match that had to be all ticket because even in that climate their fans were significantly worse than everyone else's.
They beat us 2-1 that day, think Bob Taylor scored at least one if not both goals. I remember a group of their fans fighting some of ours on the road outside the holte end after the game had kicked off. Could see it from the upper end of the Holte where i used to stand when were kicking towards the North Stand.
Anyway, i dislike Leeds abd i hope we batter them, we also havent had a really comfortable win under Gerrard yet, hope this is the one.
3-0 (Mcginn, Watkins, Coutinhio with a screamer)
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Yorkshire Whites? Yorkshire Whites Only more like. Marching On Together have set themselves the thankless task of trying to stamp out racism at Leeds for over 30 years without much success. See the Leeds Salute. Leeds are a strange club, a rugby league town that draws in support from former mining villages and very long in the tooth glory hunters from Scandinavia. I can't think of another club whose fans are everywhere when they're winning but disappear or go back to supporting Leeds Rhinos when they're shit, which is most of the time. Not that they're even loyal to Leeds Rhinos. You'll rarely see 'Leeds' and 'loyal' in the same sentence.
They're massively weird. They did a 'Sevco' back in the day and got chucked out of the league for dodgy payments, reformed, did nothing till Revie turned up and made them dress like facists (well, the facists favourite team anyway) and were simultaneously brilliant, despicable, successful and a bunch of bottle merchants.
The first time I encountered them was at home in our promotion season in 88, a match that had to be all ticket because even in that climate their fans were significantly worse than everyone else's.
They beat us 2-1 that day, think Bob Taylor scored at least one if not both goals. I remember a group of their fans fighting some of ours on the road outside the holte end after the game had kicked off. Could see it from the upper end of the Holte where i used to stand when were kicking towards the North Stand.
Anyway, i dislike Leeds abd i hope we batter them, we also havent had a really comfortable win under Gerrard yet, hope this is the one.
3-0 (Mcginn, Watkins, Coutinhio with a screamer)
They did, though the thing I remember most was Andy Gray jnr trying to take the net off with a reasonable chance and it landing near the corner flag.
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3-1 win.
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Think they have no Phillips, Bamford or Cooper and they're playing Llorente at CB.
bielsa doing his presser now. bamford and firpo out, sounds like phillips and cooper could be 50:50 for wednesday.
edit: he later said he expects phillips and cooper back towards the end of feb/start of march, so they're out as well.
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Things I'd like to see on Wednesday:
- A good straightforward, no messing about shoeing of these arseholes. Minimum 2-0 please.
- No mistakes from the defence and a clean sheet
- Watkins or Ings playing well and scoring
- A masterclass from Coutinho
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78% going for a Villa win, which is a bit worrying, even so I still think we'll do it, going 2-1.
I don't think our poll will actually affect the outcome 😉 tough game obviously but I'm backing us to win by two clear goals.
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Things I'd like to see on Wednesday:
- A good straightforward, no messing about shoeing of these arseholes. Minimum 2-0 please.
- No mistakes from the defence and a clean sheet
- Watkins or Ings playing well and scoring
- A masterclass from Coutinho
Villa KPIs must be met.
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Smash them to pieces - this is a club with minimal redeeming features. I put them near (but not quite as bad as) Man Yoo and the Dingles in that respect
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Time to start walking the walk.
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I can see a draw , they are still handy , and beat wet spam with under strength side . hope i am wrong
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The one team I hate more than any other team, hope we thrash the f@@kers.
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We need to be at them from the start = none of this shite 1st halves then rallying after we give them a goal
Score early and the crowd will smell blood - and quite rightly so. They made us look like mugs last season at home
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We need to be at them from the start = none of this shite 1st halves then rallying after we give them a goal
Score early and the crowd will smell blood - and quite rightly so. They made us look like mugs last season at home
Honestly, that was one of the best displays I've ever seen from a team against us.
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We need to be at them from the start = none of this shite 1st halves then rallying after we give them a goal
Score early and the crowd will smell blood - and quite rightly so. They made us look like mugs last season at home
Honestly, that was one of the best displays I've ever seen from a team against us.
The ridiculous bit about it was we played quite well in the game but they were just utterly ruthless. They absolutely deserved to win and could have had about 6 or 7 but we could have had a hatful ourselves.
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Yeah, that was the thing, we weren't bad but they were absolutely relentless.
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Please, please, please, please, please win Villa!
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Yeah, that was the thing, we weren't bad but they were absolutely relentless.
Yep, could have been a different game entirely if that Grealish effort hadn't been cleared off the line. Also Mings had one of his (thankfully rare these days) games to forget.
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Yeah, that was the thing, we weren't bad but they were absolutely relentless.
Yep, could have been a different game entirely if that Grealish effort hadn't been cleared off the line. Also Mings had one of his (thankfully rare these days) games to forget.
To be fair to Mings, Bamford had one of those nights where virtually everything he did ended up in the net. I doubt he’ll be that good again in the whole of his career.
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I hope not, I can't stand the c**t.
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Fuck them up. Please. I want shades of Wembley 96.
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I think this, above all the games we've played so far in Gerrard's reign, will give us a good indication of where Gerrard's Villa are today. Last season's match was a real low point, where Leeds beat us, but for periods of that game they also put in more effort than we did. We weren't terrible, but we were well beaten.
I for one am really looking forward to seeing what we can do now we're not only matching teams for effort, but often putting in more than they do. Leeds' biggest advantage is their work-rate, match that and we'll beat them. I think our quality is better than theirs, so I'm hopeful of a really positive result.
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We generally haven't started games well under Gerrard so that needs to be addressed in front of a packed VP. Get into them and we will win. Allow them to take any kind of control, even though they have key players missing leads to a long and frustrating night. We have a lot of talent now and some confident players on the back of some decent results. We need to take full advantage of this stretch of games.
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We need to be at them from the start = none of this shite 1st halves then rallying after we give them a goal
Score early and the crowd will smell blood - and quite rightly so. They made us look like mugs last season at home
Honestly, that was one of the best displays I've ever seen from a team against us.
and Bamford Turning into prime van Basten for that night was a real pisser
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I know a lot hate him on here, but I don't think there's much between Ollie and Bamford in terms of quality. He's a better finisher, Watkins possibly has more to his all-round game but overall Bamford might actually be the in-between fit of Ings and Watkins that we're looking for.
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No.
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Anyone got a spare ticket for the game? Looked online and says it’s not sold out but only K6 is highlighted on the stadium map as showing availability and when you click on it, zero seats available.
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No.
No. Jesus, that's eamonn's caravan moment.
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No.
No. Jesus, that's eamonn's caravan moment.
It's not just a caravan, it's a second hand hot tub too.
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Anyone got a spare ticket for the game? Looked online and says it’s not sold out but only K6 is highlighted on the stadium map as showing availability and when you click on it, zero seats available.
Ask Flinstone he always knows where there’s thousands available.
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Think we'll win this 3-1.
Would fancy us to dominate midfield with Phillips out and can't see them handling Coutinho + Buendia. I bet Bielsa will try to man mark Coutinho but given the form Emi 2 is in he can hurt Leeds with the space he gets. Just hope Ollie is awake for this as he will get decent chances, think he scores at least once.
This should be our most comfortable win for them in a long while.
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SG wanted a mini pre season and he got one. He has an almost full team to pick from so this will be a measure of where we are
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Is this on the tellybox anywhere please?
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Is this on the tellybox anywhere please?
Every Prem game is on BT this midweek
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Is this on the tellybox anywhere please?
Actually the main game on BT sport 1 I think hence the 8pm kick off.
I think they're holding off rescheduling the away game due to BT wanting that played midweek aswell.
Could've played it this weekend gone but we'd have needed another winter break playing Leeds twice in four days.
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Thanks both.
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Tricky but one we could do with winning.
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I have moved from very confident to scared now that Lawro has predicted us to win this.
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I have moved from very confident to scared now that Lawro has predicted us to win this.
If Lawro is in with the hex, then all bets are off.
On reflection, we should have more than enough to see them off.
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I have a feeling tomorrow night may wipe the smirk off my face.
I can feel a draw coming.
A win would be so good and really pleasing.
Looking forward to seeing the team after such a long break.
FTF
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'FTF" by Smirker, not the worst poetry I've ever read.
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Beware the hordes of the white rose,
Their violence and their skill,
Our heroes will be tested,
But we'll batter them 4-0
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'FTF" by Smirker, not the worst poetry I've ever read.
Close.
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Last few posts ;D
Thanks for making me laugh.
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Tricky but one we could do with winning.
It's all about establishing ourselves in top 10 over next few weeks.
Leicester got Liverpool away so will surely lose that so win and we're back in 10th. Then 4 points minimum from Newcastle and Watford and perhaps we can close in on Wolves who have Arsenal and Spurs up next.
Would be disappointing if we get to March and we're still 11th or 12th.
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No pre-match press conference?
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No pre-match press conference?
Nah, it's only Leeds, fuck 'em.
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No pre-match press conference?
Nah, it's only Leeds, fuck 'em.
Well look, I like them.
edit the press conferences obvs, not Dirty Leeds.
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Ah, it's just being drip fed onto Twitter now.
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The spine of their sides Cooper, Philips and Bamford, are all out.
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Bert still on his way back from Afcon, and Bailey training but not in squad yet.
https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2022/february/08/the-presser--gerrard-previews-leeds-united-test/
The good news is that the likes of Traore and Bailey will see that to get past Buendia in the team they're going to have to match his work rate.
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Bert still on his way back from Afcon, and Bailey training but not in squad yet.
https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2022/february/08/the-presser--gerrard-previews-leeds-united-test/
The good news is that the likes of Traore and Bailey will see that to get past Buendia in the team they're going to have to match his work rate.
And, equally important for them both, stay injury free ffs!
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Sort of game we have to win to have any aspirations for Europe, or we're just biding time til the summer. 2-1
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Twitterati bigging this up:
Tommi O’Reilly included in squad vs LEEDS tomorrow night. Villa second year scholar has been ripping it up for u23s. Left footed, technical CM has spent two weeks training with the first team!
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Twitterati bigging this up:
Tommi O’Reilly included in squad vs LEEDS tomorrow night. Villa second year scholar has been ripping it up for u23s. Left footed, technical CM has spent two weeks training with the first team!
Looks really good, hope he is included.
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We need something tomorrow, especially after Newcastle's win tonight. Don't fancy us up there on Sunday, all of a sudden!
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Twitterati bigging this up:
Tommi O’Reilly included in squad vs LEEDS tomorrow night. Villa second year scholar has been ripping it up for u23s. Left footed, technical CM has spent two weeks training with the first team!
Looks really good, hope he is included.
Wasn't he in Peaky Blinders ?
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The optimism on this thread is sickening.
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The optimism on this thread is sickening.
It's making me nervous.
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Twitterati bigging this up:
Tommi O’Reilly included in squad vs LEEDS tomorrow night. Villa second year scholar has been ripping it up for u23s. Left footed, technical CM has spent two weeks training with the first team!
Looks really good, hope he is included.
I know it's only the highlights, but in the videos of the last couple of U23 games he's looked really good. Like a quicker version of what Callum O'Hare looked like around the same age. Quick feet, good control, an eye for a pass.
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Twitterati bigging this up:
Tommi O’Reilly included in squad vs LEEDS tomorrow night. Villa second year scholar has been ripping it up for u23s. Left footed, technical CM has spent two weeks training with the first team!
New name to me, not been on my Radar
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We've been weak against Leeds for far too long but I sincerely hope that Gerrard has changed all that. I'm from Yorkshire originally and still hated Leeds - admired their football but not their nasty streak under Revie. Time for us to set things right...............but I can't help feeling a little nervous!
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Looking forward to tonight. Love them or loathe them Leeds under Bielsa aren't dull.
And it is coming together for us.
3-1 to us.
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As an aside my first game at Villa Park was as a Halifax Town supporter when both teams were in Divison 3. The game finished 1 - 1 with Villa and Fulham being promoted and Halifax finishing third amd missing out. It was good preparation for supporting Aston Villa!
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From Halifax to the Villa...the road less travelled !
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As an aside my first game at Villa Park was as a Halifax Town supporter when both teams were in Divison 3. The game finished 1 - 1 with Villa and Fulham being promoted and Halifax finishing third amd missing out. It was good preparation for supporting Aston Villa!
We missed out as well. We finished fourth but champions the following year.
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Ah thanks Nick. Years of supporting Halifax and Villa has addled my memory. I remember being Impressed with the 33000 crowd at Villa Park as the Shay didn't draw anywhere near as many fans - the crowd earlier that season when Town beat Villa was 5500
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The spine of their sides Cooper, Philips and Bamford, are all out.
Nothing too mundane I hope with Bamford.
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Leeds are an unpredictable team to call but I think our home advantage will tip the balance in our favour.
My prediction is a one nil win for Villa.
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I've not seen anything of them this season so not really sure what to expect. I'd be happy if we gave them a jolly sound thumping.
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No pre-match press conference?
I will be holding mine in a pub near the ground at around 5.30
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I really don't get the adulation and smoke blowing up Bielsa'a arse - is it because Pep said he was good and all Managers seemingly follow him?
I am glad Newcastle won last night - if they had lost dismally then they will win eventually with the money they have spent and it could of been against us. I think they will feel confident but they are still shite
We need to win next 3 - no messing and with a sense of urgency
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Really looking forward to this, 18 days it feels more like 18 weeks since we last played. With Bamford, Phillips and Cooper all out their main man is Raphinha, I understand he got good reviews, when he played for Brazil last week. If Buendia and Phil are on top form, I'm pretty confident of a win, would expect it'll be the same starting 11 as at Everton, having said that no doubt we will find out someone is out due to an unexpected injury!
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Bert still on his way back from Afcon
Is he driving back?
Salah is expected to be playing tomorrow and he played in the final and pens
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Bert still on his way back from Afcon
Is he driving back?
yes. Backwards
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African Car Reversing.
Why is this on at 8pm? Villa Park is rarely treated to the late midweek kick-off.
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African Car Reversing.
Why is this on at 8pm? Villa Park is rarely treated to the late midweek kick-off.
I believe it's a request from BT Sport, and their scheduling, given we're the main match they're showing tonight. I don't know why they needed it at 8pm
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Other than very early in the season against Newcastle, i don’t recall a really comfortable win this season. Leeds are unpredictable, beating West Ham away, losing to Newcastle at home. But i would love this to be a lovely easy 3-0, with a couple of early goals and one just after half time to kill it.
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I hate this lot more than is healthy, I sat close by their throwbacks in the Doug Ellis in the 2-3 game, it was like the 70s, coins, lighters anything that was throwable was thrown at us, a bit like walking to Wembley in 96 only no bottles and glasses. 5-0 please Villa.