Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: Drummond on October 24, 2025, 04:37:55 PM
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Garcia and Tielemans out. Digne Doubtful.
Otherwise I expect a bunch of chnages from the Europa League game.
Martinez
Cash Konsa Torres Maatsen
Kamara Bogarde
Rogers Buendia McGinn
Watkins
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1-1
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Hope the team is more arsed than H&Vers are with the pre-match thread.
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It’s DBAF!
Do Bugger-All Friday.
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This will be very tough, they’re going to be confident.
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Its someone good
We have someone good still smarting from not being considered good enougjg for them
2.1 Rogers score. Rogers create. Big ugly blonde fella for them
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Well at least we won’t be defending a low block this game
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Well at least we won’t be defending a low block this game
just imagine for a second if they did.
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Desmond.
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Garcia and Tielemans out. Digne Doubtful.
Otherwise I expect a bunch of chnages from the Europa League game.
Martinez
Cash Konsa Torres Maatsen
Kamara Bogarde
Rogers Buendia McGinn
Watkins
I think this team, though Emery might pick Onana ahead of Bogarde.
They haven’t beaten us at home since the 2-1 in early December 2021 and we deserved a draw then, Chukeumeka missed a good chance from memory.
I think they are due a win at our place then and probably will beat us.
But f*ck all that.
2-1 us (Rogers, McGinn)
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Its someone good
We have someone good still smarting from not being considered good enougjg for them
2.1 Rogers score. Rogers create. Big ugly blonde fella for them
Colin Hendry?
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0-3. White hat trick.
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2-0 an Unai tactical master class.
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If they are due a win at our place.(see above)...when do we get a win at their place?
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Garcia and Tielemans out. Digne Doubtful.
Otherwise I expect a bunch of chnages from the Europa League game.
Martinez
Cash Konsa Torres Maatsen
Kamara Bogarde
Rogers Buendia McGinn
Watkins
I’d prefer Bogarde to Onana but suspect Emery will go with Onana.
Not sure what Ollie has done to warrant a start over Malen? He was electric in our last home game.
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Going to be my lad's first Holte End experience. Would take a draw.
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3-1 Regis Yorke and a Daley volley. Les Sealey popping in and out of the snowy fog.
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Hopefully they've spent the last couple of days concentrating on penalties. If we get one on Sunday it will be very interesting. I'm going for a 1-0 to us. We need to show we have bouncebackability.
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If they are due a win at our place.(see above)...when do we get a win at their place?
Thats a different set of universal equations. We will never win at their place, even when they are eventually bumped down to Div 2 and we draw them in the cup, the footballs God dictate we lose to man city away.
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It’s DBAF!
Do Bugger-All Friday.
POETS day
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2-1 Watkins with a brace.
FTF!!!
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My young fellas first game in Villa Park, and my first trip over in a good few years. Arrived here yesterday. We're having a great time.
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P.S, would snap your hand off for a draw.
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Please attack them and take shots Villa. Brentford and Sunderland showed today how teams who on paper are not favourites and take the game to supposedly better sides. If are slow, deliberate and in a way subservient, Man City have too much firepower to now take advantage of having the ball. We simply have to take the game to them.
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Please attack them and take shots Villa. Brentford and Sunderland showed today how teams who on paper are not favourites and take the game to supposedly better sides. If are slow, deliberate and in a way subservient, Man City have too much firepower to now take advantage of having the ball. We simply have to take the game to them.
We're going to unleash Evann, Ollie, and Cashy on them, they won't stand a chance.
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A win puts us right amongst it, so let's do that.
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My young fellas first game in Villa Park, and my first trip over in a good few years. Arrived here yesterday. We're having a great time.
From Carlow to Aston, the road less travelled!
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I have a hunch that Sancho starts tomorrow, based on nothing more than my dog just yawned and said it.
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Please attack them and take shots Villa. Brentford and Sunderland showed today how teams who on paper are not favourites and take the game to supposedly better sides. If are slow, deliberate and in a way subservient, Man City have too much firepower to now take advantage of having the ball. We simply have to take the game to them.
We're going to unleash Evann, Ollie, and Cashy on them, they won't stand a chance.
when they see them 3 on the team sheet, they will jump straight back on the bus and F off back up the M6.
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My young fellas first game in Villa Park, and my first trip over in a good few years. Arrived here yesterday. We're having a great time.
From Carlow to Aston, the road less travelled!
You could say that Eamon. It's great to be here, we've had great time since we arrived. A good/great result would top it off nicely.
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1-1
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I fucking hate the Guardian.
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Also, the beeb with a massive in depth piece today about how Hansi Flick has revived Rashford's career, not a word about the time with us.
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1-1
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I fucking hate the Guardian.
I fcuking heat teh Grauniad as wlel.
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Statement win. 4-1 Villa.
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Also, the beeb with a massive in depth piece today about how Hansi Flick has revived Rashford's career, not a word about the time with us.
They're all out to get you mate.
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Also, the beeb with a massive in depth piece today about how Hansi Flick has revived Rashford's career, not a word about the time with us.
They're all out to get you mate.
It is, in a very basic way, bad journalism though. Not for being anti-Villa, just for being Big Boy Ballwashing.
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Also, the beeb with a massive in depth piece today about how Hansi Flick has revived Rashford's career, not a word about the time with us.
They're all out to get you mate.
It is, in a very basic way, bad journalism though. Not for being anti-Villa, just for being Big Boy Ballwashing.
Firstly, negative points for not putting 'journalism' in quote marks like I just did, which makes my point not just relevant, but satirical.
'Journalism' (I did it again because I'm relentlessly satirical) is like every other 'profession' (I'm not scared of anyone), in that it adheres to a commercial imperative. Rashford is doing well at Barcelona. He did aright here, but that doesn't really fit the narrative. Who cares?
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Plenty of people said how well Rashford was doing at Villa, tbf. The Guardian are still toadying lackies, though. Do they still list every tedious Duke and Earl that nobody has ever heard of in their "birthdays" section?
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Woke up with a great feeling about this one. I’m going 1-0 don’t care who scores it
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I agree that it adheres to its commercial imperative, and it might be worse now than at other times, and I don't think it's a problem pointing it out - saying it's part of an anti-Villa conspiracy obviously is silly, but saying shit things are shit when you see them being shit strikes me as something a person can do.
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Very difficult to guess what X1 Emery will go with today. We should be going in full of confidence but
that feckless effort on Thursday night won't have helped matters. Should Mings stay in to deal with Haaland? I think Guessand will stay in for this one with Rogers and McGinn. One of Bogarde or Onana next to Kamara. Maatsen didn't do enough during the week to displace Digne.
Impact from the bench will be key today.
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It feels different facing the 115 ers after the last couple of seasons, they don't seem so invincible but it's still a really tough game and after Thursdays mess we are on the back foot slightly. Not enough to lose though.
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Haaland being marked by Torres is a worrying prospect. I hope my ‘waters’ are wrong is all I’ll say about this one!
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I agree that it adheres to its commercial imperative, and it might be worse now than at other times, and I don't think it's a problem pointing it out - saying it's part of an anti-Villa conspiracy obviously is silly, but saying shit things are shit when you see them being shit strikes me as something a person can do.
And I agree with you. There's basically only a cigarette paper between my current position and being an absolute fucking Tory (it would be quite on-brand for me to decide to be a Tory at this stage in that party's development) because my default position is that it's almost always YOUR FAULT if you don't like the way the world works.
Daniel Levy realised this. Spurs were an afterthought of a club, but he decided to make them relevant by making them good. There's no reason why Villa can't do the same, and every passing newspaper article or Twitter skit that refuses to give us our due is OUR FAULT, because we've decided to be not good enough.
Edit: I meant to say that my cigarette paper is holding together some pretty hardcore MDMA so I love everyone all the time.
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Haaland being marked by Torres is a worrying prospect. I hope my ‘waters’ are wrong is all I’ll say about this one!
We’ve won twice with him doing it before. I suspect Haaland will score though, and my biggest worry is I don’t think we’re creating enough or scoring simple goals at the moment. That isn’t really sustainable.
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I think putting Mings in to deal with Haaland would be a massive mistake. Not only is Mings not good enough to do that (is anyone?) but we lose our best defensive partnership and Torres’ is so important to everything we do well.
I do think our only way of getting something from this is by really getting at them. We won’t win by slowing everything down.
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Haaland has scored in his last 12 games for club and country, and in 19 of his last 21. So he won't score today.
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I think putting Mings in to deal with Haaland would be a massive mistake. Not only is Mings not good enough to do that (is anyone?) but we lose our best defensive partnership and Torres’ is so important to everything we do well.
I do think our only way of getting something from this is by really getting at them. We won’t win by slowing everything down.
Yep it’d be negative and the wrong approach. We’ve also won the last two games against Citeh with Pau playing.
He’s important and should start anyway, but without Tielemans it’s essential that he does.
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Haaland has scored in his last 12 games for club and country, and in 19 of his last 21. So he won't score today.
Mods, ban this SCUMBAG. 😡😡😡
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Mods, please ban the anti-scumbagist.
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Hopefully Unai realises our best chance of victory against this lot is 5 at the back.
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Also, the beeb with a massive in depth piece today about how Hansi Flick has revived Rashford's career, not a word about the time with us.
They're all out to get you mate.
It is, in a very basic way, bad journalism though. Not for being anti-Villa, just for being Big Boy Ballwashing.
Not sure I agree in this case. It's not meant to be a story of his career so far. It's literally about how Flick is using him at Barcelona. No real need to mention us in that context really.
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I have a horrible feeling we are going to get a hiding today.
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Haaland has scored in his last 12 games for club and country, and in 19 of his last 21. So he won't score today.
Reported
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Malen and Guessand on the bench.