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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: olaftab on March 27, 2023, 11:45:39 AM
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When: Saturday 1 April Kick off 5.30PM and live on Sky Sports
Venue: Stamford Bridge, London.
It's not often that we enter an international break full of hope. We did that this time and we need to carry on where we left off. I don't want this match to be just a mid table mediocrity derby so a win would be very nice. I think we will at least take a point from this match.
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They ain't beating us. 2-0 Villa.
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Depends how many we have available. I guess a squad of 18 whilst they have a squad of 48.
1-2 Konsa, Buendia
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Wouldn't be surprised if it's a dull 0-0 which wouldn't be a bad result.
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Well what a wonderful feeling, going into a game at Stamford Bridge on a level footing with our opponents, however temporary (and hopefully not at all). They could still "wipe the floor" with us but you can bet the Manager is neither expecting or accepting it and that makes all the difference. I'm thoroughly looking forward to this.
2-2
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I think we'll go down there and smash them. 3-0 Villa, you read it here first! ;)
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I think we'll go down there and smash them. 3-0 Villa, you read it here first! ;)
Honestly, can you just stop posting utter nonsense for one day, please? :)
*Hope you're right though.
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I'm extremely concerned that Emi's vulgar cock obsession will cause him to have an unclean sheet.
1-3 to the Villa.
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I think we'll go down there and smash them. 3-0 Villa, you read it here first! ;)
Honestly, can you just stop posting utter nonsense for one day, please? :)
*Hope you're right though.
I was bang on the money last match!
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1-1
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just win please Villa as the wife is at her sisters in Leicester for the weekend watching some ABBA tribute thing....got the house to myself, but I may go to the pub where there should be a gathering of plastic Chelsea fans to wind up...and then maybe a curry to celebrate :)
UTV
The Doc
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Any sort of win.
My wife has kindly arranged to for us to meet at her sisters for dinner at 5pm that evening and my brother in law is one of them!
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No chance against those cheats.
2 or 3 nil to them.
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No chance against those cheats.
2 or 3 nil to them.
I think we've got every chance to be honest. They're no better than us as their league position shows, and even though they've got a massive squad, some of their better players like Sterling and James are out. We're defending really well at the moment, so if Mings doesn't repeat his brain fart from last time we played them, I can see us doing well. The players should be massively motivated for this, as win and we go three points clear of them, as well as putting a dent in the goal difference. We'll also put ourselves right in amongst Fulham, Brentford and Brighton.
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Hopefully the pre match motivation won't include Unai telling everyone they should be wiping the floor with us.
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In recent times we've called it the JT derby.
I'm looking forward to the experience and can't wait to see the show.
I'll be liaising and deployed with some of the Chelsea fraternity, so I won't be able to wear my Villa jersey and will have to dress smartly.
This should be an exciting contest.
I predict a 2-1 victory with Watkins scoring a brace. But I'm more concerned with the performance and having a good time as it's a nice to enjoy watching a football match live in the right circumstances for me.
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"In recent times we've called it the JT derby"
(citation needed)
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"In recent times we've called it the JT derby"
(citation needed)
IIRC it was Chris Jameson.
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"In recent times we've called it the JT derby"
(citation needed)
IIRC it was Chris Jameson.
I thought it was campFV.
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I think we'll go down there and smash them. 3-0 Villa, you read it here first! ;)
Honestly, can you just stop posting utter nonsense for one day, please? :)
*Hope you're right though.
I was bang on the money last match!
Let's hope your run continues. 8)
Anyway never mind the result, the important question is, who's meeting F-V for the pre-match beers?
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That's not how I like to spend my pre match time.
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No chance against those cheats.
2 or 3 nil to them.
I think we've got every chance to be honest. They're no better than us as their league position shows, and even though they've got a massive squad, some of their better players like Sterling and James are out. We're defending really well at the moment, so if Mings doesn't repeat his brain fart from last time we played them, I can see us doing well. The players should be massively motivated for this, as win and we go three points clear of them, as well as putting a dent in the goal difference. We'll also put ourselves right in amongst Fulham, Brentford and Brighton.
I hope you're right, mate! I absolutely despise them, and would love us to absolutely thrash them. The sky pundits would be in mourning!
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That's not how I like to spend my pre match time.
I highly recommend a bong, Footy!
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Anyway never mind the result, the important question is, who's meeting F-V for the pre-match beers?
I'm not buying a round for that many people, have you seen the price of beer these days?!
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Please win, 0-2 Villa
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Battling draw
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Anyway never mind the result, the important question is, who's meeting F-V for the pre-match beers?
I'm not buying a round for that many people, have you seen the price of beer these days?!
Lol.
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Even with Mings brain fart and even with Stevie Me in charge - we should of battered these at VP this season
We created chance after chance with Kepa pulling off a couple of worldies
So now with an actual coach in charge and with our new confidence i see a pretty decent game here and nothing to be overly worried about as even though they have had a few wins at last i still think they are quite fragile
I hope we go at them
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Their last 6 home games have seen 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats.
Our last 6 away games have seen 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.
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We're winning this.
CL qualification via the league is gone for Chelsea and they're not gonna want EL or Conference League so they won't be arsed about the league now.
We will win this and my Europe thread will be very active. 2 or 3-1. Everyone will then be full of belief that we will make Europe this season.
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You absolute fools. We will lose, and lose badly.
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We're the best team they've beaten in the league this season, and we had the Gerrard drag factor at the time.
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That's not how I like to spend my pre match time.
Sensible chap, I look forward to your sober, unabridged post-match analysis of the game.
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No chance against those cheats.
2 or 3 nil to them.
I think we've got every chance to be honest. They're no better than us as their league position shows, and even though they've got a massive squad, some of their better players like Sterling and James are out. We're defending really well at the moment, so if Mings doesn't repeat his brain fart from last time we played them, I can see us doing well. The players should be massively motivated for this, as win and we go three points clear of them, as well as putting a dent in the goal difference. We'll also put ourselves right in amongst Fulham, Brentford and Brighton.
As Dolly O'Dreary might have said, we can't compete with de, de de Fulhams and Brentfords and Brightons of dis world.
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I think we have a good chance, but going for a 1-1
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2-0 us, test them for weaknesses first half, dominate the second. I think it will end up being that Straightforward.
Watkins, Ramsey and we go on.
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0-0 or 1-1 I’m thinking. Hopefully Bailey will be dropped, still can’t see what he does to get a place
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Plus, if it’s actually possible, Bailey is worse away from home.
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Plus, if it’s actually possible, Bailey is worse away from home.
If UE picks him to start, I will be surprised. He must be scintillating in training.
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I love everyone’s optimism but I don’t think it will be a walk in the park. Cash is out and the two Emi’s aren’t getting back until Friday as I think Argentina have another game at midnight. I just hope it’s not Olsen in goal!!
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Anyway never mind the result, the important question is, who's meeting F-V for the pre-match beers?
David Icke.
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I love everyone’s optimism but I don’t think it will be a walk in the park. Cash is out and the two Emi’s aren’t getting back until Friday as I think Argentina have another game at midnight. I just hope it’s not Olsen in goal!!
Cash isn't a huge loss. Can't Coutinho get off his injured arse and cover for Goodday? Olsen would be a nightmare, maybe Jed can finally get the chance that those heroics at the Hawthorns deserved.
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Obviously Olsen in goal would put a slightly different spin on things.
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Slightly?
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Anyway never mind the result, the important question is, who's meeting F-V for the pre-match beers?
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David Icke.
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Andy Frain and the Headhunters with a bit of luck.
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If the two Emis aren’t back that would be an issue and put a different spin on my optimism
Surely they will be back in time to play. As it’s not just Villa it would effect - missing Argentinian players could effect some of our betters and there’s no way that would be allowed
If they are away - I think we just give the gloves to mings so he can play as normal but use his hands if needed
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Don't care how tired or hungover Martinez is, he simply has to play. I presume the Donk is back available, any word on Kamara and Coutinho? Young will come back in for Cash.
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I'm going for a 2-1 Villa win.
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Fuck Chelsea.
We’ll win.
Emery > Potter.
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2-0.
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There's a lot of confidence which makes a change to see. This will be a difficult game, harder than people think. A draw and that would be a good point.
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I think Stamford Bridge is one of the easiest grounds to get the fans agitated.
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I think Stamford Bridge is one of the easiest grounds to get the fans agitated.
Even more so at present
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There's a lot of confidence which makes a change to see. This will be a difficult game, harder than people think. A draw and that would be a good point.
This is exactly the problem. Never be confident. We will always fuck it up.
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Obviously Olsen in goal would put a slightly different spin on things.
I can’t see Unai doing that considering Olsen will have a very long tiring flight from Stockholm and will be jet lagged due to massive time difference. No, I think he will stick to Emi as he will be fresh as a daisy after that take off and land little breezer from Buenos Aires.
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Obviously Olsen in goal would put a slightly different spin on things.
I can’t see Unai doing that considering Olsen will have a very long tiring flight from Stockholm and will be jet lagged due to massive time difference. No, I think he will stick to Emi as he will be fresh as a daisy after that take off and land little breezer from Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires is only a four hour time difference so no excuses. They're only playing Curaçao anyway so they should field the reserve keeper and let Dibu head back to B6 asap.
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Brilliant. Cash gets injured, and is out of the game. Martinez and Buendia are on the other side of the world and don't arrive home until late Friday night. And bloody hell, what sort of state is McGinn now going to be in between now and Saturday?
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Brilliant. Cash gets injured, and is out of the game. Martinez and Buendia are on the other side of the world and don't arrive home until late Friday night. And bloody hell, what sort of state is McGinn now going to be in between now and Saturday?
Won’t this be the same for most clubs and worse for others?
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I wasn't being entirely serious (hence, in particular, the final sentence of my post).
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I wasn't being entirely serious (hence, in particular, the final sentence of my post).
Aha! I see, I was a bit slow there.
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Obviously Olsen in goal would put a slightly different spin on things.
I can’t see Unai doing that considering Olsen will have a very long tiring flight from Stockholm and will be jet lagged due to massive time difference. No, I think he will stick to Emi as he will be fresh as a daisy after that take off and land little breezer from Buenos Aires.
Martinez could return from a ten year space mission, re-entering the atmosphere and parachuting straight into the stadium, and he'd still be a better option than Olsen.
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Realistically we are probably looking at
----------Martinez
Young, Konsa, Mings, Moreno
-----------Luiz, Donk
McGinn, Buendia, Ramsey
-----------Watkins
Can't afford to carry Bailey from the start for this one. Also hope rumours of Konsa possibly shifting to right back are just rumours. He is atrocious when he plays there. Assuming Kamara and Coutinho are still out then our options are very limited. McGinn has a lot of football played in the past week so can't imagine he has 90 mins in him.
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Realistically we are probably looking at
----------Martinez
Young, Konsa, Mings, Moreno
-----------Luiz, Donk
McGinn, Buendia, Ramsey
-----------Watkins
Can't afford to carry Bailey from the start for this one. Also hope rumours of Konsa possibly shifting to right back are just rumours. He is atrocious when he plays there. Assuming Kamara and Coutinho are still out then our options are very limited. McGinn has a lot of football played in the past week so can't imagine he has 90 mins in him.
I do it see him changing from 4 4 2
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I think given how we've been setting up with Moreno in the team having Chambers or Konsa at right back might not be the worst decision. Whether it's been Young or Cash they've played noticeably deeper than Moreno and tucked in a fair bit so someone there as primarily a defensive player isn't a terrible idea.
I don't think he'll do it and I'd prefer to start with Young but if he does go that way I can understand the logic.
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Maybe he'll switch Digne to Right Back...
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Obviously Olsen in goal would put a slightly different spin on things.
I can’t see Unai doing that considering Olsen will have a very long tiring flight from Stockholm and will be jet lagged due to massive time difference. No, I think he will stick to Emi as he will be fresh as a daisy after that take off and land little breezer from Buenos Aires.
Martinez could return from a ten year space mission, re-entering the atmosphere and parachuting straight into the stadium, and he'd still be a better option than Olsen.
Ha!
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Saw this for sale on a Japanese auction site, earlier.
And 11,000 Yen! Fuck me.
(https://i.ibb.co/NFbgHZL/Screenshot-20230329-180209.png) (https://ibb.co/NFbgHZL)
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Saw this for sale on a Japanese auction site, earlier.
And 11,000 Yen! Fuck me.
Bloody hell I am moving to Japan with a load of shit scarves
(https://i.ibb.co/NFbgHZL/Screenshot-20230329-180209.png) (https://ibb.co/NFbgHZL)
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Yuk foo !
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Realistically we are probably looking at
----------Martinez
Young, Konsa, Mings, Moreno
-----------Luiz, Donk
McGinn, Buendia, Ramsey
-----------Watkins
Can't afford to carry Bailey from the start for this one. Also hope rumours of Konsa possibly shifting to right back are just rumours. He is atrocious when he plays there. Assuming Kamara and Coutinho are still out then our options are very limited. McGinn has a lot of football played in the past week so can't imagine he has 90 mins in him.
I do it see him changing from 4 4 2
True but I don't see Buendia sticking as high and right as Bailey does. That 442 is somewhat fluid anyway with or without the ball. Buendia did drop in well, can't remember if it was Wolves or Leeds in the second half to make us a midfield three at times. I think he can do that again at Chelsea for us but has to avoid losing the ball in dangerous areas.
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Saw this for sale on a Japanese auction site, earlier.
And 11,000 Yen! Fuck me.
(https://i.ibb.co/NFbgHZL/Screenshot-20230329-180209.png) (https://ibb.co/NFbgHZL)
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Christ, that's almost £70!! I'd take one if they paid me that much.
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Saw this for sale on a Japanese auction site, earlier.
And 11,000 Yen! Fuck me.
(https://i.ibb.co/NFbgHZL/Screenshot-20230329-180209.png) (https://ibb.co/NFbgHZL)
(https://imgbb.com/)
Christ, that's almost £70!! I'd take one if they paid me that much.
Before I enlarged it I thought it might be a Villa-Penarol scarf but I think I'll give it a miss now.
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And they've omitted the star. The detail overall is something quite special, The Chelsea Lion looks like a dog smoking a pipe.
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And they've omitted the star. The detail overall is something quite special, The Chelsea Lion looks like a dog smoking a pipe.
Haha! It does!
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Before I enlarged it I thought it might be a Villa-Penarol scarf but I think I'll give it a miss now.
That's unlike you BV because normally you are drenched in half half regalia ;D
Axl you're correct it's fucking awful, problem is that I can see lot of boys and girls in far east buying that shit.
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And they've omitted the star. The detail overall is something quite special, The Chelsea Lion looks like a dog smoking a pipe.
Their lion looks over its shoulder’s.
The head is facing the right way, but the body should be facing the other way.
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At the moment, too many if, buts and maybe's about trying to predict the outcome of this one.
Will wait for Unai's Press Conference and Footy's analysis before putting the head on the block.
Feck it, 0-1 to the Villa. Watkins 74 minutes, 33 seconds.
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1-2 away win, Watkins and Buendia with a late-ish goal for them making everyone on here twitchy as fuck for the last 10minutes.
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1-2 away win, Watkins and Buendia with a late-ish goal for them making everyone on here twitchy as fuck for the last 10minutes.
You sadistic pig! ;)
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Quite right, it's an awful thing to predict, Paul.
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I know, but we've not had a game like that for a while.
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I know, but we've not had a game like that for a while.
Leeds at home back in January probably? I think Ads might have said it a few posts back, but Chelsea haven’t beaten anyone higher than us this season. Probably wildly optimistic or delusional, but if we have all the players we expect to available, so the two Emi’s and Donk, with an Emery tactical masterclass, i can honestly see another Spurs away.
Martinez
Young. Konsa. Mings. Moreno
Dendonker. Luiz
Mcginn. Ramsey
Beundia
Watkins
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I did forget that one.
I was thinking of the everton game at the start of the season.
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Kamara and Donk available.
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Kamara and Donk available.
Kamara is possibly available if he comes through Friday. Hopefully now we can get 9 subs. Always have to factor the weird 2 keeper thing.
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Im dreading this.
I absolutely despise Chelsea & everything they stand for.
I fucking hate losing to them almost as much as I do when Liverpool turn us over.
So obviously they are going to dick us 3-0...
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Maybe he'll switch Digne to Right Back...
With a sort of “Look son you’re shit at left back so how about trying right back?” conversation.
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The amount of people on here predicting a Villa win is a bit unsettling. I'm more used to us having gallows humour for a visit to somewhere like Stamford Bridge. So to give things a bit of balance I'm going for a low scoring draw. 0-0 or 1-1. So it will probably be 4-4.
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Kamara and Donk available.
Kamara possibly more of a bench option.would be great to have them both available. No PL team should have Chambers as their first midfield option off the bench.
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I fervently hope that the last games played without Kamara has shown beyond any shadow of a doubt that McGinn cannot play on the right! He ia a different person playing through the middle. Emery will play Bailey and Buendia, with Luiz McGinn and Ramsey starting in the middle with Kamarra hopefully getting 20 minutes if needed. Would also like a cameo from Carlos.
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I fervently hope that the last games played without Kamara has shown beyond any shadow of a doubt that McGinn cannot play on the right! He ia a different person playing through the middle. Emery will play Bailey and Buendia, with Luiz McGinn and Ramsey starting in the middle with Kamarra hopefully getting 20 minutes if needed. Would also like a cameo from Carlos.
I disagree. The games before Kamara got injured, with McGinn on the right, were the games in which he rediscovered his mojo after being out of form for years in the middle.
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I think this is actually quite a big game. A win and suddenly we’re a couple of points off the teams chasing Europe with Leicester and Forrest to play after.
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I think this is actually quite a big game. A win and suddenly we’re a couple of points off the teams chasing Europe with Leicester and Forrest to play after.
The Guardian don't. Once again in the preview of our game we are just a foot note while they wank on about some Chelsea player who might score or something. Fuck off.
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When was the last time 76% on pre match said we will not lose the game? Especially an away game?
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When was the last time 76% on pre match said we will not lose the game? Especially an away game?
Just wait a second. I haven't made my selection yet.
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Daily Mirror Supercomputer predicts we will end up on 55 points in ninth place which is 8 points above Chelsea. Mind you, they do have a tough run in.
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I think this is actually quite a big game. A win and suddenly we’re a couple of points off the teams chasing Europe with Leicester and Forrest to play after.
The Guardian don't. Once again in the preview of our game we are just a foot note while they wank on about some Chelsea player who might score or something. Fuck off.
It wasn't written by that eejit Glendenning, was it? Bloody Birr midlands-accented bogger (no offence, Brazillian Villain - you're more...Brazillian).
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Daily Mirror Supercomputer predicts we will end up on 55 points in ninth place which is 8 points above Chelsea. Mind you, they do have a tough run in.
I saw something on Twitter tyesterday that said that based on who we've got left to play and their current standings/form, we've got the second easiest run in.
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Key is not to lose this.
Ideally we play this exactly like Spurs away which was a textbook Emery masterclass win against top 6 team.
Soak up pressure for first half but get in at 0-0, get an early second half goal and we pretty much eased to victory when it went to 2-0.
I do think Chelsea can hurt us a bit more as I worry about us picking Joao Felix up when he drops off the forward line. Hopefully Reece James is out as him and Chilwell either side is going to push our full backs well back.
That said with how we've played generally that should continue to match up well with how Potter plays. Our results v him for Swansea and Brighton in last five years were excellent and they were very lucky to win at VP when he was having a good start at Chelsea.
Would also help if we don't gift them a goal at a key point in the game when you think of the two Mings has presented for them in recent times. In the Boxing day fixture Cash also did a ridiculous challenge when he got wrong side and just lunged in to gift them a penalty.
Cool heads are needed when we're under pressure. If we can be o.k then I think we'll get a 1-1. If we follow that with wins v Leicester and Forest then we will be in the top half and table will look very interesting for last 8 games.
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I think this is actually quite a big game. A win and suddenly we’re a couple of points off the teams chasing Europe with Leicester and Forrest to play after.
The Guardian don't. Once again in the preview of our game we are just a foot note while they wank on about some Chelsea player who might score or something. Fuck off.
I read that this morning too and my reaction similarly involved expletives!
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This is why we have to FTF and get the wankers from the Guardian to STFU.
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It is amazing how whoever we play is more worthy of comment than we are literally every week. I get it that being 11th out of 10, as it were, neither right in there for Europe nor in any relegation danger you'd say, isn't especially interesting.
Nevertheless we'd go above Chelsea if we win! Is this nothing? We'd be, what, 5th if you only counted points under Emery? You'd think we were ten points behind them.
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It is amazing how whoever we play is more worthy of comment than we are literally every week. I get it that being 11th out of 10, as it were, neither right in there for Europe nor in any relegation danger you'd say, isn't especially interesting.
Nevertheless we'd go above Chelsea if we win! Is this nothing? We'd be, what, 5th if you only counted points under Emery? You'd think we were ten points behind them.
It's not even that we're not worthy of comment above our opponents, it tends to be just one of their players that's considered more important. And Kai Havertz is wank, I'm sorry. "Ooh, he's so elegant", fuck off, he'a just a lanky Mezut Ozil
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This is why we have to FTF and get the wankers from the Guardian to STFU.
Yes, time to FTF.
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We're still very much under the radar as far as the national media is concerned. I had to drop my son off at school at 4.30am this morning as he's off to Italy on a school trip, and on the way back I had Talksport on. They were talking about the league table and how there's not really a traditional midtable as such, with the bottom half all in danger of relegation, and the top half all with an eye on various European places. One of the two presenters piped up with, "well, apart from Aston Villa in 11th." To be fair, his co-presenter did put him right by stating we weren't far off 7th and if we beat Chelsea would be right up there, but the original comment just shows how lazy and uninformed a lot of journalists are.
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Risso, you were lucky there. Every time I put talksport on, they’re talking about some crap boxing match this weekend!!
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We're still very much under the radar as far as the national media is concerned. I had to drop my son off at school at 4.30am this morning as he's off to Italy on a school trip, and on the way back I had Talksport on. They were talking about the league table and how there's not really a traditional midtable as such, with the bottom half all in danger of relegation, and the top half all with an eye on various European places. One of the two presenters piped up with, "well, apart from Aston Villa in 11th." To be fair, his co-presenter did put him right by stating we weren't far off 7th and if we beat Chelsea would be right up there, but the original comment just shows how lazy and uniformed a lot of journalists are.
These pundits get paid to do it, yet most of us on here probably have more extensive knowledge of football in general, not just the Villa.
Lazy twats.
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If I can help it I don't listen to pundits, amongst all of them I can only think of Pat Nevin who has anything of value to say.
I prefer journalists who generally have to be factual, well written and balanced. Which is what drives me mad when we have the sort of lazy rubbish that I referenced. For balance, unless the circumstances are extreme such as title or cup win (when they often print from both view points anyway) that "10 things..." should be balanced in that if the preview features one side then the Monday review should feature the other but it rarely works out that way.
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I've got a sneaky feeling this is going to be a good convincing win.
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I've got a sneaky feeling this is going to be a good convincing win.
It is worrying but i am really looking forward to this and am confident we will give them a game if not claim a victory
I still have nightmares about the Lamberk 8-0 game
I had to look it up but this was the team - OMFG
22
B Guzan
31
C Herd
6
C Clark (c)
32
N Baker
34
M Lowton
25
B Bannan
15
A Westwood 56'56th minute
30
E Lichaj 56'56th minute
26
A Weimann
14
B Holman 79'79th minute
20
C Benteke
Substitutes
1
S Given
7
S Ireland 56'56th minute
8
K El Ahmadi
12
M Albrighton
16
F Delph
21
J Bowery 79'79th minute
27
J Bennett 56'56th minute
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If it helps and for balance I am worried about Felix he looks some player ,
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I've got a sneaky feeling this is going to be a good convincing win.
It is worrying but i am really looking forward to this and am confident we will give them a game if not claim a victory
I still have nightmares about the Lamberk 8-0 game
I had to look it up but this was the team - OMFG
22
B Guzan
31
C Herd
6
C Clark (c)
32
N Baker
34
M Lowton
25
B Bannan
15
A Westwood 56'56th minute
30
E Lichaj 56'56th minute
26
A Weimann
14
B Holman 79'79th minute
20
C Benteke
Substitutes
1
S Given
7
S Ireland 56'56th minute
8
K El Ahmadi
12
M Albrighton
16
F Delph
21
J Bowery 79'79th minute
27
J Bennett 56'56th minute
To think we won there the season before under McLeish.
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Jordan fucking Bowery. Who signed him????
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I'm shocked at how many on here listen to Talk Radio. I tried it once and felt dirty afterwards.
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I'm shocked at how many on here listen to Talk Radio. I tried it once and felt dirty afterwards.
If you listen to the ads on Talk Sport, you genuinely start to understand why they're so successful - they absolutely know their listernership, their segment of the market.
All the ads are for things like taxi insurance, trade building supplies, van sales etc.
If you're targeting that demographic, TalkSport is absolutely the place to advertise.
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When I do tune in, I listen to it for Laura Woods’ voice. Not for any kind of serious content. And she’s the smartest of the entire lot.
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When I do tune in, I listen to it for Laura Woods’ voice. Not for any kind of serious content. And she’s the smartest of the entire lot.
Yeah think she's great, had to put up with a lot of vile comments from the misogynists, when she first started on the show.
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When I do tune in, I listen to it for Laura Woods’ voice. Not for any kind of serious content. And she’s the smartest of the entire lot.
Yeah think she's great, had to put up with a lot of vile comments from the misogynists, when she first started on the show.
It says a lot more about some of the wankers than it does her. She’s brilliant in how she handles them.
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I think this is actually quite a big game. A win and suddenly we’re a couple of points off the teams chasing Europe with Leicester and Forrest to play after.
The Guardian don't. Once again in the preview of our game we are just a foot note while they wank on about some Chelsea player who might score or something. Fuck off.
They went on about Brentford and Fulham yet they’re, what, only 4 points ahead? The longer we stay under the radar the better.
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Daily Mirror Supercomputer predicts we will end up on 55 points in ninth place which is 8 points above Chelsea. Mind you, they do have a tough run in.
I saw something on Twitter tyesterday that said that based on who we've got left to play and their current standings/form, we've got the second easiest run in.
Isn’t it the hardest? Something like 8 out of 10 against teams above us?
Edit: Most of the Villa pods are saying second hardest
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Entirely possible I completely misread it!
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Entirely possible I completely misread it!
I think so mate. Think we’ve only got Leicester and Forest to play who are below us; Chelsea, Man Utd, Liverpool away, Fulham, Brighton, Spurs at home. That’s just off the top of my head. Not frightening necessarily, but I imagine other teams have more of a spread that includes the bottom feeders, especially considering there’s nine clubs down there. That’s just current standings though, current form may be different I suppose.
When you think back to our early fixtures, what an easy start Gerrard wasted. Should have gone much earlier.
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Entirely possible I completely misread it!
I think so mate. Think we’ve only got Leicester and Forest to play who are below us; Chelsea, Man Utd, Liverpool away, Fulham, Brighton, Spurs at home. That’s just off the top of my head. Not frightening necessarily, but I imagine other teams have more of a spread that includes the bottom feeders, especially considering there’s nine clubs down there. That’s just current standings though, current form may be different I suppose.
When you think back to our early fixtures, what an easy start Gerrard wasted. Should have gone much earlier.
And those lovable mind the gap peasants from up the road....
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Entirely possible I completely misread it!
I think so mate. Think we’ve only got Leicester and Forest to play who are below us; Chelsea, Man Utd, Liverpool away, Fulham, Brighton, Spurs at home. That’s just off the top of my head. Not frightening necessarily, but I imagine other teams have more of a spread that includes the bottom feeders, especially considering there’s nine clubs down there. That’s just current standings though, current form may be different I suppose.
When you think back to our early fixtures, what an easy start Gerrard wasted. Should have gone much earlier.
And those lovable mind the gap peasants from up the road....
Oh yeah. And Brentford away has just occurred to me too (as one I missed, not one below us - yet)
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How brilliant would it be if we went on a winning run like with Smith in the promotion year. Obviously not winning 10 in a row but to go unbeaten
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Entirely possible I completely misread it!
When you think back to our early fixtures, what an easy start Gerrard wasted. Should have gone much earlier.
Yeah, preferably about 2001.
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A chance for us to make a real statement here by climbing above these wankers in the league.
2-0 to them.
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In the last 19 games at Stamford Bridge our record is W1 D5 L13, I knew it wasn't great, but didn't think it was that bad. Our victory was on New Years Eve 2011, 1-3 when a certain Stephen Ireland got a goal and an assist, Stan and Bent the others.
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Can't see us getting a Bournemouthesque result at Stanford Bridge: our record's there is crap!
Best we can hope for is a 1-1 draw.
As far as the national media is concerned, they've never taken much notice of us anyway (part of a wider Londoncentric anti-Midlands bias in this country) generally)!
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In the last 19 games at Stamford Bridge our record is W1 D5 L13, I knew it wasn't great, but didn't think it was that bad. Our victory was on New Years Eve 2011, 1-3 when a certain Stephen Ireland got a goal and an assist, Stan and Bent the others.
Records aren't set in stone though, and the main reason we always lose there is that they've nearly always been really good in that period, and we were mostly really bad. Now we're far more evenly matched in terms of form and ability in the team. We've got the better manager, and our away form Emery has been excellent.
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In the last 19 games at Stamford Bridge our record is W1 D5 L13, I knew it wasn't great, but didn't think it was that bad. Our victory was on New Years Eve 2011, 1-3 when a certain Stephen Ireland got a goal and an assist, Stan and Bent the others.
Records aren't set in stone though, and the main reason we always lose there is that they've nearly always been really good in that period, and we were mostly really bad. Now we're far more evenly matched in terms of form and ability in the team. We've got the better manager, and our away form Emery has been excellent.
Agree Risso, it's been a long time since I've been as optimistic of a Villa win there, as I am today.
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Getting a bit excited now for the “Why didn’t Barry take the Penalty” fixture.
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Getting a bit excited now for the “Why didn’t Barry take the Penalty” fixture.
Wouldn't it be better to focus on the Chelsea game?
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I've got a sneaky feeling this is going to be a good convincing win.
It is worrying but i am really looking forward to this and am confident we will give them a game if not claim a victory
I still have nightmares about the Lamberk 8-0 game
I had to look it up but this was the team - OMFG
22
B Guzan
31
C Herd
6
C Clark (c)
32
N Baker
34
M Lowton
25
B Bannan
15
A Westwood 56'56th minute
30
E Lichaj 56'56th minute
26
A Weimann
14
B Holman 79'79th minute
20
C Benteke
Substitutes
1
S Given
7
S Ireland 56'56th minute
8
K El Ahmadi
12
M Albrighton
16
F Delph
21
J Bowery 79'79th minute
27
J Bennett 56'56th minute
Wow. I’d forgotten just how abysmal that era was. That team!!!!
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‘Young and hungry’.
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Don't forget this much better side conceded 7, which imo is far worse than the 8-0.
Aston Villa
01 Friedel
02 L Young
05 Dunne
25 Warnock
29 Collins
04 Sidwell
07 A Young
08 Milner
19 Petrov (Downing 63)
10 Carew (Delfouneso 63)
11 Agbonlahor (Beye 71)
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I was at one of those 7 or 8 nil defeats, I forget which one, but the windows of our coach got smashed on the way back by a load of lads who run out of a pub whilst we were sat at some traffic lights. It was a bit of a grim day all round.
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That 8-0 team is horrific. That side is way more primed for relegation than the one which actually went.
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Before I enlarged it I thought it might be a Villa-Penarol scarf but I think I'll give it a miss now.
That's unlike you BV because normally you are drenched in half half regalia ;D
Now now, you know full well that the only half and half* I'll entertain is a good pint of black and tan. :)
*If Villa play Celtic in the Champions League I might be tempted.
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The Guardian don't. Once again in the preview of our game we are just a foot note while they wank on about some Chelsea player who might score or something. Fuck off.
It wasn't written by that eejit Glendenning, was it? Bloody Birr midlands-accented bogger (no offence, Brazillian Villain - you're more...Brazillian).
No offence taken as my accent isn't very Irish, more mild scouse with a hint of Brummie and Northern Ireland. I'm still a true culchie though. :)
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I've got a sneaky feeling this is going to be a good convincing win.
It is worrying but i am really looking forward to this and am confident we will give them a game if not claim a victory
I still have nightmares about the Lamberk 8-0 game
I had to look it up but this was the team - OMFG
22
B Guzan
31
C Herd
6
C Clark (c)
32
N Baker
34
M Lowton
25
B Bannan
15
A Westwood 56'56th minute
30
E Lichaj 56'56th minute
26
A Weimann
14
B Holman 79'79th minute
20
C Benteke
Substitutes
1
S Given
7
S Ireland 56'56th minute
8
K El Ahmadi
12
M Albrighton
16
F Delph
21
J Bowery 79'79th minute
27
J Bennett 56'56th minute
Wow. I’d forgotten just how abysmal that era was. That team!!!!
A really shite team!
That was the 12 goals of Christmas wasn’t it, when we lost 0-4 at home to Wigan in the same few days?
I remember going to the pub to watch the Chelsea game, I still smoked at the time, I’m sure i went out for a fag at 2-0 and when I came back in one cigarette later it was 5-0 or something similar? Grim days.
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I've got a sneaky feeling this is going to be a good convincing win.
It is worrying but i am really looking forward to this and am confident we will give them a game if not claim a victory
I still have nightmares about the Lamberk 8-0 game
I had to look it up but this was the team - OMFG
22
B Guzan
31
C Herd
6
C Clark (c)
32
N Baker
34
M Lowton
25
B Bannan
15
A Westwood 56'56th minute
30
E Lichaj 56'56th minute
26
A Weimann
14
B Holman 79'79th minute
20
C Benteke
Substitutes
1
S Given
7
S Ireland 56'56th minute
8
K El Ahmadi
12
M Albrighton
16
F Delph
21
J Bowery 79'79th minute
27
J Bennett 56'56th minute
Wow. I’d forgotten just how abysmal that era was. That team!!!!
A really shite team!
That was the 12 goals of Christmas wasn’t it, when we lost 0-4 at home to Wigan in the same few days?
I remember going to the pub to watch the Chelsea game, I still smoked at the time, I’m sure i went out for a fag at 2-0 and when I came back in one cigarette later it was 5-0 or something similar? Grim days.
Yep 8-0 Chelsea, 4-0 Spurs, 3-0 Wigan. Swiftly followed by the Bradford Semifinal disaster and Milwall in the FA Cup. Let’s call it a difficult couple of months.
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I was at the 8-0 game, I walked out at 6-0 with about ten minutes to go and missed two goals and a missed penalty.
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Not feeling good about today, think the only thing we'll come back with is some BS Footy ITKs from his unicorn Chelsea insider. I hate it when the press start talking us up, it's always followed by a defeat.
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Edit: Wrong thread.
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Great save Emi!
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Bloody hell Ollie
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WTF OLLIE!!!
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Pre-match thread wankers
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That's the first of his 5 needed chances before he will get a goal