Aston Villa v Rapid Vienna Pre-Match Thread

[Newquay_AVFC]

4-1 them to take the lead
Gabby x3 Petrov

[Simon Ward]

No Dunne or Luke Young in the squad, both injured and Downing and Warnock rested. Gabby, Carlos and Collins all back however. Think a strong team will be played tomorrow night. I'll say 2-1 as I still think they will score.

[Lambert and Payne]

3 0 to villa, cant see em scoring this time and think were gunna have to come out and show newcastle was a one off, im backing young twice and downing to chip in
UTV

[l_mckay]

2-0 villa. Gabby and Young to score

[IRISHPHIL]

can ireland play in this game , or were we too late for him to be registered to play in this round

[Matt Collins]

Looks like Ireland is inellgble. I'm going to guess at

Guzan - Beye, Collins, Cuellar, Lichaj - Young, NRC, Petrov, Bannan - Heskey, Gabby

[manic-road]

Villa win 2-0

Ash and Gabby

[eamonn]

Downing and Warnock rested...dropped I'd hope after our left hand-side was torn a new one on Sunday by, er, Wayne Routledge and some dude called Perch.

Seriously, are we taking it seriously or not? I'd play the two and if they under-perform drop them for the Everton match which is seemingly a bigger game for the club.

[Lambert and Payne]

trouble is who can cover for warnock thats proven? maybe just a few home truths to make them realise the need to buck up. hope he rests a few names to be honest, last year was a fluke, yes there good but our second team is better in my view. keep the faith UTV

[PaulWinch again]

I don't think we should be resting players now too much. It's only a couple of games into the season. I can't see this as I'm at a gig, but I'll be nervously checking my phone.

[Chris Smith]

Downing and Warnock rested...dropped I'd hope after our left hand-side was torn a new one on Sunday by, er, Wayne Routledge and some dude called Perch.

Problem is if we take that approach we'd also have to drop the right side, middle, back and front too.

I'm expecting to see a good reaction and as long as Kevin gets the team selection right then I'm confident that we'll go through.

[deero83]

Why on earth have they allowed the Noses to have a home game on the same night? Reckon there'll end up being any trouble?

[Villa'Zawg]

Why on earth have they allowed the Noses to have a home game on the same night? Reckon there'll end up being any trouble?

Not unless you go looking for it.

Edit: I meant that as a generic "you"

[eamonn]

Stewards at New Street will have to be on guard as there is a long-running feud between Rochdale and Rapid involving Lisa Stansfield and her non-appearance at Vienna's end of season do in 1993 when she was booked as the star turn and 39 tickets were bought on the assumption she'd be present to croon about how she'd been around the world but still couldn't find her evasive baby.

Seems a tad unfair as though Lisa attended school in Rochdale, she was actually born and bred a couple of miles up the road in Heywood.

[andyh]

the resaon why i would play heskey is we need someone to hold the play up an allow those flair players waiting on his knock downs to do score the goals. would have gone with carew, but last 2 games he has played for us has been terrible.
westham game misses a few clear shots/ headers on goal. newcastle game he skied the penalty and after that he apperared if he did not want to be there

I fully agree, Heskey holds the ball up to bring other players into the game. Also, on the evidence of what I have seen so far this season Heskey easily gets the nod over Carew at this time.

What a damning statement on the state of our forward line.