Fulham v Aston Villa Pre-Match Thread

[Gazza1982]

3-1 defeat. Earth, hit, bump.

Villa win 0-2

pub-drink-merry

[Chris Smith]

Win, lose, draw.

Pub, drink, merry.

[supertommykN'iba]

Win/Draw - Pub-Drink-Merry, Love going to the Villa.
Lose - Pub-Drink-Merry, Only go for the Day Out Anyway!!

2-0 Villa - Bent 84, Delfouneso 90+1.

[Matt C]

1-1. Bent to score for us, obviously.

[Matt C]

And I reckon he'll go Given, Young, Collins, Dunne, Warnock, Petrov, Makoun, Ireland, Heskey, N'Zogbia, Bent.

[UsualSuspect]

http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/aston-villa-fc/aston-villa-news/2011/08/11/aston-villa-emile-heskey-set-to-start-against-fulham-97319-29219214/

Phew

Now I can look forward to plenty of falling over because his "Shorts are too tight" a la World Cup 2002

[myf]

Albrighton won't be happy about that

[saunders_heroes]

Albrighton won't be happy about that

He can't moan too much though. His form this year has been poor and he hasn't shown any signs of improving this pre season.

[Matt C]

And its a long season - he'll get his chance.

[Gazza1982]

I just cant go along with Petrov being an automatic choice. Apart from that Derby goal I am not sure I can remember him doing much else of significance.A solid holding midfielder sure, but I would much rather see Bannon / Makoun /Delph given his 'auto starting place'. Sorry, the man just does not do enough IMO and its well known he runs out of puff after 70 mins. Surely we have better options?

[UsualSuspect]

Over the past 2 seasons Petrov (appalling fitness aside) has been mediocre at best.

But as he is Club captain expect him to start the majority of games and for us to get steam rollered with him makoun and the barmy one in the middle

[eastie]

so heskey to start on the wide left role -cant quite see how mcleish says he had "a terrific game against braga"-i thought he was average at best personally , but lets hope he delivers tomorrow.

[PaulWinch again]

If Albrighton wants to get in the side, he needs to show some form and hopefully he will.

[Merv]

Surely we have better options?

Who's going to tell him?

Actually, I'd like to see us start with Delph and Bannan in midfield (Bannan the player at the top of the midfield triangle) as per my team posted earlier in the thread. I think a couple of the younger players will give us a bit of a buzz and zip. But I think AM will play safe, and we'll see Petrov and Heskey.

[UsualSuspect]

What is the matter with Delph? I know he didn't go to portugal but if he's got problems with his fitness i would be worried