Aston Villa v Wigan Athletic Pre-Match Thread

[Legion]

2-0 Home win

Agbonlahor 12
N'Zogbia 66

[Greg N'Ash]

3-1. A must win IMO.


EDIT: Oh and i reckon this is N'Zogbia's once every 3 months good game. If he's not up for this one  then i despair.

[Ryu]

I know I said this before the Newcastle game but I'm confident of a win here.

It will be tempting for AM to bring in Bent and/or Jenas but I would go with the same starting line up as Sunday and change it if need be. If Ireland and Bannan can continue to link up like they did at times against QPR there should be lots of chances made.

Anybody know if they still have defensive injuries?  It looked like Figeuroa had an absolute mare at CB against Spuds.

I'm going for 3-1 home win, Delph, Gabby and the Zog.

[Risso]

Another draw for me, 1-1 I reckon.

[TimTheVillain]

3-0 Villa

AM will get them fired up, N'Zog will score against his old club.

[CJ]

I heard someone say the other day that we've never beaten Wigan at VP since they joined us in the PL in 2005.  So I had a look back at the results, and sure enough they go 0-2, 1-1, 0-2, 0-0, 0-2, 1-1. So given that they follow a draw by beating us 2-0, stats say they'll win by that scoreline.

So I've gone for us to win 2-1

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

Villa 3 Wigan 1 (Agbonglahor, N'Zogbia, Delph)

[Ryu]

I didn't realise we had that bad a record against them at home!

[philthebar]

1 - 0 win, close fought battle, not pretty to look at.

[Simon Ward]

2-0 with a man of the match performance from wee Barry Bannan!

[Concrete John]

2-1 Villa with N'Zogbia to score.

[CJ]

Anybody know if they still have defensive injuries?  It looked like Figeuroa had an absolute mare at CB against Spuds.

According to Physioroom Boyce and Alcarez are still out.  Added bonus is it looks like Rodallega is also injured

[timeoutbigbar]

4-0.  Bannan, Gabby and N'zogbia(2).  Wigan are shocking and I think we'll push on with the positives from our second half performance on Sunday.

[Ryu]

That's good news, thanks CJ. They are much weaker defensively than wolves or newcastle. If we don't win this I really will start to worry. 

[DerHammer]

It will be either 0-0. 1-1. 2-2. 44-44. 1024-1024 or 11,200,234-11,200,234.