Manchester City v Aston Villa Pre-Match Thread

[DeKuip]

Off the Premier League website...

Manchester City v Aston Villa (Kick-off 3pm)

Referee: A Taylor. Assistants: D Bryan, A Halliday
Fourth Official: L Mason
Match Delegate: S Howey
PGMO: J Worrall

Now the only A Taylor on the Premier League list is Anthony Taylor, who is from Manchester.
No need to worry though - he's from the Withe n Shaw area so he's bound to be one of us!

[darren woolley]

4-0 to City I hope I'm wrong but Can't see it.

[BILL DE VALL]

I'm boldly going for a draw

Given MOM 0-0

[villadelph]

2-2.

that is all.

[hawkeye]

We knew this was comming up, This has all the Hallmarks of a comfortable home win. I just hope that our team does not feel that way and thiers do. 

[timeoutbigbar]

2-2.  Us to go 2-0 up in the first half, get a bit panicky and hang on for a point in the end.  Gabby and Collins with the goals.

[cdbearsfan]

Man City 7 Villa 8 - another Villa thriller.

[Malandro]

Our biggest premiership defeat. Probably not the best team we've faced or the best organised, but I smell a whipping

[Legion]

Our biggest premiership defeat. Probably not the best team we've faced or the best organised, but I smell a whipping

This season so far would mean 1-0 to them.

[Breezeblock]

I'm normally optimistic.

We're gonna get twatted 3-0

(And that's being optimistic - I was going to put 5-0!)

[TaxDodger]

3-3. Dzeko 12, 37, 44. Bent 51, Collins 69, Agbonlahor 83.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

1-0
Late Bent Winner.

[avfcpg]

2-0 Citeh with them getting the 2nd late on after long periods of valiant defending. Can't see us handling thier midfield at all. A midfield of Nasri, Silva and Y.Toure scares the living crap out of me up against ours.
Nothing to to lose though and a good (understatement) test...they will be 1st or 2nd this season for sure... 

[Hookeysmith]

Lets not forget that as great a set of individuals they are they also have their own issues with all those ego's

I think we can frustrate them - the longer it goes without conceding we could pull off a decent draw

Concede early and we could get bollocked

[Concrete John]

Hard to call anything other than a Man City win here.  The manner of it though will be interesting and tell us a lot about where we're going under AM.

A drubbing with heads dropping will show some problems, yet a battling performance and narrow defeat would say to me we're going in the right direction.