Manchester City v Aston Villa Match Thread

[Legion]

Available Saturday afternoon.

[VillaAlways]

Heskey and Clark in for Bannan and Collins

[PaulWinch again]

Mistake dropping Bannan, but come on you Villa boys.

[VillaAlways]

Looks like I was wrong thinking he'd drop Hutton.

[VillaAlways]

The good news is Silvas on the bench Barry and Milner both start

[Chris Smith]

Mistake dropping Bannan, but come on you Villa boys.

Perhaps he's resting him because of his injured foot?

[PaulWinch again]

Mistake dropping Bannan, but come on you Villa boys.

Perhaps he's resting him because of his injured foot?

If that's the case fair enough.

[Dave]

Aston Villa
01 Given
02 Hutton
03 Warnock
05 Dunne
21 Clark
07 Ireland
16 Delph
19 Petrov
09 Bent
11 Agbonlahor
18 Heskey
Substitutes
22 Guzan, 24 Cuellar, 10 N'Zogbia, 12 Albrighton, 25 Bannan, 31 Herd, 26 Weimann

Man City
25 Hart
02 Richards
04 Kompany
06 Lescott
22 Clichy
07 Milner
11 Johnson
18 Barry
34 De Jong
42 Y Toure
45 Balotelli
Substitutes
30 Pantilimon, 13 Kolarov, 28 K Toure, 19 Nasri, 20 Hargreaves, 21 Silva, 10 Dzeko

[VillaAlways]

Mistake dropping Bannan, but come on you Villa boys.

Perhaps he's resting him because of his injured foot?

He also said he was exhausted but he said Hutton was exhausted too:-/

[CJ]

I'd have had Bannan and Herd in for Delph and Hutton. Bannan played for Scotland again after he'd injured his foot, and if he wasn't fit to play he wouldn't be on the bench, so apparently AMC prefers Delph over Bannan.

[Shrek]

Big mistake playing Ireland.

[johncvilla88]

Nice easy win please Bent hatrick before HT

[johncvilla88]

Alternatively another Hat-trick for Gabby against Man City!

[VillaAlways]

Pressures all on Citeh.Come on Villa

[V1lla]

Afternoon all.  First match thread of the season for me I reckon. 

Baptism of fire ....