Aston Villa v Manchester City Match Thread

[Mister E]

TBH, the back four selection is more perplexing than Heskey's inclusion

... and very little on the bench cover the back four as well, with only Baker (oh, and Warnock).

[Matt Collins]

Mind you, McLeish has clearly got big balls.

15th in the league going into this match, not won at home since bonfire night, and he's shaping up with a Tottenham away style line up. He must really believe in what he's doing to be risking that.

I agree this reminds me of the spurs line up. Maybe not quite so uncultured, but I'd be surprised if we manage 5 consecutive passes in the first half except for around the back 4 and then back to the keeper to hoof it.

I can't believe Ireland isn't starting

[pauliewalnuts]

If we're talking about Heskey inproving us at Newcastle, we were best in the first half - he didn't come on till 25 odd minutes to go.

For the 20 minutes before we'd hardly had a kick after they stepped it up after half time.

I know, but my point is that while you could suggest that he did stem things to a certain extent, we were most threatening without him on the pitch.

There's no point just trying to stop Man City, we're going to have to have a go at them, and I can't see how Heskey anywhere on the pitch, let alone in midfield, is going to do that.

McLeish will get a lot more support if he's prepared to do that, and we did for a while, but he is now sloping back to bad habits.

Bewildering.

[Irish villain]

Shay 'we're all in this together'

Is he talking about our penalty box?

I assumed he meant austerity budgets.....ha.

[frank black]

Blimey interesting line-up GULP,.

Any live feeds please?

[VillaAlways]

I feel sick

[Steve R]

I do not believe that line-up.

Heskey is in there to defend set pieces? So the manager believes Mancity's biggest threat will come from corners?

I think I liked the line-up against Tottenham more.

[Irish villain]

I feel sick

Me too

[ez]

http://www.firstrowsports.eu/watch/107325/1/watch-aston-villa-vs-manchester-city.html

[Jimbo]

Any links?

[Nelly]

Come on then Villa.

[Jimbo]

http://www.firstrowsports.eu/watch/107325/1/watch-aston-villa-vs-manchester-city.html

Much obliged, captain.

[TonyD]

Heskey on the pitch.  Seriously fuck off AM.   You deserve all the stick you get. 

[PaulWinch again]

Gary Neville is right, the amount of good players we have we should be nowhere near as low as we are.

[Witton Warrior]

Last time I felt like this about a game we got the 2-2 against Manure...