ManUre v Aston Villa Match Thread

[luke25]

Has Ash dived yet?

[Summers]

Skybet is offerings odds of 160/1 for Gabby to score first and the game to end 1 - 1 if anyone is interested.

[the weatherman]

I worry about Hutton facing Young, in fact i just worry about Hutton...

Don't we all. There will be a few penalty appeals concerning him I'm sure.

i can definitely see a red card at some stage

[Handsworth Wood Villa]

Cuellar and N'Zogbia should be in the starting XI.

I think we'll line-up in a 4-2-3-1 like this:

Given
Hutton Collins Baker Lichaj
Gardner Clark
Bannan Ireland Agbonlahor
Weimann

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

7 out of the starting 11 are home grown.

[PeterWithesShin]

Listening to some early The Cure, so in a good mood and feeling highly optimistic.

We are going to twat these plastic wankers, Gabby will make their defence his bitches as usual, Rooney will be sent off for being a twat and Young sent off for diving. 4-1 to Villa.

[Toronto Villa]

We can all hope for a result but more important is the attitude and performance. I like the team. We all feared long ball to Heskey today so I'm glad he's gone with Andi and Gabby. We have nothing to lose and all to gain. The results below us have gone quite well, so let's go out and just play.

[CJ]

Strange that Cuellar and N'Zogbia are on the bench when we're down to the bone on numbers. At least he wasn't tempted to start Heskey.

[paul_e]

Cuellar and N'Zogbia should be in the starting XI.

I think we'll line-up in a 4-2-3-1 like this:

Given
Hutton Collins Baker Lichaj
Gardner Clark
Bannan Ireland Agbonlahor
Weimann

Nearly, that's how we should line up but I don't think there's any chance that McLeish will do that.

McLeish will play a flat 4 in midfield with Bannan right and Gardner left, I'd put money on it.  We'll also end up with the pair of them, and one of weimann or gabby, playing so deep that we will be closer to 6-3-1

[PeterWithesShin]

Strange that Cuellar and N'Zogbia are on the bench when we're down to the bone on numbers. At least he wasn't tempted to start Heskey.

Maybe they aren't fit enough to go 90 minutes?

[the weatherman]

decent stream for non sky subscribers: http://cricfree.tv/beta/set-hk

[richard moore]

We can all hope for a result but more important is the attitude and performance. I like the team. We all feared long ball to Heskey today so I'm glad he's gone with Andi and Gabby. We have nothing to lose and all to gain. The results below us have gone quite well, so let's go out and just play.

Yes, I agree. I don't mind losing if we come out of it with some praise for our youngsters who have knocked it about well and given it a go. They can really learn from a match like this and the one ray of sunshine for me in this awful season is that we can go into next year with some of the kids having got themselves a little used to life in the Premier League

[Chipsticks]

Listening to some early The Cure, so in a good mood and feeling highly optimistic.

We are going to twat these plastic wankers, Gabby will make their defence his bitches as usual, Rooney will be sent off for being a twat and Young sent off for diving. 4-1 to Villa.

I hope you're not a betting man.

[Cleybrooke]

Listening to some early The Cure, so in a good mood and feeling highly optimistic.

We are going to twat these plastic wankers, Gabby will make their defence his bitches as usual, Rooney will be sent off for being a twat and Young sent off for diving. 4-1 to Villa.

Why can't I be you?

Love it.

[Summers]

I like how us not playing 442 is apparently negative. Someone should tell Barca that they line up negatively because they don't play 442..