Manchester City v Aston Villa Pre-Match Thread

[danlanza]

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So bollocks to Citeh.

[avfc_1874]

I'd like to be proven wrong, but I think they'll have too much for us. 3-1 to them.

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

0-1 Benteke celebrating accidently takes his shirt off revealing an Arsenal shirt with his name on it !!!!!

[villan from luton]

2-1 to them, reckon Benteke especially will cause them problems mind. Will Lichaj or Stevens play left back I wonder

[SoccerHQ]

It's incredible to think how bad our record is up there, I believe it's 8 defeats from the last 9 since they moved.

Fair enough since the takeover but I remember times when we had decent teams and they were shite under Pearce and yet they'd still routinely turn us over with Vassell turning into Pele for the night.

I also remember Distin taking the piss and scoring by running from the halfway line although that may have been at Villa Park?

[villan from luton]

Thatr was at VP

[Percy McCarthy]

That was from earlier in the thread.

[gervilla]

1-1.
Benteke for us.
I'd rather see Stevens at LB than Lichaj to be honest. Eric is a bloody liability.

[brontebilly]

Will be a huge test for Bannan and Westwood tomorrow. Might find it a step too far. Garcia and Rodwell have been muck thus far but they might overpower us tomorrow with Toure. Hopefully Lowton and Clark can continue their recent good form. Can see us scoring and creating chances alright but we wont be able to keep them out.

4-2 to City

[VancouverLion]

We'll either get a right good hiding or draw 2-2, hope it's the latter!!
Can't concede early on or we've had it.

F**k it 2-2 Benteke 71, Gabby 86,don't care about them.

UTV!!

[Mortimer's Bear]

1-2

Benteke with both :-)

[Mister E]

Our season's disciplianry record is exactly double that of Citeh - 24Y and 2R versus 11 and 1.
NU and Swnasea get close but ours is the worst in the EPL.

Not sure what that says about today's game ...

[Herman]

A two nil win. We'll go two nil up early in the second half and then shut up shop in classic Villa style.

[Clampy]

Benteke is 11/1 to score first and Gabby is 14/1. Either are worth a fiver me thinks.

[Stu]

I was looking at the possible line-up at City on the Graun; the average age of the Villa team is 23 years and 9 months. I know anything can happen in football, but I think the City midfield will have the time of their lives against ours, where the inexperience at Prem level will show. I'm not sure why they've got Weimann lining up on the right side of midfield, however.

3-1 to them I reckon, possibly Benteke for us.