Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur Match Thread

[Legion]

Available Wednesday evening.

[Shrek]

VILLA: Guzan, Lowton, Baker, Clark, Bennett, Holman, Westwood, Herd, El Ahmadi, Delph, Benteke.

[PaulWinch again]

Right come on you Villa boys, you owe us massively for the other day.

[Tuscans]

Packing the midfield with Benteke up on his own? Theres a lot of hussle and bussle in midfield....not a lot of guile though....hmmmm!

[Matt Collins]

That's a mcleish team! I'll have to apologise, looks like weimann is injured after all. That's all we need

[PaulWinch again]

Not necessarily Delph and Holman are better going forward than containing.

[junxs]

Very defensive line up, looks like we are aiming for 0-0 on this one.

[Matt Collins]

Presumably Holman with Benteke, kea in holman's position? Very defensive.

[eastie]

Not much  option really, with gabby, bent and Weimann all injured, is nzogbia  on the bench? Bit surprised Ireland didn't get a game in midfield but all to play for .

[SamTheMouse]

Shit the bed, what an uninspiring line up. Can't see many goals in that side.

[ozzjim]

More workmanlike certainly, but I don't think it is that defensive.

[David_Nab]

3 strikers out as well as Nzogbia apart from Ireland in the team not much else we could do.Be lucky to get a point looking at Spurs team

[avfcpg]

Not so much defensive but more of a solid look to it...which is only right after the last game. Go gung ho against this lot with the pace they have and it could get ugly for us very quickly...

We really are lacking creativity in the squad...

[Irish villain]

Look, he needed to keep it tight for this game and some players needed a rest. A point tonight would give us a great platform to go on and beat Wigan. Draw Spurs tonight and beat Wigan and we'd be looking at needing only about five more wins this season to be pretty sure of staying up.

[eastie]

Look, he needed to keep it tight for this game and some players needed a rest. A point tonight would give us a great platform to go on and beat Wigan. Draw Spurs tonight and beat Wigan and we'd be looking at needing only about five more wins this season to be pretty sure of staying up.

I'm looking beyond staying up, win today and we will be 4 points of 8th place , it's really congested mid table and no reason why we can't get amongst it.