Reading v Aston Villa Pre-Match Thread

[JUAN PABLO]

- put Blancmange Ron back in at centre half -

will Morph be fit thou ;/

[PaulTheVillan]

1-2

Weimann x 2

Guzan
Lowton Baker Clark Bennett
KEA Westwood
Gabby Nzog Weimann
Benteke

[darren woolley]

2-1 Villa, Benteke and Weimann.

[Hookeysmith]

I will be in the air when the game is on enroute to Skiing hol in Bulgaria - hoping the right result is text as soon as we land

We just have to win both this and QPR

[rob_bridge]

Draw I reckon

Doomed. Both Teams.

[PaulWinch again]

We desperately need to win this game, I don't care how just win Villa.

[TonyD]

Storming Villa win.

[Mortimer's Bear]

We desperately need to win this game, I don't care how just win Villa.

Totally agree, not too interested in the performance or the stats just please please please win this one lads!

[Ads]

Its very exciting, if the wrong kind of excitement.

I cannot wait for the game on Saturday!

[onje_villa]

This is the game I most fancy us winning as Reading are poor and we're way better away from home.

There's no textbook must wins as whoever says we need X amount of wins is wrong. We just need to do better than Wigan.

That said, as our best chance of 3 points, we really need to take them.

[PaulWinch again]

I couldn't care a less about performances for the remainder of the season. If we win 5 games through horrendous scrappy 1-0s I'd be delighted. I just want this season over with us surviving and then address our issues in the summer.

[Tayls_7]

This thread has been an interesting clash of the optimists and pessimists. I have personally thought that the writing has been on the wall since the start of the year but I am desperate to be proved wrong of course, realising the potentially disasterous ramifications that relegation would bring. We just seem to lack the levels of leadership (on and off the field) and guille required to escape this situation. Some fans won't concede defeat until the maths seal our fate, and fair play to them, but if we don't collect at least three points over the next two games then the pressure will reach breaking point. I am praying for a 2-1 victory but I can't live through it so will have to check in after the 90. Benteke and Weimann to do the damage on the break.

[PaulWinch again]

Its very exciting, if the wrong kind of excitement.

I cannot wait for the game on Saturday!

See I can't see it as exciting as these games will potentially decide our future as a club. It's more terrifying.

[TimTheVillain]

I'm predicting one hell of a 2-1 win.

Benteke, take a bow son !

[Chico Hamilton III]

Its very exciting, if the wrong kind of excitement.

I cannot wait for the game on Saturday!

Same here. In fact, this is the first game in I don't know how long where I'm looking forward to the match more than the drinking sessions before and after.