Aston Villa v Fulham Pre-Match Thread

[Legion]

Saturday 13th April 2013 3pm

2-0 home win

Westwood 33
Benteke 68

[nigel]

Would have gone 3-1 Villa.

Just heard that Dowd is in charge 1-2 Fulham

[damon loves JT]

The fear is ebbing away. I hope we play well.

[Mortimer's Bear]

2-0 home win

Benteke (2)

[mrastonvilla]

Dowd? With Lowton on 9 yellows, what could possibly go wrong.

[Pete3206]

Villa 2 Fulham 1

[PeterWithesShin]

Us 3 Them 1

[PeterWithesShin]

Actually I don't know which scuppers our chances of a win more, Dowd as ref or Leeg as thread starter.

[eamonn]

Villa 1 Fulham 0

Weimann 90

[cdbearsfan]

Villa 0 Fulham 3 (Dowd 74 (pen), 86 (pen), 88 (pen))

[Lastfootstamper]

3-2 us.
Agbonlamannteke hat-trick, ruiz and that Bulgarian chap for them. A draw wouldn't be the end of the world, even though one will probably feel like it. Hopefully go into the last ten minutes with a two-goal lead, leave ourselves a little squeaky-bum breathing space.

[The Left Side]

1-1 draw for me

[neo_Villan]

I'm going for the win. Not overly confident but think we have some momentum going into it. Fulham are already safe and their season is effectively over. Plus their troubles on the road are well-known. Lambert doesn't really change the winning team so it will be interesting to see whether Clark is reinstated (I assume he will be fit by the weekend) and whether Bowery keeps his place. I don't think anybody would begrudge him starting again. Although I'd be tempted to replace him with Sylla/Bannan and go back to 4-3-3 for this one.

[Michel Sibble]

2-2, a lucky deflection/OG gives us the leveller in second half

[l_mckay]

Play like we did most of Saturday and i think we can win well. fulhams away form is never great either. 2-0 villa! Benteke and gabby scoring