Manchester United v Aston Villa Pre-Match Thread

[Des Little]

Well just walked past a bloke on Market St selling Champions 2013 scarves...

[Concrete John]

Well just walked past a bloke on Market St selling Champions 2013 scarves...

Christ I hope we beat them.  It would be a season highlight for more than one reason.

[walsall villain]

I'd so like them to be winning 1-0 in the 90th minute, celebrating like only the fans of the greatest football club in the world can, then we hit them with 2 in Fergie time to win 2-1, from which we never look back.
I'd also so like to win the Lottery on Wednesday.

Lottery win more likely

[Concrete John]

I'd so like them to be winning 1-0 in the 90th minute, celebrating like only the fans of the greatest football club in the world can, then we hit them with 2 in Fergie time to win 2-1, from which we never look back.
I'd also so like to win the Lottery on Wednesday.

Lottery win more likely

And you haven't quite grasped the rules of Fergie time if you expect any when they're winning.

[PeterWithesShin]

I've just spent a whopping £4 on 4 bets on us tonight. I live life on the edge more than Stuey Ungar ever did.

[SteveN]

I've just spent a whopping £4 on 4 bets on us tonight. I live life on the edge more than Stuey Ungar ever did.

Me to, £2 to win 1-0 with Benteke scoring at 125 -1 and £2 to win 2-1 with Gabby scoring at 260-1.

[danlanza]

Good luck with them. I am not betting today as i am still sulking about my accy at the weekend. Rangers loosing cost me 600 fecking Euros. Peterhead at home for fuck sake.

[Des Little]

I've got a whole pound on Gabby first goal and us to win 3-1 at 450/1. It's like buying money.

[paulcomben]

BBC Radio saying that tomorrow's headlines will all be about MU winning the league. Tell you what, we agree not to bother even playing the match, to give you your cherished United wankfest, if you guarantee that Wigan will be relegated.

[PaulWinch again]

To be frank they probably have a 95% chance of being right, as annoying as it is.

[paulcomben]

To be frank they probably have a 95% chance of being right, as annoying as it is.

99%, but they are the supposedly holy and unbiased BBC.

[l_mckay]

Lets get stuck into them and not let them play,do that and you never know!!! Up the villa!!!

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

It don't look good:

MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head
Aston Villa have won only once in their last 32 league and cup games against Manchester United - a 1-0 triumph at Old Trafford in December 2009 when Gabby Agbonlahor scored with a header.
In league games only, United have lost just one of their last 34 meetings with Villa home and away since 1995 (W24, D9, L1).
Manchester United
United are vying to avoid suffering consecutive Premier League home defeats for the first time since 2002. They last went successive home matches without a win in 2007, losing to West Ham in May and then drawing their opening game of the following season against Reading.
The Red Devils need to win their remaining five matches to eclipse Chelsea's top-flight record of 95 points, set in 2004-05.
United have scored in 65 successive Premier League home matches since a 1-0 defeat by Aston Villa in December 2009.
They have recovered 28 points from losing positions in the league this season, a divisional high.
Wayne Rooney is expected to make his 400th appearance for United. He has scored nine Premier League goals for the club against Villa. It's his equal best record against any club, along with Bolton, Fulham and Newcastle.

[Matt C]

Man Utd have scored in their last 65 home league games. The last team they failed to score against?

Well since you ask; Aston Villa.

[PeterWithesShin]

I've just spent a whopping £4 on 4 bets on us tonight. I live life on the edge more than Stuey Ungar ever did.

Me to, £2 to win 1-0 with Benteke scoring at 125 -1 and £2 to win 2-1 with Gabby scoring at 260-1.

I've got a quid on: 2-2, us winning 2-1, us winning 2-1 with Gabby first scorer and us winning 3-1 with Benteke first scorer. I don't know why they didn't just pay up there and then.