Manchester City v Aston Villa Pre-Match Thread

[levico]

I think Delph and Weimann will be inspired and we'll win this one narrowly with Man City bottling the title.

[AV82EC]

CiŁy have a few injury concerns - Toure, Aguero, Nasri. We can play an expansive, confident and worry free style now. 1-3 away win to send shock waves through the slums of south Manchester.

Something I've never known. Football-wise, is Manchester split geographically as much as Birmingham is?

Happy to help here.

I'd say NW, W, and SW (Salford, Worsley, Trafford, Wilmslow) of the conurbation are predominantly red, the E, SE particularly Droylsden, Reddish, Stockport, ironically Newton Heath way and out towards Oldham are predominantly blue but the overwhelming majority in most areas are still red.  Citeh have also got a reasonable level of regional support from outside as well  ( a bit like us) though that's nothing like united dominance of places like Bury, Rochdale, Bolton, and the Lancashire mill towns.

Lot more blues wear there shirts these days though, when I first moved here 10 years ago you hardly saw anyone, whereas now.........

[silhillvilla]

Will the last H&V be on sale on weds ? Or indeed on Sunday ? I didn't manage to get one on Saturday due to bad planning pre game and over exuberance after the game

[Legion]

Totally sold out, unfortunately.

[Legion]

Wednesday 7th May 2014. Etihad Stadium. KO 7.45pm.

Shock 0-2 away win.

Delph 4
Bowery 86

Focus on the new, improved orange purple dot:

That'll be the 'Des Little - inspired 100% successful purple dot' (to give it is full name)?

That was the old 'Ribena' dot. This is the new, improved one. Please give it your blessing and I will rename it accordingly.

[Des Little]

Wednesday 7th May 2014. Etihad Stadium. KO 7.45pm.

Shock 0-2 away win.

Delph 4
Bowery 86

Focus on the new, improved orange purple dot:

That'll be the 'Des Little - inspired 100% successful purple dot' (to give it is full name)?

That was the old 'Ribena' dot. This is the new, improved one. Please give it your blessing and I will rename it accordingly.

Please accept this as my wholehearted blessing.

[SashasGrandad]

0-1  Grealish 90+4

[richtheholtender]

6-1

[TopDeck113]

We'll lose.  Just hope that the defeat is kept down to less than 4.

[olaftab]

The inner City areas are Blue, unsurprisingly the west Old Trafford Stretford  up to Salford is red. The further out you go then it generally gets more red.

Yes I have noticed that. Areas like West Midlands, Somerset, Essex etc!

[Villafirst]

Too many injuries. With Benteke, Gabby and Okore playing we'd do them. We beat them before without key players. Probable 3-1 defeat.

[PaulWinch again]

Weimann as centre forward makes us a lot more mobile and fluid, we could cause them a problem.

[Pete3206]

A thrashing

[walsall villain]

Too many injuries. With Benteke, Gabby and Okore playing we'd do them. We beat them before without key players. Probable 3-1 defeat.

We are top of one league, physio room.com has us top of the injuries league. Some clubs have one or two out, we have eight. We do seem to get more than our fair share, I wonder why?

[Dave P]

hate this game this season want Villa to win but i do not want the bin-dippers wining the league

I'm the same. I'll take an excellent performance and a narrow 2-1 defeat

If Villa have to go and spoil things by winning, nothing less than a Bowery hat-trick will do.

I'd hate Liverpool to win the league and it would be typical Villa to fucking win this game.

That said, Man City are too good so we'll lose 3-0. Wonder if Grealish will play?