Aston Villa vs Manchester United Match Thread

[supertom]

Utd's side is pretty defensive it has to be said. ha ha. Two centerbacks (and even then Phil Jones, some still maintain is better in midfield) and then a couple of midfielders, 2 wingers, an attacking midfielder and 3 strikers.
The dour negative bastard!!

[Toronto Villa]

Who's Calder?

Competition winner.

Isn't it great when fans get to play for their favourite club at their favourite stadium? Nice touch Villa. This has Tom Fox written all over it. UTV

[brontebilly]

Would be stunned if Clark played in midfield. Lambert has always been against the idea in his time at the club.

Disappointing selection imo. Playing Gabby and Weimann together had had its day imo. Reckon we would easily dominate their one man midfield if we added Bacuna to Delph and Sanchez in midfield. Lambert probably looking for Gabby and Weimann to exploit their wing backs and push them back.

Should be a very open game.

[silhillvilla]

Yanited  bench looks pretty weak for once .

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Our tactical genius looks like in a battle to win the midfield will go for a 3-6-1 formation that will most likely after 5 minutes regroup as a 9-0-1.

Did Lambert actually say this week that Clark could play in midfield? If true it's only take almost 2 and a half years to see what everybody else already knew, add to this the revelation that we are indeed allowed to pass the ball, is it too early to refer to this week as Lambert's epiphany?

I'm just hoping the lads ignore everything he tells them at half time. I just hope it's not too late by then but I have a feeling things could get ugly today.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Riccardo Calder

[Phil from the upper holte]

5 defender and 3 strikers. What the Fuck

[Toronto Villa]

5 defender and 3 strikers. What the Fuck

Or one defender playing as a second defensive midfielder and two forwards playing a deeper role and getting forward to support the one out and out striker.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Either way it's Shit

[WestleyArmsAV]

5 defender and 3 strikers. What the Fuck

And two midfielders, seems pretty obvious.

ILWT

[Matt Collins]

5 defender and 3 strikers. What the Fuck

I imagine it's 3-4-1-2 with Weimann being the one. Like the Brian Little days.

Clark could be midfield in a 433 but I'd guess we're matching up against their 532

I genuinely think Benteke and Gabby can cause United massive problems in behind. Let's see

[Proposition Joe]

Riccardo Calder

We have moved into the future and we now have Re-Gens in our squad.

Sorry for the F**tball M***ger reference.

[UK Redsox]

......and the crowd applauds as Michael Carrick and 21 other blokes take the field

[paulcomben]

Plastics: De Gea, Jones, Carrick, Evans, Valencia, Fletcher, Mata, Rooney, Young, RvP, Falcao

Subs: Lindegaard, Blackett, McNair, Rafael, Di Maria, Januzaj, Wilson

United going 3-1-6. LVG must have noticed that Villa save fading strikers' careers.

[Toronto Villa]

Either way it's Shit

We also do have something like 8 players out for one reason or another