Manchester City vs The Magnificent Aston Villa Pre-Victory Thread

[UK Redsox]

Anybody know of decent parking near the stadium?

Lots of official  parking places all at £10 near the ground otherwise long walk if you park away from the ground.

Depends on what you call a long walk. I'm planning to park in town and walk over. Looks like about a couple of miles, so about 30 mins

[KRS]

I've still got semi final hangover so hope the players are more focussed on the job at hand than I am...I suspect we'll narrowly lose but a draw at their place would be a good result any day.

[ozzjim]

Go at them early and they will wilt. They have a really soft underbelly. Close down Toure and get Big Ben on the ball and we can win there.

[PeterWithesShin]

Them 1 Us 3

Fuck 'em, we're Aston Villa and we are back.

[MoetVillan]

Anybody know of decent parking near the stadium?

Chester is about the closest I can think of

[The Left Side]

1-1, Shaw for us, Paul Power for them.

[Steve R]

Sunday would not have been anywhere near as good if we had slobbed 500 mill at the team. I feel sorry for them.

Fossil Fuel 0 Heart 2

[not3bad]

"Pre-victory thread"


Nice to see we're not getting carried away...

[Monty]

I have a feeling this one will end up a high-scoring draw. A bit like QPR perhaps - lots of chaos and one point out of it.

[Matt Collins]

We can really cause city a problem. I think if we bring gabby in for nzogbia and perhaps Sanchez for Westwood to compete with Toure physically, we're well set up to cause them problems

Of course, if the players are thinking about the FA cup as much as we are we'll get stuffed. And if we do that might be a helpful reminder!

But gabby and benteke against mangala and demichelis, with Grealish the extra man in midfield? Sounds quite tempting to me

I'd take a draw though.

[john e]

We can't take this one for granted,
I know we think all we have to do is turn up and win this but city arnt a bad side you know and might cause us some problems
Yes we obviously should be beating these sort of teams, but we should guard against complacency

Man for man we are superior in every department, but footballs a funny old game and we need to be on it,
 not losing football matches becomes a habit and I can't remember the last time it was for us but that doesn't mean it will never happen again

Peligrini is obviously tactically inept a mere beginer compared to our own football genius but we still need to approach the game with the right attitude

So with 110% effort from players and fans the result should be the forgone conclusion we expect

[BC54 VFC]

Anybody know of decent parking near the stadium?

School car park at M4 7EQ; about 10 minutes from ground.

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

Man City seem to have a few injuries - Silva, Nasri, Bony, Kompany, Clichy, Jovetic, Milner.

[Caiphus]

They aren't exactly in good form at the moment, so a win isn't exactly out of the question- to be honest I would be very happy with a draw though.

[darren woolley]

I hope I'm wrong but I reckon 2-0 to City.